OKI 100 Yen Fund of Love activity
OKI Group donations designated for a wide range of support activities
Launched in April 1996 as a social contribution activity that any employee can easily take part in, the OKI 100 Yen Fund of Love is a voluntary program that collects 100 yen each month from participating OKI executives and employees. The total funds collected from executives and employees, plus a matching amount contributed by OKI, is used to fund blood transport vehicles and other items for the Blood Centers of the Japanese Red Cross Society in various regions of Japan at the start of each year.
In October 2000, this activity expanded to the entire OKI Group. In addition to the activities mentioned above, three new support activities have been launched. In late March 2006, the system was revised to make it possible for each individual to be able to donate 100, 200, or 300 yen every month, instead of the previous uniform amount of 100 yen. As of April, 2012, 22 OKI Group companies participated in this program.
Activities in fiscal 2011
Donation of blood transport vehicles (2,992,960 Yen) --- Initiated in fiscal 1996
Blood transport vehicle donated to the Red Cross Blood Center in Miyagi Prefecture
On February 16, 2012, OKI donated a blood transport vehicle to the Red Cross Blood Center in Miyagi Prefecture. Equipped with emergency lights and with its rear seat section converted into a refrigerated compartment, which keeps blood at temperatures from -5°C to +20°C, the vehicle is used to transport emergency blood supplies. To date, OKI has donated three loudspeaker vans and 19 refrigerated blood transport vehicles, including the vehicle mentioned above.
Support for employment of individuals with severe disabilities (1,000,000 Yen) --- Initiated in fiscal 2001
Since fiscal 2001, OKI has supported the SOHO Support Project initiated in April 2000 by Tokyo Colony, a social welfare corporation. The project establishes groups of individuals with severe disabilities in the Kanto area, who are unable to commute to a job site on a daily basis, into telecommuting teams, contracting them to perform software-related tasks from home. The goal is to help physically challenged individuals achieve independent lives.
Donation-based Program The OKI 100 Yen Fund of Love
Darunee Plates for 500-yen coins (left) and 100-yen coins (right)
The coins put in all holes in a plate enable a child to go to school for a period of one year.
The OKI Group has made assistance efforts for various social action groups through the OKI 100 Yen Fund of Love, a donation-based social action program. The participants in this program include executives and employees of the member companies of the OKI Group (22 companies as of April 2012) who agree with the purport the program. They are asked to donate 100 yen a month. Among the groups assisted by the program is the Architectural Association of Japanese DEAF (AAJD) which produced "SOS Cards" in collaboration with OKI. These cards help hearing-impaired people and foreigners communicate with others about their physical problems in the event of an emergency. AAJD released the cards in 15 different languages for free of charge in July 2011. The EDF-Japan, another recipient of the 100 yen fund, have helped secure educational opportunities for children in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. The organization produced "Darunee Plates," a tool to collect coins to be used as scholarship money.