© Allison Joyce/Save the Children

Save the Children Japan
Annual Report 2018
[Executive Summary]EVERYLAST CHILD

© Jordi Matas/Save the Children

Save the Children marks the 100th anniversary of its founding.
Every child has the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
We fight to make children’s rights a reality worldwide.
Save the Children’s history dates back to Europe in the 1910s, following the continent’s
devastation after the First World War. At a time when many children were suffering fromsevere malnutrition, Eglantyne Jebb took bold action to help them, regardless of whatside of the conflict they were on, establishing Save the Children in the UK in 1919.
The organization’s activities led to the drafting of the Geneva Declaration of the Rightsof the Child, which is regarded as the world’s first official document relating to children’s
rights. The declaration’s principles subsequently formed the basis for the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child, and they are still observed all over the world.
Save the Children currently provides support to children in approximately 120 countries
including Japan. As a pioneer of children’s rights, we have achieved breakthroughs in theway the world treats children.

Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children

Save the Children reachedmore than 40,000,000 children
in approximately 120 countries
including Japan.

Children in Kenya who are attending at a Save the Children-supported school.

Save the Children directly reached 40,795,551 children through its work in 2018.

Foreword■ Countries and regions where Save the Children worked in 2018.
■ Countries and regions where Save the Children Japan
conducted projects by assigning staff members, etc.

We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to all who have supported our work at Save the Children
worldwide.
Save the Children was founded in the UK in 1919, and celebrates its milestone 100th year in 2019. Its
founder, Eglantyne Jebb, took decisive action to save children in Europe following the continent’s
devastation by the First World War. Her bold vision to realize children’s rights is still central toSave the Children’s work, and inspires our work to this day.
With the help and commitment of a great many people, we have provided support to more than abillion children worldwide over the past century. We are sincerely grateful to all who contributed tomake this possible.
In 2018, we provided emergency and humanitarian responses for children affected by conflicts and forchildren encountering food crises. We also implemented programs on a global basis in fields such as
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 rainsthat struck western Japan in July 2018. In addition, we moved forward with addressing challenges that
affect children in Japan by taking action to end child poverty and prevent child abuse.
We look forward to your support and collaboration as we affirm our commitment to work toward aworld in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
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

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 and rebuild their lives.

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

In order for all children to receive quality
education, Save the Children implements
programs that improve learning
environments, provide capacity development
opportunities for teachers, raise awarenessin local communities and promote
pre-school education programs.

Child Protection

Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR)

Child Poverty

We promote child protection measuresin close collaboration with various
stakeholders such as local governments
and communities, children and theircaregivers to protect children fromviolence, abuse and exploitation, andcultivate environments in which children
can grow up safely and securely.

Save the Children strengthens DRR
structures of local communities sothat children can act independently
when disasters occur and their voices
are reflected in DRR policy andpractice. We promote child-centereddisaster risk reduction.

We are working to end child poverty
by providing direct support, raisingpublic awareness and engaging in
advocacy. Our aim is to ensure that all
children have access to the physicalpossessions, services and opportunities
necessary for them to live their lives
and develop, so that they can fulfill
their potential.
About Save the Children

3International Programs
Emergency and Humanitarian Response

Health and Nutrition

Education

Child Protection©Jarurin Pholhinkong/Save the Children© Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children

Save the Children responded to humanitarian crises in
Syria, South Sudan, and Yemen, as well as taking action
for displaced Rohingya people in Bangladesh. Our
support for refugee children, internally displacedchildren and their families included emergency relief
supplies and activities in areas such as education, childprotection, health and sanitation. We also set up
child-friendly spaces to offer environments wherechildren could feel safe and secure.

We worked to treat and prevent malnutrition andinfectious diseases, and helped enable societies to offer
universal access to health care. In Vietnam, Myanmar
and Laos, our initiatives improved health programs formothers and children of ethnic minorities who have
not yet benefitted from growth in their countries’
economies.

Save the Children is working to advance children's
skills in reading, writing and arithmetic, and toenhance the quality of education so that all children
have an opportunity to learn. In Mongolia, we helped
strengthen the school system to enable children fromdiverse family backgrounds, and children with nopreschool education, to adapt to elementary school.

In Myanmar, we strengthened community-based childprotection systems in post-conflict communities. We
also provided support for children affected by childabuse and other forms of violence. In Mongolia, ouractivities developed the capacity of local government
child protection teams to respond effectively to childprotection incidents.

Disaster Risk Reduction© Thomas Gustafian / Save the Children

We provided nutritional supplements, therapeutic
foods and medical treatment to help children facing
food crises in East Africa and Yemen. In addition, wedelivered emergency relief to children affected bynatural disasters in Indonesia and Mongolia, and wemade use of the Inochi Mirai Fund to provide rapid
assistance to children affected by natural disasters,
conflicts and other emergencies.

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International Programs

In Vietnam, we also took steps to protect children frommalnutrition by providing food security assistance,
including technical training for the community in
low-cost agricultural methods. In Myanmar, we
promoted safe childbirth and healthy newborns bycollaborating with health authorities to train auxiliary
midwives and strengthen community-based healthsystems.

We also supported a new program in Mongolia tocreate an inclusive educational environment thatfacilitates all children’s equal access to education,
including those with special needs. This initiative also
provided training for teachers at public elementary
schools to build their capacity to work with children
who require individual support.

We worked with local communities and governments
on child-centered disaster risk reduction. Through ourprograms, local communities learned to build
resilience to natural disasters and climate change in
Uganda and Vietnam, to prevent water-related
accidents among children in Thailand, and to promoteroad safety for children and young people inIndonesia.

International Programs5

Domestic ProgramsWest Japan Heavy Rains Emergency and Recovery Programs
Psychosocial Support following
Natural Disasters

Ending Child Poverty

Operating a Child-Friendly Space

Other Recovery Programs
Training on PFA for Children

We delivered training on PFA for Children six
times in Okayama prefecture and four times in
Ehime prefecture. The training was attended bymore than 1,200 people including staff atafter-school programs (Gakudo), day care centers,
and children’s centers (Jidokan), school teachers
and local government officials.

This photo is for illustrative purposes

Currently one in seven children in Japan lives inrelative poverty. We supported children facing financial
difficulties in a number of ways, including through cash
assistance. At the same time, we raised public awareness and lobbied local governments, calling for better
policies to tackle child poverty in Japan.

Psychological First Aid（PFA）for Children is
psychological support for children in emergency
situations, such as during and the aftermath of natural
disasters. We made training in PFA for Children widely
available to individuals who support children andcaregivers, as well as to members of the general public.
When natural disasters occurred, we disseminatedinformation on PFA for Children promptly.

Following the record-breaking heavy rains that struck
western Japan in July 2018, we implemented
emergency and recovery programs focusing on the
Mabi district in Kurashiki city, Okayama prefecture,
which was particularly affected. We operated achild-friendly space for two days to help children
recover a sense of normalcy and continuity throughplay and other activities.

Prevention of Child Abuse

Kumamoto Earthquake Recovery Programs

Cooperation in Okayama Prefecture’s
Project for Safe and Friendly Space forChildren in areas affected by Western Japan
Heavy Rains

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Domestic Programs

For children whose homes had been partially orcompletely destroyed, or who were facing
economically difficult circumstances, we provided cash
assistance that covered a portion of the cost of buying
school uniforms and sports kits. The cash assistance
was provided to 826 new first-years at junior andsenior high schools. We also collaborated with local
governments and community groups to support
single-parent households by holding events, among
other initiatives.

We provided equipment
including toys, desks andchairs for preschoolers,and shoe cupboards, to 12
Gakudo centers, Jidokan andday care centers in the cityof Kurashiki.

Provision of School Supplies andEquipment
We provided school supplies
including sports kits,
melodicas, calligraphy sets
and schoolbags to 1,241
students at kindergartens,
elementary schools andjunior high schools who had
been affected by the heavy
rains in Mabi district of Kurashiki. We also
donated alto recorders and other equipment tothe senior high school section of a special
education school that had resumed classes in a
temporary prefabricated school building.

© Satomi Asano/Save the Children

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 symposiums and other means, andadvocated legal reforms to impose a total ban on
physical and humiliating punishment.

Support for Gakudo Centers, Jidokan,
and Day Care CenterWe supported a project sponsored by the Okayama
prefectural government and managed by a local NPO
to provide safe and friendly space for children in areas
affected by the heavy rains. The space enabled families
with children to undertake tasks such as cleaning up
their houses, and helped children themselves tomanage the stress of evacuation life. From mid-July tothe end of August, around 110 children were taking
part in the program at any one time (for a total ofaround 800 children over the entire duration).

Cash Assistance
We provided cash assistance to 428 students* inKurashiki to help them avoid disadvantages in school
education, when transitioning to the upper grade levelor to employment. The students are in their final year
before graduation, either in the sixth grade atelementary schools, the third grade at junior highschools, and the third grade at senior high schools.
* For 221 of these students, the cash assistance was transferred in January 2019.

Domestic Programs

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Save the Children Japan

Partnerships

2018 Financial Information

Institutional Partnerships (List in alphabetical order)

Balance Sheet (as of December 31, 2018)
I. Assets

Statement of Changes in Fund Balance (For the year ended December 31, 2018)

1. Current Assets

I. Changes in
253,007,298

Cash & Cash Equivalents (domestic)
Cash & Cash Equivalents (overseas)
Accounts Receivable

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

1．
Changes in

97,796,547

Ordinary Income（1）

319,807

Inventories

General Funds - net

63,282,200

218,200,639

Prepaid Operating Expenses

Japan International Cooperation Agency

Ordinary Earnings

284,369

642,587,349

Total Current Assets
2. Non Current Assets

Basic Funds（1）
Time Deposits

World Bank

50,000,000

Corporate Partnerships

Special Funds（2）
Reserve for Severance Payments(List in alphabetical order)

47,457,703

Reserve for the Stabilization of Overseas Operations

Restricted Donations for Not for Profit Segment723,280

Subsidies for Not for Profit Segment

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Partnerships

ACCEA Co., Ltd.
AEON TOWNACTIVE G
Andaz Tokyo Toranomon Hills
Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings Corporation
BANDAI NAMCO Group
BASF Japan Ltd.
BIKEN Co., Ltd.
Bulgari Japan Ltd.
Delta Air Lines, Inc.
Enterprise HUGE Co., Ltd.
FICELLE inc.
FamilyMart Co., Ltd.
Fuyo General Lease Co.,Ltd.
GUNZE LIMITED
GlaxoSmithKline K.K.
Heijyokyo-Tenpyousai
Hitachi Kashiwa Reysol Co., Ltd.
IKEA Japan K.K.
KIND’S CO.,LTD
KUTSUSHOTEN INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD.
Kanro Inc.
Kansai Paint Co.,Ltd.
MIHIRA corporation
MeySen Academy Schools
Milbon Co., Ltd.
Nisshindo co.,ltd
OGO SANGYO CO.,Ltd.
Oriental Land Co.,Ltd.
Otto Japan Inc.

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Funds for Renewal of Various Data Management System

PONY CANYON INC.

Reserve for Operations in Uganda and Yemen
Total Special Funds
Other Non Current Assets（3）
Building

SANYO FOODS.Co.,LtdSARAYA Co.,Ltd.
SRS HOLDINGS CO.,LTD.

Software

STRIDER JAPAN

Software in Progress

Shiseido Company, Limited

Total Other Non Current Assets

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc.

Total Non Current Assets

TOBU TOP TOURS CO.,LTD.

The Prudential Gibraltar Financial Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd.
The Western Union Company
Tully's Coffee Japan Co.,Ltd.
UENO FINE CHEMICALS INDUSTRY,LTD.
Uokuni Food Services Co.,Ltd.
VERMILLION CORPORATION

III. Fund Balance

Non Ordinary（1）
IncomeNon Ordinary（2）
Expenses(of which, Amount Appropriated to the Special Funds)(of which, Amount Appropriated to the Special Funds)

383,733,150
448,221,513
148,823,180
135,388,992
165,379,148
244,190,747

4,266,834

General Funds – net, beginning of the Period

36,459,088

Changes in General Funds – net for the Period
General Funds – net, end of the Period

Restricted Funds - net

36,459,088

884,268,198(50,000,000)(811,985,500)

107,365,387
8,304,044

109,883,257

1,751,289,418△ 63,192,953△ 63,192,953

0

Loss on Elimination of Non Current Assets
Total Non Ordinary Expenses① Donations Received
Restricted Donations② Subsidies Received
Government Subsidies

91,35791,357△ 91,357△ 63,284,310
630,999,820
567,715,510
354,515,440
354,515,440
1,999,260
1,999,260③ Transfer to General Funds
Changes in Restricted Funds – net for the Period△ 398,205,619

Restricted Funds – net, beginning of the Period

925,959,117

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

567,715,510

2. General Funds - net

1,641,406,161

Total Non Ordinary Income

Changes in Non Ordinary Earnings for the Period

723,280(of which, Amount Appropriated to the Basic Funds)① Operating Expenses
Overseas Aid Expenses

2. Changes in Non
Ordinary Earnings

883,544,918

Total Restricted Funds - net

4,641,944

1,688,096,465

Changes in Ordinary Earnings for the Period

1. Restricted Funds - net
Government Subsidies

1,275,980

Changes in Ordinary Earnings for the Period before Valuation Adjustment

528,265,841

Restricted Donations

548,221,431② Administrative Expenses
Total Ordinary Expenses

II. Changes in

Total Liabilities

396,929,639

277,925,688

2. Non Current Liabilities
Total Non Current Liabilities

Restricted Donations

Profit Making Business Expenses

491,806,753

Provision for Severance Payments

945,151,070

Other Operating Expenses

7,155,104

Total Current Liabilities

The Boston Consulting Group K.K.
The Kyoritsu Co., Ltd.

202,459,127

Accrued Seasonal Salary

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

45,247,966

1,337,662,200

1. Current Liabilities

Deposits Received

Takamatsu Co.,Ltd.

⑧ Donations Received
Unrestricted Donations

Operations Activity Expenses

6,753,310

1,980,249,549

Deferred Revenue

6,340,560

11,524,534

Public Relations Expenses

13,032,200

Accounts Payable

TAG Heuer

1,242,414,234

9,720,000

Total Assets

132,718,656

Grants Expenses

162,993

Deposits

II. Liabilities

35,091,402

6,723,952

Furniture and Fittings

383,356,806

194,278,123

Domestic Operations Expenses

6,630,399

SIRIUS CORPORATION

Private Sector Contract Income

Emergency Aid Operation Expenses

2,225,112

Leasehold Improvements
VehiclesSony Corporation

Ordinary Expenses（2）

20,000,000

Reserve for Public Relations

ROOTOTE CORPORATION

41,007,173

710,353,585

Total Ordinary Income

94,188,478

Reserve for Other Operations

Procter & Gamble Japan K.K.ss

811,262,220⑤ Contract Income for Aid Operations
Government Contract Income⑨ Subsidies Received⑩ Miscellaneous Income

3,200,000

Reserve for Domestic Operations

・

23,934,215

129,090,675

Reserve for Emergency Relief Operations

08,625,000⑥ Service Contract Income⑦ Income from Sales and Events

36,459,088

Reserve for Accumulated Depreciation

10,010173,782

Overseas Contract Income

50,000,000

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

9,696,489

Prepaid Expenses
Advance Payment

Japan Platform(Unit : JPY)

△ 41,690,919
884,268,198

1,451,983,708(393,969,646)

1,451,983,708

Total Funds - net
Total Liabilities and Fund Balance

1,980,249,549

VIA HOLDINGS INC.
WELCOME Co., Ltd.

OthersWells Fargo Securities (Japan) Co., Ltd.
White & Case LLP
Willowbrook International School

Audit Report2%WORLD PARTY CO.,LTD

Ordinary Income

Contract
Income42%

Donations56%

The original 2018 financial
statements, in Japanese, wereaudited by board auditors ofSave the Children Japan and the
independent auditor (Deloitte
Touche Tohmatsu LLC).

2018 Financial Information 9

Our History

In 2019, Save the Children marks the 100th anniversary of its founding.
Over the past century, we have provided support to more than a billion children worldwide.

1919

1924

1940s

1970s

Our founder, Eglantyne
Jebb, launched the Save
the Children Fund in the
UK to raise much needed
funds to help starving
children in the chaotic
aftermath of the FirstWorld War.

The Geneva Declarationof the Rights of the Child
which was originallydrafted by Eglantyne
Jebb, was adopted and it
later inspired the 1989
UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child.

Save the Children helped
children living under the
shadow of the Second
World War by creatingplay centers in air-raid
shelters.

By the end of the 1970s,
Save the Children wasworking in 120 countries
across six continents.

Initiatives for Achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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 throughdomestic and international programs.

Board Members

As of March 20, 2019

Chair of the Board
Junichiro Ida

SANYO FOODS Co., Ltd. President

Vice-Chair of the Board
Amane Nakashima

Kewpie Corporation Chairman

Hiroshi Matsufuji

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

Hiroo Mori

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

Save the Children Japan Chief Executive Officer

1980s

1986

2011

2019

A widespread famine
affected Ethiopia. In
response, Save theChildren shipped out
grain, sugar and oil tohelp badly malnourishedchildren.

Save the Children Japanwas established in Osakafollowing a proposal by
HRH Princess Anne of theUK.

The Great East Japan
Earthquake Emergency
Response and Recovery
Programs were started. We
reached a cumulative totalof 1.88 million people infive years.

Save the Children marks
the 100th anniversary of
its founding. We havereached over one billion
children globally.

Board Member
Eiko Yokoyama

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

Hideaki Imamura

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

Etsuko Tsunozaki

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

Shigenari Yamamoto
YAMAKIN CO., LTD

Auditor
Norio Suzuki

President

Director and Senior Managing Executive Officer

Grant Thornton Taiyo LLC

Board Member

Japan Legal Support Center

Yoshie Abe

FamilyMart Co., Ltd.

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

Kumiko Bando

SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED Executive Officer,
Senior General Manager, Corporate Brand Strategy Department,
Division COO, Corporate Sustainability Division

Kunihiro Nakade

Naomi Ushio

SEEDS Asia

Tomomi Fukumoto

Partner, CPA

Keiko Ohara
President

Yoshihiko Oda

KAGAYA Hotels Corporation President

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

Honorary Chair of the Board
Masaya Ueno

Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd.

Masaoki Fukui

FUKUJUEN CO., LTD. President

Shin Maeda

TOKYO TOWER Co., Ltd. President

10 Our History

President and CEO

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

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:
Mother Momtaz takes her baby
Kayas for a checkup at the Save theChildren clinic in the Rohingya
refugee camp, Bangladesh.
Baby Kayas was malnourished andtreated at the Save the Children clinic.

Save the Children Japan
Yamada Bldg. 4F 2-8-4 Uchikanda Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0047 JAPANwww.savechildren.or.jp
Published September 2019
The full Annual Report 2018 (Japanese only) is available on our website.