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Save the Children Japan
Annual Report 2017
[Executive Summary]EVERYLAST CHILD

Every child has the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
We fight to make children’s rights a reality worldwide.
For nearly 100 years, we have been working with children
Save the Children is an international NGO that works to make children’s rights tosurvival, development, protection and participation a reality worldwide. It wasestablished in the UK in 1919, and is currently at work in approximately 120 countries.
The UN and the governments of many countries have a high regard for Save theChildren as a pioneer of children’s rights, and we have achieved breakthroughs in theway the world treats children. Save the Children Japan was established in 1986. We are
active in international programs in fields such as health and nutrition and education.
When conflicts or natural disasters occur, we provide emergency and humanitarian
responses. In Japan, we have actively addressed issues of child poverty and child abuse,and have also conducted various programs in response to large-scale disasters such as
the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Kumamoto Earthquake. Through these
programs, we work to make children’s rights a reality.

Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children

Save the Children is active in approximately 120 countries including Japan
Save the Children is active in approximately 120 countries including Japan© Ali Ashwal/Save the Children

The number of people we have directly reachedthrough our work and our partners’ work in 2017Children in Yemen play in a child-friendly space run by Save the Children.

49,587,799 children

and 30,696,605 adults,
totaling 80,284,404 people

Foreword
We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to all who have supported our work at Save the Children
worldwide. Over a period of nearly 100 years since 1919 when Save the Children was founded in theUK, we have been working to make children’s rights to survival, protection, development andparticipation a reality. In 2017, we provided support to nearly 50 million children in 120 countries
worldwide, including Japan.
Overseas, we provided emergency and humanitarian responses for Syrian and Rohingya children andfor children encountering food crises. We also implemented programs on a global basis in fields suchas education, health and nutrition, disaster risk reduction and child protection.
In our domestic programs, we responded swiftly to support children and their families in the areas
affected by the heavy rains that struck northern Kyushu in July 2017. Meanwhile, we continued ourwork on recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Kumamoto Earthquake in April 2016. In addition,
we moved forward with addressing challenges that affect children in Japan by working to end childpoverty and prevent child abuse.
The year 2018 is the third year of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approvedby the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. As an international NGO that promotes children’s
rights, Save the Children has been deeply involved in formulating these goals. In 2018 we will continue
contributing to efforts to achieve these goals through our programs inside and outside Japan, basedon our commitment to “leave no child behind.”
We look forward to your support as we continue working to make the rights of all children a reality
the world over.
Junichiro Ida, Chair of the Board
Kunio Senga, Managing Director of the Board, Chief Executive Officer
Save the Children Japan

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Foreword©D.Davaanyam/Save the Children■ Countries and regions where Save the Children worked in 2017
* Of the above countries and regions, those marked with■ are countries and regions
where Save the Children Japan conducted projects by assigning staff members, etc.

Emergency and
Humanitarian Response

Health and Nutrition

Education

For children and local communities
affected by natural disasters andhumanitarian crises, Save the Children
swiftly responds to meet their
immediate needs, enabling them toreturn to their lives and rebuild theirlives.

Save the Children provides assistanceto ensure that all children and theirfamilies can access quality healthservices including healthcare forpregnant women, mothers andnewborns; prevention and treatment of
infectious diseases and malnutrition;and strengthening health systems.

Child Protection

Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR)

In order for all children to receive quality
education, Save the Children implements
programs which improve learning
environments, in schools and in communities,
and provides capacity development
opportunities for teachers, raises awarenessin local communities, provides scholarships
and promotes preschool education
program. We also influence global andnational policy to improve children’s accessto quality education.

Save the Children promotes the
structures and measures of childprotection in close collaboration withvarious stakeholders such as
governments, local communities, children
and their caregivers to protect children
from violence, abuse and exploitation,and cultivates environments in whichchildren can grow up safely and securely.

Save the Children strengthens DRR
structures of local communities sothat children can actively participate
and their voices are reflected in DRR
policy and practice. We promotechild-centered disaster risk reduction.

Child Participation
Save the Children creates andsupports opportunities for children to
speak out on the issues surrounding
children, and works to ensure thatchildren’s opinions are reflected insocial initiatives and policies.
About Save the Children

3International Programs
Emergency and Humanitarian Response

Health and Nutrition

Education

Child Protection©Jarurin Pholhinkong/Save the Children

We provided emergency responses to humanitariancrises in Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, and elsewhere, as
well as for the Rohingya people who have been
displaced. Our support for refugee children, internallydisplaced children and their families included theprovision of emergency relief supplies and activities inareas such as education, child protection, and healthand sanitation. We also set up child-friendly spaces ineach region to offer environments where children canfeel safe and secure.

We worked to prevent and treat malnutrition andinfectious diseases and to make societies capable ofoffering everyone access to quality health services. In
Vietnam we started a project with the aim of
improving the nutritional status of ethnic minority
mothers and children who have not benefited from thecountry’s economic growth. Our initiatives included
securing food using natural resources, improving
health services for mothers and children, anddeveloping learning materials to raise healthawareness.

We worked to improve children’s skills in reading,writing and arithmetic, and to enhance the quality ofeducation so that all children can have an opportunity
to learn. We supported preschool education in
Mongolia by making it easier for children fromnomadic families who could not attend kindergarten
to adapt to elementary school. One way in which we
did this was to provide picture books and educational
toys in the form of study kits enabling such children tolearn at home.

In Myanmar, we collaborated with health authorities
to promote safe childbirth and delivery of healthy
newborns in rural communities where a large numberof ethnic minorities live. We worked to strengthencommunity-based health systems by training auxiliary
midwives, among other measures. We also built healthcenters and offered support including a programproviding cash subsidies to reduce the burden of
medical costs.

To support basic education in Mongolia,
we strengthened teaching skills among teachers sothat elementary schools in low-income communities
could provide the right reception for children with arange of different home circumstances. This was
supplemented by promoting closer collaboration
between children’s parents and schools. In India wehelped teachers to enhance their teaching capacity by
developing digital learning materials that helped
children to understand lessons more effectively.

In Myanmar, we strengthened community-based childprotection systems to ensure that children areprotected in post-conflict communities. We also
provided support to children who had been affected byviolence. In Mongolia, our activities included thedevelopment of the capacity of local government
personnel such as social workers so as to respondeffectively to child protection concerns.

Disaster Risk Reduction© Ali Alashwal/Save the Children

We responded to food crises in East Africa, Nigeria,
Yemen and elsewhere by providing nutritional
supplements and therapeutic foods and medical
treatment. In Mongolia, meanwhile, we supported
children from nomadic families who had been affectedby “dzud,” a phenomenon unique to Mongolia wherecold and snow cause widespread death of livestock.
We also made use of the Inochi Mirai Fund to provide
prompt assistance to children all over the world
affected by disasters, conflicts and other emergencies.
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International Programs

We worked with local communities and governments
on child-centered disaster risk reduction. Our
programs included building the capacity of local
communities to respond to natural disasters andclimate change in Uganda and Vietnam, preventing
water-related accidents among children in Thailand,and promoting road safety for children and young
people in Indonesia.

International Programs5

Domestic Programs
Ending Child Poverty

Psychosocial Support following
Natural Disasters

Kumamoto Earthquake Recovery Programs

Emergency and Recovery Programs following
Heavy Rain in Northern Kyushu

Provision of Financial Support

Psychosocial Support for Children

We provided financial support for children whose
homes had been partially or completely destroyed, or
who were facing economically difficult circumstances.
The financial support covered expenses including
buying school uniforms and sports kits, participating in
cultural or sporting activities during the summer
vacation, preparing for transition to the next level of
education or for job hunting, or taking part in school
excursions.

After distributing emergency relief supplies, we offeredpsychosocial support. We provided opportunities forchildren to play together and learn to restore a senseof normalcy and continuity through a child-friendly
space offering safety and a sense of security tochildren in an evacuation center, as well as throughcraft workshops during the summer vacation. We alsodelivered training on PFA for children to individuals
who support children and their caregivers.

Other Recovery Programs

Other Recovery Programs

This photo is for illustrative purposes

Currently one in seven children in Japan lives inrelative poverty. We assisted children facing
economically difficult situations in a number of ways,
including through financial support. At the same time,
we raised public awareness and lobbied local
governments, targeting better provision of measures totackle child poverty in Japan.

Prevention of Child Abuse

Psychological First Aid (PFA) for children is
psychosocial support for children in distress inemergency situations, such as during the aftermath ofnatural disasters. We made PFA for children training
widely available to individuals who support children
and caregivers, as well as to teachers and members of
the general public. We also trained instructors topromote widespread use of the method.

Following Up the Great East Japan
Earthquake Recovery Programs■ Support for child
day care centers, etc.
We provided equipment
such as air conditioners to
day care centers and otherfacilities damaged in therains, and dispatchedpersonnel to ensure
continued provision of day
care over the summer
vacation.
© City of Ishinomaki

We have been working to prevent child abuse so that
all children can be protected from violence and growup without fear or anxiety, feeling safe and secure. In
addition to efforts to establish parenting free fromhitting or yelling as the norm, we have raised publicawareness through lectures and other means, andadvocated legal reforms to impose a total ban on
corporal punishment and other abuse.

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Domestic Programs

As follow-up to the programs completed at the end of
2015, we provided scholarships at six fishery highschools in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures.
We also continued our projects involving children inbuilding better communities in the town of Yamada in
Iwate Prefecture and the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi
Prefecture, as well as our radiation literacy projects inFukushima Prefecture.

We assisted in providing school lunches to elementaryand junior high schools where the school lunch center
was damaged. We also distributed emergency supplies
to schools and child day care centers, as well as
providing training for staff at after-school programs(Gakudo). In addition, we supported single-parent
households and held briefing sessions to make theopinions of children known.

■ Provision of
Financial Support

A message of thanks fromchildren at a day care center
where we provided an air
conditioner

We provided financial support to junior and seniorhigh school students from families whose homes had
been more than half destroyed to cover purchases
necessary for life at school and preparation fortransition to the next level of education or job hunting.

Domestic Programs

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Save the Children Japan

Save the Children Japan

Partnerships2017 Financial Information

Institutional Partnerships (List in alphabetical order)

Balance Sheet (as of December 31, 2017)
I. Assets

Statement of Changes in Fund Balance (For the year ended December 31, 2017)

1. Current Assets

I. Changes in
371,112,529

Cash & Cash Equivalents (domestic)

Japan International Cooperation Agency

Cash & Cash Equivalents (overseas)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

Accounts Receivable

50,000,000

Special Funds（2）
Reserve for Severance Payments

41,252,757

Reserve for Accumulated Depreciation

3,200,000

Restricted Donations for Not for Profit Segment

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Partnerships

AEON CO., LTD.
AVEDA
BANDAI NAMCO Group
BIKEN Co., Ltd.
Bulgari Japan Ltd.
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Enterprise HUGE Co., Ltd.
FamilyMart Co., Ltd.
FELISSIMO CORPORATIONFICELLE inc.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Fuyo General Lease Co.,Ltd.
GlaxoSmithKline K.K.
H & M Hennes & Mauritz Japan KK
Heijyokyo-Tenpyousai
Hitachi Kashiwa Reysol Co., Ltd.
IKEA Japan K.K.
KIND’S CO.,LTD
KANRO CO.,LTD.
KUTSUSHOTEN INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD.
Lanxess K.K.
Mamere Co.,Ltd
MeySen Academy Schools
MIHIRA corporation
Nippon Denpato Ltd.
OGO SANGYO CO.,Ltd.
Oriental Land Co.,Ltd.
Otto Japan Inc.

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Funds for Renewal of Various Data Management System

Other Non Current Assets（3）
Building

Ryohin Keikaku Co.,Ltd.

Vehicles

SANBELLE,INC.

SoftwareTotal Non Current Assets

2,061,171,313

1. Current Liabilities

Sony Corporation

Accrued Seasonal Salary

Deposits Received

Tokyu Gourmet Front Co.,Ltd.
TOKYU HANDS INC.
Toys"R"Us-Japan, Ltd.

III. Fund Balance(of which, Amount Appropriated to the Special Funds)

General Funds – net, beginning of the Period
General Funds – net, end of the Period

II. Changes in
Restricted Funds- net(315,140,305)① Donations Received
Restricted Donations

2,852,101

81,263,253

1,725,891,313
37,128,553
37,128,553

0

37,128,553

593,871,267
630,999,820
590,544,539
590,544,539② Transfer to General Funds
Changes in Restricted Funds – net for the Period△ 385,225,597

Restricted Funds – net, beginning of the Period

720,640,175

Restricted Funds – net, end of the Period
III. Total Funds - net,end of the Period

1,556,958,937

Total Liabilities and Fund Balance

205,318,942
925,959,117

1,556,958,937

2,061,171,313

Others

1.3%

Uokuni Food Services Co.,Ltd.
VERMILLION RECORDS, Inc

Audit Report

Contract
IncomeVIA HOLDINGS INC.

WORLD PARTY CO.,LTD.

Changes in Non Ordinary Earnings for the Period(839,907,070)
630,999,820

Total Funds - net

95,895,121

0925,959,117

2. General Funds - net

238,944,545

Total Non Ordinary Expenses(50,000,000)(of which, Amount Appropriated to the Special Funds)

160,120,626

Non Ordinary（2）
Expenses

925,959,117(of which, Amount Appropriated to the Basic Funds)

118,498,510

7,145,161

1. Restricted Funds - net
Total Restricted Funds - net

123,535,151

0504,212,376

Restricted Donations

532,638,791

Total Non Ordinary Income

34,957,061

Total Liabilities

372,143,215

2. Changes in Non
Ordinary Earnings

34,957,061

Total Non Current Liabilities

Unilever Japan Holdings K.K.

White & Case LLP

Changes in Ordinary Earnings for the Period

Changes in General Funds – net for the Period

Tully’s Coffee Japan Co.,Ltd.

WELCOME CO., LTD.

for the Period Before Valuation Adjustment

469,255,315

Provision for Severance Payments

Suntory Holdings Limited

1,644,628,060

Non Ordinary（1）
Income4,122,844

Total Current Liabilities

10,661,422

1,763,019,866

Changes in Ordinary Earnings

2. Non Current Liabilities

STRIDER JAPANThe Kyoritsu Co., Ltd.

② Administrative Expenses
Total Ordinary Expenses

644,831,180

117,271,786
340,715,524

Deferred Revenue

The Boston Consulting Group

Profit Making Business Expenses

42,254,328

Accounts Payable

SRS HOLDINGS CO.,LTD.

Other Operating Expenses

1,282,258,764

Total Assets

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited.

2,622,520

Total Other Non Current Assets

II. Liabilities

Public Relations Expenses

3,498,586

SARAYA Co., Ltd.
SIRIUS Corporation

Grants Expenses

13,032,200

Deposits

Shiseido Company, Limited

Domestic Operation Expenses

6,333,931

SANYO FOODS.Co.,Ltd① Operating Expenses
Overseas Aid Expenses

8,176,352

Furniture and Fittings

4,033,343

385,225,597

Emergency Aid Operation Expenses

8,590,739

4,276,028

Restricted Donations

Operations Activity Expenses

Leasehold Improvements

76,584,187

1,030,056,777

1,190,004,436

Total Special Funds

ROOTOTE

Ordinary Expenses（2）

232,652,727⑧ Donations Received
Unrestricted Donations

20,000,000

Reserve for Public Relations

RICOH COMPANY, LTD.

50,727,173

395,735,723

94,188,478

Reserve for Other Operations

Reckitt Benckiser Japan Ltd.

839,907,070

8,977,000

Private Sector Contract Income⑨ Miscellaneous Income
Total Ordinary Income

81,837,682

Reserve for Domestic Operations

PILOT Corporation

23,934,215

7,659

30,000704,972,637⑥ Service Contract Income⑦ Income from Sales and Events

34,957,061

5,000⑤ Contract Income for Aid Operations
Government Contract Income
Overseas Contract Income

50,000,000

Total Basic Funds① Earnings on Basic Funds② Earnings on Special Funds③ Admission Fees
④ Membership Fees

2. Non Current Assets

Basic Funds（1）
Time Deposits

Reserve for Emergency Relief Operations

・

Ordinary Earnings

219,702

Reserve for the Stabilization of Overseas Operations

・

Ordinary Income（1）

778,912,549

Total Current Assets

Corporate Partnerships (List in alphabetical order)

ACCEA Co., Ltd.

78,239,747
11,289,919

Advance Payment

・1．
Changes in

758,732

Prepaid Expenses

World Bank

General Funds - net

67,456,807

249,835,113

Prepaid Operating Expenses
Inventories

Japan Platform(Unit : JPY)

Ordinary Income

40.2%

Donations58.4%

The original 2017 Financial
Statements, in Japanese, wereaudited by board auditors ofSave the Children Japan and the
independent auditor (Deloitte
Touche Tohmatsu LLC).

2017 Financial Information 9

Our History

Save the Children was established in the UK in 1919, and Save the Children Japan wasestablished in 1986. For nearly 100 years, Save the Children has been working with children.

Save the Children established in the UK.

1919

Save the Children Japan established.
1986

1991

Educational programs in the Philippines and Thailand started.

Opened Philippines Office andassigned Japanese staff.

Started emergency response to refugees
from former Yugoslavia in collaboration
with Save the Children US. 1994

1995
Started emergency and humanitarian
response in Afghanistan.

For Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
Disaster, provided financial support to local
NPOs assisting children.

Started domestic programs.

Chair of the Board
Junichiro Ida

Hiroshi Matsufuji

St. Luke’s International Hospital Vice President,
Director of Children's Medical Center,
Head of Pediatric Surgery

SANYO FOODS Co., Ltd. President

Vice-Chair of the Board
Amane Nakashima

2005

2009

Launched “Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting”
promotion and program.

Started “Speaking Out Against Poverty” program toencourage children to participate and raise theirSupported children affected by Haiti Earthquake. 2010 voices to address child poverty issues.
Started Great East Japan Earthquake
Emergency Response and Recovery
Started Syria crisis response. 2011 Programs.

Mori Building Co., Ltd. Executive Vice PresidentManaging Director of the Board
Kunio Senga

Tomomi Fukumoto

Board Member
Eiko Yokoyama

Yoshie Abe

Hideaki Imamura

Yoshiki SakazakiStarted Kumamoto Earthquake response.

Started Northern Kyushu Heavy Rain
Emergency Response and Recovery Program.
Responded to Rohingya crisis and food crises2017 in East Africa, Yemen and Nigeria.

Yoshio Yokoyama Architectural Design Management
Office Co., Ltd. President

10 Our History

Division of Liberal Arts, Teacher and Curator Training Course,
Kogakuin University Associate Professor

Graduate Institute of Innovation Management Academic Assembly(Program of Social Sciences) Shinshu University Professor
Waseda Business School, Waseda University Visiting Professor

FamilyMart Co., Ltd.

School of Information and Communication, Meiji University
Vice President (PR), Professor

Executive Officer, Management Division

Shigenari Yamamoto
YAMAKIN CO., LTD

Naomi Ushio

Auditor
Norio Suzuki

President

Grant Thornton Taiyo LLC

Etsuko Tsunozaki
SEEDS Asia

Kamiyacho International Law Office
Attorney-at-Law admitted in Japan and New York

Kumiko Bando
Yoshihiko Oda

KAGAYA Hotels Corporation

Board Member

Honorary Chair of the Board
Masaya Ueno

Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd.

President

Masaoki Fukui

President and CEO

Adviser
Hiromu Fukada

FUKUJUEN CO., LTD. President

Shin Maeda

Partner, CPA

Keiko Ohara

Board Member

Nippon Television City Corporation (Tokyo Tower)

100th Anniversary of Save the Children.

SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED Executive Officer,
Division COO, Corporate Communication Division

Save the Children Japan Chief Executive Officer

JAPAN LEGAL SUPPORT CENTER

2016

Hiroo Mori

Kewpie Corporation Chairman

Launched global campaign “Rewrite the
Future” to advocate for improving education
for children in conflict and post-conflictsituations.

Assigned Japanese staff to Mongolia office to2007 support street children.

Hosted 30th Anniversary Charity Dinner inpresence of His Majesty Emperor Akihito
and Her Majesty Empress Michiko.

As of August 1, 2018

2001

2006

Launched global campaign “Every One” to reduce childmortality under five years old.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17
global goals that aim to fundamentally resolve various
issues such as poverty, inequality and disparity, andclimate change. As an international NGO that promotes
children’s rights, Save the Children was also involved in
the process of developing these goals, which wereunanimously adopted by the United Nations General
Assembly in 2015. We are promoting the achievement ofSDGs through our advocacy as well as domestic andinternational programs.

Board Members
2003

Responded to Sumatra Earthquake
and Indian Ocean Tsunami, andPakistan Earthquake.

Initiatives for Achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

President

Kajima Institute of International Peace Auditor
Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd. Adviser
Tingyi Holding Corp. Independent Non-Executive Director
Former Ambassador to Australia

2019
Initiatives for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)┃Board Members

11Our Vision
A world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection,
development and participation.

Our Mission
To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats
children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Cover photo:
In Kenya, one-year-old Akokote,pictured with her mother,recovers from pneumonia
following treatment.

Save the Children Japan
Yamada Bldg. 4F 2-8-4 Uchikanda Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0047 JAPANwww.savechildren.or.jp
Published August 2018
The full Annual Report 2017 (Japanese only) is available on our website.