The Results Japan Post RESULTS Japan

Riku Shiraishi

Tokyo, June, 2016

G7 World Kite Festival 2016 On Sunday May 22nd,

RESULTS Japan held our kite

festival at the “Tokyo Rinkai Disaster

Prevention Park”.

This event was held for the

hope and peace of those afflicted by

the Kumamoto earthquake in April

2016. The disaster killed 49 people

and injured about 3,000 people others

in total. More than 44,000 people

have been evacuated from their

homes due to the disaster .

Kumamoto prefecture’s symbol,

“Kumamon”, were printed onto the

kites, and were flown into the sky.

Embassy officials from seven

countries, including the Ambassador

extraordinary and plenipotentiary of

the Federal Democratic Republic of

Nepal, participated. Children enjoyed

flying kites as well.

On the other hand, in Mashiki, the

Kumamoto town that was near the

epicenter of the 2016 Kumamoto

earthquake, we held another Kite

festival.

In this event, International NGO

“ONE” , a campaigning and

advocacy organization of more than

seven million people around the

world taking action to end extreme

poverty and preventable disease,

particularly in Africa, partnered

with RESULTS Japan to co-

organize the kite-flying event in G7

countries. In the G7 Summit, our

mission for poverty eradication,

empowerment of women was

discussed.

Kite frying with ONE

in G7 countries

Ambassadors enjoyed

Frying kite

The hugely popular “Kumamon” Kites

Japanese government officials, friends of RESULTS Japan, NGOs officials, parents and children and families organized

a BBQ in the park. Everyone enjoyed flying kites,while looking up at the sky, and wishing for the reconstruction of

Kumamoto, Children enjoyed making their “Kumamon” kites, as they drew their dreams and hopes for Kumamoto.

Featured in the media!

With 680 children, Kite-flying

in Nepal

In Saturday May 28th, RESULTS Japan staff

took off to Nepal to visit the Shree

Bhotenamlang Secondary School in

Bhotenamlang village of the Sindhupalchowk

district, located two to three mountains away

from Kathmandu. In the school, 650 child

study hard to fulfill their dreams and hopes.

The village was marked with many traces of

Nepal earthquake of last April.

The globally expanding Kite-flying

movement made their smiles so priceless.

Like the children in Tokyo and in Kumamoto,

children in Nepal liked “kumamon” kites.

They said,“we pray for those those afflicted by

the Kumamoto earthquake”

Areas where Results Japan and Friends hold Kite Festival

Prime Minister Abe courtesy call

(November 14, 2015)

In 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake happened, Junior high school students live in Gaza fried kites in order to show solidarity to Japan. It was very impressed. I have heard that fried kites at the same time in Gaza and Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture. And relay on the Internet, in March this year. It is pleased to you visited Kamaishi and fried kites, that is great support for the disaster-stricken area Connecting througth the frying kites is big hope for people in disaster-strichen area. we appreciate the efforts to solve our refugee problem of UNRWA. We would like to continue to strengthen the relationship future as partners of human security and active pacifism. Thank you.

Georgia (Toribishi), Kenya (Nairobi), South

Korea (Seoul), Palestine (Gaza), Nepal (Shin

de Pal choke), Japan (Tokyo, Kamaishi, Fuji,

Ise-Shima, Kumamoto), Philippines

(Tacloban), Cambodia (Phnom Penh ),

Canada (Quebec, Ottawa), Chile (Easter

Island), Haiti (Port-au-Prince), Taipei, the

United States (DC, Boston, El Paso, Idaho,

Kentucky, Michigan, Philadelphia,

Savannah), Italy (Rome, Milan, Bologna),

France (Paris), Germany (Berlin), the UK

(London)

Trajectory of kite flying