Community Action Development Organization
(CanDO)

We are an organization that came into existence five years ago. We offer support mostly in the fields of education, environmental protection, and hygiene and medical care. Through the cooperation of the local people, we aim to build a richer society in the African nation of Kenya. Currently, in Nuu and Nguni Divisions in central Kenya, we have been concentrating our energies on building classrooms for elementary schools, training teachers, and offering courses in basic hygiene for young women of childbearing age.

The core of our activities is undertaken mainly by local people. For example, for building classrooms, we provided the materials, such as bricks and cement, and the children's care-givers formed the nucleus of those who then actually performed the construction. In the future, it is our wish that the local people would be able to stand on their own feet and continue to develop the project independently, working by themselves. It is the role of our staff to help them establish the basis for that.

Using the resources of local people to the fullest, we pledge to work hard so that we may continue to sustain such activities.

International Year of Disabled Persons Memorial
Nice Heart Foundation

Compared with other countries, Mongolia is sorely lacking in welfare benefits for the disabled. Because there are few resident experts, and even local doctors have only scant knowledge, children born with disabilities cannot receive the appropriate treatment or care. For these reasons, disabled are segregated from society. Our group dispatches doctors, as well as physical and occupational therapists, in order to teach the local medical practitioner how to make available the proper treatment for the type of disability. We also seek to impart the correct know-how for establishing facilities to make the lives of the disabled easier. At the same time, many are invited to Japan to study current developments in such treatment and rehabilitation. We were fortunate enough to be able to receive our funding for this through the Donate-a-Meal Movement. In addition, we were involved in establishing a factory to make artificial limbs for those who need them, holding seminars on site concerning methods of treatment. With the purpose of making international interchange between disabled people in different lands possible, we also visited Mongolia with a group of disabled people from Japan and conducted programs of cultural exchange. Our hope is to create a world in which disabled people will be treated with the same respect and dignity as the nondisabled. For that reason, we plan to devote still more energy toward assisting the disabled of Mongolia.

Caring for Young Refugees
(CYR)

We have been continuously involved in two ongoing projects in Cambodia, one concerned with care for the young, and the other with weaving. Some ten years have now passed since the end of three decades of civil strife there. Just as before, the gap between the rich and the poor in that country is great, and it is very difficult for children to receive an education. In addition, in poor farming villages, the problem of malnutrition is worsening, and there are great numbers of children who die early or whose development is retarded. To date we have built nursery centers in four regions, supplying lunches for the children, and provided places where they might receive an education in a pleasant atmosphere. For the nursery staffs, we recruit local people and give them special training.

At the same time, in our weaving project which helps women to become more independent, is also reviving the textile-weaving skills of the country, which had been all but destroyed under the Pol Pot regime, with an aim to their permanent re-establishment. Therefore please be assured that your support is helping to improve the lives of the people of Cambodia, and also to restore certain aspects of that nation's traditional culture.