NEWS★ JAEGER-LE COULTRE VIP Cocktail Fair &Charity Auction Dinner
On the evening of Friday, May 26th, many celebrities participated in a charity
auction conducted by JAEGER-LE COULTRE (Richmeont Japan Limited) afamous brand of luxurious Swiss watches, at the Mandarin Oriental Tokyo.
12 original drawings of the Chinese Zodiac were on offer at the auction. These

KIDS EARTH Report

No.032 Summer 2006

drawings were actually used as the dials of “Reverso Eclipse,” a new model
designed by Mr. Hiroshi Senju, a world famous Japanese painter, and a KIDS
EARTH FUND(KEF) advisor. 2,035,000 yen were donated to KEF.

★ SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATIONThe charity concert by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation(SMBC) for
KEF was held at CHIYODA IKIIKI PLAZA ICHIBANCHO on Sat, the 20th ofMay. KEF has gotten support for children in Cambodia and Vietnam with thevolunteer fund which is a reserve fund from a part of the employees’ salary.
The volunteer employees who belong to a chorus, a chamber ensemble
and a brass band, performed a wide range of music, from classical music toTV animation songs, so that everyone could enjoy themselves on that day.
Children’s paintings from all over the world were also exhibited in the lobby
and about 150 audience members could see them. Moreover, 156,329 yen intotal donations and sales of charity goods was contributed to KEF.

★ Sri Lanka - Collaboration of JEN
We held art workshop with the aim of providing mental support of Sumatra Tsunami victims at 15 villages in the Hambantota District fromJune 17th to 23rd with collaboration from JEN. We will tell you the detail about this children’s trauma reduction workshop on the next issue.
Cooperated by : NPO JEN★ Pair-ticket for KIDS EARTH FUND events and more! ★

01 Part One: Membership Campaign Drive
Introduce your family or friends to KEF, and when they become members between
July and September, receive original KEF novelty goods valued at 3,000yen!

02 Part Two: Automatic Transaction Campaign
New and renewing members who sign up to pay their KEF membership fees byautomatic transfer between July and September as above will receive original
KEF novelty goods valued at 3,000yen! They will also be entered into a lottery
where they have the chance to win one of two pairs of tickets for a charity dinner
to be hosted at the Egyptian Embassy in November.

ねずみのお勉強 / Mouse's Schoolステファン・コービン / Stefan Caugbein
ドイツ / Germany
11 才 / Age11c 子供地球基金 / KIDS EARTH FUND
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HOME Project
KIDS EARTH HOMEKIDS EARTH HONE No.1 in Croatia
From Apr. 5 to 11 , our secretariat, Sawa Murai, went
ththto Croatia. She checked the current management
status of a home and held art workshops with children.

and others disregard the education of their children.
Children need to be taught basic living habits such asKANTHA BOPHA Hospital Report Vol.2

shampooing their hair or brushing their teeth. There

KIDS EARTH HOME Tokyo
As it was announced in the last issue, KIDS EARTH
HOME(KEH) Tokyo moved along with the secretariat

also remains discrimination based on race, prejudice（Continuation of the former report）

and exclusive feelings. In KEH, seeing staffs fromIn a surgical room, we met a child, who got

than the previous place, where we can put up moredifferent races work together and treat everyone

80% of the body burned and was covered

equally, children keep good relationships with eachother, without having discrimination. Children are also
war victims, though they’ve not experienced the war

office on March 27 th. The gallery space is larger

KIDS EARTH
CAR Project
Tr a v e l i n g W o r k s h o p

Exhibition

pictures on the wall and make the Home look warm

Visit to the Nippon Medical
University Hospitalwhole body with a bandage. The hospital,and comfortable. A new workshop space for drawing

KIDS EARTH CAR visited the Nippon Medical

exhibition at Restaurant & Bar “ T.Y. Harborwhich can treat this child with skin graftingis also available. The new Home is only a 10second

University Hospital on the 5 th of April.JanicaBrewery”at Tennoz Isle. The restaurant is on aor something in Cambodia, is only KANTHA

walk from the previous location. Please stop bySouthwick, who is famous for an NHK English TV

canal, and had a really nice open space with a hightogether with your children or even without them.

program, showed puppet work.Children enjoyedceiling. The pictures of the children decorated thethe puppet show and her English.Many children

wall in the restaurant. The pictures matched such a

who joined the show proudly answered her English

cool space for adults, and they brought messages
for the guests at dinner.

KIDS EARTH's Soccer World Cup 2006
Croatia vs. Japan

itself. We continue our operations to serve children
with a place where children cure their own traumas

BOPHA Hospital. We hear that 80% of theThe long awaited Soccer World Cup started in June in

and where children can be confident they can build

patients cannot pay for the medical treatment,

Germany. On June 18 a match of Croatia vs. Japantheir own society in the future.

if KANTHA BOPHA Hospital is not free ofquestions.The children who stay at a germ-freecharge. However, the Government and theroom enjoyed chatting with puppet jumping on their

Ministry of Health of Cambodia try hard tobed.A boy who has learned by distance learning

hide this extreme poverty situation, so thetalked in English. His beautiful English surprised

patients cannot receive any support. The

the doctor and nurses so much. Time passed fast.

new hospital was founded with a donation,

Everyone took a photo at the end of the show.

thwill be held. In advance of that, children in Croatia andJapan are starting on a canvas! The first match took
place on a very wide canvas. The children lay down on
the canvas and chose their poses, say one kicks a ball,another heads a ball, and so on. Next, drawers outlined
his/her silhouette, and then drew faces, hands and feet.

Exhibition & Charity dinner party@Tennoz Isle Exhibition

They finally put Croatia’s uniform on them. The second

collected from all the Swiss, CHF 20 frommatch took place on a miniature soccer field, a canvas

each. Most of Japanese can go to the hospital

painted with green and white water colors, in advancewhen we catch a cold. What can we do forof the game. 11 players drawn by children are small butthem? Please note that 1 yen each from allvery vivid, as if they started to run! Children in Japanthe Japanese count for 120 million yen.

will soon draw their players in those paintings andThis was the first time to have a workshop atJunior high school students visited
KIDS EARTH HOME Tokyo

this hospital. We would like to keep showing ourpeaceful smiles to the children.

meetings at KIDS EARTH Gallery, dinners at stylish
restaurants, with a few people, or with many people… with many good ideas, we’ll inform you of monthly

Dinner at “ T.Y. Harbor Brewery”, where we had anexhibition at the same time. The number of guests
was limited to 28 people, and they enjoyed elegant
dishes at the restaurant, and KIDS EARTH WINE,

using paintings?” Also they seemed to think aboutchildren in Vietnam, where they performed in February.

with new concepts on our office move. Casual

good time. The first renewal party was the Charity

were paintings gathered?” “What is the way ofare you? a business card project” - They’re passed byfirst Thursday, However, we have renewed themwill be unchanged in terms of offering everyone aNow these six visitors study about international

hard activity before?” “From how many countries

2 workshops, “Describe your friends’ faces” and “WhoWe’ve been having Charity Wine Parties every

places and the scales will be changed, the events

students of junior high school from Fukushima Prefecture.

rushing out, for example, “What is happy anduntil the result comes!! Besides these, we performed

Monthly Charity Eventcharity events every first Thursday. Even if theMoving to the new KEH Tokyo took a month. We had six

understanding as their theme. They had questions‘kick off’ the international exchange game.Be patient

From May 15 th through June 25 th, we are having

which are popular at Charity Wine Parties.

what they could do so seriously, we conveyed they

The total Amount of Charity at this event : 93,530 yen

as junior high school students could volunteer toCurrent status and future KIDS EARTH HOME No.1

raise funds and gather kids’ pictures in local area.

Sponsors

KIDS EARTH HOME(KEH) No.1 have worked with

They funnd one’s favorite painting displayed in the gallery

・Japan Arts Corporation (concert-tickets)children in Topusko and Gvozd. Our activities are

and took a picture at the front of it, then finally altogether

・LUMIERE S.A (KIDS EARTH WINE)

based on local needs, with the help of Suncokret,took a photo with the KIDS EARTH CAR. They, six

a local NGO. Even though over 10 years hasstudents said they would present their investigation after

passed since the war was over, about 70% of thegoing back to their school. We wish another more people

citizens in Gvozd are unemployed. There’re stillin Fukushima would know about our actions of KIDS

lots of parents who have issues, some depends on

EARTH FUND(KEF), as a result of this visiting of junioralcohol or drugs, some behave violently at homehigh school students.

DEAR KIDS,Column DEAR THE EARTH vol. 13

Hiroshi Senju
Japanese-style PainterAdvisor to KIDS EARTH FUND

I have three children. They are studying at a public school in New York, since I work in New York. However

NEW MEMBERS
These are KIDS EARTH FUND's newmembers since March.1 until May. 31(In alphabet order)

I spend more than half a year inJapan or Europe to cover various projects all over the world. Besides, evenwhen I am in New York, I am busy in my studio from the early morning till late at night, and do not have muchtime to spend with my children. My wife often says it is like “a single mother family.”
One day when I was talking with my 11-year old second boy, he said “I usually have dreams in English but
whenever Daddy is at home, I have dreams in Japanese.” I was deeply moved by this. This is how children
would feel and react. This is not only my children but also any children on earth who have been influenced
by many kind of things and they internalize and accept those things. Children keep leading their lives while
seeing silently what is happening around them. I wondered what we can do for children. What should we dofor them? There are series of hard-to-believe incidents and accidents surrounding children. I feel that weneed to consider this very seriously now in the 21st century.

Individual Membership
Ms. Hisae Tabei / Ms. Rika Tani
anonymous × 3
Corperate Membership
Honzan Yuseiji
Foster Parents
Mr. Hitoshi Ohno / Ms. Rumi Fukuda(Foster parents of children at KIDS EARTH HOME,schools for street children, in Vietnam)

Exhibition● TOKYO・Tennoz Isle

● SAITAMA・Kawaguchi-shi
Sat, 10/21 - Sun, 11/19
Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA

Mon, 5/15 - Sun, 6/25
T.Y. HARBOR BREWERY● TOKYO・Setagaya-ku● TOKYO・Chiyoda-ku

Wed, 7/29 - Sun, 8/6
NUMATA MUSEUM OF ORIGINALART FROM PICTURE BOOKS

Sun, 5/20
At Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Corporation charity concert
CHIYODA IKIIKI PLAZAICHIBANKAN● TOKYO・Minato-ku
Thu, 9/7 - Wed, 9/20
Embassy of Spain● YOKOHAMA・Aoba-ku
Mon, 8/21 - Sat, 9/9
ART FORUM AZAMINO

Amount of raised money (past 15 events)¥ 1,7 1 5,

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