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Let’s save kids in Okinawa who lacks proper meals beside school lunch provide a day! Donate 500 yen for saving two basic meals!

– Do you know that Kid’s poverty rate in Okinawa is cut above, the worst in Japan?

Compare to Tokyo, 2.9 times more kids in Okinawa are suffering from dairy necessity including foods. Your heartfelt even 500 yen (5 dollar) can save kids with two meals!

After a thorough research, Representative Kazumi Sunagawa,and her volunteer group colleagues, the area called “Gintengai ” in the mid of empty shopping street area “2-3 km away from the largest Air Force Camp “Kadena” was spotted as one of the most devastating areas for poverty among kids

Okinawa Times, a local newspaper heightened her “Kodomo Café” (here is a link of the article.

Poverty rate among kids has been increasing year by year across all of Japan. This year, it hits 16.3 %(average), the record high in Japan history, meantime, poverty rate of Okinawa more than double which is 29.9%. Tokyo 10.3 %–signifying that Okinawan kids are almost three times more suffering from lack of dairy necessity.

Why such a huge disparity of wealth occurs between Okinawa and mainland of Japan?

Ms. Kazumi Sunagawa, a local resident in the city of Okinawa launched so called “Kodomo Café (Kids’ Café)” last January with her strong desire to stop bad poor circle.

“Kodomo Café” is located in an edge of shut down shopping street called “Ginten-Gai” in the district of Teruya, in Okinawa city. Tracing back to its history, the area was a “red-district” (sex industry town) for African American soldiers based in “Kadena”, the Asia’s biggest airforce camp. Kazumi insists, today’s poverty among kids in this distric is a negative heritage of war. One of the biggest heritages of the war is “military camps”.

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