MOL ships clothing free to poor Tanzanian children

MITSUI OSK Lines president Koichi Muto announced the company's support to "With All Our Hearts" international contribution project to recycle children's clothing, and will assist with transportation of the clothing.

This project, sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Justice, aims to donate second-hand children's clothing collected at 150 Miki House Co, Ltd stores throughout Japan. The items will be washed, sorted, repaired, and packaged by female inmates at the Mine Rehabilitation Programme Centre and distributed to children in Tanzania, where the NGO of Japanese Organisation for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP) supports health and hygiene-related initiatives.

MOL, one of eight private companies and organisations backing the project, will provide a container and transport the clothing from Japan to Tanzania in March 2011. In addition to benefiting maternal and child health education in Tanzania, the project will provide job training to the inmates in Japan and help them prepare for a fresh start in life as they re-enter society.

"Contribution to the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals" and "contribution to local communities" are part of the stated goals of MOL's social activities. The UN Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve measurable targets such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, combating diseases and reducing child mortality by 2015.
(Source:www.schednet.com)