No.053 Spring 2012

NEWS◆ Power of Children’s paintings“I was helped and saved by children’s painting” The art works by children
represent their pure and innocent thoughts and they have power to movepeople’s hearts. Paintings at the hospital give hope to patients and their families. Paintings at the office give peaceful moments, new ideas and images tobusy people.
Art Exhibition at CALBEE, Inc. (March 7th – 31st)
An art exhibition by children in Tohoku was held at CALBEE, Inc. lobby. “Tsunami”, “Summer in Fukushima” and many more were displayed. Each of thesechildren’s art works expresses and sends a strong message to us.
E xhibition “Children suppor ting each other beyond the sea”
(January 2nd -22nd)
Art works from KIDS EARTH FUND were exhibited at Kanaya art museum
and other exhibitions in Kanaya town. A fund-raising event, “The most luxurious BBQ @ Kanaya X” was held on January 22nd and a part of the money
raised through sales was donated to KIDS EARTH FUND .
Other Exhibitions (December – March)
Nissan Tamagawa Hospital (November 11th –December 27th)
Machiya Marukou Yoseki in Kyoto (January 14th)
Keiyu Hospital (February 10th – 19th)
H.A.C GALLARY Aoyama (February 1st – 8th)

◆ Art Drawn by Children in Disaster Areas
Following the successful KIDS EARTH FUND-decorated tissue boxes, KIDS
EARTH FUND notebooks and paper cups are now on sale. The art on thenotebooks and paper cups was drawn by children from Watari in Miyagi
prefecture. Three percent of purchase price is donated to KIDS EARTH FUND
as royalty. These goods may be purchased through ASKUL.
http://www.askul.co.jp/csr/◆ Charity inner goes on the market
Charity Inner goes on the market from OLIVE des OLIVE. This inner is“made in Japan” at factory in Tohoku. A part of the product sales is contributed to KIDS EARTH FUND. When you purchase a product, it comes with an
original sticker designed using the drawings by children.

◆ New Design Shopping Bag
Six different paper bags, using children’s paintings from all around the world,
were designed by SHIMOJIMA Co.,Ltd.. These are sold at TOKYU HANDS
and will be able to buy from the KIDS EARTH FUND website in the nearfuture.

◆ Charity Party @ KIDS EARTH HOME TokyoA charity party will be held at KIDS EARTH HOME Tokyo for supporting
members, volunteers, and everyone who is interested in getting along withother people involved in KIDS EARTH FUND. Come join the party and see thenumerous children’s paintings exhibited on the walls of the office.

Date : July 5 (Thu) 19:00〜
Fee: Adults 2,000yen Students: 1,500yen
Venue : KIDS EARTH HOME Tokyo(3-25-2, Ebisu, Shibuya-ku)＊We will offer drinks and light refreshments＊We have limited seats so please apply accordingly◆ We would like to welcome three new advisors
Mr. Akira Matsumoto CALBEE, Inc. Chairman of the Board & CEO
Mr. Masaaki Kanai Ryohin Keikaku Co., Ltd. President and Representative Director:
Mr. Yujiro Otsuka Otsuka Chemical Co., Ltd. Executive advisor(In alphabetical order)◆ We will send updated smiles and children’s’ artwork through Facebook and Twitter
子どもたちの絵で世界を塗り替えよう -Kids Helping KidsLet’s Repaint the Earth with Children’s Drawing
http://www.facebook.com/KidsEarthFund■ NEW MEMBER

The following are newly joined members.

Kids Earth Fund
http://twitter.co/#!/KidsEarthFund[Group Members] D&N CONFECTIONERY Co.,Ltd[Individual Members] Miyoko Nagai[As of March 20 2012]

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KIDS HELPING KIDS - is suppor tingchildren by creating goods and designs
from the paintings by children’s warm
heart.

KIDS EARTH
CAR ProjectOne year after the Great East Japan Earthquake
After the earthquake, almost all of thepeople in the Tohoku area have had toaccept many changes, such as changes
in residence, food, personal belongings,
way of life, and community. In addition,
many have had to move between evacuation centers and temporar y houses
several times, and they are emotionally
exhausted. The children see this situation but don’t have a chance to release
their stress and emotion so they keep it
inside. KIDS EARTH FUND provides not
only goods and food, but also opportunities for children to express their stressand emotion through art workshops.
Many children enjoy drawing andexpressing their feelings. To continue
helping children, long-term support willbe needed through art work shop.

We donated two million yen (1.4 million
for taiko and 6 hundred thousand forcostumes), and hope they enjoy playing
real Taiko, not handmade ones.
Ogatsu Taiko is a symbol of revival inIshinomaki-city. The Taiko rhythm will
also beat in people’s hearts.

Ogatsu Taiko-Recovery fromTsunami Damage

M a ny c h i l d r e n we r e wa i t i n g f o r u s
outside KIDS E ARTH HOME Tohoku
when we visited it in KIDS EARTH CAR.
The home was then filled with childrendressed in Christmas costumes like
reindeers and Santas. Children drew
whatever they wanted to draw on bigcanvas, and the message they wrote at
the end was “Thank you.” Your support
was delivered to those children.

As a result of the tsunami, Ogatsu area
in Ishinomaki-city, Miyagi prefecture
was terribly damaged, and the Taikoclub lost all of its equipment. Memberso f t h e Ta iko club m a de a n d p l aye dh a n d m a d e t a i ko , w h i c h w e r e c o n structed from discarded tires coveredwith plastic sheets.

Santa Claus is coming fromTokyo today!

“We have been worried aboutJapan”
Croatian staffs and children welcomed
us with heartwarming smiles and hugs
when we arrived at the snow y KIDSE A R T H H O M E C r o a t i a . O n t h e way
south, we could see war-scarred towns
during the 3 hours of driving from theairport. “Nothing has changed after 10year.” Harumi Torii, the founder of KIDS
EARTH FUND, who has been supporting
this country since war time, said.
There are still serious racial problems inthis town. Croatians, Serbians, and Muslims are living together, but they are
racially segregated from each other intheir adult society. Volunteers from allover the world suppor t KIDS E ARTH
HOME Croatia and give workshops forthe children there. To have opportunities
to be with other races has great significance for children in this town.

All the children who welcomed us asked
about Japan and they said “We wereworried about Japan, what can we dofor you?” even though they themselves
suf fered from domestic violence athome, or from the lack of food causedby poverty. And at the workshop, theysaid that they painted for us, for Japan.
3 rd (Sat) KIDS EARTH HOME No.12 Tohoku
6 th (Tue) Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center
17th (Sat) SEIKO Painting Watch Workshop@ Wako Ginza
18 th (Sun) SEIKO Painting Watch Workshop@ Wako Ginza
18 th (Sun) Shisei Gakuen Christmas Party
20 th (Tue) Jikei University Hospital
21st (Wed) Ogatsu Junior High School, Ishinomaki-shi Miyagi prefecture
22 nd (Thu) Christmas Party & Handing Christmas Presents
23 rd (Fri) SEIKO Painting Watch Workshop@ Wako Ginza
24th (Sat) SEIKO Painting Watch Workshop@ Wako Ginza
25th (Sun) SEIKO Painting Watch Workshop@ Wako Ginza
2012 Jan. 17th (Tue) Jikei University Hospital
25th (Wed) Yoshida Nishi Children’s House(Watari, Miyagi prefecture)
27th (Fri) Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center2011 Dec.

2012 Jan. 31st (Tue) Supporting Watari-cho Miyagi prefecture
3 rd (Fri) Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center
4th (Sat) Jikei University Hospital
16 th (Thu) Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Feb. 17th (Fri) Yoshida Nishi Children’s House( Watari, Miyagi prefecture)
18 th (Sat) KIDS EARTH HOME No.12Tohoku21st (Tue) Jikei University Hospital
22 nd (Tue) KIDS EARTH HOME Croatia
Mar. 5th (Mon) Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center
8th (Thu) Tokyo Medical and Dental University
13 rd (Tue) Jikei University Hospital
17th (Sat) KIDS EARTH HOME No.12Tohoku
24th (Sat) KIDS EARTH HOME Cambodia
26 th (Mon) KIDS EARTH HOME Vietnam
Art Workshops(December 2011〜March 20th 2012)

キッズ・アース・カープロジェクト◆ Wonderful Christmas for the Children in Tohoku

Smiles after a Long Time ofSadness
After the earthquake, we continued art
workshops at 8 dif ferent children’shospitals and nursing homes in Tokyoand Kanagawa prefecture. The children
whom we visited are always looking
f o r wa r d to o u r a r t wo r k s h o p s . T h echildren are those who are suf feringfrom everyday pains caused by serious
illnesses, home abuse, being orphansand some of them suffer from autism.
We delivered 961 Christmas presents to14 locations in December. The children
in the hospitals said that they werehappy because “Santa has come to ourhospital!”
The presents were all hand wrappedneatly, thanks to the help of many volunteers.

Grand Hyatt Tokyo organized a charity program “Light of Happiness” to collect
Christmas gifts for the children living in the Tohoku region. “We want to give Christmas presents to the children in Tohoku.” With such hope, a great number of presents
had been gathered. Those gifts were delivered almost to 1,000 children from 11 facilities, including those in Watari, Ishinomaki city and Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture,
and Minamisoma city, Aizuwakamatsu city and Iwaki city in Fukushima prefecture.
“It’s so nice to know that people in Tokyo also care about us.” It was a moment thatunited the hearts of Tohoku and Tokyo.

◆ Kids Art Contest “SMILES”
KIDS EARTH FUND received a donation of1059 drawings full of smiles from Lipton’s
Smile Campaign “Kids Art Contest”. Clickon the links below to find out more about
the awards ceremony and Lipton 1000ml
online exhibition:Awards ceremony report:
http://www.lipton1000.net/cpn/index.html
Online exhibition:
http://www.lipton1000.net/cpn/exhibition.html◆ British Embassy Christmas
CrackerPresent Donator:
CALBEE，Inc.
CHARACTER RESERCH INSTITUTECO.,LTD
Nihon Kraft Foods Limited(in alphabetical order)

A Christmas charity party was held at theBritish Embassy. The total proceeds fromthe event, 2,331,100 yen(Donation from tickets and raffle tickets) were donated to KIDS
EARTH FUND. We would like to extend oursincerest appriciation to Sir David Warren,
Lady Warren, Mr. Ian de Stains, and Mr.
Robin Maynard. The donation will be used
for the children in Tohoku.

◆ Clock Making Workshops
Ten workshops for designing pictures onclock faces were held over five days tocommemorate the 130th anniversar y of
SEIKO at SEIKO MUSEUM GINZA ANEX.
Children who joined added hands to theclocks and took their own clocks home.
Artwork by children from Watari in Miyagi
prefecture was displayed in the show windows alongside works by celebrities.