The first Award winning activities

Activity continuing for more than 10 years. In order to support the social welfare activities, Mie Operations and Group companies in the premises cooperatively collect 1-yen donations, used milk cartons and empty cans. Collected items were converted into cash and donated the sum of 104,159 yen to "the year-end charity campaign" sponsored by the Chunichi Newspaper.

Taking the opportunity of its 65th anniversary, Fuchu Operations promoted a campaign for social contributions activities, aiming for the participation of all employees.

For example, Factory visit by primary school children, Family event and collection activity, Red Feather Community Chest, Green Fund, Presentation at the Fuchu Recycling Fair, Participation in the waste reduction campaign.

Employees volunteered to assist in snow removal at residences of the senior citizens. It was hard work, due to the large amount of snow this year. However, appreciative words from elderly people made all participants happy.

Commemorating the 40th anniversary, Toshiba Fukaya operations held Toshiba Summer Festival to communicate with local residents. Japanese drum player who is active in Fukaya, and teams of Yosakoi-soran and kids aerobics performed on the stage. A local folk song group and Toshiba employees practiced to perform their original "So-nan Ondo". 157 employees worked as volunteers, 15,000 guests enjoyed the festival.

Employees voluntarily contribute to "Toshiba TEC Social Contributions Fund" each month from their salaries. The amount saved-up in the Fund and the same amount from the company was donated to the following organizations: one million yen each to the disaster countermeasures offices for intense rainfall in Niigata Prefecture and in Fukui Prefecture; five million yen to the disaster countermeasures office of Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake; three million yen to the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami recovery operations by the Japanese Red Cross Society; two million yen in total to the Central Community Chest as a regular donation activity commemorating the anniversary of the corporation, and to social welfare organizations in Ohito, Mishima and Hadano districts.

As part of the event commemorating the 130th anniversary of Toshiba, held a bazaar within the Kanuma Factory, and donated the amount of 77,830 yen earned from the bazaar to the "Shimotsuke Orphans' Scholarship Fund" operated by Shimotsuke Shimbun.

Exhibited paintings drawn by employees in the corridor of Hospital East, National Cancer Center. These paintings helped encourage the patients.

TMX works with the local university to provide medical services to the community, such as dental care, eye exams, health checks, etc.

TABS conducted three programs with the Ocean Institute (Southern California) to support oceanography, science and environmental education.

Tall Ships Festival
A three-day event in which many tall ships from around the world partcipate. TABS supported this event and TABS employees and family members took part in the tall ship sail-in parade.

Adopt-A-Class
TABS supported Loara Middle School in Anaheim, California. Funds from TABS were used to provide educational materials and arrange bus transportation for the students to visit the Ocean Institute.

Build-A-Boat
TABS sponsored TABS Build-A-Boat Team which 20 employees and their children took part in. The boat built by the partcipants entered a race among 20 other teams. The proceeds from this event are used to support the maintenance of tall ships.

TABS is very honored to be a recipient of one of the first annual Toshiba "ASHITA" Awards. Working with the Ocean Institute has been a very rewarding experience. The Institute is a state-of- the art learning facility where children from grade school through high school can come to learn about the ocean and its environment. For some of the children, although they live close to the ocean, it is their first time to ever see the ocean. Employees who volunteer to help run the programs get a tremendous amount of satisfaction.

Employees at the Plymouth manufacturing plant (TPO) are involved in various fund-raising activities to support local good causes. This year 3,000 pounds and Toshiba products (TV) were donated.

TEM employees visited a local school to present lectures on the environment, make donations of office equipment and do clean-ups around the school.

In order to support the creativity of all artists by providing an opportunity to show the potential of the young generation, from kindergarten children to university students, the Thai Toshiba Group has held an art exhibition entitled "Brings Good Things to Life" for 17 years, starting in 1989. The art exhibition consists of an art contest and exhibition, for which an average of 3,200 paintings are entered each year, and in total, more than 50,000 young people have participated. The opening ceremony in November 2004, to which Princess Sirindhorn was invited, was held in grand style, with the participation of 400 guests and 200 students.

China Toshiba Group (including Toshiba Dailian Co., Ltd. and Toshiba Copying Machine (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.) is supporting the Hope Elementary Schools project, which is promoted by the Central Committee of the Communist Young League of China, to provide a place for educating children in poverty-stricken areas. Since 2001, eight of Toshiba Hope Elementary Schools have been constructed in areas throughout China. After the schools have opened, the China Toshiba Group continues to support them by donating stationery, sporting goods and PCs, and by inviting children to tour Toshiba factories. As of this year, Toshiba China Co., Ltd. is in charge of collecting contributions, and has donated a total of 400,000 yuan, contributed from 46 Toshiba Group companies, to the Youth Development Funds of China. This year it has been decided to construct schools in Hebei and Shanxi. This contribution to providing children with educational opportunities, and to friendship between Japan and China will continue, and there are plans to construct two Toshiba Hope Elementary Schools every year.

School children were invited on a factory tour, and given explanations about the power generation and power transmission systems, the roles of transformers, and the importance of saving power.