CHARITY

Charitable Organization

We deliver your donations and thoughts to twenty-nine charitable organizations participating
in the charity program of the Osaka Marathon 2020.

※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 based on the charity themes of the Osaka Marathon.

  • Charitable Organization
  • Purple Charity Theme
  • Navy Charity Theme
  • Blue Charity Theme
  • Green Charity Theme
  • Yellow Charity Theme
  • Orange Charity Theme
  • Red Charity Theme

Flagship partners

Purple Charity Theme To preserve our beautiful city and livelihood
OISCA

We implement regional development through forest and human resource cultivation, both at home and abroad.

  • We rear seedlings carefully from seeds.
    We rear seedlings carefully from seeds.
  • Volunteer assistance is crucial for silvicultural projects.
    Volunteer assistance is crucial for silvicultural projects.
  • The tallest pine tree has grown over four and a half meters.
    The tallest pine tree has grown over four and a half meters.
[ 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 ]
We would like to use your donations for silvicultural activities, including raising 35,000 seedlings, mow grass within a 100-hectare coastal forest and withering debris of locust trees as part of a project to restore the coastal forest in Natori city, Miyagi prefecture, which was lost in the Great East Japan Earthquake.
NPO green bird

We are engaged in activities to pick up litter and create a litterless town nationwide.

  • Everything you need for cleaning is supplied! Come and join us – just bring yourself!
    Everything you need for cleaning is supplied! Come and join us – just bring yourself!
  • We sometimes dress up for Halloween!Wide-ranging individuals participate in our activities, from children to dogs.
    We sometimes dress up for Halloween!Wide-ranging individuals participate in our activities, from children to dogs.
  • We have overseas operating bases.(Shown in the photo: the work of our team in Paris.)
    We have overseas operating bases.
    (Shown in the photo: the work of our team in Paris.)
[ 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 in a group of teams currently totaling around 90 in Japan and abroad. We strive to globally convey a litter pickup culture 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 litter pickup initiatives and encourage litterless town activities via the nine existing teams in the Kansai region as well as covering the cost of establishing and maintaining new teams; within the Kansai region and abroad.
Blue Charity Theme To conserve our natural environment
Association for Nature Restoration and Conservation,Japan

To conserve the immediate natural environment to the future! Supporting local environmental conservation activities

  • We serve as a bridge between young volunteers and organizations lack of sufficient help
    ©NAREC
    We serve as a bridge between young volunteers and organizations lack of sufficient help
  • Striving to preserve Osaka Castle park as well as improve its landscape
    ©NAREC
    Striving to preserve Osaka Castle park as well as improve its landscape
  • Our environmental volunteers support local environmental conservation activities.
    ©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 help our project become self-sustaining, including activating and propagating the Osaka Rangers’ Project（http://rangersproject.jp/project/osaka/）, which was established to support regional environmental conservation activities in Osaka and encourage local people’s participation.
Japan Environmental Education Forum (JEEF)

Fostering human resources and playing the role of creating a sustainable society through environmental education

  • Learning in the forest while touching real trees.
    ©JEEF
    Learning in the forest while touching real trees.
  • Time for conversation while listening to the sound of leaves swinging in the wind.
    ©JEEF
    Time for conversation while listening to the sound of leaves swinging in the wind.
  • Let’s enjoy parents and children together, even if they have to stay indoors.
    ©JEEF
    Let’s enjoy parents and children together, even if they have to stay indoors.
[ Organization Profile ]
“Fostering children, change the world”
Striving to realize a society where anyone can live in a spiritually rich manner and feeling nature with a smile, we help children and adults supporting them enjoy nature experiences.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We plan to organize nature experience and hands-on learning programs to encourage the healthy growth of children, mainly in the Kinki area. We would also like to use your donations to organize classes within schools and teach people how to create an indoor environment with mental care for parents and children in areas affected by natural disasters.
Green Charity Theme To support the city of Osaka
HELLOlife

Striving to eradicate child poverty by assisting young adults and parents-to-be set to spearhead the next generation with employment.

  • The participants of the MODEL HOUSE Project will join in the community activities of the residential complex housing them and take advantage of the chance to get involved in the community and learn occupational skills.
    The participants of the MODEL HOUSE Project will join in the community activities of the residential complex housing them and take advantage of the chance to get involved in the community and learn occupational skills.
  • Plan to enter the workforce and earn your livelihood with HELLO life staff and peers.
    Plan to enter the workforce and earn your livelihood with HELLO life staff and peers.
  • A vacant room to move in will be renovated by the residents to be themselves under the instruction of our staff.
    A vacant room to move in will be renovated by the residents to be themselves under the instruction of our staff.
[ Organization Profile ]
We strive to get out of the vicious circle dragging people, including children, down into poverty and eliminate income disparity by achieving a society where young adults and parents-to-be can live and continue working. We have striven to solve a range of “working” issues while focusing completely on every single facet of “life” here in Osaka since 2007.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to fund our efforts to support young people facing issues with their life and work.
- Organizing the “MODEL HOUSE” Project (https://co.hellolife.jp/projects/model-house/) to support youngsters’ livelihood and employment by positively re-utilizing unoccupied municipal housing.
- A program supporting youngsters in collaboration with private companies
ME-RISE

We support poverty-stricken children and disabled children and adults, etc. in the local community.

  • We aim to achieve a society where everybody can live in their local community by their own values.
    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 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.
    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 would like to use your donations to operate children’s cafeterias in Suminoe ward, Osaka, establishing a place for poverty-stricken children to stay as well as organizing forums focused on “Child poverty”.
Yellow Charity Theme To support families
NPO Sodateage-Net

Providing a job assistance program for young people keen to work but unable to find the right job.

  • Building self-confidence through a workplace experience at our partner companies
    Building self-confidence through a workplace experience at our partner companies
  • Supporting youngsters to help them understand themselves in greater depth
    Supporting youngsters to help them understand themselves in greater depth
  • We participate in events such as festivals in collaboration with local communities.
    We participate in events such as festivals in collaboration with local communities.
[ Organization Profile ]
Upholding our mission: “Connecting youngsters with society”, we help youngsters who find themselves cut off from society, e.g. withdrawn or NEETs. We promote efforts to coordinate with administrative agencies and private companies striving for a society that welcomes youngsters, while supporting 2,000 or so of such individuals annually.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to support youngsters who want to change the status quo for free for a certain period, as well as developing programs to encourage candidates to get and keep jobs, including telework, to meet each different individual circumstance.
Certified Nonprofit organization Japan CliniClowns Association

Supporting hospitalized children and their families rediscover their zest for life

  • Being at one with hospitalized children for a moment through playing activities
    ©CliniClowns Japan
    Being at one with hospitalized children for a moment through playing activities
  • The moment when everybody smiles and forgets their illness, even for a second
    ©CliniClowns Japan
    The moment when everybody smiles and forgets their illness, even for a second
  • Bring smiles to the NICU (newborn intensive care unit)
    ©CliniClowns Japan
    Bring smiles to the NICU (newborn intensive care unit)
[ 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, creating an environment where hospitalized children regain their original zest for life and smile, a training program to foster new CliniClowns and lecture presentations to raise awareness of our activities.
Orange Charity Theme To brighten future of children
Public interest incorporated association Children's Hospice Project

life-threatening diseases to live with community

  • Japan’s first community-based hospice for children A venue where children with diseases can stay and do whatever they like with peace of mind
    Japan’s first community-based hospice for children A venue where children with diseases can stay and do whatever they like with peace of mind
  • We are here as a second home for children with life-threatening disease and their families
    We are here as a second home for children with life-threatening disease and their families
  • Supporting sick children and their family as friends
    Supporting sick children and their family as friends
[ 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 provide various opportunities, including enhancing hospice programs and lodgment for children with life-threatening diseases such as pediatric cancer and neuromuscular disease, as well as offering a grief care venue for bereaved families.
Save the Children Japan

For Every Last Child

  • An elementary school damaged by Typhoon No. 19 (Marumori town, Miyagi prefecture)
    ©Save the Children
    An elementary school damaged by Typhoon No. 19 (Marumori town, Miyagi prefecture)
  • Emergency assistance for cyclone disaster and a Child-Friendly Space (Mozambique)
    ©Hanna Adcock/Save the Children
    Emergency assistance for cyclone disaster and a Child-Friendly Space (Mozambique)
  • Child refugees from Syria and a Child-Friendly Space (Lebanon)
    ©Jamie Baker/Save the Children
    Child refugees from Syria and a Child-Friendly Space (Lebanon)
[ Organization Profile ]
Save the Children is an international NGO that works in Japan and around the world. We are committed to uphold children’s rights which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation over 100 years. We believe every child deserves a future.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
In emergencies and humanitarian crises, children are often the most vulnerable. Your supports enable us to provide children and their families with a wide variety of support - including provision of critical supplies, learning opportunities, and child friendly spaces -a safe place for children to play and receive psychological and emotional support.
Red Charity Theme To support your hopes to live
Cancer Support Community Japan

Providing mental healthcare for cancer patients and their families

  • A support group where cancer patients talk to each other
    ©CSC-JAPAN
    A support group where cancer patients talk to each other
  • Training session for specialists providing psychosocial support held in Osaka
    ©CSC-JAPAN
    Training session for specialists providing psychosocial support held in Osaka
  • Cancer prevention leaflets in multiple languages and all cancer ribbon badges
    ©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 mental healthcare for cancer patients and their loved ones from professionals 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 support cancer patients by organizing support groups, hosting seminars in collaboration with healthcare professionals and cancer awareness-raising campaigns; striving to achieve an inclusive local community, a society where no-one is afraid of cancer and a value-creating society within Osaka.
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University

Research on iPS cells for medical applications

  • Professor Shinya Yamanaka who works at CiRA as director
    ©Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA),Kyoto University
    Professor Shinya Yamanaka who works at CiRA as director
  • iPS cells anticipated for the application of regenerative medicine and drug development
    ©Shinya Yamanaka, Professor, Kyoto University
    iPS cells anticipated for the application of regenerative medicine and drug development
  • The donated funds are used to hire competent researchers and research assistants.
    ©Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
    The donated funds are used to hire competent researchers and research assistants.
[ Organization Profile ]
The Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University is engaged in research activities, with our mission to “apply iPS cells in clinical settings” in mind. Many researchers and research assistants strive for research and work assignments to achieve regenerative medicine and drug development to resolve incurable diseases by paving the way for a new medical field leveraging iPS cells.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to secure the very best researchers and research assistants and help develop new treatment approaches using iPS cells, supporting efforts to continue stable research activities, i.e. risk measures against disputes on patent properties, etc. and dispatch of information on iPS cell research and promotion activities.

Charitable organizations operating their activities based on various themes

Challenge Partners

Atto-school

Providing learning support to help children with single parents

  • Students at WATARIJUKU Minoh school
    Students at WATARIJUKU Minoh school
  • A classroom scene at WATARIJUKU Takatsuki school
    A classroom scene at WATARIJUKU Takatsuki school
  • Break time between classes at WATARIJUKU Minoh school
    Break time between classes at WATARIJUKU Minoh school
[ Organization Profile ]
Watari, the head of the organization and raised by a single mother, was spurred to establish this organization with friends from university in 2010 with a wish to support children in similar circumstances. His organization provides children with study support in Minoh, Takatsuki and Suita cities within Osaka prefecture.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to secure learning opportunities for children raised in single-parent households as well as helping those whose homes were destroyed by the 2018 Osaka earthquake in northern Osaka and who suddenly had real problems getting an education.
Osaka Prefecture Scholarship Foundation

To support high school students and help make their dreams come true through Yumemirai Scholarship Program

  • A ceremony certifying the Yume Mirai Scholarship Program
    A ceremony certifying the Yume Mirai Scholarship Program
  • Giving a certificate of the “Yume Mirai” scholarship program
    Giving a certificate of the “Yume Mirai” scholarship program
  • A social event with scholarship alumni students
    A social event with scholarship alumni students
[ Organization Profile ]
Osakafu Ikueikai was established in 1952 as a means of helping students in Osaka prefecture struggling to attend school for economic reasons and has been offering student loan programs for over 60 years.
Moreover, in fiscal 2014, we established Yume Mirai Scholarship Program grants, which need not be repaid and have since been assisting high school students to access higher education, including college, to help realize their dreams.
[ 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 would find few other opportunities to study due to financial difficulties yet are still prepared to toil and optimally exploit their strengths in areas like sports and art as part of efforts to realize their future dream.
Kansai bone marrow bank promote association

Engaged in activities to increase the number of registered bone marrow donors

  • A blood donation venue, housing a briefing and procedure for bone-marrow donor registry.
    A blood donation venue, housing a briefing and procedure for bone-marrow donor registry.
  • You are required to donate 2 cc of blood and complete a registration application form.
    You are required to donate 2 cc of blood and complete a registration application form.
  • We introduced our activities at the booth during the 41st Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
    We introduced our activities at the booth during the 41st Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
[ Organization Profile ]
There are around 520,000 registrants for bone-marrow donors, but around 40 percent remain unable to find appropriate donors and undergo bone-marrow transplantation as things stand. We have been striving to encourage more people to join our bone-marrow registry.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to cover the cost of awareness-raising for the bone-marrow donor registry and nurturing staff to explain about our activities and training costs for existing staff as well as the maintenance and operation cost for our organization.
Gold Ribbon Network

To support children with cancer, their families and childhood cancer survivors

  • We are engaged in activities to gain an understanding and widen the circle of aid for pediatric cancer.
    We are engaged in activities to gain an understanding and widen the circle of aid for pediatric cancer.
  • Supporting efforts to improve their quality of life (QOL) and cure rate.
    Supporting efforts to improve their quality of life (QOL) and cure rate.
  • Feedback from ex scholarship students
    Feedback from ex scholarship students
[ Organization Profile ]
Our activities center on three pillars of support, i.e. support to improve the livelihood of children having experienced pediatric cancer, including scholarship offers, subsidizing transportation expenses, etc., providing therapy research grants to improve the cure rate and information and promoting awareness, striving to ensure children suffering from cancer can still smile and live with peace of mind.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
It is said that around half of pediatric cancer survivors suffer from the effects of the cancer itself and/or the after-effects of the disease (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 university/technical college and support them in efforts to become self-reliant.
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
    Telephone counseling
  • Telephone counseling promotional poster “Open umbrella for their heart” posted on railway facilities
    Telephone counseling promotional poster “Open umbrella for their heart” posted on railway facilities
  • Telephone counseling promotional poster “Nothing can be helped anyway” posted on metro facilities
    Telephone counseling promotional poster “Nothing can be helped anyway” posted on metro facilities
[ 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 to fund the telephone counseling that underpins our activities and operating an association of bereaved families who lost their loved ones due to suicide, including running costs for our operation base, the cost of equipment such as telephones, labor costs, training costs to improve the level of consultants and having external instructors and so on.
Japan for UNHCR

Providing PR and charity fund-raising activities to support refugees and displaced persons

  • A Rohingya refugee girl in Bangladesh with a beautiful smile
    ©UNHCR Roger Arnold
    A Rohingya refugee girl in Bangladesh with a beautiful smile
  • Afghan refugee children showing school bags provided by the UNHCR in Pakistan
    ©UNHCR Asif Shahzad
    Afghan refugee children showing school bags provided by the UNHCR in Pakistan
  • Writing utensils delivered to help Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh
    ©UNHCR Andrew McConnell
    Writing utensils delivered to help Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh
[ Organization Profile ]
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency set up in 1950 to support refugees. We are engaged in protecting and supporting refugees who were driven from their home countries and those internally displaced due to conflicts and persecution and having been striving to solve refugee issues in 135 countries worldwide. The Japan for UNHCR is the official contact tasked with supporting the aforementioned activities.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to provide educational support for refugee children in the form of the resources they need to attend school such as textbooks, school supplies, uniforms and shoes, creating a study environment as well as securing and fostering high-quality teachers.
NPO CPAO

Providing support for needy parents and children with housework and childcare

  • Children fed at our kids’ cafeteria
    Children fed at our kids’ cafeteria
  • We created a water gun using bamboo materials at the play park.
    We created a water gun using bamboo materials at the play park.
  • Summer camp. The Kumano River was crystal-clear.
    Summer camp. The Kumano River was crystal-clear.
[ Organization Profile ]
We provide in-depth support for children’s livelihood, meeting both their own needs and those of their parents in response to social issues such as child poverty, isolation of their parents under excessive economic and emotional pressure and child abuse which is more likely under such circumstances.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to build facilities and create a venue where parents and children can escape as well as supporting house work and childcare as part of nurturing positive relations between parents and children.
Japan Committee, Vaccines for the World’s Children

Engaged in activities to protect the future of children by providing vaccines to developing countries

  • A baby getting a polio vaccine at a doctor’s office in Vanuatu
    ©JCV
    A baby getting a polio vaccine at a doctor’s office in Vanuatu
  • Villagers in Laos awaiting their turn outside a vaccination venue
    ©JCV
    Villagers in Laos awaiting their turn outside a vaccination venue
  • Children in Myanmar energetically attending school after receiving the vaccine
    ©JCV
    Children in Myanmar energetically attending school after receiving the vaccine
[ 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 would like to use your donations to supply vaccines and related equipment to protect the lives and future of children in developing countries, as well as boosting awareness to help ensure they are vaccinated and so on.
Child Chemo Support Foundation

To support children with incurable diseases including cancer and their families

  • A living space bathed in sunlight, where you can enjoy a relaxed time with family
    ©Child Chemo Support Foundation
    A living space bathed in sunlight, where you can enjoy a relaxed time with family
  • “Even children developed cancer can grow with smiles”
    ©Child Chemo Support Foundation
    “Even children developed cancer can grow with smiles”
  • We organize some events within a large playroom.
    ©Child Chemo Support Foundation
    We organize some events within a large playroom.
[ Organization Profile ]
The Child Chemo House is a facility with medical professionals on duty around the clock, where children with incurable diseases, including pediatric cancers, can feel at home and with peace of mind.
We also help raise awareness of pediatric cancer through walking events.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
To support children and their families cope with the issue of incurable disease, including pediatric cancer, we would like to use your donations to operate a facility where children undergoing treatment can spend their daily lives with family, able to refer to medical professionals around the clock as required, with counseling and including activities to organize events.
Tsunagarihiroba

To support patients with cancer and their families

  • The Tsunagarihiroba character, “Hirokuma”
    The Tsunagarihiroba character, “Hirokuma”
  • An activity offered by Tsunagarihiroba This scene shows a deep-breathing yoga session.
    An activity offered by Tsunagarihiroba
    This scene shows a deep-breathing yoga session.
  • An activity offered by Tsunagarihiroba This scene shows a healthcare seminar.
    An activity offered by Tsunagarihiroba
    This scene shows a healthcare seminar.
[ Organization Profile ]
NPO Tsunagarihiroba is an organization supporting people coming face-to-face with cancer, which was established in November 2017 and has since been supporting patients with self-determination and making decisions by listening to their problems and anxieties. This is a venue open to all at any time.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
To support cancer patients, we would like to use your donations to create an organization, fostering human resources and enhancing the operating base as part of efforts to expand the eligible scope to include all Kansai residents, based on our supportive activities in collaboration with the Osaka International Cancer Institute.
Japan IDDM Network, Non-Profit Corporation

Support for children with type 1 diabetes generally considered incurable and offer them hope to be cured in future

  • Children having a daily injection
    Children having a daily injection
  • Child patients with Tanaka, an athlete with type I diabetes
    Child patients with Tanaka, an athlete with type I diabetes
  • We foster various research work to eradicate type I diabetes.
    We foster various research work to eradicate type I diabetes.
[ Organization Profile ]
The Japan IDDM Network is a non-profit organization supporting patients and their families requiring daily insulin replacement to cope with type I diabetes, which is incurable. We subsidize various research work to render such incurable diseases curable.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to subsidize research funding for eradicating (permanently curing, treating and preventing) type I diabetes, which is considered incurable, as well as supporting children and young adults coping with this condition through our scholarship and business incubator programs tailored for those suffering with this disease.
Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC)

Providing support in a wide range of areas including agriculture, education and peacekeeping efforts to meet local needs in eleven countries and regions worldwide

  • A scene from food processing training in Cambodia. The instructor is a villager from another village who had previously completed a JVC training program.
    A scene from food processing training in Cambodia. The instructor is a villager from another village who had previously completed a JVC training program.
  • An elementary school student in South Sudan having received a notebook as part of our educational support at the refugee camp
    An elementary school student in South Sudan having received a notebook as part of our educational support at the refugee camp
  • A workshop - “Peace Yard” - where children in Iraq from a range of backgrounds learn about coexistence.
    A workshop - “Peace Yard” - where children in Iraq from a range of backgrounds learn about coexistence.
[ Organization Profile ]
We are striving to look into and alter the social structure and problems arising therein by conveying local feedback to society while supporting efforts to boost QOL such as agricultural training education and sending children to school despite ongoing conflict, as well as humanitarian support and peacebuilding assistant where people can learn about coexisting programs, etc.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to cover supportive activities in 11 countries and regions, including Japan, as well as organizing events to increase opportunities for those in Japan to care about individuals facing harsh circumstances worldwide.
Japan Children Support Association

Providing enlightenment activities for foster home system through events and web community sites

  • Around 45,000 children nationwide seek foster homes.
    Around 45,000 children nationwide seek foster homes.
  • We engage in our activities to promote foster homes mainly in the 335B area of the Lion’s Club in Osaka city in collaboration with many other clubs.
    We engage in our activities to promote foster homes with Lion’s Club.
  • Organizing a campaign in collaboration with local governments nationwide
    Organizing a campaign in collaboration with local governments nationwide
[ Organization Profile ]
The Japan Children Support Association was founded a decade ago by the founder who was unable to achieve spontaneous pregnancy due to a congenital disease and became a foster parent via fertility treatment to expand the foster family system as part of efforts to prevent child abuse. We have a good track record in supporting foster parents, organizing enlightenment events nationwide as well as developing the nation's first foster home portal.
[ How donations funded by the Osaka Marathon are used ]
We would like to use your donations to raise awareness among foster parents through events and website operation, focusing on children who cannot live with their parents against the backdrop of child abuse and having never taken a bath at home, even at the age of five and unaware of what normal lives constitute to live with foster families.
nobel,Approved Specified Nonprofit Corporation

Supporting single-parents and families with disabled children in Osaka through sick child care

  • Let’s provide day care service for sick children to every parent!
    ©nobel
    Let’s provide day care service for sick children to every parent!
  • Providing reassurance for parents that we offer child care services, even when their children suddenly develop a fever.
    ©nobel
    Providing reassurance for parents that we offer child care services, even when their children suddenly develop a fever.
  • Supporting households with children throughout society and forging a chain of mutual cooperation.
    ©nobel
    Supporting households with children throughout society and forging a chain of mutual cooperation.
[ Organization Profile ]
Aspiring to realize “a society allowing parents to work 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 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.(*no optional fees).
Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net

Offering help with raising children and children becoming independent through local network driven by residents’ initiatives

  • At “Kodomo Genki Matsuri” (Children’s vigorous festival), a Let’s play park project, children were given free rein to paint a vehicle in any way they wanted to reflect children’s voices in the city structure
    ©Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net
    At “Kodomo Genki Matsuri” (Children’s vigorous festival), children were given free rein to paint a vehicle in any way they wanted to reflect children’s voices in the city structure
  • Declaration supporting children with children – children challenged to participate in a mini ekiden event with the charity runners of Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net
    ©Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net
    Declaration supporting children with children – children challenged to participate in a mini ekiden event with the charity runners of Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net
  • The four pillars of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, i.e. “the right to life”, “the right to grow”, “the right to be protected” and “the right to participate”At the “Wear a mask to become a different person and listen to their feelings” workshop, children expressed how they felt at that moment.
    ©Wagamachi Nishinari Kosodate Net
    A workshop listening to children’s voices! A child expressing her thoughts disguised herself in a mask
[ 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!!