Monday, August 30, 2010
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We Will Create the National Food Bank Network
Second Harvest Japan (2HJ) will hold Food Bank Symposium 2010 along in association with other Japanese food banks. Since the previous symposium, we discussed a operational standard with the food banks. We will have operational reports from food banks all over Japan. Please come see what’s happening at food banking in Japan.
Date: Oct 14, 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Venue: JICA Chikyu Hiroba Main Hall
Map: http://www.jica.go.jp/hiroba/about/map.html
* There will be no parking space. Please use the public transportation.
Language: Japanese only
No fees charged
To attend this event, please contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Please let us know your name and your organization if you belong to one.
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Friday, July 09, 2010
Food Issue Seminars: What We Need to Do to Establish Food Safety-Net in Japan (July 27)
Food Issue Seminar No.1: What We Need to Do to Establish Food Safety-Net in Japan
Thank you very much for everybody who attended the seminar! We had a lot of participants at the event. A report about the seminar is on World Food Month’s website (in Japanese). Please check it out!Date: July 27, 2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:40 Open / 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: JICA Chikyu Hiroba Seminar Room 301
One minute walk from Hiroo Station
Map: http://www.jica.go.jp/hiroba/about/map.html
* There will be no parking space. Please use the public transportation.
Language: Japanese and English
No fees charged - We will also hold a rice drive at the venue. Please hand out a bag of rice to our receptionist at the entrance. Your generous rice donations will be greatly appreciated!
Overview
More than 750,000 people do not have sufficient food every day in Japan. While it’s said that more than one billion people live in hunger all over the world, hunger is not an issue somewhere distant. Food banking, a system to deliver food that would otherwise go to waste to those in need, has been in Japan for 10 years now. The founder of Second Harvest Japan (2HJ), Charles McJilton, and 2HJ COO, Masahiro Otake will discuss food safety-net in Japan and what food banking can do to build it.
Food Issue Seminars marks the World Food Day month, which is October 1, 2010 to Octber 20, 2010. Eight nonprofits will discuss how Japan is related to the hunger issue in the world and try to seek a solution to the hunger issues one billion people in the world are facing. From July through October, different speakers will speak about various issues along with workshops.
To attend this event, please contact us at 03-3838-3827 or takahara@2hj.org
Please let us know your name and your organization if you belong to one.
About the World Food Day (October 16)
The World Food Day was established by the United Nations as a day to consider world food/hunger issues in the world.
The World Food Day was established in 1981 based on the decision at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)‘s general meeting. The goal of the World Food Day is to reconsider your current life and improve it so that the world can be more sustainable for all the people. In Japan, initiated by Hunger Free World, many organizations hold various events for several months. Nonprofits dealing with hunger and food issues get together to advertise the campaign to spread the word regarding the issues to as many people as possible.
http://www.worldfoodday-japan.net/
Participating organizations: Africa Japan Forum, Women’s Empowerment 21 Japan, JAICAF, FAO Liaison Office in Japan, Second Harvest Japan, Japan International Food for the Hungry, Hunger Free World, and Action for Greening Sahel.
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2HJ Executive Director Charles McJilton Speaks at Sophia University!
2HJ Executive Director Charles McJilton will speak at a speech session of Sophia University. Charles talks about “7 Principles of Second Harvest Japan.” Initially, the speech session was only for the people of Sophia but this time we got a special deal. 2HJ can invite 20 people to the event. If you would like to attend the event, please read the details below and contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 2HJ. The speech will be in Japanese.
Thank you very much for all the attendants! We had more than 100 people. The video of the speech will be on Sophia’s website sometime soon.
Date: July 16, 2010 (Friday)
Time: 18:00 Open / 18:30 Start
20:00 Party
Venue: 17th floor International Convention Center, No.2 Bldg, Sophia Yotsuya campus, 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo
Contact: Takahara at 2HJ office at 03-3838-3827 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
You can read Sophia’s website about the event.
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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Celebration Party for 10th Anniversary of Food Banking in Japan!
Second Harvest Japan (2HJ) will celebrate the 10th anniversary of food banking in Japan.-All the tickets sold out! Thank you very much!-
2HJ will hold a celebration party on April 21, 2010.
At this event, our founder and CEO Charles McJilton will make a speech on his plans to return to the United States in October. McJilton will remain as the chairman of the board of 2HJ and participate in the governance of the organization. The daily operations will be managed by our new management team including the new office manager Masahiro Otake. We will introduce you the new management team at the event. Now we have 13 paid employees, 70-80 volunteers each week, 400 donating companies and services providing 560 tons of food to those in need annually. We all appreciate your support that lets this happen. Thank you very much for your continual support. We are looking forward to seeing you at the event.
Date: April 21, 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 18:00 Open / 18:30 Start / 20:30 End
Venue: Yaesu Fujiya Hotel 2F “Sakura no ma” The hotel is five min walk from Tokyo stn. ( map )
Tickets: 3,000 yen (includes food and drinks)
Please send an email to 10@2hj.org after transferring ticket fees to either of 2HJ’s postal account or bank account. After you transfer the money, please put “Send me party tickets” in your email’s subject and provide us with your name, address, phone number, and which account you used to pay the fees. After confirmation, we will send you your ticket(s).
When you purchase ticket(s), please try to make payments to either of the following accounts by April 15.
Please contact Takahara for more details.
Tell: 03-3838-3827 / Email: 10@2hj.org
1. Postal account
Postal account Name: 2hj
Account number: 00120-7-171027
2. Bank account
Bank: Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ Bank, Yoga Shutchojo branch (762)
Account type: Regular account
Account number: 3647565
Account name: Second Harvest Japan
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