What we do: Second Harvest Japan activities
Second Harvest Japan (2HJ) has four main activities.
Hot Meal Program and Harvest Pantry are activities that deliver food resources directly to individuals in need.
Food Banking: 2HJ’s main activity. 2HJ collects food that would otherwise go to waste from food manufacturers, farmers, and individuals, and distributes them to people in need such as children in orphanages, battered women and their children in shelters, and the homeless in Japan. 2HJ is the nation’s first food bank.
Advocacy/Development: For the development of food banking in Japan, 2HJ engages in different advocate activities and makes speech at different places. Also, in summers of 2008 and 2009, 2HJ held national caravans during which 2HJ held many information session about food banking in different places in Japan.
Supporters
- Food manufacturers
- Retailers such as super markets
- Farmers
- Schools and workplaces where students and employees bring food from their households to donate. We call this activity food drive.
- Individuals
Clients
- children at orphanages, who cannot spend time with their families
- those who lost their homes because of layoffs
- battered women and their children in shelters
- single women that cannot support themselves for many reasons at grouphomes
- migrant workers living in shelters
- struggling single-mother households
- elderly people without families
In addition to the people above, 2HJ offer supports to those in need.
Won’t you join us?
Giving food to a person who really needs it is one of the most immediately rewarding experiences around. Like to give it a try?