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Since 1969, orphans of traffic accidents started supporting orphans of natural disasters. And the "supporting orphans" movement has expanded and spread. The orphans of traffic accidents who were first supported by others, started to think that it was unfair how they were more fortunate than other orphans.
So the first two orphans (Tamai & Okajima) appealed to the government and to society about the need of "the scholarship" and "emotional support". They started fund-raising on the streets of Tokyo, and collected two thousand U.S dollars in ten days. That money formed the basis of the ASHINAGA scholarship.
The orphans of traffic accidents who received the donation entered school and they themselves also started fund-raising. These orphans received not only money but also people's love. Orphans of traffic accidents pay forward this love to other orphans. In 1988, a scholarship foundation was started for the support of natural disaster orphans. Then, natural disaster orphans, who were helped by orphans of traffic accidents, started supporting children who lost parents due to illness.
When a big earthquake hit the city of Kobe in 1995, ASHINAGA children turned their attention to children who lost their parents in the earthquake.
Later, Kobe earthquake orphans started fund-raising activities for orphans who lost parents in earthquakes in foreign countries, such as Colombia, Taiwan, Turkey, El Salvador and India.
In 2005, We invited AIDS orphans in Uganda to ASHINAGA International Summer Camp for Orphans in Kobe. More than 40 orphans of five different countries gathered together and were able to share many great experiences. In the twenty-first century, we would like to share our philosophy of orphans supporting each other throughout the world.
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