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(Formerly Association to Aid Refugees)
Address: 4-5-26 2-101 Kami-Osaki, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo 141-0021
Tel: +81-3-3491-4200
Fax: +81-3-3491-4192
E-mail: aar@aarjapan.gr.jp
URL: http://www.aarjapan.gr.jp
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Tokyo Office:
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Ms. Fusako Yanase
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President
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Ms. Yukie Osa
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Secretary General
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Mr. Go Togawa
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Administrative Officer
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Mr. Katsuhiko Takeda
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Senior Coordinator
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Ms. Miyo Ito
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Coordinator
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Ms. Yuko Goto
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Coordinator
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Mr. Yoshiteru Horie
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Coordinator / Logistics
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Ms. Ayaka Arai
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Coordinator
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Phnom Penh Office - Phnom Penh, Cambodia and
Siem Reap Office - Siem Reap Province, Cambodia:
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Ms. Yasuo Kawabata
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Programme Coordinator
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Myanmar Office - Yangon:
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Ms. Rika Yamaguchi
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Programme Coordinator
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Laos Office - Vientiane:
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Ms. Hisayo Kawabata
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Programme Coordinator
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Ms. Motoko Odachi
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Programme Coordinator
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Mr. Mitsuhiro Soga
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Engineer
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Rwanda Office - Rwamagana, Rwanda:
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Administered by local staff
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Lusaka Office - Lusaka, Zambia:
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Ms. Eiichi Kaneko
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Programme Coordinator
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Meheba Office - Meheba Refugee Settlement, Zambia:
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Ms. Mayumi Hayashi
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Programme Coordinator
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Ms. Tamayo Haraguchi
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Medical Consultant
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Chokwe Office - Chokwe Mozambique
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Mr. Shingo Saito
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Programme Coordinator
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Belgrade Office - Belgrade, Yugoslavia and
Skopje Office - Skopje, Republic of Macedonia:
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Ms. Miho Fukui
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Programme Coordinator
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Mr.Seiyu Fujisaki
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Programme Coordinator
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Kabul Office - Kabul, Afghanistan
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Mr. Seiji Konno
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Programme Coordinator on Landmines
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Islamabad Office - Islamabad, Pakistan
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Mr. Satoshi Kuwazawa
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Program Coordinators
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Dushambe Office - Dushambe, Tajikistan
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Ms. Hiroko Niimura
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Programme Coordinator
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Organizational Profile:
AAR was founded in 1979 as the first Japanese private relief organization for
refugees. Since then it has been dedicated to the emergency relief and
development assistance for refugees, internally displaced persons and
vulnerable population worldwide, and addressing issues of major concern. Its
activities are based on the philosophy to spread the good-will of Japanese
people over the worldEwith no political, religious or ideological
affiliations.
The headquarters located in Tokyo is run by approximately 10 regular staff
members and over 50 volunteers. It currently has local offices in Cambodia,
Lao PDR, Myanmar, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Zambia, Mozambique, Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Tajikistan, regularly sending aid workers to those and many other
countries.
AAR is also actively engaged in activities for the eradication of
anti-personnel landmines. As one of the 15 members of the Coordinating
Committee of International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), it takes part in
landmine monitoring and funding activities, as well as publishes a Campaign
Picture Book Series and organizes conferences for public awareness.
Major Activities and Achievements:
- Providing relief supplies, medical assistance and a scholarship program. Reconstruction of damaged schools for disabled students. (in the former Yugoslavia)
- Providing vocational training, environmental conservation, water supply
& construction, assistance for nutrition improvement, medical assistance,
library management, educational assistance, and mosquito nets for prevention of malaria. (in Zambia)
- Providing literacy education for adults whom did not receive public education. (in Rwanda)
- Supporting flood victims by supplying seeds and fertilizer, farming tools, and
building storehouses. (in Mozambique)
- Providing medical assistance, running a vocational training centre for
disabled, supplying wheelchairs to landmine victims and people with polio,
etc. Executed landmine clearance operations. (in Cambodia)
- Running a vocational training centre for amputees. (in Myanmar)
- Helping the mentally retarded children through fosterage. (in Myanmar)
- Supporting the National Medical Rehabilitation Centre for wheelchair
production. (in Laos)
- Executing mine awareness and survey in the Shomali Valley. (in Afghanistan)
- Providing fresh food for Afghan refugees near the border. (in Tajikistan)
- Taking part in the International Campaign to Ban Landmines(ICBL) as one of the
15 members of the Coordination Committee, as well as in the Landmine MonitorE
Working Group and the Victim Assistance Working Group.
- Monitoring the performance of Japanese Government as a member of the Japan
Campaign to Ban Landmines (JCBL).
(as of February 2002)
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