April 17, 2012

An afterschool center benefitting from a grant to the 3/11 Recovery Assistance Team. JCIE and MetLife Alico Japan announced 21 grants for organizations helping children and families affected by 3/11. These include groups such as Peace Jam, which aims to create a peer support group of mothers with small children in Miyagi who have been facing great challenges since the diaster, and Ai Chikara, which brings children from Fukushima whose outdoor activities have been limited due to radiation concerns on a 2-week program to Aichi where they will have the opportunity to play in nature. The program is made possible by donations from MetLife Alico employees, and it provides one-year grants to 21 Japanese groups for the grant period April 1, 2012—March 31, 2013.
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