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We deliver your donations and thoughts to thirty-two charitable organizations participating in the charity program of the Osaka Marathon 2019.
※We will release and report on the status and results of the implementation of charity programs on this website at a later date.
Charitable organizations engaged in their activities in various areas based on the seven charity themes of the Osaka Marathon.
Flagship partners
OISCA
The Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement-International (Public Interest Incorporated Foundation)
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- The tallest pine tree reached four meters since we planted the tree four years ago.
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- Creatures come back to their homeland over time.
-
- Volunteers from nationwide come to help managing coastal forest, which is an ongoing process for several decades to come.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- OISCA is international non-governmental organization founded in 1961. Equipped with over five decades of working experience at grassroots level, we launched the Coastal Forest Restoration Project shortly after the Great East Japan Earthquake. We are engaged in helping restore the coastal forest, as well as prompting employment for earthquake-affected farmers in collaboration with donors and volunteers from all over Japan as well as the local government and residents.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- Donations will be used in restoring the 100 hectare coastal forest in Natori city, Miyagi prefecture lost by tsunami by raising seedling and planting 500,000 black pine trees; providing support for living expenses and jobs for over 11,000 earthquake-affected farmers; and silvicultural activities which will be continued until 2033.
green bird
Our beautification activities working as a team and fantastic town development
-
- The Osaka Amemura team is operating our activities.
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- Everything you need for cleaning is supplied! Come and join us – just bring yourself!
-
- Anybody can participate in our activity freely and at any time!
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We are a volunteer organization launched in Harajuku, Tokyo in 2002, focusing on litter pickup activities around town.
Wide-ranging individuals of all ages including industrial firms participate and there are currently a total of around 90 teams in Japan and abroad. We strive to globally convey a litter pickup culture which is unique to Japan and bequeath the same to younger generations.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like use your donations to fund expenses for cleaning activities by existing nine teams in the Kansai region; i.e. bibs, garbage bag production costs, purchase costs for tongs, bulk waste treatment fees and equipment maintenance fees, etc. and the costs needed to establish new teams, both domestically and abroad.
NPO Kaikaku Project
Running through the town for patrol! We help develop a safe and secure town with Patrol Running activities.
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- Patrolling during the time school children get out of school
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- Patrolling during the night when street crime rate is higher
-
- Many female members are active nationwide.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Japan is a safe country, many crime victims suffer from unreasonable attack.
We promote efforts to achieve a safe local community where citizens take initiatives under the slogan: “Accomplishing a town where children, women and senior citizens can live with peace of mind”.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- Runners have infinite potential to resolve social issues.
We would like to use your donations carefully to familiarize patrol running in the Kansai area and nationwide, fostering watchers watching out for the safety of the community, as well as promoting educational programs of crime prevention for women and children.
Pool Volunteer（Specified NPO）
Teaching all children with disabilities how to swim at municipal swimming pools
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- ©Pool Volunteer
Going into the water safely with wheelchairs for use in swimming pools
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- ©Pool Volunteer
The goal is to swim 25 meters freestyle non-stop!
-
- ©Pool Volunteer
Swimming caps with “Help” mark
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Swimming is the ideal sport for the health and rehabilitation of disabled children. We are engaged in volunteer activities to support such children's desire to swim and assist to ensure their swimming experience is enjoyable and safe.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to purchase wheelchairs for use in swimming pools and prepare poolside safety mats and inflatable rings to help them accomplish their dream; i.e. “Being able to swim”, as well as offering swimming caps with “Help” mark for free of charge nationwide to help those children in need of special assistance can swim safely at any swimming pool.
WaterAid Japan (Specified NPO)
Delivering clean water and a toilet to people living in developing countries
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- ©WaterAid/ Chileshe Chanda
Madina is happily using newly installed hand wash apparatus at school. (Mozambique)
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- ©WaterAid/ Prashanth Vishwanathan
Children are happy bathing with newly installed water supply system. (India)
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- ©WaterAid/ Tom Greenwood
Rosalie and her daughter Laura (aged 5) walking on a rough road to draw water (East Timor)
- [ Organization Profile ]
- In today’s world, 844 million people lack access to safe water and 2.3 billion people lack access to an appropriate toilet. WaterAid Japan is striving to create a world where all people everywhere can use clean water and sanitation by 2030.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- About 800 children die daily due to using only unsanitary water and without access to adequate sanitation. We would like to use your donations carefully to deliver water and toilet facilities to people living in the thirty-four nations where WaterAid Japan is in active.
Association for Nature Restoration and Conservation, Japan (NAREC)
To conserve the immediate natural environment to the future! Supporting local environmental conservation activities
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- ©NAREC
Environmental conservation activities in which both adults and children can participate with peace of mind
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- ©NAREC
We serve as a bridge between young volunteers and organizations lack of sufficient help
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- ©NAREC
Our environmental volunteers support local environmental conservation activities.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We engage in activities to reconnect man with nature ranging from environmental conservation activities in urban areas, farming and fishing villages to fostering human resources for environmental conservation. In Osaka, we operate Osaka Rangers’ Project where younger generations can casually participate in volunteer activities.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to operate Osaka Rangers’ Project (http://rangersproject.jp/project/osaka/) supporting regional environmental conservation activities to preserve nature in Osaka for the future, striving to conduct sustained operation through fostering young volunteers as well as conducting more field work.
HELLO life
The cycle of poverty toward next generation must be broken! Let’s tackle youth employment issues in Osaka together!
-
- The cycle of poverty resulting from youth employment issues
-
- We support the livelihood of youngsters and remaining in work through employment support project, “MODEL HOUSE” utilizing an unoccupied municipal housing.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We are the Osaka based organization, having been striving to resolve various issues related to working with the goal of achieving a society where anyone can work and live by their own values since 2007. We tackle to break the cycle of poverty linking to the children who will bear the next generation by providing youth support, which has not been spoken out as an urgent matter.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- 1) We would like to use your donations for the development costs of DIY program kits for our employment support project, “MODEL HOUSE” utilizing an unoccupied municipal housing to help youngsters who are being unemployed or repeatedly having instable work achieve living and remaining in work in Osaka.
2) We will use them for developing support model where the whole community helps youngsters utilizing cafes and shops in town.
ME・RISE
Striving to help community welfare such as child poverty
-
- We aim to achieve a society where everybody can live in their local community by their own values.
-
- We strive to solve problems such as child poverty.
-
- We are engaged in activities such as operating children’s cafeterias, providing study support and preventing high school dropouts.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We provide various support, including livelihood support for disabled children and adults in the local community, study support for developmentally disabled individuals and students unwilling to go to school and employment support for young people, etc. Currently, we are also tackling child poverty and seeking a solution to cope with complicated social issues, while collaborating with various organizations.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We aim to achieve a society where all children can live in their local community by their own values by creating a place for children from economically disadvantaged families to learn and grow.
We would like to use your donations to resolve child poverty issue by providing support for children in need whenever and whatever they need as much as they need.
Japan CliniClowns Association (Specified NPO)
Supporting hospitalized children and their zest for life
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- ©CliniClowns Japan
Seeking to deliver a moment that moves hospitalized children’s emotions
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- ©CliniClowns Japan
The moment when all the family smile, forgetting about the illness, even for a second
-
- ©CliniClowns Japan
Supporting hospitalized children grow and develop through playing
- [ Organization Profile ]
- “Delivering all children the moment of being a child”
Wishing to deliver the “moment of being a child” for children who are hospitalized. Based on this aspiration, we provide a program dispatching CliniClowns to children’s wards of hospitals throughout Japan from Osaka and fostering children’s zest for living through play and involvement with children.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations for our CliniClowns dispatching operations, where CliniClowns visit children’s ward on a regular basis and lecture presentations and charity events to achieve a society where all children can be themselves and anyone can smile through “Red Nose”, a training program to foster new CliniClowns.
Nobel (Specified NPO)
Supporting single-parent families and families with disabled children in Osaka through sick child care
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- We provide reassurance and child care services for parents, even when their children suddenly develop a fever.
-
- Our childcare staff taking care of sick children while giving reassurance
-
- Supporting households with children throughout society and forging a chain of mutual cooperation.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Aspiring to realize “a society allowing parents to continue working after childbirth without much surprise”, Nobel was established in 2009 as the first mutual aid project offering a home-visit day care service for sick children, which dispatches nursing care staff to children’s homes whenever needed and without fail, even for same-day requests in the Kansai region. We have been expanding our support toward the goal of establishing a safety net which anyone requiring day care service for sick children can use.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We will provide a day care service for sick children which is user-friendly to all, including special programs providing our service at 1,000 yen per month, which is about 1/6 of the ordinary rate, for single-parent families with annual income below 3 million yen and providing a day care service for disabled children which require more manpower and there are far outnumbered who provide services than usual at the normal rate.
Children’s Hospice Project
Pediatric palliative care supporting children with life-threatening diseases to live with community
-
- Japan’s first community-based children’s hospice
-
- The moment for children being themselves that they can never enjoy at the hospital
-
- My mom is a charity runner! Rooting for her together!
- [ Organization Profile ]
- The TSURUMI Children’s Hospice (TCH), Japan’s first community-based hospice for children, opened in spring 2016 in Tsurumi ward, Osaka. Whatever illness its children may have, they value enjoying the same experience as their peers of the same generation and every moment spent there. The TCH is a second home for children with life-threatening diseases and their families, who support them to enhance their quality of life.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to improve programs at the TSURUMI Children’s Hospice as well as implementing our programs at the hospital or their homes suitable for individual child when his/her condition has worsened. We will also prepare a space of “Asobi Souzou Hiroba”, where the TSURUMI Children’s Hospice lies as a playground where all children can play with peace of mind.
Save the Children Japan
Supporting children under emergency conditions such as those affected by natural disasters and conflicts both domestically and abroad.
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- ©Ahmad Baroudi / Save the Children
Children living in a camp for internally displaced persons in Syria
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- ©Jonathan Hyams / Save the Children
Child Friendly Space for Rohingya refugees
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- ©Save the Children
Child Friendly Space established for affected area by torrential rain and landslides in eastern Japan
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Save the Children is a non-governmental organization specializing in supporting children in 120 nations worldwide including Japan. Since its foundation, we have been supporting the present and the future of children in wide-ranging areas including health and nutrition, education and emergency and humanitarian support over 100 years since its foundation in 1919.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to support children under emergency situation affected by natural disasters and conflicts. We will use them for emergency and humanitarian support including providing emergency relief goods such as water and food, operating Child Friendly Space where children under emergency situation can stay safely with peace of mind and educational support both domestically and abroad.
Cancer Support Community
Support for people with cancer and their loved ones
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- ©CSC-JAPAN
A support group where cancer patients talk to each other
-
- ©CSC-JAPAN
Training session for specialists providing psychosocial support held in Osaka
-
- ©CSC-JAPAN
Cancer prevention leaflets in multiple languages and all cancer ribbon badges
- [ Organization Profile ]
- As the Japan affiliate of the Cancer Support Community – the largest international non-profit organization dedicated to providing support to people affected by cancer – we have been engaged in activities in the Kanto region since 2001 and the Kansai region since 2013, providing psychosocial support for people with cancer and their loved ones from professions such as clinical psychotherapists, social workers and nurses in their local communities.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to fund efforts to provide professional led psychosocial support for people with cancer, fostering professionals for psychosocial support, as well as broadly educating people about cancer prevention in the Kansai region, aiming to prevent cancer and create a society where people can retain their quality of life, even if developing the condition.
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
Research into regenerative medicine and drug development using iPS cells
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- ©Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA),Kyoto University
Professor Shinya Yamanaka who works at CiRA as director
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- ©Shinya Yamanaka, Professor, Kyoto University
iPS cells anticipated for the application of regenerative medicine and drug development
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- ©Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
The donated funds are used to hire institute members, 90 percent of whom are on non-regular employment contracts.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- This is a research institute where Professor Shinya Yamanaka, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2012, works as director. Many researchers and research support staff are dedicated to their research and work to improve the way patients suffering from injuries and diseases are treated.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations carefully as steady employment of brilliant researchers and research support staff, establishment and protection of intellectual properties on iPS cells, support for research projects for medical applications, dispatch of information on iPS cell research and promotion activities, and furtherance of our stable research activities, etc.
OISCA
The Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement-International (Public Interest Incorporated Foundation)
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- The tallest pine tree reached four meters since we planted the tree four years ago.
-
- Creatures come back to their homeland over time.
-
- Volunteers from nationwide come to help managing coastal forest, which is an ongoing process for several decades to come.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- OISCA is international non-governmental organization founded in 1961. Equipped with over five decades of working experience at grassroots level, we launched the Coastal Forest Restoration Project shortly after the Great East Japan Earthquake. We are engaged in helping restore the coastal forest, as well as prompting employment for earthquake-affected farmers in collaboration with donors and volunteers from all over Japan as well as the local government and residents.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- Donations will be used in restoring the 100 hectare coastal forest in Natori city, Miyagi prefecture lost by tsunami by raising seedling and planting 500,000 black pine trees; providing support for living expenses and jobs for over 11,000 earthquake-affected farmers; and silvicultural activities which will be continued until 2033.
green bird
Our beautification activities working as a team and fantastic town development
-
- The Osaka Amemura team is operating our activities.
-
- Everything you need for cleaning is supplied! Come and join us – just bring yourself!
-
- Anybody can participate in our activity freely and at any time!
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We are a volunteer organization launched in Harajuku, Tokyo in 2002, focusing on litter pickup activities around town.
Wide-ranging individuals of all ages including industrial firms participate and there are currently a total of around 90 teams in Japan and abroad. We strive to globally convey a litter pickup culture which is unique to Japan and bequeath the same to younger generations.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like use your donations to fund expenses for cleaning activities by existing nine teams in the Kansai region; i.e. bibs, garbage bag production costs, purchase costs for tongs, bulk waste treatment fees and equipment maintenance fees, etc. and the costs needed to establish new teams, both domestically and abroad.
NPO Kaikaku Project
Running through the town for patrol! We help develop a safe and secure town with Patrol Running activities.
-
- Patrolling during the time school children get out of school
-
- Patrolling during the night when street crime rate is higher
-
- Many female members are active nationwide.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Japan is a safe country, many crime victims suffer from unreasonable attack.
We promote efforts to achieve a safe local community where citizens take initiatives under the slogan: “Accomplishing a town where children, women and senior citizens can live with peace of mind”.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- Runners have infinite potential to resolve social issues.
We would like to use your donations carefully to familiarize patrol running in the Kansai area and nationwide, fostering watchers watching out for the safety of the community, as well as promoting educational programs of crime prevention for women and children.
Pool Volunteer（Specified NPO）
Teaching all children with disabilities how to swim at municipal swimming pools
-
- ©Pool Volunteer
Going into the water safely with wheelchairs for use in swimming pools
-
- ©Pool Volunteer
The goal is to swim 25 meters freestyle non-stop!
-
- ©Pool Volunteer
Swimming caps with “Help” mark
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Swimming is the ideal sport for the health and rehabilitation of disabled children. We are engaged in volunteer activities to support such children's desire to swim and assist to ensure their swimming experience is enjoyable and safe.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to purchase wheelchairs for use in swimming pools and prepare poolside safety mats and inflatable rings to help them accomplish their dream; i.e. “Being able to swim”, as well as offering swimming caps with “Help” mark for free of charge nationwide to help those children in need of special assistance can swim safely at any swimming pool.
WaterAid Japan (Specified NPO)
Delivering clean water and a toilet to people living in developing countries
-
- ©WaterAid/ Chileshe Chanda
Madina is happily using newly installed hand wash apparatus at school. (Mozambique)
-
- ©WaterAid/ Prashanth Vishwanathan
Children are happy bathing with newly installed water supply system. (India)
-
- ©WaterAid/ Tom Greenwood
Rosalie and her daughter Laura (aged 5) walking on a rough road to draw water (East Timor)
- [ Organization Profile ]
- In today’s world, 844 million people lack access to safe water and 2.3 billion people lack access to an appropriate toilet. WaterAid Japan is striving to create a world where all people everywhere can use clean water and sanitation by 2030.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- About 800 children die daily due to using only unsanitary water and without access to adequate sanitation. We would like to use your donations carefully to deliver water and toilet facilities to people living in the thirty-four nations where WaterAid Japan is in active.
Association for Nature Restoration and Conservation, Japan (NAREC)
To conserve the immediate natural environment to the future! Supporting local environmental conservation activities
-
- ©NAREC
Environmental conservation activities in which both adults and children can participate with peace of mind
-
- ©NAREC
We serve as a bridge between young volunteers and organizations lack of sufficient help
-
- ©NAREC
Our environmental volunteers support local environmental conservation activities.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We engage in activities to reconnect man with nature ranging from environmental conservation activities in urban areas, farming and fishing villages to fostering human resources for environmental conservation. In Osaka, we operate Osaka Rangers’ Project where younger generations can casually participate in volunteer activities.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to operate Osaka Rangers’ Project (http://rangersproject.jp/project/osaka/) supporting regional environmental conservation activities to preserve nature in Osaka for the future, striving to conduct sustained operation through fostering young volunteers as well as conducting more field work.
HELLO life
The cycle of poverty toward next generation must be broken! Let’s tackle youth employment issues in Osaka together!
-
- The cycle of poverty resulting from youth employment issues
-
- We support the livelihood of youngsters and remaining in work through employment support project, “MODEL HOUSE” utilizing an unoccupied municipal housing.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We are the Osaka based organization, having been striving to resolve various issues related to working with the goal of achieving a society where anyone can work and live by their own values since 2007. We tackle to break the cycle of poverty linking to the children who will bear the next generation by providing youth support, which has not been spoken out as an urgent matter.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- 1) We would like to use your donations for the development costs of DIY program kits for our employment support project, “MODEL HOUSE” utilizing an unoccupied municipal housing to help youngsters who are being unemployed or repeatedly having instable work achieve living and remaining in work in Osaka.
2) We will use them for developing support model where the whole community helps youngsters utilizing cafes and shops in town.
ME・RISE
Striving to help community welfare such as child poverty
-
- We aim to achieve a society where everybody can live in their local community by their own values.
-
- We strive to solve problems such as child poverty.
-
- We are engaged in activities such as operating children’s cafeterias, providing study support and preventing high school dropouts.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We provide various support, including livelihood support for disabled children and adults in the local community, study support for developmentally disabled individuals and students unwilling to go to school and employment support for young people, etc. Currently, we are also tackling child poverty and seeking a solution to cope with complicated social issues, while collaborating with various organizations.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We aim to achieve a society where all children can live in their local community by their own values by creating a place for children from economically disadvantaged families to learn and grow.
We would like to use your donations to resolve child poverty issue by providing support for children in need whenever and whatever they need as much as they need.
Japan CliniClowns Association (Specified NPO)
Supporting hospitalized children and their zest for life
-
- ©CliniClowns Japan
Seeking to deliver a moment that moves hospitalized children’s emotions
-
- ©CliniClowns Japan
The moment when all the family smile, forgetting about the illness, even for a second
-
- ©CliniClowns Japan
Supporting hospitalized children grow and develop through playing
- [ Organization Profile ]
- “Delivering all children the moment of being a child”
Wishing to deliver the “moment of being a child” for children who are hospitalized. Based on this aspiration, we provide a program dispatching CliniClowns to children’s wards of hospitals throughout Japan from Osaka and fostering children’s zest for living through play and involvement with children.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations for our CliniClowns dispatching operations, where CliniClowns visit children’s ward on a regular basis and lecture presentations and charity events to achieve a society where all children can be themselves and anyone can smile through “Red Nose”, a training program to foster new CliniClowns.
Nobel (Specified NPO)
Supporting single-parent families and families with disabled children in Osaka through sick child care
-
- We provide reassurance and child care services for parents, even when their children suddenly develop a fever.
-
- Our childcare staff taking care of sick children while giving reassurance
-
- Supporting households with children throughout society and forging a chain of mutual cooperation.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Aspiring to realize “a society allowing parents to continue working after childbirth without much surprise”, Nobel was established in 2009 as the first mutual aid project offering a home-visit day care service for sick children, which dispatches nursing care staff to children’s homes whenever needed and without fail, even for same-day requests in the Kansai region. We have been expanding our support toward the goal of establishing a safety net which anyone requiring day care service for sick children can use.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We will provide a day care service for sick children which is user-friendly to all, including special programs providing our service at 1,000 yen per month, which is about 1/6 of the ordinary rate, for single-parent families with annual income below 3 million yen and providing a day care service for disabled children which require more manpower and there are far outnumbered who provide services than usual at the normal rate.
Children’s Hospice Project
Pediatric palliative care supporting children with life-threatening diseases to live with community
-
- Japan’s first community-based children’s hospice
-
- The moment for children being themselves that they can never enjoy at the hospital
-
- My mom is a charity runner! Rooting for her together!
- [ Organization Profile ]
- The TSURUMI Children’s Hospice (TCH), Japan’s first community-based hospice for children, opened in spring 2016 in Tsurumi ward, Osaka. Whatever illness its children may have, they value enjoying the same experience as their peers of the same generation and every moment spent there. The TCH is a second home for children with life-threatening diseases and their families, who support them to enhance their quality of life.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to improve programs at the TSURUMI Children’s Hospice as well as implementing our programs at the hospital or their homes suitable for individual child when his/her condition has worsened. We will also prepare a space of “Asobi Souzou Hiroba”, where the TSURUMI Children’s Hospice lies as a playground where all children can play with peace of mind.
Save the Children Japan
Supporting children under emergency conditions such as those affected by natural disasters and conflicts both domestically and abroad.
-
- ©Ahmad Baroudi / Save the Children
Children living in a camp for internally displaced persons in Syria
-
- ©Jonathan Hyams / Save the Children
Child Friendly Space for Rohingya refugees
-
- ©Save the Children
Child Friendly Space established for affected area by torrential rain and landslides in eastern Japan
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Save the Children is a non-governmental organization specializing in supporting children in 120 nations worldwide including Japan. Since its foundation, we have been supporting the present and the future of children in wide-ranging areas including health and nutrition, education and emergency and humanitarian support over 100 years since its foundation in 1919.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to support children under emergency situation affected by natural disasters and conflicts. We will use them for emergency and humanitarian support including providing emergency relief goods such as water and food, operating Child Friendly Space where children under emergency situation can stay safely with peace of mind and educational support both domestically and abroad.
Cancer Support Community
Support for people with cancer and their loved ones
-
- ©CSC-JAPAN
A support group where cancer patients talk to each other
-
- ©CSC-JAPAN
Training session for specialists providing psychosocial support held in Osaka
-
- ©CSC-JAPAN
Cancer prevention leaflets in multiple languages and all cancer ribbon badges
- [ Organization Profile ]
- As the Japan affiliate of the Cancer Support Community – the largest international non-profit organization dedicated to providing support to people affected by cancer – we have been engaged in activities in the Kanto region since 2001 and the Kansai region since 2013, providing psychosocial support for people with cancer and their loved ones from professions such as clinical psychotherapists, social workers and nurses in their local communities.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to fund efforts to provide professional led psychosocial support for people with cancer, fostering professionals for psychosocial support, as well as broadly educating people about cancer prevention in the Kansai region, aiming to prevent cancer and create a society where people can retain their quality of life, even if developing the condition.
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
Research into regenerative medicine and drug development using iPS cells
-
- ©Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA),Kyoto University
Professor Shinya Yamanaka who works at CiRA as director
-
- ©Shinya Yamanaka, Professor, Kyoto University
iPS cells anticipated for the application of regenerative medicine and drug development
-
- ©Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
The donated funds are used to hire institute members, 90 percent of whom are on non-regular employment contracts.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- This is a research institute where Professor Shinya Yamanaka, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2012, works as director. Many researchers and research support staff are dedicated to their research and work to improve the way patients suffering from injuries and diseases are treated.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations carefully as steady employment of brilliant researchers and research support staff, establishment and protection of intellectual properties on iPS cells, support for research projects for medical applications, dispatch of information on iPS cell research and promotion activities, and furtherance of our stable research activities, etc.
Charitable organizations promoting the charity programs of the Osaka Marathon based on various themes
- e-Education
- AIDS Orphan Support NGO PLAS
- Osakafu Ikueikai
- Befrienders Worldwide Osaka Suicide Prevention Center
- Co.to.hana
- Gold Ribbon Network
- Japan Heart
- Shapla Neer = Citizens Committee for Overseas Support
- Japan Committee, Vaccines for the World’s Children
- Sodateage Net
- Tsunagarihiroba
- Nagano Summarize Center
- Nijiiro Diversity
- Japan IDDM Network
- Japan Habitat Association
- Japan Human Rights Watch
- Room to Read Japan
- Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net
Challenge Partners
e-Education
Supporting the dreams of children in developing countries who lack learning opportunities by providing them with the best lessons
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- ©e-Education
Providing the best lessons the world over
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- ©e-Education
We want to support children keen to study but unable to do so.
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- ©e-Education
Supporting the dreams of children who lack learning opportunities
- [ Organization Profile ]
- “Providing the best lessons the world over”
Many children in developing countries are unable to access high-quality education in urban areas and give up on their dreams. We create videos of classes taught by the best teachers of urban areas, which we then deliver to those children as ideal lessons to support their dreams.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations for equipment used at schools for video lessons, on-site transportation costs, video production costs, labor costs including local teachers and staff, travel expenses and training costs for teachers to deliver video lessons to high school students in developing countries, including Bangladesh.
AIDS Orphan Support NGO PLAS
Activities to support children who lost their parents from AIDS and pave the way forward for their brighter future
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- Single mothers who opened a café
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- Children having a counselling session
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- Hands-on learning in agriculture supporting efforts for a better livelihood
- [ Organization Profile ]
- To achieve a society where children affected by AIDS can pave the way forward for their future, we support families with children having lost their parents from AIDS by providing a better livelihood and life-planning projects in Kenya and Uganda.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- (1) Support to improve the livelihood of families with children having lost their parents from AIDS and (2) life planning support to them.
As for the better livelihood project, we provide education in initial investment and hands-on training for small businesses such as farming and how to run a café, while the life planning support project is intended to provide career counselling to such children and their guardians.
Osakafu Ikueikai
To support high school students and help make their dreams come true
-
- Giving a certificate of the “Yume Mirai” scholarship program
-
- Counseling on the Yume Mirai Scholarship Program
-
- Accepting scholarship applications
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Osakafu Ikueikai was established in 1952 and provides student loan programs to help high school students who find going to school difficult for economic reasons. To date, we have assisted around 500,000 students via student loans with a total of 223 billion yen and since 2014, we have also introduced Yume Mirai Scholarship Program grants, which need not be repaid.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to help fund Yume Mirai Scholarships to support high school students who find few opportunities to study otherwise due to financial difficulties yet still work very hard, exploiting their strengths for their future.
Befrienders Worldwide Osaka Suicide Prevention Center
Telephone counseling to help those in pain and supporting bereaved families who lost their loved ones due to suicide
-
- Telephone counseling
We help people in pain and listen to their voices.
-
- Telephone counseling promotional poster
Please unburden the worries that you cannot share with anyone else.
-
- Organizing charity concerts
We organize charity concerts for educational purposes.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We have been helping people in pain and despairing such that they wish to end their lives by providing telephone counseling over 41 years since 1978. We also organize gatherings for bereaved families having lost their loved ones through suicide to share their bitter thoughts with peace of mind.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations for public relations activities to inform as many people as possible of our telephone counseling service and help as many as possible get in touch via telephone as well as educational activities to help prevent them committing suicide. We also consider spending money on restarting counseling service via SNS to prevent suicide by youngsters.
Co.to.hana
To foster bonds among people and create a society where people can be active in the local community
-
- Achieving people’s aspirations to change society to reality
-
- Helping each other within the community by utilizing personal strengths
-
- Resolving problems by residents themselves within the community
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Co.to.hana has been striving for various social issues under its mission: “Change the society with design.” Collaborating with individuals, organizations, companies and government, we strive to create a society that brings people’s ambitions to fruition.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We operate a community service called Hitoshigotokan, where local residents can actively feel useful. We would like to use your donations to help senior citizens retired from work improve their skills and remain useful by helping needy members of the local community.
Gold Ribbon Network
Working for children with cancer to help cheer them up
-
- Gold Ribbon Network
Giving knit caps to children with cancer
-
- Gold Ribbon Network
Made it to college on a scholarship
-
- Gold Ribbon Network
Help organizations supporting children with cancer organize camping
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We work to solve problems of pediatric cancer, striving so that children with cancer can live with smiles and peace of mind. Our activities are based on three pillars of support to improve the livelihood of children who once had pediatric cancer, provide therapy research grants and information and promote understanding.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- Many people who once had pediatric cancer suffer from late complications following treatment. We would like to use your donations to fund scholarships which need not be repaid to help such pediatric cancer survivors go to college and realize their dreams. We will also use them to subsidize therapy research for patients to overcome the disease.
Japan Heart
We deliver healthcare to medically-isolated areas
-
- phot by Junji Naito
We delight in seeing children who came to our hospital return home smiling.
-
- phot by Junji Naito
We provide medical treatment to children for free of charge at our hospital.
-
- Surgical procedure by Dr. Hideto Yoshioka, Supreme adviser of Japan Heart
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Japan Heart is an international volunteer healthcare organization which was established in Japan in 2004. Centering on a basic philosophy of “delivering healthcare to medically-isolated areas,” we are an authorized NPO, dispatching Japanese healthcare professionals and providing medical treatment free of charge to developing countries in Asia.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to cover the costs of surgery and treatment for patients requiring healthcare in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, particularly for medical activities, i.e. medical examinations, prescription charges, costs for surgery and medical supplies at the Japan Heart Pediatric Medical Center, which opened in June 2018 in Cambodia.
Shapla Neer = Citizens Committee for Overseas Support
Educating girls working as domestic servants
-
- Girls learning reading and writing skills at our support center
-
- Girls working as domestic servants in Bangladesh
-
- Reporting on severe circumstances of local girls via radio broadcasting
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Shapla Neer is a Japanese NGO providing international cooperation established in 1972. We support those left behind by the various systems and schemes of society and strive to resolve poverty issues in South Asia.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to support girls engaging in child labor. They will be used to cover the operating expenses of our support center that helps girls working as domestic servants at other people’s houses and production costs for radio programs reporting on the circumstances of domestic servants in Bangladesh, as well as covering the costs of holding lecture meetings in Japan.
Japan Committee, Vaccines for the World’s Children
Delivering vaccines to developing countries and protecting children’s lives and welfare from infectious diseases
-
- ©JCV
Polio vaccinations in Myanmar
-
- ©JCV
A father and his child waiting to see the doctor in Bhutan
-
- ©JCV
Children welcoming us in the village in Laos
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We want to save the lives of small children by vaccinating them.
One child dies every twenty seconds due to a global lack of vaccines.
We are a private international support organization; striving to help protect children’s future by delivering vaccines to developing countries.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We will supply vaccines and related equipment to children in the four countries with continuous support, Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Republic of Vanuatu, following requests from the health department of each country and in collaboration with their UNICEF secretariat.
Sodateage Net
Assisting unemployed youngsters in finding work
-
- Basic job training
Job training held at our office twice to five times a week
-
- Consultation
A career consultant and clinical psychotherapist are here to help.
-
- Organizing exchange meetings
Helping youngsters who find it difficult to communicate with people feel easier through sports and other fun events.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- There are thought to be around two million youngsters keen to work but unable to do so. We support their efforts to obtain work and remain in work, as well as connect with society. We consider this a social investment to reduce our future social welfare costs.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We provide youngsters who find it difficult to work and find themselves in economic poverty with a job training program free of charge. We would like to use your donations to also cover transportation costs for those who visit our premises for job training so that they can do so without concerns over the cost.
Tsunagarihiroba
An organization empathically supporting cancer patients based in Osaka
-
- Activities empathically supporting cancer patients
-
- Runners and supporters got off at the training session and pre-race trial run!
-
- Our new office opened! We will restart on a new note.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Our organization is Osaka-based; striving to ease the pain and anxiety of patients fighting cancer. As part of our health recovery support program, we organize running sessions with cancer patients. Let’s run through the new course of the Osaka Marathon and enjoy overwhelming sensations in the process!
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to organize exchange activities to support the recovery aspirations of cancer patients, continuing our health recovery support program as well as expanding the scope of our activities throughout Kansai rather than Osaka alone and enhancing their content in incremental steps.
Nagano Summarize Center
Delivering smiles and brighter futures to hearing-impaired children
-
- ©SNAG Golf Caravan Project
Supporting the hearing-impaired by providing the required information on site
-
- ©Nagano Summarize Center
Striving to transcribe the required information on site
-
- ©Nagano Summarize Center
Swiftly providing information via a remote support system (Para-Ekiden)
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We implemented the first note-taking service using a PC in the Paralympic Games in Nagano in 1998 and following the invention of the iPhone, worked with industry and academia to develop a remote note-taking system, allowing us to provide a remote note-taking service at 60 schools in 29 prefectures nationwide. We also engaged in providing information online when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred and strive to utilize cutting-edge systems, e.g. for voice recognition. As our new effort, we support the efforts of hearing-impaired and local able-bodied children to connect by collaborating with an organization striving to provide sports experience opportunities involving hearing-impaired persons and their families.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to create opportunities for hearing-impaired children to participate in sports activities which may otherwise be difficult for them to join locally, covering the costs of PR, use of the venue and a PC note-taking service using a voice-recognition system.
Nijiiro Diversity
Achieving a more diverse and inclusive society that is more welcoming for LGBT people
-
- LGBT workshop
Lecturing at companies, local governments and educational institutes
-
- The First Diversity Cup in Kansai
We participated in the Enjoy League with LGBT & ALLY team and won the championship.
-
- Creating a community space (Ibashozukuri project)
Yodogawa Ward
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Nijiiro Diversity is a non-profit organization engaged in research, lecturing and consulting business to create a workplace where sexual minorities such as LGBT people can work with reassurance.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- ・As a specialist LGBT organization, we would like to use your donations to provide LGBT-related information to society on an ongoing basis.
・We would like to expand the exchange program currently implemented at our Yodogawa office throughout the wider Osaka area.
・We would like to achieve full diversity in the city of Osaka as part of efforts toward the Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025.E292
Japan IDDM Network
To help unlock the future of and completely cure children with type I diabetes
-
- A 6-year old girl with type I diabetes (developed at 7 months old)
-
- Has to inject insulin four to five times daily
-
- We foster various research work
- [ Organization Profile ]
- The Japan IDDM Network in a non-profit organization supporting patients and their families to cope with type I diabetes, an incurable disease.
To change the mindset from despair at lifelong incurability to hope, we strive to support research to help eradicate (permanently cure + treat + prevent) type I diabetes.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations toward our type I diabetes research fund to eradicate (permanently cure + treat + prevent) type I diabetes, which is considered incurable.
Japan Habitat Association
Activities to improve the living environment of children in Luang Phabang in Lao
-
- Japan Habitat Association
We raise poultry eaten for school lunches at a junior high school.
-
- Japan Habitat Association
We delivered textbooks in Lao language to an elementary school in a mountainous area.
-
- Japan Habitat Association
Creating a game to learn about environmental issues with college students
- [ Organization Profile ]
- The Japan Habitat Association engages in town development to help people live with reassurance by improving those in challenging living environments due to poverty, natural disasters, conflicts and rapid urbanization in collaboration with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). We are currently involved with support projects in Laos and Kenya as well as supporting post-disaster reconstruction, both domestically and abroad.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to improve the living environment of children implemented in Luang Phabang in Laos, deliver textbooks in Lao language, offering school lunches so that children can eat three meals a day as well as implementing educational project for children to learn about their living environment.
Japan Human Rights Watch
Activities to protect human rights through research and policy proposals; both at home and abroad
-
- Report on social care of Japan released in 2014
-
- The Hobbes family – owner of a family home
-
- Fostering mark – a symbol familiarizing people with the foster family system
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Human Rights Watch is the world’s largest international non-governmental organization established in 1978. We investigate and report on global human rights situations by collaborating with citizens groups worldwide and implement strategic policy proposals via mass media.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- Currently, around 40,000 children live under social care, more than 80 percent of whom reside in orphanages. We would like to use your donations to raise awareness of such children to promote the foster-home system and raise the percentage of those becoming foster-parents nationwide as well as Osaka.
Room to Read Japan
Providing educational opportunities as a lifelong gift to children in developing countries
-
- Female students taking life skills classes themed on “What is a safe place?”
-
- Classroom scene. Students striving to respond to the teacher’s question.
-
- Helping each other with classmates. Female students reviewing classwork with their friends.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Room to Read Japan is an international non-governmental organization providing educational support for children in developing countries, based on the conviction that “Educating children changes the world.” We continue our activities; focusing on literacy and girls’ education and have provided educational opportunities to 16.60 million children in 16 countries worldwide.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations for girls’ education. In collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and government, we help female students finish secondary education and obtain key life skills, paving the way for them to open up fresh new possibilities.
Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net
Supporting efforts to uphold children’s rights, strength to foster them and the ability to raise and support children
-
- Let’s create the Nishinari play park! Project Boken-no-Mori Play Park, “Hagi-no-Mori”.
Playing at the Tree house where children and adults created together.
-
- A portable play park at your nearby park
Help nurturing peace of mind through enjoy chatting with parents while raising children and playing together
-
- Four Pillars of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We promote our efforts to uphold children’s rights, strength to foster them and the ability to raise and support children, gathering together those involved in child-raising in Nishinari Ward with the slogan of “Raising children together anytime and anywhere.”
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to promote a campaign establishing the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as activities so that Nishinari can become a city where children are raised and nurtured, free from all abuse!!
- e-Education
- AIDS Orphan Support NGO PLAS
- Osakafu Ikueikai
- Befrienders Worldwide Osaka Suicide Prevention Center
- Co.to.hana
- Gold Ribbon Network
- Japan Heart
- Shapla Neer = Citizens Committee for Overseas Support
- Japan Committee, Vaccines for the World’s Children
- Sodateage Net
- Tsunagarihiroba
- Nagano Summarize Center
- Nijiiro Diversity
- Japan IDDM Network
- Japan Habitat Association
- Japan Human Rights Watch
- Room to Read Japan
- Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net
e-Education
Supporting the dreams of children in developing countries who lack learning opportunities by providing them with the best lessons
-
- ©e-Education
Providing the best lessons the world over
-
- ©e-Education
We want to support children keen to study but unable to do so.
-
- ©e-Education
Supporting the dreams of children who lack learning opportunities
- [ Organization Profile ]
- “Providing the best lessons the world over”
Many children in developing countries are unable to access high-quality education in urban areas and give up on their dreams. We create videos of classes taught by the best teachers of urban areas, which we then deliver to those children as ideal lessons to support their dreams.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations for equipment used at schools for video lessons, on-site transportation costs, video production costs, labor costs including local teachers and staff, travel expenses and training costs for teachers to deliver video lessons to high school students in developing countries, including Bangladesh.
AIDS Orphan Support NGO PLAS
Activities to support children who lost their parents from AIDS and pave the way forward for their brighter future
-
- Single mothers who opened a café
-
- Children having a counselling session
-
- Hands-on learning in agriculture supporting efforts for a better livelihood
- [ Organization Profile ]
- To achieve a society where children affected by AIDS can pave the way forward for their future, we support families with children having lost their parents from AIDS by providing a better livelihood and life-planning projects in Kenya and Uganda.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- (1) Support to improve the livelihood of families with children having lost their parents from AIDS and (2) life planning support to them.
As for the better livelihood project, we provide education in initial investment and hands-on training for small businesses such as farming and how to run a café, while the life planning support project is intended to provide career counselling to such children and their guardians.
Osakafu Ikueikai
To support high school students and help make their dreams come true
-
- Giving a certificate of the “Yume Mirai” scholarship program
-
- Counseling on the Yume Mirai Scholarship Program
-
- Accepting scholarship applications
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Osakafu Ikueikai was established in 1952 and provides student loan programs to help high school students who find going to school difficult for economic reasons. To date, we have assisted around 500,000 students via student loans with a total of 223 billion yen and since 2014, we have also introduced Yume Mirai Scholarship Program grants, which need not be repaid.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to help fund Yume Mirai Scholarships to support high school students who find few opportunities to study otherwise due to financial difficulties yet still work very hard, exploiting their strengths for their future.
Befrienders Worldwide Osaka Suicide Prevention Center
Telephone counseling to help those in pain and supporting bereaved families who lost their loved ones due to suicide
-
- Telephone counseling
We help people in pain and listen to their voices.
-
- Telephone counseling promotional poster
Please unburden the worries that you cannot share with anyone else.
-
- Organizing charity concerts
We organize charity concerts for educational purposes.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We have been helping people in pain and despairing such that they wish to end their lives by providing telephone counseling over 41 years since 1978. We also organize gatherings for bereaved families having lost their loved ones through suicide to share their bitter thoughts with peace of mind.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations for public relations activities to inform as many people as possible of our telephone counseling service and help as many as possible get in touch via telephone as well as educational activities to help prevent them committing suicide. We also consider spending money on restarting counseling service via SNS to prevent suicide by youngsters.
Co.to.hana
To foster bonds among people and create a society where people can be active in the local community
-
- Achieving people’s aspirations to change society to reality
-
- Helping each other within the community by utilizing personal strengths
-
- Resolving problems by residents themselves within the community
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Co.to.hana has been striving for various social issues under its mission: “Change the society with design.” Collaborating with individuals, organizations, companies and government, we strive to create a society that brings people’s ambitions to fruition.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We operate a community service called Hitoshigotokan, where local residents can actively feel useful. We would like to use your donations to help senior citizens retired from work improve their skills and remain useful by helping needy members of the local community.
Gold Ribbon Network
Working for children with cancer to help cheer them up
-
- Gold Ribbon Network
Giving knit caps to children with cancer
-
- Gold Ribbon Network
Made it to college on a scholarship
-
- Gold Ribbon Network
Help organizations supporting children with cancer organize camping
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We work to solve problems of pediatric cancer, striving so that children with cancer can live with smiles and peace of mind. Our activities are based on three pillars of support to improve the livelihood of children who once had pediatric cancer, provide therapy research grants and information and promote understanding.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- Many people who once had pediatric cancer suffer from late complications following treatment. We would like to use your donations to fund scholarships which need not be repaid to help such pediatric cancer survivors go to college and realize their dreams. We will also use them to subsidize therapy research for patients to overcome the disease.
Japan Heart
We deliver healthcare to medically-isolated areas
-
- phot by Junji Naito
We delight in seeing children who came to our hospital return home smiling.
-
- phot by Junji Naito
We provide medical treatment to children for free of charge at our hospital.
-
- Surgical procedure by Dr. Hideto Yoshioka, Supreme adviser of Japan Heart
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Japan Heart is an international volunteer healthcare organization which was established in Japan in 2004. Centering on a basic philosophy of “delivering healthcare to medically-isolated areas,” we are an authorized NPO, dispatching Japanese healthcare professionals and providing medical treatment free of charge to developing countries in Asia.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to cover the costs of surgery and treatment for patients requiring healthcare in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, particularly for medical activities, i.e. medical examinations, prescription charges, costs for surgery and medical supplies at the Japan Heart Pediatric Medical Center, which opened in June 2018 in Cambodia.
Shapla Neer = Citizens Committee for Overseas Support
Educating girls working as domestic servants
-
- Girls learning reading and writing skills at our support center
-
- Girls working as domestic servants in Bangladesh
-
- Reporting on severe circumstances of local girls via radio broadcasting
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Shapla Neer is a Japanese NGO providing international cooperation established in 1972. We support those left behind by the various systems and schemes of society and strive to resolve poverty issues in South Asia.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to support girls engaging in child labor. They will be used to cover the operating expenses of our support center that helps girls working as domestic servants at other people’s houses and production costs for radio programs reporting on the circumstances of domestic servants in Bangladesh, as well as covering the costs of holding lecture meetings in Japan.
Japan Committee, Vaccines for the World’s Children
Delivering vaccines to developing countries and protecting children’s lives and welfare from infectious diseases
-
- ©JCV
Polio vaccinations in Myanmar
-
- ©JCV
A father and his child waiting to see the doctor in Bhutan
-
- ©JCV
Children welcoming us in the village in Laos
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We want to save the lives of small children by vaccinating them.
One child dies every twenty seconds due to a global lack of vaccines.
We are a private international support organization; striving to help protect children’s future by delivering vaccines to developing countries.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We will supply vaccines and related equipment to children in the four countries with continuous support, Republic of the Union of Myanmar, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Republic of Vanuatu, following requests from the health department of each country and in collaboration with their UNICEF secretariat.
Sodateage Net
Assisting unemployed youngsters in finding work
-
- Basic job training
Job training held at our office twice to five times a week
-
- Consultation
A career consultant and clinical psychotherapist are here to help.
-
- Organizing exchange meetings
Helping youngsters who find it difficult to communicate with people feel easier through sports and other fun events.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- There are thought to be around two million youngsters keen to work but unable to do so. We support their efforts to obtain work and remain in work, as well as connect with society. We consider this a social investment to reduce our future social welfare costs.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We provide youngsters who find it difficult to work and find themselves in economic poverty with a job training program free of charge. We would like to use your donations to also cover transportation costs for those who visit our premises for job training so that they can do so without concerns over the cost.
Tsunagarihiroba
An organization empathically supporting cancer patients based in Osaka
-
- Activities empathically supporting cancer patients
-
- Runners and supporters got off at the training session and pre-race trial run!
-
- Our new office opened! We will restart on a new note.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Our organization is Osaka-based; striving to ease the pain and anxiety of patients fighting cancer. As part of our health recovery support program, we organize running sessions with cancer patients. Let’s run through the new course of the Osaka Marathon and enjoy overwhelming sensations in the process!
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to organize exchange activities to support the recovery aspirations of cancer patients, continuing our health recovery support program as well as expanding the scope of our activities throughout Kansai rather than Osaka alone and enhancing their content in incremental steps.
Nagano Summarize Center
Delivering smiles and brighter futures to hearing-impaired children
-
- ©SNAG Golf Caravan Project
Supporting the hearing-impaired by providing the required information on site
-
- ©Nagano Summarize Center
Striving to transcribe the required information on site
-
- ©Nagano Summarize Center
Swiftly providing information via a remote support system (Para-Ekiden)
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We implemented the first note-taking service using a PC in the Paralympic Games in Nagano in 1998 and following the invention of the iPhone, worked with industry and academia to develop a remote note-taking system, allowing us to provide a remote note-taking service at 60 schools in 29 prefectures nationwide. We also engaged in providing information online when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred and strive to utilize cutting-edge systems, e.g. for voice recognition. As our new effort, we support the efforts of hearing-impaired and local able-bodied children to connect by collaborating with an organization striving to provide sports experience opportunities involving hearing-impaired persons and their families.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to create opportunities for hearing-impaired children to participate in sports activities which may otherwise be difficult for them to join locally, covering the costs of PR, use of the venue and a PC note-taking service using a voice-recognition system.
Nijiiro Diversity
Achieving a more diverse and inclusive society that is more welcoming for LGBT people
-
- LGBT workshop
Lecturing at companies, local governments and educational institutes
-
- The First Diversity Cup in Kansai
We participated in the Enjoy League with LGBT & ALLY team and won the championship.
-
- Creating a community space (Ibashozukuri project)
Yodogawa Ward
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Nijiiro Diversity is a non-profit organization engaged in research, lecturing and consulting business to create a workplace where sexual minorities such as LGBT people can work with reassurance.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- ・As a specialist LGBT organization, we would like to use your donations to provide LGBT-related information to society on an ongoing basis.
・We would like to expand the exchange program currently implemented at our Yodogawa office throughout the wider Osaka area.
・We would like to achieve full diversity in the city of Osaka as part of efforts toward the Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025.E292
Japan IDDM Network
To help unlock the future of and completely cure children with type I diabetes
-
- A 6-year old girl with type I diabetes (developed at 7 months old)
-
- Has to inject insulin four to five times daily
-
- We foster various research work
- [ Organization Profile ]
- The Japan IDDM Network in a non-profit organization supporting patients and their families to cope with type I diabetes, an incurable disease.
To change the mindset from despair at lifelong incurability to hope, we strive to support research to help eradicate (permanently cure + treat + prevent) type I diabetes.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations toward our type I diabetes research fund to eradicate (permanently cure + treat + prevent) type I diabetes, which is considered incurable.
Japan Habitat Association
Activities to improve the living environment of children in Luang Phabang in Lao
-
- Japan Habitat Association
We raise poultry eaten for school lunches at a junior high school.
-
- Japan Habitat Association
We delivered textbooks in Lao language to an elementary school in a mountainous area.
-
- Japan Habitat Association
Creating a game to learn about environmental issues with college students
- [ Organization Profile ]
- The Japan Habitat Association engages in town development to help people live with reassurance by improving those in challenging living environments due to poverty, natural disasters, conflicts and rapid urbanization in collaboration with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). We are currently involved with support projects in Laos and Kenya as well as supporting post-disaster reconstruction, both domestically and abroad.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to improve the living environment of children implemented in Luang Phabang in Laos, deliver textbooks in Lao language, offering school lunches so that children can eat three meals a day as well as implementing educational project for children to learn about their living environment.
Japan Human Rights Watch
Activities to protect human rights through research and policy proposals; both at home and abroad
-
- Report on social care of Japan released in 2014
-
- The Hobbes family – owner of a family home
-
- Fostering mark – a symbol familiarizing people with the foster family system
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Human Rights Watch is the world’s largest international non-governmental organization established in 1978. We investigate and report on global human rights situations by collaborating with citizens groups worldwide and implement strategic policy proposals via mass media.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- Currently, around 40,000 children live under social care, more than 80 percent of whom reside in orphanages. We would like to use your donations to raise awareness of such children to promote the foster-home system and raise the percentage of those becoming foster-parents nationwide as well as Osaka.
Room to Read Japan
Providing educational opportunities as a lifelong gift to children in developing countries
-
- Female students taking life skills classes themed on “What is a safe place?”
-
- Classroom scene. Students striving to respond to the teacher’s question.
-
- Helping each other with classmates. Female students reviewing classwork with their friends.
- [ Organization Profile ]
- Room to Read Japan is an international non-governmental organization providing educational support for children in developing countries, based on the conviction that “Educating children changes the world.” We continue our activities; focusing on literacy and girls’ education and have provided educational opportunities to 16.60 million children in 16 countries worldwide.
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations for girls’ education. In collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and government, we help female students finish secondary education and obtain key life skills, paving the way for them to open up fresh new possibilities.
Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net
Supporting efforts to uphold children’s rights, strength to foster them and the ability to raise and support children
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- Let’s create the Nishinari play park! Project Boken-no-Mori Play Park, “Hagi-no-Mori”.
Playing at the Tree house where children and adults created together.
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- A portable play park at your nearby park
Help nurturing peace of mind through enjoy chatting with parents while raising children and playing together
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- Four Pillars of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- [ Organization Profile ]
- We promote our efforts to uphold children’s rights, strength to foster them and the ability to raise and support children, gathering together those involved in child-raising in Nishinari Ward with the slogan of “Raising children together anytime and anywhere.”
- [ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
- We would like to use your donations to promote a campaign establishing the Convention on the Rights of the Child as well as activities so that Nishinari can become a city where children are raised and nurtured, free from all abuse!!