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IMPLEMENTATION OF 25TH MEMORIAL EVENTS:
2005 was the 25th year since SVA commenced support activities in the Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand. Taking the memorial as a turning point, we planned several events with the theme of "Picture books - Storytelling - Library Activities" which have given the children dreams and hope.
| World Expo 2005, Aichi |
In July, we participated in the World Expo 2005, Aichi. A Myanmar refugee camp library was recreated in the Global Village and library staff from the camp gave demonstrations of storytelling, which presented onlookers with a good opportunity to know about the activities of SVA. |
| Child Book Supporters |
In order to give continuous support to our library activities SVA implemented a system of Child Book Supporters in several countries in July, and we are now actively canvassing for supporters. |
| Local Supporters Assembly in Sendai |
The assembly was held in October. Highlights included the opening speeches by Mr. Kunio Yanagida, a popular non-fiction writer, and Ms. Hideko Ise, a picture book writer. A symposium was also held on regional solidarity in disaster prevention. |
| Picture Book Contest |
This was the second in the series and a number of superb entries were submitted. Though there was no grand prize winner this time, Mr. Hikaru Otaki and Ms. Cherry Pua-Africa were awarded prizes. |
| 10th Asian Children's Cultural Festival |
The festival was held in December at the world heritage-registered Angkor Wat. 130 children participated in the festival, including those stricken by the earthquake in Niigata Chuetsu and those suffered from the Indian Ocean tsunami. They performed dancing and singing and made a deep impression on the onlookers. |
REVIEW OF OVERSEAS ACTIVITIES AND ACCELERATIVE PARTICIPATION:
In the overseas co-operative development projects, we have continued the development of local staff and promoted them to management positions. We also endeavored to evaluate the qualitative improvement and expenses of the projects now being carried out. With the emergency relief activities, we have aggressively launched support projects for the victims of the earthquake in northeastern Pakistan, for the refugees from the volcano eruption on Miyake Island to return to their homes, and continued indirect support for the victims of the earthquake in Niigata Chuetsu and others.
INTENSIFICATION OF OPERATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE:
In compliance with the governmental reformation of public service corporation system, over the past year we have been intensifying our accountability and public disclosure of information for the purpose of administrative soundness of the structure. With fund raising, we are making every effort to reduce the ratio of public funds in the budget and solicit more private funds such as membership fees, donations and others.
We highly esteem our guiding principle of the past 25 years in pursuing: "Improve our campaign in order to foster more emotion and sympathy" Thus, we will focus on the following 4 areas as our essential projects.
Clarifying the Principle of Our Activities and Vision and Revitalizing Domestic Activities:
In order to garner understanding and support from more people, it is important to clarify more distinctly the principle of our activities and vision, and also revitalize more extensively our domestic activities such as craft aid, campaign to deliver picture books and Child Book Supporters. We plan to carry this out as one total movement.
Restructuring the Secretariat:
We will continue restructuring of the Tokyo office into three sections (Domestic Activities Section, Overseas Activities/Planning and Research Section, and Accounting and Administration Section) for the purpose of strengthening closer cooperation between each section, reinforcing data control within the structure, centralizing information, administering supporters, and for more effective publicity.
Accelerating Autonomy of Overseas Offices:
In overseas offices, we will accelerate the transfer of authority to the local staff. In addition to the implementation of projects, we will carry out a program to develop the local stafffs administrative ability to the level required for autonomy.
Intensification of Private Funds Focused Management:
We will make every effort to reduce the ratio of public funds in the budget, and will endeavor to constitute overseas projects mainly with private funds such as membership fees or donations.
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