Sarajean's notes

The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on 'donating a mammogram' for free (pink window in the middle). Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising. Here's the web site => Pass it along to people you know. http://www. thebreastcancersite.com/

In the sixth periodic review, the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) criticized the Japanese Government for the lack of progress. Signatories to the Convention are required to address discriminative laws and practices but the committee has found that gender bias still remains problematic. no surprise here! Get more info: From the UN http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2009/wom1742.doc.htm From Asia Japan Women's Resource Center http://www.ajwrc.org/eng/modules/bulletin/index.php?page=article&storyid=83 From the various news outlets in English http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200907250066.html http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20090730TDY04302.htm http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090821a2.html

I recently read in the Asahi about the nonprofit organization sodateage net 育て上げネット。 in Japanese http://www.asahi.com/job/news/TKY200907230057.html in English http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200908190089.html http://ameblo.jp/rs4yp/theme-10014059936.html they have a number of useful programs for youth that are out of work and looking for jobs. they do career counseling, training for interviews and rent interview clothing. http://www.sodateage.net/index.html they have a campaign to get 1000 suit by the end of the year. but they need not only suits but white shirts, blouses, belts, and business shoes. Get more info about Recycled-Suits for Youth Project http://ameblo.jp/rs4yp/theme-10014059936.html Also - you can just become a member .... use that 12,000yen the government gave you to better the economy by contributing it to those in the most need. http://www.sodateage.net/support/index.html

Get more information abotu the Japan Fundraising Association here: http://blog.canpan.info/jfa/category_7/

i have gotten off of blogging for a while as i was overwhlemed just by being online so much. i am also updating all my pages .... hope this will be easier to manage.