Japan:School Supplies Given to 2,000 Child Victims of the Noto Peninsula Earthquake by the Keidanren One-Percent Club
The event was televised on NHK's News (for Ishikawa)
The Keidanren One-Percent Club,** in collaboration with the Joint Committee for Coordinating and Supporting Voluntary Disaster Relief (Shien-P), provided packs containing school supplies to approximately 2,000 elementary school students in 27 schools in the cities of Wajima and Suzu and the towns of Noto, Anamizu, and Shika (all in Ishikawa Prefecture) as part of relief activities for the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
On May 21 Rika Fukuda, chair of the One-Percent Club and advisor to the Corporate Citizenship Office, Panasonic Holdings Corporation, led a party to visit four elementary schools in Ishikawa Prefecture and hand out the school supply packs to the children. These packs contain a variety of relief supplies needed by those in the disaster-stricken area. Companies belonging to the One-Percent Club provided supplies and funds, and their employees as volunteers prepared and readied the packs for transport, and wrote out messages of encouragement to go with them.
Volunteers preparing the packs Donating the school supply packs
Panasonic provided 500 stylus pens, 100 sets of colored pencils, and 2,100 sticky note pads. Our eleven employees were participated in making these packs at the Keidanren in Tokyo as volunteers. "I'm really happy to get this as it contains things we cannot buy now, I'm going to make the most of it." "We're working toward recovery. I'll use this stationery to keep up my studies." These were typical of comments from children who received the packs.
** The Keidanren One-Percent Club was established in November 1990 by companies and individuals to independently fund corporate citizenship activities with one percent or more of their business profits or disposable income.
It is currently positioned as a branch of the Keidanren's Committee on Responsible Business Conduct and SDGs Promotion.
