*We will publicly disclose and report on the implementation and results of the charity programs on this site and elsewhere in the future.
| No. | Charity program | Theme color | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Support activities to eradicate cancer |  |
Red |
| 2 | Encourage disabled athletes |  |
Orange |
| 3 | Encourage sick children and their families |  |
Yellow |
| 4 | Reinvigorate and cultivate forests |  |
Green |
| 5 | Aim for a world with clean drinking water |  |
Light blue |
| 6 | Sustain children’s physical and mental health |  |
Navy |
| 7 | Spread activities to preserve and beautify landscapes |  |
Purple |
| 8 | Come together as one for recovery |  |
Rainbow colors |
Support activities to eradicate cancer
Cancer Support Community
Activities
Cancer patients and their supporters promote awareness for health checks for the early detection of cancer.
Donation recipient
Organization’s PR, use of funds
Cancer strikes about one in two Japanese. Because of progress in the field of medicine, treatments for cancer are now very advanced. However, many cases are not detected for some time because of a lack of visible symptoms and are often too late to treat. And even when one cancer is beaten, there is still the chance of a new once arising.
Using donations from the 1st Osaka Marathon, we are now promoting awareness with the hope of saving valuable lives through early health checks and decreasing the number of lives lost to cancer, even if just by one.
With donations from the 2nd Osaka Marathon, we hope to initiate various activities aimed at creating a social environment where cancer patients can live normal lives.
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©Special Olympics Nippon
Activities
Training coaches and volunteers for sports for the disabled, providing financial rewards for Paralympic medalists.
Donation recipient
Organization’s PR, use of funds
The Japan Sports Association for the Disabled (JSAD) is a corporation founded in 1965 to promote sports for people with disabilities and improve their competitiveness. In 2012, the 14th Paralympics will be held in London following the Olympic games. JSAD will award certificates and offer financial rewards as Paralympic special prizes to those who achieve especially outstanding results in the Paralympics.
The donations from the 2nd Osaka Marathon will be entirely allocated to financial rewards. Your understanding and support is greatly appreciated.
All contributions from the 1st Osaka Marathon were donated to disabled persons sports training and organization groups that had lost sports equipment in the Great East Japan Earthquake, and were used for the purchase of new sports equipment.
Donation recipient
Organization’s PR, use of funds
We are an international sports organization that provides, throughout the year (rather than from time to time), various training and competition venues in the regions to persons with intellectual disabilities and supports their participation in society. We send groups of competitors to world championships, and through activity, aim to promote the independence and social participation of those with intellectual disabilities.
The donations from the 2nd Osaka Marathon entrants and others will be carefully allocated to sending Japanese teams to the Special Olympics in PyeongChang in February 2013, to supporting district competitions, and to training coaches and volunteers.
Encourage sick children and their families
Support Network for Chronically Sick Children of Japan
Activities
Organizing summer camps for chronically ill children cared for at home or in hospitals.
Donation recipient
Organization’s PR, use of funds
More than 500 types of chronic disease can afflict children, and nationwide, more than 200,000 children are battling chronic illness. We promote advisory activities, intercultural exchange, and social education to improve the quality of life for children with chronic illnesses and their families. The valuable contributions received from participants in the 1st Osaka Marathon and others were donated to hospitals in the Kansai region in the form of picture books and play equipment, much to the delight of the children.
The contributions from the 2nd Osaka Marathon will be used to fund summer camps for chronically ill children and their families. These will be held for the first time in the Kansai region in August of next year. “Never Give Up” summer camps are currently being held all over Japan for groups of over 150 persons, including the young patients, their families, and volunteers, and the Kansai region is now eagerly awaiting its turn.
Activities
Forest conservation activities, including thinning, in Japan and overseas
Donation recipient
Organization’s PR, use of funds
We are an incorporated association for forest conservation fronted by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto. We are involved in more than 10 forest restoration projects in Japan and overseas. Our forestation projects are not confined merely to planting trees and increasing greenery, but aim to connect forests and cities and build relationships that enrich both. more trees uses the carbon offsetting system, develops items that use native timbers and deerskins, and promotes interaction among people of different regions through “green tourism.” Utilizing the richness of the forests in various forms, we promote forestation as an initiative to enrich people’s daily lives.
The donations received will be used to cover some of the costs of promoting more trees initiatives.
UNHCR/F. Courbet
UNHCR/A. Fazzina
Activities
To supply water to sustain the lives of refugees in Africa.
Donation recipient
Organization’s PR, use of funds
Water is essential for life. In refugee camps, securing the necessary quantities of clean water is one of the most crucial forms of life-sustaining support. As the official support channel in Japan for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), we conduct UNHCR public relations and fundraising activities. The donations raised by the 2nd Osaka Marathon will be allocated to UNHCR worldwide activities securing life-giving water for refugees. The funds raised through the 1st Osaka Marathon were applied to a water supply project supporting refugees in Kenya.
©Save the Children
©Save the Children
Activities
To create an environment that enables children in Asia to study and exercise safely.
Donation recipient
Organization’s PR, use of funds
Because of conflicts around the world, many children are deprived of the opportunity to go to school. We provide educational support in countries around the world to enable children to create a future for themselves. The donations raised from the 2nd Osaka Marathon will be used, as last time, to develop education environments and provide sports equipment in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka where we have been supporting education for many years.
We provide the opportunity for children living in conflict situations to change their future and the support for children’s minds and bodies to develop healthily.
Activities
Activities to clean up the communities and towns where we live.
Donation recipient
Organization’s PR, use of funds
Based on the concept of “Clean Town, Clean Spirit,” we engage in activities to reduce littering, clean up cities, and create healthy environments in 30 regions nationwide (including Osaka’s Amerikamura, Kyoto, and Kobe) and four cities and countries overseas (including Paris, Sri Lanka, and Singapore). By picking up litter with young people who have very little contact with volunteer and community work, we seek to bring a new atmosphere into the community. In the future, we intend to spread our activities nationwide while stepping up our work in Osaka and the Kansai region.
To help the area devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake recover, last year we went to the northeast as part of a total of more than 400 volunteers. There we provided field support to farming households and assisted in the restoration of farmland. Now, in the second year of that assistance, we are continuing our support projects, which are even more extensive than last year, in an effort to bring security and happiness to even one more person than before.
Activities
Providing operational subsidies to workplaces employing disabled persons affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake
Donation recipient
Organization’s PR, use of funds
Those with disabilities who were caught up in the Great East Japan Earthquake suffered mortality rates double those of the local population as a whole. And many of the workplaces employing the disabled experienced lower product sales as their clients suffered damage and because of earthquake and rumors of nuclear fall-out. After the disaster, wages, which were little enough already, fell further.
The donations collected from participants and others in the 2nd Osaka Marathon will be allocated to providing operational subsidies to workplaces employing disabled persons affected by the earthquake so that the wages of the disabled can be increased, and to help them participate in society and live independently.
The donations from the 1st Osaka Marathon supported “Smile Camps,” which nurtured the emotional development of children affected by the earthquake.
