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Save the Children Japan Annual Report 2017 [Executive Summary] Every child has the right to survival, protection, development and participation. We fight to make children’s rights a reality worldwide.

For nearly 100 years, we have been working with children Save the Children is an international NGO that works to make children’s rights to survival, development, protection and participation a reality worldwide. It was established in the UK in 1919, and is currently at work in approximately 120 countries. The UN and the governments of many countries have a high regard for Save the Children as a pioneer of children’s rights, and we have achieved breakthroughs in the way the world treats children. Save the Children Japan was established in 1986. We are active in international programs in fields such as health and nutrition and education. When conflicts or natural disasters occur, we provide emergency and humanitarian responses. In Japan, we have actively addressed issues of child poverty and child abuse, and have also conducted various programs in response to large-scale disasters such as Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Kumamoto Earthquake. Through these programs, we work to make children’s rights a reality.

Save the Children is active in approximately 120 countries including Japan Save the Children is active in approximately 120 countries including Japan

The number of people we have directly reached © Ali Ashwal/Save the Children Children in Yemen play in a child-friendly space run by Save the Children. through our work and our partners’ work in 2017 49,587,799 children and 30,696,605 adults, Foreword totaling 80,284,404 people ■ Countries and regions where Save the Children worked in 2017 We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to all who have supported our work at Save the Children * Of the above countries and regions, those marked with■ are countries and regions worldwide. Over a period of nearly 100 years since 1919 when Save the Children was founded in the where Save the Children Japan conducted projects by assigning staff members, etc. UK, we have been working to make children’s rights to survival, protection, development and participation a reality. In 2017, we provided support to nearly 50 million children in 120 countries worldwide, including Japan. Overseas, we provided emergency and humanitarian responses for Syrian and Rohingya children and Emergency and for children encountering food crises. We also implemented programs on a global basis in fields such Humanitarian Response Health and Nutrition Education as education, health and nutrition, disaster risk reduction and child protection. For children and local communities Save the Children provides assistance In order for all children to receive quality In our domestic programs, we responded swiftly to support children and their families in the areas affected by natural disasters and to ensure that all children and their education, Save the Children implements affected by the heavy rains that struck northern Kyushu in July 2017. Meanwhile, we continued our humanitarian crises, Save the Children families can access quality health programs which improve learning work on recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Kumamoto Earthquake in April 2016. In addition, swiftly responds to meet their services including healthcare for environments, in schools and in communities, we moved forward with addressing challenges that affect children in Japan by working to end child immediate needs, enabling them to pregnant women, mothers and and provides capacity development poverty and prevent child abuse. return to their lives and rebuild their newborns; prevention and treatment of opportunities for teachers, raises awareness lives. infectious diseases and malnutrition; in local communities, provides scholarships The year 2018 is the third year of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved and strengthening health systems. and promotes preschool education by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. As an international NGO that promotes children’s program. We also influence global and rights, Save the Children has been deeply involved in formulating these goals. In 2018 we will continue national policy to improve children’s access contributing to efforts to achieve these goals through our programs inside and outside Japan, based Child Protection to quality education. on our commitment to “leave no child behind.” Disaster Risk Reduction Save the Children promotes the We look forward to your support as we continue working to make the rights of all children a reality (DRR) Child Participation structures and measures of child the world over. protection in close collaboration with Save the Children strengthens DRR Save the Children creates and various stakeholders such as structures of local communities so supports opportunities for children to Junichiro Ida, Chair of the Board governments, local communities, children that children can actively participate speak out on the issues surrounding Kunio Senga, Managing Director of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and their caregivers to protect children and their voices are reflected in DRR children, and works to ensure that Save the Children Japan from violence, abuse and exploitation, policy and practice. We promote children’s opinions are reflected in and cultivates environments in which child-centered disaster risk reduction. social initiatives and policies. children can grow up safely and securely.

2 Foreword ©D.Davaanyam/Save the Children About Save the Children 3 International Programs

Emergency and Humanitarian Response Health and Nutrition Education Child Protection

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We provided emergency responses to humanitarian We worked to prevent and treat malnutrition and We worked to improve children’s skills in reading, In Myanmar, we strengthened community-based child crises in Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, and elsewhere, as infectious diseases and to make societies capable of writing and arithmetic, and to enhance the quality of protection systems to ensure that children are well as for the Rohingya people who have been offering everyone access to quality health services. In education so that all children can have an opportunity protected in post-conflict communities. We also displaced. Our support for refugee children, internally Vietnam we started a project with the aim of to learn. We supported preschool education in provided support to children who had been affected by displaced children and their families included the improving the nutritional status of ethnic minority Mongolia by making it easier for children from violence. In Mongolia, our activities included the provision of emergency relief supplies and activities in mothers and children who have not benefited from the nomadic families who could not attend kindergarten development of the capacity of local government areas such as education, child protection, and health country’s economic growth. Our initiatives included to adapt to elementary school. One way in which we personnel such as social workers so as to respond and sanitation. We also set up child-friendly spaces in securing food using natural resources, improving did this was to provide picture books and educational effectively to child protection concerns. each region to offer environments where children can health services for mothers and children, and toys in the form of study kits enabling such children to feel safe and secure. developing learning materials to raise health learn at home. awareness. Disaster Risk Reduction

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We responded to food crises in East Africa, Nigeria, In Myanmar, we collaborated with health authorities To support basic education in Mongolia, We worked with local communities and governments Yemen and elsewhere by providing nutritional to promote safe childbirth and delivery of healthy we strengthened teaching skills among teachers so on child-centered disaster risk reduction. Our supplements and therapeutic foods and medical newborns in rural communities where a large number that elementary schools in low-income communities programs included building the capacity of local treatment. In Mongolia, meanwhile, we supported of ethnic minorities live. We worked to strengthen could provide the right reception for children with a communities to respond to natural disasters and children from nomadic families who had been affected community-based health systems by training auxiliary range of different home circumstances. This was climate change in Uganda and Vietnam, preventing by “dzud,” a phenomenon unique to Mongolia where midwives, among other measures. We also built health supplemented by promoting closer collaboration water-related accidents among children in Thailand, cold and snow cause widespread death of livestock. centers and offered support including a program between children’s parents and schools. In India we and promoting road safety for children and young We also made use of the Inochi Mirai Fund to provide providing cash subsidies to reduce the burden of helped teachers to enhance their teaching capacity by people in Indonesia. prompt assistance to children all over the world medical costs. developing digital learning materials that helped affected by disasters, conflicts and other emergencies. children to understand lessons more effectively.

4 International Programs International Programs 5 Domestic Programs Kumamoto Earthquake Recovery Programs Emergency and Recovery Programs following Psychosocial Support following Heavy Rain in Northern Kyushu Ending Child Poverty Natural Disasters Provision of Financial Support Psychosocial Support for Children

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Currently one in seven children in Japan lives in Psychological First Aid (PFA) for children is We provided financial support for children whose After distributing emergency relief supplies, we offered relative poverty. We assisted children facing psychosocial support for children in distress in homes had been partially or completely destroyed, or psychosocial support. We provided opportunities for economically difficult situations in a number of ways, emergency situations, such as during the aftermath of who were facing economically difficult circumstances. children to play together and learn to restore a sense including through financial support. At the same time, natural disasters. We made PFA for children training The financial support covered expenses including of normalcy and continuity through a child-friendly we raised public awareness and lobbied local widely available to individuals who support children buying school uniforms and sports kits, participating in space offering safety and a sense of security to governments, targeting better provision of measures to and caregivers, as well as to teachers and members of cultural or sporting activities during the summer children in an evacuation center, as well as through tackle child poverty in Japan. the general public. We also trained instructors to vacation, preparing for transition to the next level of craft workshops during the summer vacation. We also promote widespread use of the method. education or for job hunting, or taking part in school delivered training on PFA for children to individuals excursions. who support children and their caregivers. Following Up the Great East Japan Prevention of Child Abuse Earthquake Recovery Programs Other Recovery Programs Other Recovery Programs

■ Support for child day care centers, etc.

We provided equipment such as air conditioners to day care centers and other facilities damaged in the rains, and dispatched personnel to ensure continued provision of day care over the summer vacation. A message of thanks from children at a day care center © City of Ishinomaki ■ Provision of where we provided an air Financial Support conditioner We have been working to prevent child abuse so that As follow-up to the programs completed at the end of We assisted in providing school lunches to elementary all children can be protected from violence and grow 2015, we provided scholarships at six fishery high and junior high schools where the school lunch center We provided financial support to junior and senior up without fear or anxiety, feeling safe and secure. In schools in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures. was damaged. We also distributed emergency supplies high school students from families whose homes had addition to efforts to establish parenting free from We also continued our projects involving children in to schools and child day care centers, as well as been more than half destroyed to cover purchases hitting or yelling as the norm, we have raised public building better communities in the town of Yamada in providing training for staff at after-school programs necessary for life at school and preparation for awareness through lectures and other means, and Iwate Prefecture and the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi (Gakudo). In addition, we supported single-parent transition to the next level of education or job hunting. advocated legal reforms to impose a total ban on Prefecture, as well as our radiation literacy projects in households and held briefing sessions to make the corporal punishment and other abuse. Fukushima Prefecture. opinions of children known.

6 Domestic Programs Domestic Programs 7 Save the Children Japan Save the Children Japan

Partnerships 2017 Financial Information (Unit : JPY)

( ) Institutional Partnerships List in alphabetical order Balance Sheet (as of December 31, 2017) Statement of Changes in Fund Balance (For the year ended December 31, 2017)

I. Assets 1. Current Assets I. Changes in Cash & Cash Equivalents (domestic) 371,112,529 General Funds - net Cash & Cash Equivalents (overseas) 67,456,807 1．Changes in Japan International Cooperation Agency Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Prepaid Operating Expenses 249,835,113 Ordinary Earnings Accounts Receivable 78,239,747 （1）Ordinary Income ① Earnings on Basic Funds 5,000 Inventories 758,732 ② Earnings on Special Funds 7,659 Prepaid Expenses 11,289,919 ③ Admission Fees 30,000 Advance Payment 219,702 ④ Membership Fees 8,977,000 Total Current Assets 778,912,549 ⑤ Contract Income for Aid Operations 704,972,637 Japan Platform World Bank 2. Non Current Assets Government Contract Income 232,652,727 （1）Basic Funds Private Sector Contract Income 395,735,723 Time Deposits 50,000,000 Overseas Contract Income 76,584,187 Total Basic Funds 50,000,000 ⑥ Service Contract Income 4,276,028 （2）Special Funds ⑦ Income from Sales and Events 4,033,343 Corporate Partnerships (List in alphabetical order) Reserve for Severance Payments 34,957,061 ⑧ Donations Received 1,030,056,777 Reserve for Accumulated Depreciation 41,252,757 Unrestricted Donations 644,831,180 Reserve for the Stabilization of Overseas Operations 23,934,215 Restricted Donations 385,225,597 Reserve for Emergency Relief Operations 81,837,682 ⑨ Miscellaneous Income 10,661,422 Reserve for Domestic Operations 3,200,000 Total Ordinary Income 1,763,019,866 Restricted Donations for Not for Profit Segment 839,907,070 （2）Ordinary Expenses ① Operating Expenses 1,644,628,060 Funds for Renewal of Various Data Management System 50,727,173 Overseas Aid Expenses 372,143,215 ・ ACCEA Co., Ltd. ・ PILOT Corporation Reserve for Other Operations 94,188,478 Emergency Aid Operation Expenses 532,638,791 Reserve for Public Relations 20,000,000 Domestic Operation Expenses 123,535,151 ・ AEON CO., LTD. ・ Reckitt Benckiser Japan Ltd. Total Special Funds 1,190,004,436 Grants Expenses 118,498,510 ・ AVEDA ・ RICOH COMPANY, LTD. （3）Other Non Current Assets Operations Activity Expenses 160,120,626 Building Public Relations Expenses BANDAI NAMCO Group ROOTOTE 8,176,352 238,944,545 ・ ・ Leasehold Improvements 2,622,520 Other Operating Expenses 95,895,121 ・ BIKEN Co., Ltd. ・ Ryohin Keikaku Co.,Ltd. Vehicles 8,590,739 Profit Making Business Expenses 2,852,101 Furniture and Fittings 6,333,931 ② Administrative Expenses Bulgari Japan Ltd. SANBELLE,INC. 81,263,253 ・ ・ Software 3,498,586 Total Ordinary Expenses 1,725,891,313 ・ Delta Air Lines, Inc. ・ SANYO FOODS.Co.,Ltd Deposits 13,032,200 Changes in Ordinary Earnings Total Other Non Current Assets 42,254,328 for the Period Before Valuation Adjustment 37,128,553 Enterprise HUGE Co., Ltd. SARAYA Co., Ltd. ・ ・ Total Non Current Assets 1,282,258,764 Changes in Ordinary Earnings for the Period 37,128,553 ・ FamilyMart Co., Ltd. ・ Shiseido Company, Limited Total Assets 2,061,171,313 2. Changes in Non II. Liabilities 1. Current Liabilities Ordinary Earnings FELISSIMO CORPORATION SIRIUS Corporation ・ ・ Accounts Payable 117,271,786 （1）Non Ordinary Total Non Ordinary Income 0 Income ・ FICELLE inc. ・ Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc. Deferred Revenue 340,715,524 Deposits Received 7,145,161 （2）Non Ordinary Total Non Ordinary Expenses 0 Expenses ・ Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer ・ Sony Corporation Accrued Seasonal Salary 4,122,844 ・ Fuyo General Lease Co.,Ltd. ・ SRS HOLDINGS CO.,LTD. Total Current Liabilities 469,255,315 Changes in Non Ordinary Earnings for the Period 0 2. Non Current Liabilities Changes in General Funds – net for the Period 37,128,553 ・ GlaxoSmithKline K.K. ・ STRIDER JAPAN Provision for Severance Payments 34,957,061 General Funds – net, beginning of the Period 593,871,267 ・ H & M Hennes & Mauritz Japan KK ・ Suntory Holdings Limited Total Non Current Liabilities 34,957,061 General Funds – net, end of the Period 630,999,820 Total Liabilities 504,212,376 II. Changes in ① Donations Received 590,544,539 ・ Heijyokyo-Tenpyousai ・ Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. III. Fund Balance 1. Restricted Funds - net Restricted Funds Restricted Donations 590,544,539 - net Restricted Donations Transfer to General Funds ・ Hitachi Kashiwa Reysol Co., Ltd. ・ The Boston Consulting Group 925,959,117 ② △ 385,225,597 Total Restricted Funds - net 925,959,117 Changes in Restricted Funds – net for the Period 205,318,942 ・ IKEA Japan K.K. ・ The Kyoritsu Co., Ltd. (of which, Amount Appropriated to the Basic Funds) (50,000,000) Restricted Funds – net, beginning of the Period 720,640,175 (of which, Amount Appropriated to the Special Funds) Restricted Funds – net, end of the Period ・ KIND’S CO.,LTD ・ Tokyu Gourmet Front Co.,Ltd. (839,907,070) 925,959,117 2. General Funds - net 630,999,820 III. Total Funds - net, end of the Period ・ KANRO CO.,LTD. ・ TOKYU HANDS INC. (of which, Amount Appropriated to the Special Funds) (315,140,305) 1,556,958,937 Total Funds - net ・ KUTSUSHOTEN INTERNATIONAL CO.,LTD. ・ Toys"R"Us-Japan, Ltd. 1,556,958,937 Total Liabilities and Fund Balance 2,061,171,313 ・ Lanxess K.K. ・ Tully’s Coffee Japan Co.,Ltd. Mamere Co.,Ltd Unilever Japan Holdings K.K. ・ ・ Others MeySen Academy Schools Uokuni Food Services Co.,Ltd. ・ ・ 1.3% Audit Report ・ MIHIRA corporation ・ VERMILLION RECORDS, Inc Contract ・ Nippon Denpato Ltd. ・ VIA HOLDINGS INC. Income The original 2017 Financial ・ OGO SANGYO CO.,Ltd. ・ WELCOME CO., LTD. 40.2% Donations Statements, in Japanese, were Ordinary Income audited by board auditors of ・ Oriental Land Co.,Ltd. ・ White & Case LLP 58.4% Save the Children Japan and the ・ Otto Japan Inc. ・ WORLD PARTY CO.,LTD. independent auditor (Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC).

8 Partnerships 2017 Financial Information 9 Save the Children was established in the UK in 1919, and Save the Children Japan was Our History established in 1986. For nearly 100 years, Save the Children has been working with children. Initiatives for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Save the Children established in the UK. 1919

Save the Children Japan established. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 Educational programs in the Philippines and Thailand started. global goals that aim to fundamentally resolve various 1986 issues such as poverty, inequality and disparity, and climate change. As an international NGO that promotes Opened Philippines Office and children’s rights, Save the Children was also involved in assigned Japanese staff. the process of developing these goals, which were 1991 unanimously adopted by the United Nations General Started emergency response to refugees Assembly in 2015. We are promoting the achievement of from former Yugoslavia in collaboration SDGs through our advocacy as well as domestic and with Save the Children US. 1994 international programs.

For Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster, provided financial support to local 1995 NPOs assisting children.

Started emergency and humanitarian Board Members As of August 1, 2018 response in Afghanistan. 2001

Chair of the Board Junichiro Ida Hiroshi Matsufuji Started domestic programs. 2003 SANYO FOODS Co., Ltd. President St. Luke’s International Hospital Vice President, Director of Children's Medical Center, Responded to Sumatra Earthquake Vice-Chair of the Board Head of Pediatric Surgery and Indian Ocean Tsunami, and Amane Nakashima Pakistan Earthquake. Kewpie Corporation Chairman Hiroo Mori 2005 Launched global campaign “Rewrite the Mori Building Co., Ltd. Executive Vice President Future” to advocate for improving education Managing Director of the Board for children in conflict and post-conflict Kunio Senga Tomomi Fukumoto Save the Children Japan Chief Executive Officer SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED Executive Officer, situations. 2006 Division COO, Corporate Communication Division Board Member Eiko Yokoyama Yoshie Abe Assigned Japanese staff to Mongolia office to Yoshio Yokoyama Architectural Design Management Division of Liberal Arts, Teacher and Curator Training Course, 2007 support street children. Office Co., Ltd. President Kogakuin University Associate Professor Hideaki Imamura Yoshiki Sakazaki Launched global campaign “Every One” to reduce child Launched “Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting” Graduate Institute of Innovation Management Academic Assembly FamilyMart Co., Ltd. Executive Officer, Management Division (Program of Social Sciences) Shinshu University Professor mortality under five years old. promotion and program. 2009 Waseda Business School, Waseda University Visiting Professor Shigenari Yamamoto YAMAKIN CO., LTD President Started “Speaking Out Against Poverty” program to Naomi Ushio encourage children to participate and raise their School of Information and Communication, Meiji University Auditor Supported children affected by Haiti Earthquake. 2010 voices to address child poverty issues. Vice President (PR), Professor Norio Suzuki Grant Thornton Taiyo LLC Partner, CPA Started Great East Japan Earthquake Etsuko Tsunozaki Emergency Response and Recovery SEEDS Asia Board Member Keiko Ohara Started Syria crisis response. Programs. Kamiyacho International Law Office 2011 Kumiko Bando Attorney-at-Law admitted in Japan and New York Hosted 30th Anniversary Charity Dinner in JAPAN LEGAL SUPPORT CENTER Board Member presence of His Majesty Emperor Akihito Honorary Chair of the Board Yoshihiko Oda Masaya Ueno and Her Majesty Empress Michiko. Started Kumamoto Earthquake response. 2016 KAGAYA Hotels Corporation President Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd. President and CEO

Started Northern Kyushu Heavy Rain Masaoki Fukui Adviser Emergency Response and Recovery Program. FUKUJUEN CO., LTD. President Hiromu Fukada Responded to Rohingya crisis and food crises 2017 Kajima Institute of International Peace Auditor in East Africa, Yemen and Nigeria. Shin Maeda Ueno Fine Chemicals Industry, Ltd. Adviser Nippon Television City Corporation (Tokyo Tower) President Tingyi Holding Corp. Independent Non-Executive Director Former Ambassador to Australia 100th Anniversary of Save the Children. 2019

10 Our History Initiatives for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)┃Board Members 11 Our Vision

A world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our Mission

To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

Cover photo: In Kenya, one-year-old Akokote, pictured with her mother, recovers from pneumonia following treatment.

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Published August 2018

The full Annual Report 2017 (Japanese only) is available on our website.