Sasebo Chapter Supports...
YouMeWe 2023 -
YouMeWe is a Tokyo-based non-profit organization that is solely dedicated to nurturing and supporting local students from institutionalized homes. For a decade, the NPO’s mission has been to assist students in becoming fully independent as they reach the age of 18, such as gaining financial literacy.
The difficulties that the 30,000 children are facing are financial limitations, which may pose a barrier to their education, as well as post-traumatic stress, often stemming from poverty, abuse, and neglect. These students living in institutionalized homes across Japan are supported by their small but yet very dedicated staff. Specifically, the ratio of staff members to students is often 1 adult to 6 students. By providing guidance-based support programs, they ensure that it will improve the lifestyle and success for these students, translating into a positive future!
YouMeWe is a Tokyo-based non-profit organization that is solely dedicated to nurturing and supporting local students from institutionalized homes. For a decade, the NPO’s mission has been to assist students in becoming fully independent as they reach the age of 18, such as gaining financial literacy.
The difficulties that the 30,000 children are facing are financial limitations, which may pose a barrier to their education, as well as post-traumatic stress, often stemming from poverty, abuse, and neglect. These students living in institutionalized homes across Japan are supported by their small but yet very dedicated staff. Specifically, the ratio of staff members to students is often 1 adult to 6 students. By providing guidance-based support programs, they ensure that it will improve the lifestyle and success for these students, translating into a positive future!
YouMeWe Box of Hope Project
December 2023
The Sasebo Chapter has been working in partnership with the NPO, YouMeWe Box of Hope, to provide gifts and Christmas cards for 62 children in the home. We asked our Associate Members for help and, in the true spirit of Christmas, they really came through for the kids. These stateside ladies had to step out of their comfort zone, visit the Japanese Amazon website, create new accounts, choose gifts from a Japanese language wish list, enter a Japanese address, and ship the gifts to us. They did it! Many of our remarkable Associate Members also sent Christmas cards and checks for the Box of Hope project. Their generosity has been overwhelming.
Members of the Sasebo Chapter met with volunteers from YouMeWe in Santa's Tokyo Workshop to pack and wrap the boxes which contained toys, games, puzzles, stickers, stationery, coloring books, toiletries, socks, Christmas candy, and cookies. The children in high school received scarves, hats, books, gift cards, and Bluetooth wireless earphones.
JOEE
Joyful Opportunity English Education 2023
Joyful Opportunity English Education 2023
The Sasebo Chapter supports JOEE. JOEE Educates and enriches the lives of the youngest children in Japan’s orphanages with drama, puppets, music, and storytelling in English.
Volunteer teachers and assistants are trained to provide lively, puppet-assisted English lessons to teach and delight the children using skits, songs, books and games. Our focus age group is two to seven years old, when much of a child’s language learning happens. Currently, JOEE provides free English language lessons in five children’s homes in Japan:
The Sottera Project - 2020
Project Sottera is a collaborative effort between the Bureau of Women’s Affairs, Island Girl Power, and various women’s clubs and organizations, including the Marianas Chapter of the DAR, to make sure that all young women on Guam have access to menstrual products so that they can stay in school, participate in activities, or stay at work during their menstrual cycle.
The Sasebo Chapter sent a donation to the Mariana Islands Chapter.
Nozomi Cambodia Project - 2021
Giving Back: Collaborative Effort of Hope in Cambodia.
The Sasebo Chapter supports the Nozomi Project's work in Cambodia. They are assisting a group that runs a safe house for sex trafficking survivors and working to create sustainable jobs.
Pets Are Worth Saving (PAWS) - Yokosuka Naval Airbase - 2020
PAWS at Yokosuka is the only military shelter in the Kanto Plain region of Japan. Their mission is fourfold: to receive surrendered dogs and cats as a last resort, to rescue strays found on military installations, to provide education on responsible pet ownership, and provide volunteer opportunities.
TELL - Tokyo English Lifeline - 2020
The Sasebo Chapter supports the Tokyo English Lifeline which has served the international community in Japan since 1973. Trained volunteers provide free support, encouragement and guidance on a wide variety of physical and psychological issues through telephone and chat conversations and professional face-to-face counseling sessions with licensed psychotherapists and neuropsychologists. Suicide, pregnancy, bullying, and drug addiction are among the many issues handled in thousands of phone calls to TELL each year. All interactions are completely confidential, non-judgmental and anonymous.
The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm - 2020
The Wakamatsu Farm is the original site of the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony established June 8, 1869 by 22 samurai and a Japanese nursemaid. It was the first Japanese colony in the United States. The nursemaid, who died at age 19, is the first Japanese woman buried in American soil.
Shine On! Kids - Facility Dog - 2020
Shine On! Kids - Facility Dog is the first animal therapy program at a children’s hospital in Japan. Shine On! employs specially trained nurse-handlers who live full-time with the dogs (Bailey and Yogi) and are with them during their daily visits. The handlers work with doctors and nurses to set therapy goals and the children are able to develop relationships with the animals.
The Women in Military Service for America Memorial - 2020
The Women in Military Service for America Memorial (located at the Ceremonial Entrance to Arlington National Cemetery) is the only major national memorial honoring all servicewomen, past, present and future, and honors nearly 3 million women who have served or are serving in or with the US Armed Forces starting with the American Revolution.