AAR JAPAN - Public Awareness

Events

AAR JAPAN actively implements public awareness programs, including action report meetings held by overseas staff members, and lectures on mines and charity concerts.

We frequently hold report meetings whenever our overseas staff members return to Japan, and they report what is happening in the countries they work in to our supporters through photographs and video clips.

AAR JAPAN’s overseas staff members report on their activities and on the local people’s lives. Ryo KAKUTANI, a staff member stationed in Tadzhikistan, reported the affairs of the nation, which are not well known by the Japanese people, and AAR JAPAN’s actions there (at Toyama Campus of Gakushuin Women’s College).

AAR JAPAN holds workshops on mines for children by obtaining cooperation from shops, juvenile facilities and community centers.

AAR JAPAN holds a workshop on mines in order for children to become familiar with the mine problem. The photo shows a mine-searching game. The children try to find buried mines by looking at a map. This activity allows them to understand the possible dangers they would face in their daily lives if mines were buried in the areas they live in. (at JUSCO Haebaru shop in Okinawa).

Musicians that participated in recently held charity concerts:

Atsuko TEMMA, Masashi SADA, Saori YUKI, Shoko YASUDA, Seiji OZAWA, ROSTROPOVICH, Hiroko NAKAMURA, Shinichi MORI, Tetsuko KUROYANAGI, Akihiro MIWA, Tsutomu ARAGAKI, Terumasa HINO, and more.

Hiroko NAKAMURA’s charity concert.
She played with Bony Armacost, the wife of the former U.S. ambassador to Japan.

Lectures, taking in visitors on NGOs and participation in corporations’ CSR events

AAR JAPAN presents lectures at corporations, schools and other meetings. We also take in student visitors who come to our office to learn more about NGOs.

AAR JAPAN’s staff members visit schools for lectures Mariko AOKI, who returned home after working in Afghanistan, delivered a lecture at Seisen International School. The students listened to her attentively.

We take in students for school excursion at our office.

We recommend that you visit AAR JAPAN office as part of school excursion program. Each year many junior/high school students from all over the country visit the AAR JAPAN office. Staff members at our Tokyo office brief the refugee and mine problems and answer any questions.

Corporations offer cooperation to AAR JAPAN within variety of ways. They place donation collection boxes in offices, purchase “Sunny-chan” goods for gifts used in their parties, and their employees join us as volunteers.

Corporations join international cooperation programs with a variety of manners.
The Seven & I Avesco Fund, established by Ito Yokado and six beverage makers, donates a part of the income from vending machines set up in parking areas of Ito Yokado stores to AAR JAPAN continuously since 2002.

Rental Service

AAR JAPAN lends photo panels of urgent relief and mine actions, and DVDs showing our activities.

AAR JAPAN lends mine panels and photos.
Kobe Kaisei Joshi Gakuin exhibited panels displaying AAR JAPAN activities at their school festival.