CSR in the OKI Group Social Contribution
Participatory Social Action Programs
Forest Improvement Activities Through the Green Wave 2010
The OKI Group has continuously been involved in forest improvement activities in some places in connection with relevant group under agreements with local municipal governments, Forest Offices and NPOs. In May 2010, in conjunction with the International Day for Biological Diversity, we participated in the Green Wave 2010, a campaign to promote reforestation and other forest protection activities targeted at businesses and organizations, and engaged in forest improvement projects in Izu (Shizuoka) and Komoro (Nagano). The campaign was supported by the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and the Forest Agency.
On May 22, the International Day for Biological Diversity, 49 participants from the OKI Group, employees and their families, planted seedlings, cleared underbrush and thinned the forest in Komoro. The OKI Group has carried out similar activities also in Takasaki (Gunma). A total of 230 people participated in the OKI Group's forest improvement activities in Japan in fiscal 2010.
In the OKI Group Forest in Komoro
Social Action Program Featuring Traditional Games
Performance by the Edo Marionette Group
The OKI Group has held an event featuring a taketombo　(a traditional flying toy) workshop/contest for children in foster homes almost every year since fiscal 1999. In fiscal 2010, we held an event featuring taketombo and traditional puppets in the Kyodo-no-Mori Museum in Fuchu (Tokyo) on November 27 in cooperation with the International Taketombo Association and the Edo Marionette Group. We invited 11 children to the event who made taketombo and enjoyed a traditional puppet show with a group of volunteers from the OKI Group.
Making and Donating Lao Picture Books
The OKI Group, in cooperation with the NPO Action with Lao Children, sponsors an event to create and donate picture books in the Lao language every year. During the event, participants add Lao translations to Japanese picture books. The event also features a quiz show through which the participants can deepen their knowledge of Lao culture.
The participants in the 2010 event included not only employees of the OKI Group and their families but also a group of students from Gakushuin Women's College who were going to visit Laos with Action with Lao Children. The 32 participants made a record of 67 picture books. A total of 606 picture books have been made through this program for the last ten years.
