Mission

〜Charity Concert by children for children〜
We hope children can have dream and energy for the future.

◆ Objectives of ChildAid Asia 2011 ◆

  • To be an opportunity for international exchange through performing arts
  • To support talented children and provide them with opportunities to make presentations
  • To provide underprivileged children with opportunities to participate in artistic activities, enjoy acting and singing, and find their potential or dreams

※Proceeds from the concert will be used to hold creative activity workshops for disadvantaged children and to implement Japan-Singapore cultural exchange.


ChildAid Asia 2011 is a joint concert performed by Japanese and Singaporean children. Tying up with Singaporean Child Aid, NPO Little Creators planed the event to provide talented children with opportunities to make presentations, to provide disadvantaged children who have less chance to be involved in expression activities with opportunities to participate in artistic events. The concert is aimed to encourage children, who are bearers of the future, to display their originality and bring out youthful energy through performing arts, and also to make the audience happy and energetic.


NPO Little Creators has been working based on the ideas that, through creative activity and cross-cultural exchange, children can find the joy of expressing themselves, meeting new people, learning new things, by which they would find their future dreams. We are trying to offer such opportunities especially for children who come from disadvantaged background. In 2008 and 2009, we took pupils in Shakujii Gakuen, a children nursing home, to Singapore, where they took part in International Children Arts Festival, an international creative activity workshop organized by us, interacting with Singaporean children and Japanese children living Singapore. We were impressed with their ability to adapt to new environment and to absorb new experience quckly. In spite of only three days of stay, they dramatically made personal progress.


Of course, not all children can change immediately. However, we believe that new experience and meeting new people would provide them with knowledge, hope and courage somehow. The next challenge for us will to be to expand such opportunities. ChilldAid Asia 2011 is positioned as the main event of our projects, in which an audition is held to discover young talented people, musical workshop is offered for a period of five months to pupils living in a children nursing home, and an opportunity to make presentation and interact with people from various cultural backgrounds is provided.


The amount of child abuse, domestic violence, neglect, divorced/single parents increasing, situation surrounding children seems to be worsening. Almost 31,000 children are living in child nursing homes in Japan today. Income gaps of parents generate education/achievement gaps of their children. This country that used to be known as all-Japanese-are-middle-class mentality is now developing the widening gap between the wealth and the poor. We hope that ChildAid Asia 2011 would be an opportunity for children to find their dreams and vision for the future regardless of their background, and also a good opportunity for Japanese people to know Singapore. We would like to expand the wave of cultural exchange into other Asian countries in the future.

What is ChildAid Asia 2011?

■Showcase for young talents

Children under18 will demonstrate their performances by playing instruments, singing, dancing or other performing arts genre. Some of them will be successful applicants from an audition, which is intended to help discover young talents and contribute to the cultivation of young artists.

■Concert for all young people

ChildAid Asia 2011 encourages children who hardly go to theatre or have rarely been involved in performing arts to attend the event. In this concert, pupils living in child nursing houses who participate in workshop for a period of five mouths will appear on the stage

■Opportunity for international exchange

Singaporean children are invited to the concert in Tokyo. Meeting new friends and coming into contact with different culture would help Japanese children to expand their horizon.


※ChildAid in Singapore
ChildAid in Singapore was launched in 2005, organized by The Business Times and The Straits Time, leading financial newspapers in Singapore. This annual charity concert has showcased many young talents. The Box office revenue and donations are used for scholarships for disadvantaged children who would like to be trained in artistic programmes (The Straight Times Pocket Money fund) (The Business Times Budding Artist Fund). In 2009, the concert took place at brand-new Universal Studio Hall in the Integrated Resort on Sentosa Isand, and received donations of 1 million SGD, the highest amount ever.