The Japan branch of the Salvation Army provides housing, food and support for school supplies, etc, for roughly 250 children separated from their family because of abuse, neglect or because their family is dead or unwilling to care for them. They built a new dormitory-style home for kids in Chiyoda, I think, a couple years ago.
Every Christmas, they do a Toys for Tots-style campaign where the kids write down their wishes and strangers buy their gifts.
I know the SA has its issues, but this is an objectively good initiative that helps kids who got arguably the worst hand dealt in life.
Tsunagari. つながり. NGO. Japanese organisation doing volunteer work at disaster struck areas. Can look them up. Not much English spoken however really cool bunch. I personally partnered with them in Tateyama, Chiba, Iwaki, Fukushima, Kumamoto. After the typhoon and floods clean up. Nothing like 2HJ though I really like what they do. Not sure about contribution/donations tho. Cheers
My wife does a fair amount of charity work in Tokyo. [The Big Issue](https://www.bigissue.jp) is one I’d like to highlight as it works with the homeless by giving them a means to earn some money, organizes classes and advocates on behalf of this community,
*Pretty much* giving to charity every time I have to pay the bullshit お通し fee at restaurants. Little slimey chunk of pickles that I don’t want/didn’t ask for. Ugh.
It’s only a one off, but we donated my daughters school bag to a charity that gives them to girls in Afghanistan, to aid with attending school.
I thought that was quite a cool idea, and honestly the alternatives, i.e. stick it in the closet forever, or get it made into a wallet and keyring, seemed a bit pointless.
We put loads of school supplies inside the bag and sent it off.
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I like to contribute to all the unwed mothers at the HUB.
This is especially timely:
[https://www.jaws.or.jp/](https://www.jaws.or.jp/)
This is also useful:
[https://ngoexplorer.org/country/jpn/show-charities](https://ngoexplorer.org/country/jpn/show-charities)
The Japan branch of the Salvation Army provides housing, food and support for school supplies, etc, for roughly 250 children separated from their family because of abuse, neglect or because their family is dead or unwilling to care for them. They built a new dormitory-style home for kids in Chiyoda, I think, a couple years ago.
Every Christmas, they do a Toys for Tots-style campaign where the kids write down their wishes and strangers buy their gifts.
I know the SA has its issues, but this is an objectively good initiative that helps kids who got arguably the worst hand dealt in life.
Tsunagari. つながり.
NGO. Japanese organisation doing volunteer work at disaster struck areas.
Can look them up. Not much English spoken however really cool bunch. I personally partnered with them in Tateyama, Chiba, Iwaki, Fukushima, Kumamoto. After the typhoon and floods clean up.
Nothing like 2HJ though I really like what they do.
Not sure about contribution/donations tho.
Cheers
My wife does a fair amount of charity work in Tokyo. [The Big Issue](https://www.bigissue.jp) is one I’d like to highlight as it works with the homeless by giving them a means to earn some money, organizes classes and advocates on behalf of this community,
*Pretty much* giving to charity every time I have to pay the bullshit お通し fee at restaurants. Little slimey chunk of pickles that I don’t want/didn’t ask for. Ugh.
It’s only a one off, but we donated my daughters school bag to a charity that gives them to girls in Afghanistan, to aid with attending school.
I thought that was quite a cool idea, and honestly the alternatives, i.e. stick it in the closet forever, or get it made into a wallet and keyring, seemed a bit pointless.
We put loads of school supplies inside the bag and sent it off.
https://www.joicfp.or.jp/eng/civil-society-partnership/school-backpacks/#:~:text=To%20encourage%20girls%2C%20as%20well,child%20in%20the%20Nangarhar%20province.
I know a few people who are actively involved in supporting YouMeWe which is an NPO based in Tokyo but think it supports kids throughout Japan.
https://youmewenpo.org/