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Charity Book Fair 2005
Since 1997, books and CDs have been collected from Canon group in Japan for sale at the Shimomaruko Head Office bazaar “Charity Book Fair,” and the proceeds have been donated to support the education of children in Asian countries. Canonprovides the matching amount of the proceeds to be donated to NGO or NPO working to support children in Laos, and Vietnam in the educational area. The donations are used for opening school libraries, cultural facilities, scholarships, and management.
In 2005, approximately 7,500 books, approximately 700 CDs and DVDs had been collected from Canon group in Japan, and the proceeds were about 500,000 yen (about $4,760). Canon Inc. provided a matching gift of the same amount.
Through the proceeds, the matching gift, and the donations we provide the following support activities.
Educational support activities for children in Laos
Canon provides maintenance and additional books to the libraries of the following eight schools, which were founded with support of Canon, and supports publishing of a dictionary, through the organization “Action with Lao Children.”
Educational support activities for children in Vietnam
Through the organization “Bridge Asia Japan,” we support children with visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, and intellectual disabilities for self-help training and vocational training.
Through the organization “The Japanese Association for Supporting Street children’s Home in Vietnam,” we support supplementary classes in “Street children’s Home,” which helps the independence and self-support of street children in the city of Hue in central Vietnam.
Educational support activities for Cambodia
Through “Project HOPE Japan,” we support a workshop on the importance of mother-child health care, because of the high death rate of pregnant women and babies in the province of Kompong Thom, Cambodia.
