CSR in the OKI Group Social Contribution
Participatory Social Action Programs
Lecture on "Diverse Ways of Working" at a Special Support School
Lecture at Bokuto Special Support School
OKI Workwell gave a lecture about career education for 14 junior and senior high school students at Tokyo Metropolitan Bokuto Special Support School on February 24, 2012.
The lecture was simultaneously shared with 7 students from Tokyo Metropolitan Jonan Special Support School by use of Workwell Communicator for School, a networking system developed by the company.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education has designated three special support schools for physicallydisabled children including the above two as the model schools for its career education initiative since fiscal 2010. The lecture was given as part of the OKI Group's support for the initiative in which President and two teleworking employees of OKI Workwell talked about diverse ways of working utilizing IT for challenged people.
Forest Improvement Activities through the Green Wave 2011
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.
In Izu, 53 employees and their family members participated in the campaign, cut and thinned the forest there and cleaned a waling trail. The OKI Group carried out a similar project in Takasaki as well. A total of 232 volunteers participated in the group's forest improvement activities in fiscal 2011.
In the OKI Group's Forest in Izu
Social Action Program Featuring Traditional Games
The OKI Group has held an event featuring a taketombo (a traditional flying toy) workshop for children in foster homes almost every year since 1999. In 2011, as part of the group's reconstruction assistance for the areas afflicted by The Great East Japan Earthquake, we held a special event featuring a taketombo workshop and a puppet show in Fukushima City, and invited employees of the OKI Group in the Fukushima area and their family members. In collaboration with the International Taketombo Association and the Edo Marionette Group, approximately 70 participants enjoyed a taketombo workshop and a marionette show.
Traditional marionette show (left) Taketombo workshop (right)
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, enjoy Lao coffee, and learn about Lao culture.
The 42 participants in the fiscal 2011 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 the NPO. They made a record high 89 picture books. A total of 695 Lao picture books have been made thus far through the past 12 events.
In conjunction with this event, another special event for sending books and picture books to children in the areas afflicted by the Great East Japan Earthquake was also held at the same time and venue. The participants in the Lao Picture book event brought 47 books which were donated to the Sanriku Culture Restoration Project intended to restore damaged local libraries.
Participants and Lao Picture Books
