Photo credit: worldvision japan

MC positively supports the "Child Sponsorship" program, which is run by World Vision to support the education of children and support the communities in which these children live. From December 2010, MC began sponsoring 20 children in the Republic of Malawi (Southeast Africa).

MC plans to continue its support to bring smiles to children's faces.

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Based on the results of MC employees' participation in a volunteer program sponsored by MC in the first half of fiscal 2010, MC has funded scholarships for 50 children in Cambodia to attend the final three years of elementary school.

The children who have received the scholarship have been given a uniform, school bag and water flask for going to school, and they are going to school in high spirits.

MC plans to continue its support for the education of children.

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In January 2010, through our involvement in the Foundation for International Development and Relief (FIDR), MC donated two "chigiri-e" (paper collage) pictures to the surgery unit of a national public pediatric hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

After their work in November, 40 employee volunteers meticulously tore Japanese paper into little pieces and pasted them on paper to create two chigiri-e pictures, "Children Brushing Teeth" and "Children Eating a Hospital Meal" for the children of Cambodia.

This donation inspired the establishment of a "tooth-brushing class" run by the nurses each day on a continuing basis to provide tooth-brushing guidance to children.

Onsite, everyone was overjoyed with some patients' family members commenting that "because the pictures show actual daily life in the hospital, they capture the interest of the children," and nurses saying that "the pictures have inspired children to participate in the tooth-brushing class."

This occasion was the third time "chigiri-e" pictures have been donated.
MC employee volunteers will continue into the future to provide support for children in Asia.