No.047 Spring 2010

NEWSTokyo Bay Maihama Hotel 3rd Anniversary Event “Thanks
3rd Anniversary” Kids Earth Gallery
A Tokyo Bay Maihama Hotel is now holding “Kids Earth Gallery”, celebrating its 3rd anniversary
on March 3rd, 2010. During the period from Wednesday, March 3rd, their foundation day, toWednesday, April 7th, about 20 paintings which were contributed to Kids Earth Fund by children
from the world are exhibited at the lobby of the hotel. Also, for a limited time (Wednesday,
March 3rd to Friday, July 16th) Tokyo Bay Maihama Hotel is offering a special accommodation
plan. They have prepared a gallery-like “Kids Earth Room” which is a guest room filled withpictures drawn by children from the world. Additionally, Tokyo Bay Maihama Hotel’s own Kids
Earth Fund eco-bags will be given to all the guests of the plan. Would you like to stay in a room
which can heal and refresh you?

Tokyo Disney Resort ® Official HotelTokyo Bay Maihama Hotel
1-34 Maihama, Urayasu city, Chiba 279-0031
TEL:047-355-1222(main)/FAX:047-355-6777 (Room Reservation) TEL:047-355-8222
URL:http://www.maihamahotel.jp/plan/thanks3rd_anniversary/kidsearthroom.html

Kids Earth Fund 2010 Event Schedule
Kids Earth Fund has been holding a number of events in the past, and year 2010 will also be filled witha lot of events! We are looking forward to your participation.
May 23 (Sun.)
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Charity Concert
2010 @ Nikkei Hall, Tokyo
May 29 (Sat.) & 30 (Sun.)2010 19th Herb Summit Ono & KEF Art Workshop @Himawari-no-Oka Park Ono-city Uruoi Community
Square, Hyogo

May 31 (Mon.) – June 12 (Sat.)
Kids Earth Fund Exhibition @ Le Café, Kyoto
June 13 (Sun.) – June 19 (Sat.)
Kids Earth Fund Exhibition @ Bandanohana, Kyoto
September 25 (Sat.) – October 12 (Tue.)
Kids Earth Fund Exhibition @ Kyoto University ofArt and Design[As of March 31] Please note that schedule is subject to change under unavoidable circumstances. For further details, please contact Kids Earth Fund Office.

Haiti Quake Relief
Kids Earth Fund is raising funds to help children victimized by the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti onJanuary 12. Innumerable children are in need of a safe place to stay, food, clean water, andmedical care. In disasters like this, it is children that suffer most. As we hope for the earliest
possible reconstruction – and the return of smiles to the faces of the children, we would appreciate your cooperation and support.
Below is the bank account information for donations.

Sumitomo Mitsui Bank
Branch name: Ebisu branch Brach number: 656
Account type: Savings account Account number: 7089436
Account holder’s name: KIDS EARTH FUND

KIDS EARTH FUND x PMI Co., Ltd.
KIDS EARTH FUND and PMI Co., Ltd. produced charity wine and grape juice collaborately. You
can purchase individual bottles or gift sets which consist of red and white wine / grape juice.
100 yen will be donated to Kids Earth Fund as you purchase one wine or juice bottle. And also
100 yen will be donated to KEF as you purchase one gift set.
We hope you enjoy the wine with a sweet taste and fruity scent and freshly made, delicious
grape juice.

Kids Earth Fund Eco Bags & Shopping Bags
Pictures drawn by children from all over the world have been printed on these cute Eco bags
and shopping bags. Spring is coming and as it gets warmer and the weather it will be great topack your own lunch and bring it to a picnic in the Eco Bag. Shopping trips will also be niceknowing that you are benefiting Kids Earth Fund with every bag you purchase. The Eco Bags
are produced by the Takaroh Bussan Co. Ltd and The shopping bags are produced by Misuzu
Co. Ltd. Both types of bags will be available in many shops and stores.

■ NEW MEMBER

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Special Kids Earth Fund: Art Workshop
Topic in the Old Wing of the French Embassy

KIDS EARTH
HOME Project

KIDS EARTH
CAR Project

キッズ・アース・ホームプロジェクト

キッズ・アース・カープロジェクト

Kids Earth Home in Vietnam

Art Workshop @ Futaba Gakuen

color of the markers. One of them showed
us a completed work with a theme of global
warming and said with big smile, “this willknock their socks off”. The works
completed in the workshop were decorated
beside beds in the hospital ward, and wesaw some children enjoy explaining theirworks to the hospital staff. Children who
seemed to be a little shy at first showedhuge smiles after they completed theircreations, thinking about the theme of "TheEarth Where We Like to Live".

The Kids Earth Homein Cambodia

On Saturday January 30th, we held anevent called “Kids Helping Kids Artwork
Event: Repainting the Earth with Children’sPictures” in the old wing of the French
Embassy. Welcoming EFAP JAPON, abusiness school for public relations, ourevent was held as part of the “No Man’sLand” exhibition at the French Embassy.
The number of participants exceeded ourexpectations as more than 30 children
gathered together at the event. Upon arrival,
an “Art Event Tour” was held and thechildren saw various works of art exhibited

throughout the old embassy building.
After the tour, the main workshop event
took place. The children squealed in delightat the sight of the big white sphere—theEarth made out of Styrofoam – and using
different colored pens, they decorated theEarth in bright, vibrant colors. The children
completely immersed themselves in drawing and lost track of time. Their artwork will
be exhibited in the upcoming Kids EarthF u n d e v e n t s a ro u n d t h e c o u n t r y a n doverseas.

コラム Dear Supporters of KIDS EARTH FUND vol.27
Founder of KIDS EARTH FUND

Harumi Torii

Thank you so very much for your support in the twenty-two years since the Kids Earth Fund wasestablished! The time surely has flown by, hasn’t it? In this period of time, many disasters have
happened such as Chernobyl, various wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Rwanda, Bosnia and Croatia, and earthquakes in Chile, Haiti, Kobe and Niigata. We came to see the transition of history
firsthand through those experiences right before our eyes. Abnormal weather patterns, politicalconfusion, economic downturns, and the overall state of society have accelerated the pace ofchange; also, disasters, such as earthquakes and various societal troubles, seemed to give us direwarnings. However, even in the darkness of this age, children are surviving and growing up in severeconditions.
Even though the number of wars and the suicide rates did not decrease, and we live in a chaotic
world, because of this, we as adults need to show children how to have hope and to keep on living
to make a bright future. Now more than ever, we need to redouble our efforts to set a good example
for the kids in order to lead them in the right direction. While politicians or companies, who should
lead society, lack a sense of morality, it can be difficult to provide our children with their own goals
and dreams.
KIDS EARTH FUND holds art workshops with children who suffer from trauma under the severest ofconditions all over the world, and promotes the importance of self-expression. Drawing pictures canbe an opportunity which can serve as a form of self-help to help young people find healing anddiscover themselves and their own possibilities.
KIDS EARTH FUND keeps operating in order to make opportunities for children to have their own
hopes and dreams around the world.

In late January, for the fist time this year, wevisited the Kids Earth Home in tropical Vietnam to hold an art workshop. As soon as
we finished setting up for the workshop,
the children started painting the landscapeof their home, using many different coloredpencils. When the art workshop wasfinished, the children presented the paintings they worked on. The workshop was agreat success as evidenced by all the wonderful smiles on the children’s faces.

Thanks to the generous donations frommany people, we could fix the broken gateof the Kids Earth Home. Additionally, wecould deliver books, candies and painting
supplies to the children which had been
donated by our sponsors. The children
were so very happy to receive them and thehome was filled with laughter and cheers.
The children and all concerned with theKids Earth Home appreciate your great
support. Although challenges remain, weare excited to continue this work for thechildren of the Kids Earth Home.

As part of our January outreach activities,
after visiting the Kids Earth Home in Vietnam, we made our way to the Kids Earth
Home in Cambodia. There we made adonation and held an art workshop. The
children were very happy and excited about
this year’s first art workshop. They intently
focused on their work using different
colored pencils on their own canvases andsheets of paper. Their drawings depictedscenes of the Cambodian community inwhich they live. They were all wonderfully
drawn and beautifully colored.

Welcoming 5 volunteers, an art workshop
was held at Futaba Gakuen for the first timein a year. 7 boys between the ages of 3 and5 participated in the workshop and painted
pictures freely on a big white canvas without pre-determined titles.
The workshop was filled with smiles andlaughter from children, teachers and volunteers. We were all energized through bonding the lively children.

Artwork Workshop at Toho
University Omori Medical
Center “The Earth Where We
Like to Live”

We also delivered books, snacks and painting supplies provided by our sponsors.
There were cheers and squeals of happiness all around as the gifts were passedout. The children asked each other “Whatdid you get?” and said, “This is great!” and“This tastes good!” They all looked very
happy and excited to receive these gifts.
It is due to everyone’s ongoing support that
we have been able to see the smiling facesof children such as these, and we hope to
expand our activities in order to bringsmiles to more children.

The artwork workshop on February 10 wasquite a unique event. The theme was "TheEarth Where We Like to Live” and we used
15cm white globes. To protect the children,
they had to work in separate rooms toprevent the spread of gastroenteritis. Theysmiled even before picking up the pens,
imagining “What should I do? What should I
draw?" with the white globes in their hands.
They drew on the globes with permanentmarkers and created many designs thatwere very colorful and full of originality.
They had difficulty drawing on the roundshape, but they were creative, some poked
holes in the globes and others used every

Let’s Draw Your Earth!
On February 18th Thursday, 2010, at thePediatric Ward of University Hospital ofMedicine in Tokyo Medical and Dental
University, we held first art workshop thisyear. This time, not as usual, art activity
was conducted in private rooms.
Children were so active even in their privaterooms! By using colorful marker, they drew
white styrene ball with their own sense.
Children had very much fun to feel soft
touch which is different from drawing on
paper by paints. A lot of colorful earth wasmade at the end of the workshop.
The fist workshop in this year at the Pediatric Ward of University Hospital of Medicine
in Tokyo Medical and Dental University
ended with a great success.