KIDS EARTH Report

NEWSNo.031 Spring 2006

★ Special Charity Party
produced by Cartier and 25ans.
On Saturday the 10th of December, a dreamy charity party made by collaboration
with 25ans a lady's fashion magazine (Hachette Fujingaho Co., Ltd.) for 25 years
and jeweler, Cartier. The hall was located in chateau restaurant, Joel Robuchon.
We, at KIDS EARTH FUND were given the amount of 1,460,000 yen from the participant
fees from dressing up and sales of raffle tickets as charity.

At Joel Robuchon in YEBISU GARDEN PLACE. Somehigh-quality prizes were contributed for fund-raising.

★ Letʼ s grow a ribbon tree
The“earth ribbon” project which supports‘environment’and ‘children’on the web site has started. The way of participationis very simple. What you need is to go to “earth ribbon”site (http://www.earthribbon.jp) and decorate a ribbon on the tree. If
you donate 300 yen per ribbon, you are able to get an actual ribbon of a color of your choice.
If you pick the KEF tree, 100 yen of the 300 yen is contributed to KEF and 200 yen goes to Earth ribbon fund to cover thecost of the ribbon materials and management expense. There are seven colors available. Please choose your favorite colorand grow the KEF tree.

★ Christmas Charity Bracelet
A special Charity gift for Christmas was sold by popular clothing brand,“PINKY GIRLS”(FREE’S INTERNATIONALCo.,Ltd.) This bracelet (525 yen each) with rhinestone and pearls were sold out right after it was put on sale at stores. In
the January issue of the magazine ”Ray”(SHUFUNOTOMO Co., Ltd.), this charity bracelet was introduced along with theactivities of the KIDS EARTH FUND and some portion of the sales were donated.
The next version of the charity bracelet will be on sale with the new design on March 24th. And it will be covered again in theMay issue of “Ray”.

★ Charity Wine Party 〜 No party in April & May, will resume in June 〜
A Charity Wine Party is held every first Thursday of the month. Many guests have come to the parties
and they turned out to be a chance to realize people’s enthusiasm towards charity, and, meet with new andwonderful people. The wine party, held 14 times as of now, will not be held for two months. But in June, wewill inform you of the party with its new concept. So please look forward to the invitation.

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HOME Project
KIDS EARTH HOME
From Feb.5th to Feb.12th, Torii, the representative of KIDS
EARTH FUND(KEF), Takahashi, secretariat of KEF, andMurai, secretariat of KEF, went to Cambodia and Vietnam.
Here're the reports of what we saw, what we heard and thelife of children we haven’t met for a long time.

KIDS EARTH HOME No.6 in Cambodia

an elementary school in poverty-stricken area

KIDS EARTH HOME No.4 in Vietnam

A toilet issue - Current status of HOME No.6
At last, we donated to teachers, stationeries suchas pencils and colored-pencils, cup-and-balls and soon. The innocent children look full-of-vigor. But they’refacing a shortage of everything such as stationeries,desks, chairs and clothes now. They need to go to
the river to take water from in order to flush the toilet
Not only is it a burden to small children, but also
sometimes the toilet doesn’t work well. It causes asanitary issue, too. We need to take some steps toimprove the situation as soon as possible.

KANTHA BOPHA Hospital Report Vol.1
Swiss Doctor Beat Richner, who played thecello in the Fund Raising Party of the KIDS EARTH
FUND 17th Anniversary, opened a new children’s hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We visitedthe hospital and talked with busy Dr. Richner. The
hospital is all free of charge, so the patients don’t
have to pay for the medical treatment, and also thehospital pays the transportation expenses so that

A recent visit to HOME No.6

they can come to have medical treatment even if

The HOME No.6 is located about an hour andhalf southeast of Phnom Penh. It's a public school forthey live far from the hospital. In return, families ofthe patients donate their blood.

children in a poverty-stricken area. We arrived there
at noon. We could see only a few children aroundthere. But soon lots of children gathered one after
another to see the Japanese visitors. It had been 20

A lot of children and their families wait for the“ Who are you? - Business cards project”

The children lied down on a wide-spread whitecanvas. Their friends traced the outlines of theirbodies with crayons and then filled them in by
painting faces, hands, legs, and clothes with theirfavorite colors. Small pictures such as flowers,
bikes, and stars were added to the painting. In theWhat does any person in business have? The
answer is business cards. For children, businesscards are something to dream of, and something thatgives them a feeling of “grown-up.” Children in thishome tried to create their own business cards. Theyend, the children in the picture looked as if they
were dancing and floating in the air. We all had awonderful time. 253,107 yen from the total revenue
earned from the 17th anniversary party was donatedto the home. These funds was used for repainting
the walls, tiling, purchasing book shelves, and otheroperations of the home.
The painting tools were donated by Turner Color Works Ltd.

treatment in a line in front of the hospital from early inChildren, thoughcannnot make amodel, have fun
painting their "friends"

the morning. On the day we visited there, the hospitalmonths since our last visit.Right after our arrival, westarted the first workshop. 474 students are enrolled
in this school. The first workshop was to createcards by crayon and colored-pencils and to paintpictures with watercolor in their own class. Many of
the children had never used watercolors and some
had never seen them. It seemed they didn’t have any
idea how to do it and were at a loss but once theylearned, they started drawing houses, soccer balls
and flowers in their own way.We changed the plan alittle and moved outside of the building, where all ofthem can share the watercolors. They started painting
everywhere, some put a paper on the ground in thecourtyard and some used a wall of school. Once theyfinished painting one, they rushed to us to get another

KIDS EARTH HOME No.5 in Vietnam“Enjoy drawing a picture of your friends!”

accepted as many as 1000 people in the morning, 700
people in the afternoon, and even at around 2 o’clock

painted small cards with colored pencils and pens.
Everybody participated in the project, including
kindergarten small children to older boys and girls
in the elementary school. Eventually, they plan toexchange their business cards with other children
in Japan and in Croatia. Beyond the borders, theproject of children’s business cards has just begun.
KEHs in Vietnam are facility where street children are able
to receive elementary school education for free. HOME No.4
was built in cooperation with Urban Design System Co., Ltd,HOME No.5 with World Air-Sea Service Co., Ltd. and FFSC, alocal NGO. Both were built in 2002 in Ho Chi Minh City.

KIDS EARTH CAR delivered a lot of Christmas
presents to 7 facilities for children last December.
I n A i i k u Yo g o S c h o o l , o n e o f t h e f a c i l i t i e s ,volunteers and staff who wore Santa Claus hats,
appeared at the Christmas party and handed
presents to children with cheerful Christmas songs.
In Nonohana-no ie Children’s Home presents wereput at every childs’ bedside at Christmas Eve. It
made all the children surprised and happy. Amongthem, a 2 year old girl made a great friend with
Jacky who is a stuffed bear Christmas present.
The bear has been in her bed with her every night
since that day.

sitting all over the floor, waiting for their turn.
We donated 1,307,720 yen, a part of the profits
of the 17th Anniversary party last autumn, and also
medical equipment (under the co-sponsorship ofSUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPERATION),
to support the children’s medical treatment. (To becontinued next)〈Facilities in addressee〉 ( in alphabet order )Children get individual photos with their creative businesscards in hands ( At HOME No.5 )Aiiku Yogo School / Children’s Cancer Associationof Japan / Jikei University Hospital / Kyorin
University Hospital / Meguro Wakabaryo / Nippon
Medical School University / Nonohana-no-ie
Chidren’s Home / Shisei Gakuen Children’s Home
※ KEC could not go to Jikei University Hospital in
December because of an infection in the children’s ward
and thus delifered them in January.

They placed all of their works on the ground, we are very
surprised they've made wide variety of works; each had
distinct characteristics. ( At HOME No.6 )DEAR KIDS,
DEAR THE EARTH

Sometimes as many as 4000 patients come to the hospital

Richard L. Guilfoile

vol. 12President and Representative Director Coleman Japan Co., Ltd. /Advisor to KIDS EARTH FUND

Coleman Japan is a subsidiary of The Coleman Company which has a rich heritage and tradition of providing reliable products toconsumers worldwide for over 100 years.
Our company spirit is based on the words of Sheldon Coleman Sr., “Anyone who goes outdoors gets closer to nature and is a better
person because they’ve been there.”
We actually know from our own experience as well as from solid consumer research, that the more time people spend in the outdoors,
the happier they are. We would like to share and expand this spirit to people all over the world, especially today’s children who are thefuture of this planet. Coleman Japan’s vision includes our desire of helping children in need and providing them the opportunity to enjoy theoutdoors with Coleman.
We are very pleased to be associated with KIDS EARTH FUND and are committed to continuing to support their activities for children inneed.

Christmas Present Project( At HOME No.4 )Hey, we brought it here for jumping...

ColumnTr a v e l i n g W o r k s h o p

in the afternoon, many children and their parents werepaper. We almost could not keep up with distributing
paper to them.

The next workshop was jumping with a longrope. Many children rushed toward us, as soon as we
took the rope out of the luggage. Then they started
tug-of-war unexpectedly, not jumping! Even though it’sa 20-meter-long rope, so many children gathered thatsome of them hardly could touch it. They pulled it sohard that finally the rope tore at the middle. Many felldown backwards and big shouts of joy arose.

KIDS EARTH
CAR Project

Everybody wants to bea model of the painting.
They rush to raise theirhands for volunteer.
( At HOME No.4 )〈Sponsors〉 ( in alphabet order )CHARAKEN CO., LTD.（『Kuma no gakkou』goods）
COLEMAN JAPAN Co., Ltd.（Outdoor pouches）
Tombow Pencils Co., Ltd.（pncils, erasers, and so on）
Starting off with only three colors, children have createdmany beautiful colors by mixing them. ( At HOME No.4 )NEW MEMBERS
Individual Membership
Ms. Keiko Ishikawa
Mr. Kazuo Inaba
Ms. Maria Kouzuki
Ms. Mariko Uehara
Mr. Yusuke Nishi
Ms. Yuko Miyazaki
1 anonymous
Corperate Membership
NOBLE INC.
Big Family Members
Ms. Mariko Uehara
Ms. Takako Ebisuzaki
since Dec. 1st until Feb. 28th ( in alphabet order)

Thank you very much for your cooperation.

Moving of Gallery and Office
The KEF office will move to the following address from 27th March, 2006. It’s only a 10 second walk fromthe current and is in the back of YEBISU GARDEN PLACE. More and more pictures are on the wall there.
Please feel free to visit.
■ Starting of the new office
March 27th, 2006
■ New address
3-25-2 Ebisu Shibuya-ku 150-0013(TEL) 03-5449-8161（No change）(FAX) 03-5449-3962（No change）■ Functions
・KIDS EARTH Gallery
・KIDS EARTH HOME Tokyo・Office