Monthly Daiwa SRI Funds Internal Training

We had a monthly training session targeted at our staff and volunteer members today. The topic of the training was “ Financial Reporting for Authorised NPOs”. We had Mr. Oichi, certified tax accountant, from Venture Shien Zeiritsuhoujin as a guest lecturer this time.
APFS has been preparing to become an authorised NPO since last year. The experienced tax accountant, in today’s training session, explained to us what financial reports are required for an authorised NPO.
We do produce financial report regularly but we are not accounting or tax experts. Hence, today’s training was very helpful for us since we could ask many questions to the lecturer that relates to our daily operations.
Thank you Oichi sensei!

*We receive financial support from “Daiwa SRI fund”.

Special Permission for 22 Families. Emergency Meeting & New Years Party

Following the training for our staff members, we had a briefing session for our members demanding special permission to stay in Japan (zaitoku) to the Japanese government. “100 days action” is the campaign that APFS conducted last year for 17 families that are in need of zaitoku. On top of these 17 families we now have 5 more families to support.

When the guideline pertaining to special permission to stay in Japan was revised last July, we anticipated that the change will bring positive concequences to our members. In reality, however, the circumstances surrounding our members are still tough and some of our members have been re-detained by Immigration authorities after the revision of the guideline.

We say we are facing predicament, but it is also true that some of our members finally and eventually obtained the permission in December last year and January this year. We still have lots of things to do for other members and we have no time being depressed! In the breifing session we had, our members who obtained zaitoku lately made speech and inspired our other members. May all our members get zaitoku following these jubilant families!

Happy New Year to Everyone!

 Already more than ten days have passed since New Year’s Eve… We are sending our New Year’s greetings to everyone!

 Sorry for being so late with the updates. We hope that we may expect your support this year too!

 As soon as January 7th, one undocumented Filipino family under our support managed to receive Special Permit for Residence♪

 We are glad to have such good news in this season. At the same time, other undocumented families are facing detention or deportation. Building on these good news, we would like to continue our fight this year! We need your help too!