Colt Technology Sponsors Night Zookeeper Class Subscriptions
Colt Technology Sponsors Night Zookeeper Class Subscriptions
We’re very excited to announce that we are able to offer 140 schools the chance to use Night Zookeeper for the year, free of charge. This fantastic opportunity has been made possible by sponsorship from COLT Technology Services, who provide network and voice services to Europe, North America and Asia.
We hope that this will enable more children to develop a love for learning and develop their literacy skills, especially those for whom it may not have been possible before.
COLT staff will also be engaging with the children on the website: reading work, leaving comments and offering words of encouragement. This will give your students the chance to show off their writing skills but also highlight the impact that the sponsorship has had.
Thank you to RGF Professional Recruitment Japan for supporting KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
Here at RGF Professional Recruitment Japan, we take pride in being the bilingual/global arm of Japan’s leading recruitment company.
The Recruit brand name allows us to attract the best bilingual Japanese candidates on the market and helps us forge long lasting relationships with market leading clients.
Our challenge is to harness the incredible resources we have at our disposal and give our clients access to the best candidates on the market. We want our clients to feel a tangible difference in the level of quality we can deliver compared to our competitors.
From a candidate perspective we want to offer the best advice and choice of career path we possibly can. A large percentage of our successful placements come from referrals from existing candidates who have been happy to recommend a friend or colleague.
We are committed to being the best in our field and living up to the high standards of the Recruit brand.
Matt Nicholls
Managing Director
Digital Citizenship
Dear YouMeWe NPO,
Congratulations on becoming a Common Sense Educator! Your digital badge is attached. Please share it proudly! We've seen educators include it in their email signatures, post it on their websites or blogs, and add it to their social profiles. As a Common Sense Educator, your digital citizenship work acts as inspiration for educators following in your footsteps. Join the Common Sense Educators Facebook group to engage in rich discussion, get answers to questions from your peers (or answer some questions yourself!), and learn about creative ways other educators are implementing school-wide digital citizenship. You can also connect and share with us on Twitter using your hashtag #CSEducator. It's only common sense for us to work together and stay in touch! We're lucky to support passionate educators like you who are dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology, and we are inspired by your work! Cheers, The Common Sense Education team
Volunteering at St.Francis
Some of the kids have not memorized the keyboard keys but are writing out their stories week after week.
Thanking World Family for their generous donation for the KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
Thank you very much to World Family for their donation for the KIWL 2019 Bike Ride in June.
For over 40 years in Japan, Disney English System (DWE) and World Family Club Services have allowed children to naturally learn English at home. Through DWE, children are constantly making a large amount of English input necessary to acquire fluent English. Kids can start using the products and services from the very early days of learning the English language, the easiest and most effective "Golden Age", and start learning English
Thank you $PacCoin
$PAC supports a wide variety of charitable causes. These causes are often self build project by the $PAC Community and in some cases $PAC supports registered charitable causes, if they accept $PAC for donations on their website.
Thank you very much for the generous donation to YouMeWe. We plan to place the $PAC in a shared Masternode - this will allow the amount of coins to grow passively. Once there are 500,000 $PAC associated with YouMeWe then a full Masternode could be operated.
In the shared Masternode, there is a dashboard that can show the kids the concepts of interest and passive income.
The operator of the shared Masternode also makes voting available in the Decentralize Autonomous Organization (DAO) which is a form of decentralized governance - this is a concept that I think would also be interesting for the kids to know more about - its quite interesting to see how this form of governance will play out.
https://charity.paccoin.net/
Thank you very much to Dana for their contribution to the KIWL 2019 Bike Ride in June
Dana Charitable Foundation
The Dana Charitable Foundation was established in 1956 in an effort to embrace and support good citizenship in communities where Dana people live and work. The Foundation is dedicated to addressing current and evolving needs in our communities with emphasis on educating our children and our people; revitalizing neighborhoods; enlightening lives through art and culture; and improving physical and mental well-being.
A big thank you to Four Fox Sake for their contribution to the KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
four fox saké
In Japanese mythology, Inari Okami is the god of Rice, Saké, Swordsmiths and Foxes.
The fox spirits of Inari were entrusted to guard the Torii gates, only allowing the purest of spirits to pass. Four Fox Saké represents this purity and perfection.
Thank you to Pfizer for their generous contribution for the KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
Our Purpose / Pfizer Corporate Responsibility Program Bridging The Gap To Access
Pfizer's corporate responsibility programs are designed to help strengthen global public-health systems. Our Pfizer CSR report explains how we combine philanthropic methods with novel approaches to facilitate access to medicines for underserved communities around the world.
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A big thank you to Robert Half for their contribution to the KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
Recruitment specialists and employment services
As a leading recruitment agency in Japan, Robert Half connects highly skilled candidates with employers in temporary and permanent positions, for a variety of fields including accounting, finance, financial services and technology. Whether you're looking for your next career opportunity or looking to hire new talent, Robert Half's recruitment services can help you.
Thanking Boyd & Moore for their contribution to the KIWL 2019 charity bike ride
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KIWL Charity Ride/BBQ
Thank you to Anthony Faulkner for organizing the KIWL Charity Motorcycle Ride/BBQ this weekend in Yamanashi.
They raised well over 100,000 JPY. A special thank you to John Gavin and his team who provided the BBQ venue and organized the BBQ. Also a big thank you to Frank Misura who helped make the day a big success.
Great weekend walk around the Palace
We had a wonderful weekend with the KIWL Palace Walk/Run. Many of our corporate sponsors joined and helped raise over 500,000 JPY for our Digital Citizens training.
Thank you to Japan Travel for your generous Donation
Japan Travel is the leading resource for Japan travel information and the primary destination for visitors planning and traveling to Japan.
A very big thank you to Eire Systems for their support of the KIWL 2019 June Bike Ride
The EIRE Systems Story
The EIRE Systems Story began with a business partnership between two IT consultants, Matthew Connolly and Paul Timmons, who had a few things in common. Both are originally from Dublin, Ireland and they each first came to Japan as graduates to work at major Japanese technology companies; more importantly they also shared a common interest in the rapidly developing information technology sector and a common goal to establish a company of their own to provide better IT Solutions to the increasingly internationalized Japan market.
Matthew and Paul continued to develop their own professional skills and quickly established themselves as leading independent IT Project Management Consultants, mostly for the Financial Services industry. As EIRE Systems has grown, the company has been very successful in winning and consistently delivering on increasingly more complex and high-profile projects, as a result the business has expanded to provide a wider range of IT Support, Project Management, Consulting and Outsourcing Services to Multinational and internationalized corporate clients across various industries and business sectors.
EIRE Systems’ growth has been mostly organic, and since its inception has expanded to 200 professionals across four office locations including Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, with proven ability to deliver throughout the Asia Pacific region. The common goals that lead to the creation of EIRE Systems remain the same today as we continue to strive to grow our business to better meet our clients’ requirements and to provide ongoing opportunities and career development for our employees.
Thanking Kojima Law Offices for their generous support
With over 35 years of experience, the professionals at Kojima Law Firm are experts in Japanese and international law, they take care of all of the steps involved in the legal process, and their services go above and beyond any other standard Japanese legal help.
To further prove their support of bridging the gap between international and Japanese entities, they have chosen to sponsor the KIWL (Knights In White Lycra), a group of international individuals in Japan who “get fit and give back” to different charity organizations.
In Memory of Sachiko “Jackie” Wall
Sachiko Wall was a loving mother and a devoted friend, who was rich in love and compassion for others. She passed away in March of 2019.
In 1932 Sachiko was born in Kobe, Japan. Her birth mother a Japanese and her father was a British soldier. Due to unknown circumstances Sachiko was put up for adoption. At this time, being orphaned while also being mixed race could have meant a horrible existence for her. It would’ve meant a life of utter pain and hardship.
But then a miracle happened, her birth mother had employed a Japanese couple who couldn’t have children. They took Sachiko in as their own, and then enrolled her in an international school. They accepted her and encouraged her to embrace her own identity.
As you might imagine, life was very difficult for the few mixed-race children in Japan during WWII. She was regularly tormented by the other children. Having toilet water and trash thrown at her. There were times when her parents even had to hide her, and they started to move around a lot. In school, Sachiko made sure to study hard and try to impress the teachers, to make up for being half white. Thanks to her hard work in school Sachiko had become bilingual. Later, she was able to get work helping different organizations, like the government and military. This is where she met an American merchant marine. Soon the two were married, and they went to start a new life in California, but she never forgot where she came from.
Sachiko was fortunate to be adopted, but her story could’ve gone very differently. The reality is that now, there are over 30,000 orphans living in Japan with little to no chance of ever being adopted. While children’s homes do support and take care of them, they are much less likely to gain many of the basic skills that we all take for granted every day. When they turn 18, and need to enter Japanese society, they have key disadvantages that their peers cannot not even imagine.
Sachiko’s family and YouMeWe created this page as a donation fund to honor her spirit. Sachiko’s passing is an immense loss, but her family is ensuring that her loving and generous spirit will live on through a generous donation. With Sachiko’s gift and your donations, we will be providing a chance for Japanese orphans to gain developmental and creative skills that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
To learn more please take a look at the Design Artists Academy (Art summer camp for orphans), supported by YouMeWe.
Link to the donation page:
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/in-memory-of-sachiko-jackie-wall/
Thanking Allied Pickfords for their contribution to KIWL 2019 Bike Ride
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