GAJET Charity Coin Drive

Submitted by lyle on Mon, 2009/06/08 - 19:07.
2009/06/12 - 00:00
2009/06/12 - 23:59
Event Information:

Have spare change? All you departing JETs, you know you have a bucket in your house filled with 1 and 5 yen coins. Bring them to the Summer Conference on Friday and dump them in the GAJET bucket! Like last year we're supporting Akai Hane, a Gunma local branch of a larger national charity that helps out needy kids in our school systems. Last year we were able to raise more than 30,000 yen thanks to all of your generosity. Let's kick it up a notch higher this year!

Your donations will go to help:

- Improvement of children's playground tools such as swings and slides.
- Opening welfare libraries at elementary schools and junior high schools.
- Improvement of toy libraries.
- Support for children refusing to attend school.
- Shelter for teenage girls, “Center for pregnancy risk in the adolescence”.
- Support for activities at welfare cooperation schools.

http://www.akaihane.or.jp/english/index.html

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Sounds great!

Submitted by l.tohidi (not verified) on Tue, 2009/06/09 - 07:48.

This is a great idea :) Do you know if we can use foreign currency in a similar fashion prior to leaving Japan?

Thanks,

Lida

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Submitted by lyle on Tue, 2009/06/09 - 17:09.

Often times at airports they have big donation things for any currency you care to put in. I know they had them in Thailand, but I don't recall seeing them in Narita. It's possible, whenever I'm there I'm too excited about leaving or coming back to notice... unlike in Thailand where I'm stuck for 11 hours over night. >_<