ACCJ Charity Ball Charities

Tokyo English Life Line (“TELL”)

Tokyo English Life Line (“TELL”) is a multifaceted, nonprofit organization that has been serving the international and Japanese communities since 1973. TELL Life Line offers free, anonymous telephone counseling and information, 365 days/year. TELL Counseling provides assessments, counseling, and psychotherapy by licensed professionals to adults and couples. TELL Children and Families provides coordinated assessments, testing, counseling and therapy, to children, teens, and families with problems related to development and emotional growth. TELL also offers workshops, many outreach activities including Child Protection Services, support to families with special needs children and suicide workshops. Please go to www.telljp.com for more information about TELL.

 

Seishonen Fukushi Centre (Youth Welfare Centre)

The Seishonen Fukushi Centre mainly supports teens from the ages of 12 to 19+ that are abused or abandoned, by teaching them self-reliance either at their schools or at their jobs, and to provide follow-up care through counseling and other support. It also serves as a “halfway house” for children who can no longer stay in government funded children’s homes. The Centre counsels these young adults and assists them in finding starting jobs to help prepare them for the outside world. Funds donated to the Centre will go towards basic needs such as food and shelter. However, since there is a serious shortage of recreational funds, the ACCJ donation will assist in providing the Centre residents with sports and art activities, and even holiday expeditions.

 

ACCJ Mike Makino Fund for the Homeless

The ACCJ Mike Makino Fund for the Homeless is a fund maintained by the ACCJ for charities that focus on helping the homeless in Japan. In the past, the Mike Makino Fund has financially supported the Tokyo Union Church and the Franciscan Chapel Center, both of which sponsor projects to feed the homeless temporarily residing in the parks in and around Tokyo. The Fund also supports the Sanyukai Homeless Center which provides medical care by volunteer doctors, mental and physical care as well as food, clothing and shelter to the homeless. The ACCJ Mike Makino Fund was named after the ACCJ’s dear friend Shojiro (Mike) Makino who passed away suddenly on October 10, 2009 at the age of 80. Mike’s legacy lives on in the newly named ACCJ Mike Makino Fund for the Homeless in his honor.