The donations to the Ugandan Refugee camp are being conducted through the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees).
The UNHCR, which has fully supported us in these activities, has been looking to strengthen its aid to Africa where the provision of clothing has long been lacking.
Following on from our visits to Thailand and Nepal in February of this year, UNIQLO representatives plan to visit the camps in Uganda to directly hand over the clothes kindly donated by our customers. Our clothing donations also enjoy the full support of the Japanese NPO, the Japan Relief Clothing Center.
Further strengthening our relationship with UNCHR: We are grateful to UNHCR for their full cooperation with our UNIQLO product recycling campaigns.
In the future, we will be looking to offer further support to UNHCR and will be conducting even more comprehensive humanitarian activities in order to realize one of the organization's key aims, namely to achieve a permanent resolution to the refugee problem.
To kick start this new effort, we will be holding a charity event along with our UNIQLO 2007 Autumn/Winter collection at the 5th Japan Fashion Week from Tokyo on September 4, 2007.
At the event, we shall be conducting a charity auction of favorite items and UNIQLO products signed by the actors & celebrities who appear in UNIQLO commercials along with other special guests.
We shall also be running a similar online charity auction through Yahoo! from September 3 through 10, where you can bid for similar items signed by famous celebrities who have appeared in past UNIQLO commercials.
All of the funds raised from these charity events will be used to support UNCHR refugee education programs for children, women, and vocational skills for young people, etc.
In addition to our current clothing donations, we plan to conduct more aggressive, comprehensive humanitarian activities in future by holding regular charity support events such as the ones mentioned above, and by donating the funds raised through the UNHCR.
Saburo TAKIZAWA, the UNHCR Representative in Japan issued the following comment on UNIQLO's most recent humanitarian efforts.
“I would like to express my deep gratitude to UNIQLO for its aggressive support of humanitarian aid through UNHCR. And I very much hope that this type of comprehensive CSR activity will spread from Japan throughout the world”.
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