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East Japan: Libraries for People with Disabilities
Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR Japan) has been setting up libraries and providing books to facilities for people with disabilities that were struck by the Great East Japan Earthquake in the...
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Emergency Assistance for Syrian Refugees: Surveying the situation in Suruc...
On September 19, the Islamic State began its attack on Ayn al-Arab (Kobane) in Northern Syria after having self-proclaimed the establishment of a caliphate and unrecognized state spanning across Iraq...
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Emergency Assistance for Syrian Refugees: AAR Japan begins the distribution...
From the west, Ayn al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish), Suruc, Sanliurfa where AAR Japan is conducting the survey, and Viransehir.Since The Islamic State (IS) began its military campaign against Ayn al-Arab...
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Great East Japan Earthquake: Making Delicious Lunch Boxes for Sale with a...
In cooperation with Accenture Japan Ltd, a consulting firm, AAR Japan has been supporting welfare centers for persons with disabilities, affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, for the purpose of...
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Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines: Cooperating in Building a Disaster-Resistant...
The Province of Leyte, in the Philippines, was stricken by the typhoon Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda, and typhoon No.30 of 2013 in Japanese numbering) in November, 2013, and rehabilitation of the...
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Haiti: Keep Yourself Clean, And Feel Refreshed
October 15th is Global Hand Washing Day!In many parts of the world where AAR Japan has been actively involved, a lot of people, many of whom are children, have lost their lives to infectious diseases...
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Photo Exhibition “Women in Mine Action – Commemorating the 15th Anniversary...
Photo Exhibition “Women in Mine Action – Commemorating the 15th Anniversary since the Mine Ban Treaty” Focusing on women working in mine action in the world in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of...
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Emergency Assistance to Syrian Refugees: Growing Numbers of Refugee Families...
Since The Islamic State (IS) began its military campaign against Ayn al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish), Northern Syria, more than 200,000 Syrians have crossed the border and fled to south-eastern Turkey in a...
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Emergency Assistance for Syrian Refugees: Relief Items Distributed to 400...
Since the Islamic State (IS) began its military campaign against Ayn al-Arab (Kobane in Kurdish) in Northern Syria, 200,000 people have crossed the border to flee to Turkey, according to a report...
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Afghanistan: Enabling Children with Disabilities to Go to School
Providing activities to deepen people’s understanding of disabilities together with improvements of various school facilitiesIn Afghanistan, which has been suffering continuous conflicts for years,...
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Laos: Having Completed AAR Japan’s Mission in Xieng Khuang
In Laos, many cluster bombs dropped during the Indochina War still remain in the soil as unexploded ordnance (UXOs). From 2010 to June 2014, AAR Japan set up a local office in Xieng Khuang Province, a...
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Pakistan: We are the Hygiene Kids Leaders!
Pakistan accepts approximately 1.6 million refugees from its neighboring country, Afghanistan. The country has the largest number of Afghanistan refugees in the world. The north-west refugee camp,...
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Laos: Supporting the Self-Sufficiency of Persons with Disabilities through...
Starting a small scale business in back yardsIt is generally and universally challenging for persons with disabilities (PWDs) to have a job, earn his/her own income, and be able to live independently....
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Tajikistan: Persons With and Without Disabilities, Let’s Learn Together
Creating common learning places, without isolating children with disabilitiesIn Tajikistan, generally speaking, children with disabilities either study away from their families, at boarding schools...
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Uganda: Helping Landmine Victims Become Self-Reliant
In Uganda, located in Central Africa, there is still a massive amount of remaining landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) as a result of the 40 year civil war. AAR Japan has assisted landmine victims...
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Zambia: Support for People Living with HIV
Encouraging HIV-positive patients to continue medicationHIV/AIDS is generally understood to be a fatal disease. However, nowadays, by taking medication on a daily basis, patients can curb the onset and...
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Sudan: Protecting Those Living in Mine-Affected Areas
Overcoming the conflicts and restoring hopeIn Sudan, a peace agreement was reached in 2005, putting an end to the 21-year civil war between the north and the south. In 2006, AAR Japan started mine risk...
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Emergency Assistance for Syrian Refugees: A Refugee Family Who Lost Everything
A large number of Syrian refugees have fled their motherland in the midst of the war and have taken shelter in Turkey. Yoshifumi KAWABATA, a photojournalist, reports on the refugee families. His first...
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Philippines: One Year On After Typhoon Yolanda - Assisting Persons with...
On November 8th, 2013, a super typhoon (in Filipino, Typhoon Yolanda), the 30th named storm of the 2013 Pacific typhoon season, made landfall in the central region of the Philippines. Immediately after...
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Report of Photo Exhibition "Women in Mine Action: Celebrating the 15th...
Women working in mine action all over the worldFifteen years have elapsed since “the Mine Ban Treaty” (the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of...
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