An Executive Summary: "Children's Hour"
in Japan


◆The Campaign◆

This summary looks at the success of Children's Hour in Japan, where a national campaign was launched in 1999 and continued through 2000. The two-year campaign raised over \40,431,806 from a variety of Japanese donors.
IYF and IYF-Japan are extremely grateful to those who contributed. Through their support, grants totaling \40,431,713 have been distributed to best practice programs in Japan, Mexico, and Thailand. These programs are actively addressing young people's needs for enhanced educational opportunities, conflict resolution and employment training, and productive after-school activities.

A number of those programs supported through Children's Hour in Japan are actively encouraging greater youth participation, educating young people about their rights, and equipping youth with the tools and resources to play an active role in "giving back" to their communities.

Globally, the campaign raised in excess of US$13 million. Information on IYF grants made through the global Children's Hour campaign can be found in IYF's 2000 Annual Report(available at www.iyfnet.org). For information on country-specific campaigns, contact IYF regarding its local partner organizations.

◆Fund-raising and Distribution◆

A) Domestic Projects

\24,654,593

B) Overseas Projects

\15,777,213

Total Fund

\40,431,806

◆Number of Accumulated Domestic Donors◆

・Total number of individual donors 41,501
・Total number of donor companies 16
・Total number of donor organizations 2

◆Website Visitor◆

・Total number of visitors to pages related to grant project 18,292
・Total number of visitors to pages related to Fund-raising project 5,699
・Total number of downloaded materials such as“application guideline” 1,641

◆Japanese Funds Target Street and Working Children in Latin America◆

◆Donors◆

IYF and IYF-Japan would like to thank the following donors for their generous support of the Children's Hour campaign in Japan.

Corporations

  • Ajinomoto Co.
  • Asahi Mutual Life Insurance Co.
  • Avante
  • Fuji Xerox Co.
  • Kikkoman Corp.
  • Fuji Kyuko Co
  • Lucent Technologies Japan
  • Matsushita (Panasonic)
  • Nissan Motor Co.
  • Toshiba Corp.
  • Toshiba Schneider Electric
  • Schneider Electric Japan
  • Toshiba Schneider Inverter

Groups

  • Infinity 21
  • Group 21

Individuals(*)

  • Makoto Takahashi
  • Gene Partlow
  • Yoshiko Hyodo
  • Fueo Sumita
  • Mitsugu Iwahashi
  • Yoshinobu Maeda
  • Akira Mitsushima
  • Masayuki Nakao

(*)Includes donations over \100,000. While their names are too numerous to list here, IYF and IYF-Japan would like to thank the hundreds of additional individuals who contributed to the success of Children's Hour in Japan.



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