Kanagawa Shonan

The Rotary Club of District2780 Kanagawa Shonan, the first alumni club in Japan


We raffled off many things donated by our club members at the Fujisawa City International Festival and raised about 300 USD to be used for our future "literacy" project. We also served teas from various parts of the world, while raising awareness on the literacy issue in developing countries and Rotary's commitment to solve this problem.

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Inviting well-known English voice actor and actress, we gave an English pronunciation seminar in February, 2007. The 60 participants had an enjoyable time singing English songs, comparing British and American English and distinguishing between ‘r’ and ‘l’, which is a hard task for most Japanese! Half of the fund raised was given to the Tyler foundation (An NPO supporting the family of sick children) and the other half will be used for our ‘literacy’ project in the future.

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To raise funds for a future water project, we hosted a charity concert “Yukyo," which means harmony welling up like waters. The concert, featuring two of our members and Ari Kani, another alumna, was held in DG Nakada's Kakuonji temple, attacted more than 90 audience and raised 2,000 USD, which was later used for our first matching grant project to make deep wells in the Philippines.

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We sold 100 Batik handkerchiefs that were made by Tsunami victim children in Thailand at a Yokosuka flea market. We raised approximately 1,000 USD, and donated it to an NPO from Tokushima, Japan called “Harmony Work Camp”. This NPO does philanthropy work in Thailand including education for music and had built a library for the children in the Thai village. We hope that this will bring dreams to the children.

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We organized two Centennial Concerts performed by Rotary Alumni who studied music, working with the District and the Alumni Association. This was a project that some of our charter members had been working on prior to the establishment of our club, and therefore, all the members provided full support. The concerts raised 60,000 USD, which was donated to the Rotary Foundation to support future RI foundation scholars.

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