Japan AIDS & Society Association, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To translate into Japanese and disseminate various selected materials on HIV/AIDS issued by international organizations with possible impact on the Japanese policy towards HIV/AIDS. This year’s project continues on the work started last year, making available relevant information in Japanese on the JASA website and expanding the site to form a link with other organizations and serve as a clearing-house on HIV/AIDS issues.

JaNP+(Japanese Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS), Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To develop and implement a training program to foster leaders who can form and manage peer groups of PWHA throughout Japan. Such peer groups can contribute to putting a brake on further spread of the epidemic, promoting participation of PWHA in society, and ameliorating their quality of life. They can promote prevention and raise awareness in the general public as well as prevent secondary expansion of the epidemic occurring as a result of isolation from society.

CHARM (Center for Health and Rights of Migrants), Osaka

Grant Amount: ¥1.3 million

To offer assistance to non-Japanese speaking female PWHA and their children and improve the environment of peer support by offering study sessions on HIV/AIDS and the epidemic’s impact on childbirth. An example of a new project created on a successful application of the previous Advised Fund, support activities are being stepped up, especially targeted at pregnant and post-childbirth female PWHA of foreign nationality as they go through the process of pregnancy, delivery and child-rearing.

SWASH (Sex Work and Sexual Health), Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1.5 million

To promote prevention and awareness-raising on HIV and STD among sex workers and open a drop-in center to provide information on HIV/STD and more direct and sustained support as well as offer telephone hotline services. SWASH, comprised of researchers and activists, including some former sex workers, is the only organization currently operating in Japan that promotes prevention and awareness-raising for HIV/AIDS among sex workers.

CAI (Campus AIDS Interface), Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥700,000

To maintain a van serving as a mobile shop of accessories popular to young people, especially girls, and attract their attention to promote understanding and prevention of HIV/AIDS through distribution of condoms and educational pamphlets. A program run by and for the young, it aims to promote prevention and awareness-raising on HIV/AIDS and safer sex at events organized for youth and also to offer counseling services through emails.

Tokyo Alien Eyes, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To offer support to foreign students in finding apartments and part-time jobs. Looking for apartments on their own entails the problem of having to find a guarantor with Japanese citizenship. Lining up part-time jobs is also essential to many in need of income to support their studies. This innovative and pioneering venture to solve these problems can offer a model case for setting a friendly environment and helpful policies to accommodate for foreign students in Japan.

NGO Network for Foreigner’s Assistance KOBE, Hyogo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To offer training to non-Japanese residents to become interpreters with specialized knowledge on legal and administrative matters and negotiation skills and pair them with other foreign residents requiring linguistic assistance and moral support. By compiling and submitting a record of interpretation activities to the local government, policy advocacy can be made for a system to offer linguistic help with specialized knowledge to non-Japanese speakers and also provide job opportunities for non-Japanese residents.

Homeless Support Net Niigata, Niigata

Grant Amount: ¥1.5 million

To offer a shelter and job counseling for the homeless. The project is unique in offering support to the homeless that takes into account the different needs of each and individual person in their effort to achieve economic independence. It is also a pioneering endeavor that coordinates efforts with the municipal government, local businesses, and the local communities in creating job opportunities. Vocational and social training is to be offered in conjunction with the job offers.

Youth Support Center, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1.5 million

To continue holding seminars expanding on the “Community Uncle Project (CUP)” and create a network among organizations working with school drop-outs and students who refuse to go to school or unable to leave their house. CUP has succeeded in providing vocational and on-the-job training by matching the aforesaid youth with local employers. A survey and analysis of the needs of the various organizations will be undertaken to form a network for launching programs similar to CUP in various communities.

Chiiki Seikatsu Shien (Regional Support) Network/Women’s Net, “Saya-Saya”, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1.7 million

To strengthen the administrative and accounting capacity to meet the ever increasing needs of the expanding scope of activities. A previous grantee under the category of “Achieving Economic Independence,” the network actively pursues pioneering efforts in helping female victims of DV obtain jobs and become independent. It provides job training at its self-operating restaurant and supports other diversified vocational training programs in aroma therapy, handcrafts and counseling of DV victims.

Japan AIDS & Society Association, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥2 million

To disseminate important HIV/AIDS-related reports and statements issued by international institutions, such as the United Nations, and international conferences, that could have an impact on Japan’s public policy on HIV/AIDS. The materials will be translated into Japanese and made available on JASA’s website and through its newsletters. This project draws on the specialized knowledge and the networks of JASA, an umbrella organization for NGOs involved in HIV/AIDS issues, and will help to enhance policymaking on the prevention of the spread of HIV/AIDS.

The Organizing Committee for the AIDS Forum in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture

Grant Amount: ¥300,000

To implement the 10th AIDS Forum in Yokohama. This annual forum serves as a venue for network building among NGOs involved in HIV/AIDS issues and for promoting public awareness on HIV/AIDS prevention. The 2003 forum will be held in August and will feature 80 events and activities on the theme of “Youth,” which will be carried out by approximately 40 HIV/AIDS-related NGOs over a period of three days.

Tohoku HIV Communications, Miyagi Prefecture

Grant Amount: ¥500,000

To develop a model for cooperating with municipal and educational institutions in the area of HIV/AIDS education and awareness and to train teachers and medical professionals around the Tohoku region to teach about HIV/AIDS prevention. The model will be based on THC’s extensive experience in carrying out HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness programs in collaboration with the Sendai City government and local junior high schools.

OurPlanet-TV, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥2 million

To promote the production of visual works by youths on the theme of safer sex and HIV/AIDS through a visual media (i.e., video format, graphic art, photography) contest. The winning pieces will be distributed to educational institutions as teaching materials for HIV/AIDS preventive education and also will be made available online to promote HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness.

Japan HIV Center (JHC), Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To implement the Young Sharing Program (YSP) in various regions of Japan. YSP seeks to heighten knowledge about HIV/AIDS prevention by having young people share their thoughts and views with each other on sex and HIV/AIDS. This project will develop methodologies for extending YSP to youths who previously have not had the chance to take part in the program, such as those with mental and physical disabilities and those who speak other languages or who come from other cultures. In addition, a needs assessment will be conducted.

Positive Cafe Noce, Nagano Prefecture

Grant Amount: ¥500,000

To carry out HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness activities for youths in cooperation with local medical and educational institutions. Positive Cafe Noce, located in Karuizawa, Nagano, serves as a center for distributing information about HIV/AIDS and for shaping HIV/AIDS policy in the region. This project will use the cafe as a venue for people with HIV/AIDS (PWHA) to share and exchange opinions about HIV/AIDS with others. It also will enlighten youths about HIV/AIDS and prevention through school visits by PWHA.

Women’s Network Saya-Saya, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥2 million

To help battered women increase their employment potential and achieve financial independence. This project will offer job training at companies and at a restaurant set up specifically to support battered women. In addition, former victims of violence will teach various professional courses that provide training in such occupations as beauty therapy, aromatherapy, and counseling on domestic violence.

Kanagawa Women’s Space Ms LA, Kanagawa Prefecture

Grant Amount: ¥2 million

To operate a specialized shelter that will help mothers and children who are victims of domestic violence gain economic independence. A medium-term shelter, or “step house,” will be established to provide focused support over a period of about half a year to mothers and children who are victims of domestic violence or who are living in poverty. The support will be directed toward helping them to gain both emotional and social independence, in addition to economic independence.

Youth Support Center (YSC), Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1.6 million

To expand the Community Uncle Project (CUP), aimed at youths with futoukou (psychologically based refusal to attend school) or hikikomori (withdrawal from society) syndromes. CUP opens up employment opportunities for futoukou and hikikomori youths through job training and apprenticeships at local businesses. Aimed at spreading CUP nationwide, this project will produce a CUP administration manual and conduct courses around the country to train people to serve as liaisons between these youths and businesses.

Genki Hyakubai Network, Osaka Prefecture

Grant Amount: ¥1.5 million

To strengthen follow-up support for once-homeless people and to circulate information that will help them to avoid becoming homeless again. This project will analyze cases derived from follow-up surveys, identify the social resources that these individuals need to maintain economic independence (i.e., support facilities, employment information, etc.), and distribute the information to homeless people through the publication and circulation of a free newspaper.

Torcida, Osaka Prefecture

Grant Amount: ¥500,000

To offer lectures on international understanding conducted by Japanese-Brazilian youths for local citizens. This project targets Japanese-Brazilian youths in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, faced with low hopes for the future as a result of having dropped out of school. It seeks to help these youths to build their self-esteem by having them research and study their roots and culture and thereby reflect on their identity. The youths then make a presentation to local citizens in a lecture setting, giving them an opportunity to interact with the local community.

The Bigakko Association, Miyagi Prefecture

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To explore how children with intellectual and mental disabilities can engage in society through art by promoting various art activities for such children in the Tohoku region. In this project, art workshops will be held regularly in venues such as public facilities and mobile art studios to engage these children in arts and crafts activities with others in the local community.

Schools Online Japan, Osaka Prefecture

Grant Amount: ¥1.6 million

To carry out IT education aimed at heightening the future prospects of futoukou youths (children with a psychologically based refusal to attend school) and students of ethnic schools, who do not receive IT education as part of their curriculum. With the cooperation of IT professionals from companies, the project will set up a course to equip these children with specialized IT knowledge and skills. It also will provide them with the opportunity to explore how they can apply these skills and knowledge in their future careers.

Clothesline Project Japan, Saitama Prefecture

Grant Amount: ¥2 million

To strengthen the organization’s ability to make policy recommendations toward upcoming revisions to the Domestic Violence (DV) Law and subsequent policymaking. This grantee will collect information on concrete trends in the DV Law revision process and how administrative bodies in each region are formulating their respective policies based on the revisions, and post the information on a dedicated website in a timely nature. This organization has been carrying out advocacy efforts in the field of domestic violence since the DV Prevention Law was established.

Center for Prisoners’ Rights (CPR), Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1.5 million

To employ professional staff who can help strengthen the center’s capacity to offer counseling to prison convicts and develop policy recommendations. As one of very few NGOs engaged in human rights issues of prisoners, this grantee has for many years provided counseling to prisoners and their families through written correspondence. Recently, it also has been making policy recommendations regarding the management and operation of prison facilities based on objective analyses of the current situation.

K Lounge, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To support an outreach project called “NOOK.” Conducted by K Lounge, a peer group of people with HIV/AIDS (PWHA), this is an effort to reach out to the general public by having members go outside the hospital and talk about their experiences, inviting the participation of school nurses, doctors, students, and others.

Kawaguchi Children’s Network, Saitama

Grant Amount: ¥370,000

To organize an “AIDS Child Summit” that would gather young people involved in AIDS awareness and prevention programs in various regions.

SHARE (Services for the Health in Asian & African Regions), Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To develop an effective AIDS prevention program targeted at Japanese junior and senior high school students, using methods devised by SHARE for conducting AIDS prevention workshops in Thailand.

Urban Health Projects, Osaka

Grant Amount: ¥700,000

To develop an effective HIV/AIDS prevention/awareness program targeted at teenagers in a particular area of Osaka where youngsters are known to gather.

CHARM (Center for Health and Rights of Migrants), Osaka

Grant Amount: ¥1.8 million

To operate a center offering information and counseling on HIV/AIDS and on health care for migrants and foreign residents vulnerable to the epidemic.

JANAC (Japan Association of Nurses in AIDS Care), Kanagawa

Grant Amount: ¥500,000

To create a handbook for nurses to enable them to provide appropriate advice and information to people with HIV/AIDS as they undergo a long-term struggle with the epidemic.

MASH Tokyo (Men and Sexual Health), Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥930,000

To implement an HIV/STD prevention and awareness program for young men who have sex with men in the metropolis of Tokyo.

APARI (Asia-Pacific Addiction Research Institute), Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To implement a drug-free training program for criminal defendants on bail to support their recovery and re-acceptance into society and prevent them from relapsing and returning to crime.

Center for Education and Support for Women, Japan, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To provide training for nurses coming in contact with sexually assaulted victims in order to promote more appropriate treatment of the cases.

Center for Prisoners’ Rights Japan, Kanagawa

Grant Amount: ¥550,000

To prevent the violation of prisoners’ human rights by providing legal counseling through correspondence.

Child Assault Prevention Center Japan, Hyogo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To hold workshops and form guidelines on the prevention of violence and protection of children’s rights at institutions housing abused children.

Clothesline Project Japan, Saitama

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To hold workshops on domestic violence (DV) for the general public, train volunteers, exhibit T-shirts drawn by female DV victims, and build a cross-sectoral partnership for a more comprehensive awareness-raising program on DV in Saitama.

Filipino Migrants’ Center, Aichi

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To train leaders and social workers involved in community improvement, operate an income-generating internet cafe, and offer vocational training in computer skills to facilitate employment for the Filipino community in Nagoya.

Food Bank Japan, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To provide agricultural training for the homeless in an effort to provide them with economic and social independence.

Japan Association for Refugees, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥2 million

To offer legal and social assistance to refugees facing emergencies in Japan, where those holding refugee status are a minority and there is little transparency around their legal standing.

National Network in Solidarity with Migrant Workers, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥600,000

To strengthen the editorial organization and enrich the content of the monthly English newsletter, “Migrant Network News,” for the empowerment of migrant workers and foreign residents in Japan.

Africa Global Link Project, Kanagawa

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To hold a joint academic session in Japan between Japanese and African senior high school students specializing in commerce, agriculture, and engineering. The event is held each summer, alternating between Japan and Africa, and focusing on a fixed theme each year.

Fukuoka Toubu Kodomo Gekijo (East Fukuoka Children’s Theater Center), Fukuoka

Grant Amount: ¥650,000

To operate a private classroom with young instructors as a place for learning and play for school dropouts in the primary and secondary school age groups.

Kyoto Volunteer Center for Students, Kyoto

Grant Amount: ¥650,000

To develop a coordinator training program led by university students who will promote volunteer activities among their peers. This will serve as a model program for university students throughout Japan.

Mutual Aid “Ren” for Mental and Physical Development of Children, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1.4 million

To provide professional training of Developmental Supporter (DS) staff, or volunteer university and graduate students in psychology to assist in the education and socialization of children who refuse to go to school, have learning disabilities, or have autism.

Volunavi Club, Hokkaido

Grant Amount: ¥850,000

To coordinate the needs of senior high school students wishing to do volunteer work and those NPOs caring for the aged and the disabled that are willing to take on such volunteers.

Japan AIDS & Society Association (JASA)

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To sponsor various events and issues an information magazine. Opening HIV/AIDS Hub Station to the public, an activity base for outreaches, where information can be provided through books and PCs in the library within the Station. Accepting consultations and inquiries regarding AIDS from a broad perspective, providing information on issues such as lifestyle and employment for people with HIV/AIDS (PWHA), and strengthening the network between NGOs, hospitals, and other organizations related to HIV/AIDS.

MASH Osaka (Men and Sexual Health, Osaka)

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

MASH Osaka is organized by cooperation among members of Gay community in Osaka (Doyama), researchers, NGO members, and Osaka Prefectual /Municipal officials. Developing HIV/AIDS prevention activities with the cooperation of healthcare experts, and by having close connection activities with the Doyama community, the project is developing and implementing effective HIV/AIDS prevention programs for MSM in the area. Creating a basic model for a prevention program including program design, implementation, and a method for evaluation. MASH’s model will be applied to activities for MSM in other regions, and other targeted populations in Japan.

HIV Network Okinawa

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

Actively developing visual AIDS preventive education /awareness throughout Okinawa, through media including music, theater, news, and newspapers. Giving AIDS educational speeches and charity concerts, issuing AIDS related organizational magazines, and campaigns on streets for young people.

CRIATIVOS-Center for Reference and Support on HIV/AIDS

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To provide support for Latin Americans in Japan who are HIV positive or AIDS patients through counseling both in person and telephone in their native languages. Also, sending translators to accompany patients to hospitals, organizing study groups with HIV/AIDS professionals and assisting patients in returning to their native countries.

House for Women Saalaa

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To operate an emergency shelter for foreign women living in Japan who are suffering from indentured servitude, forced prostitution, domestic violence and divorce issues, etc. Providing support in the form of shelter, food and clothing, and counseling in their native languages, and assistance in regaining independence and returning to their countries. Through such continued support, helping foreign women and their children living in Japan have safe and healthy lives.

Clothesline Project Japan

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To have women who experienced domestic violence paint their appeal to society on T-shirts, which are then exhibited to raise public awareness on domestic violence.

Self-Support Services

Grant Amount: ¥500,000

To create manuals targeted for drug addicts and their families, with accurate information on substances, addiction, and recovery. Distribution of the manuals to related organizations.

ASIAN PEOPLE’S FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY (APFS)

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To provide counseling for foreign residents on employment, health care, and lifestyle. Protecting and improving the rights of unregistered foreign residents in Japan who overstayed their visas. Supporting the acquisition of “special permission for residence” by foreigners and their families in Japan.

National Network In Solidarity with Migrant Workers

Grant Amount: ¥600,000

To issue an English newsletter “Migrant Network News ” for the empowerment of migrant workers by providing information about Japanese laws, policies and customs. In 2001, plans to issue four extra newsletters dealing with special topics like health care, education, grants, problems in corporate training programs, etc.

Shimin Forum21 • NPO Centre

Grant Amount: ¥2 million

To open and manage “NPO Plaza Sakae”, a space for community activities and socialization that can be used for a low fee. Supporting the start of nonprofit activities by migrant workers. Holding Internet and PC classes for improving skills of migrant workers.

Citizen’s Network for Japanese-Filipino Children

Grant Amount: ¥800,000

To help Japanese-Filipino Children by searching for fathers, negotiating educational fees and recognition, providing legal assistance for naturalization, etc.

NPO Training and Resource Center

Grant Amount: ¥2 million

To train coordinators who will be able to start a community restaurant which, in the future, will provide financial independence through employment for disenfranchised people such as the mentally challenged, women trying to leave shelters, and foreign residents. To be a model of NPO’s community business for citizens in local communities.

Bazaar Cafe Project

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To run the Cafe which 1) employs the marginalized people to promote their financial independence; 2) run day-care programs for disabled people in a room inside the Cafe, and educates the care staff; 3) accepts student interns specializing in social welfare and trainees from overseas; 4) provides a place for idea exchanges and encounters among people engaged in citizens’ activities.

Children’s Express Tokyo Bureau

Grant Amount: ¥2 million

To place articles by children to adult dominated media, through the Tokyo bureau of the international NGO “Children’s Express” (CE: headquartered in Washington D.C.), scheduled to be established in January 2001. Grant will be used primarily to employ a professional editor in order to improve the quality of articles submitted by Japanese children. The editor will advise children on interviewing, writing and editing techniques, and establish relationships with various media both inside and outside of the country for distribution of articles.

Free Space “Tamariba”

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

To manage and operate the free space* “Tamariba,” for children who refuse to go to school, foreigners and disabled people with the objective of regaining self-esteem and confidence in a relaxed environment. Implementing counseling activities through telephone, fax and E-mail, care and support for adolescents, programs in which children are the main organizers and participants, outdoors activities such as nature walks, etc.

Karasuyama Playpark Group

Grant Amount: ¥500,000

To manage Playpark and placing recreation equipment on empty grounds which are regularly open to the public. Preparing and expanding facilities for children’s growth by the overall community through local cooperative events at Playpark, implementation of study groups and public relations.

Mutual Aid “Ren” for Mental and Physical Development of Children, Tokyo

Grant Amount: ¥1 million

Professional training of Developmental Supporter staff, who are volunteer university and graduate students in psychology who assist the education and socialization of children who refuse to go to school, who have learning disabilities, and who have autism.

Africa Global Link Project (AGLP) JAPAN

Grant Amount: ¥1.5 million

To implement the Africa Global Link Project, in which high schools in Kenya, Ghana and Japan organize Africa Global Link Project (AGLP) Clubs, link networks with one another, and research issues that can applied in the areas of commerce, industry and agriculture in both Japan and Africa. Holding the “International Exchange Program” every summer and in with the 2001 international research presentations scheduled to be held in Ghana.