Taketomi, Okinawa · Founded December 25, 2019
Kids EarthCaravanFoundation
We support the activities of the children who will carry the future.
Our mission
Children come first
Children walk, run, eat, sing, swim, jump, climb and make noise. They get sad, they get angry — and in the end they laugh. Our mission is to support what those children do.
We know that childhood experience shapes who we grow up to be. We believe that children matter more than the schools and social systems they live in, and we trust that activities which value children will protect the future of this planet. It is children who carry the responsibility of that future.
KIDS EARTH CARAVAN FOUNDATION was founded on December 25, 2019 to support those activities, and the smiles that come with them.
Grants
What we fund
We give small grants to individuals and groups. A grant is usually between EUR 500 – EUR 7,000.
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It is for children
The proposal concerns the activities or plans of children, from age 0 to 22.
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It falls outside public funding
The proposal is not supported by national or local government, or is very hard to have supported by them.
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A commission member endorses it
The proposal is approved by one of the members of the management commission.
Projects supported
What we have supported
KIDS EARTH CARAVAN
NPO KIDS EARTH CARAVAN
A nonprofit organisation running activities for children. The foundation supports its work.
HAJIME NO IPPO
NPO KIDS EARTH CARAVAN
A programme run by NPO KIDS EARTH CARAVAN, documented in a short film about the Yaeyama Islands.
KOKEMUS
Produced by Hajime Funaki
One of the activities the foundation's donations are directed towards.
Support
The foundation is young
We do not yet have much in the way of financial resources. Our partners build them with us over time, so that we can support the projects that keep children smiling.
Donations currently go towards children who cannot attend nursery school, kindergarten or school, and towards the activities of NPO KIDS EARTH CARAVAN.