The Japanese National Honor Society (JNHS) Hawaii Baptist Academy Chapter hosted an event during lunch on Wednesday, October 31. The event coincided with the school's Christian Emphasis Week.
おにぎりアクション Website Link
The United Nations has set up World Food Day to be celebrated every year on October 16th. A Japanese non-profit organization called Table for Two started to honor World Food Day by spreading the Japanese culture of Onigiri a few years back.
HBA's JNHS has decided to take part in this awesome charity project during CEW because:
Japanese children are taught to (metaphorically) count each grain of rice when they eat to appreciate the farmers who grew the rice. To appreciate God’s blessings, we can do the same thing while we make Onigiri by not counting the number of grain in it, but the number of blessings we receive every day. [HUMILITY]
Do you know how to make Onigiri? Do you want to learn how to make it? Then, come stop by! We’ll provide the rice, seaweed, furikake. All you need to bring is your curiosity to the Onigiri station. [CURIOSITY]
According to UNICEF, there are approximately 3.1 million children in the world dying each year from undernutrition, and 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing countries. Let’s send our love to those children by making Onigiri and posting photos on the Onigiri Action website. Of course, you can eat your Onigiri afterwards. [LOVE]
You might be wondering how your small action like making Onigiri and posting it to a website will be of any help. Well, many corporations that are sponsoring this good cause will provide money to deliver 5 school meals for each of the Onigiri photo you and I upload through November 20th.
This concept of “for-cause” business has become very popular. There is no catch. You don’t need to provide your name, phone number or email address when you post the photo. In fact, we will use our iPad to take your photos, so just bring your smile. If you don’t want to include your face, no worries. All we need is the photo of your Onigiri!
Each one of us may not be able to accomplish a big thing, like saving the whole world.
But, together, we can do many small things, like making Onigiri and posting the photo, with the help from the business community, and with your humility, curiosity and love, we can do this together!
Result: We were able to post 266 photos during the event, which means we helped serve total of 1,330 school meals to the children in countries where food is scarce. We will be back next year, again to make Onigiri with everyone on campus!
おにぎりアクション Website Link
The United Nations has set up World Food Day to be celebrated every year on October 16th. A Japanese non-profit organization called Table for Two started to honor World Food Day by spreading the Japanese culture of Onigiri a few years back.
HBA's JNHS has decided to take part in this awesome charity project during CEW because:
Japanese children are taught to (metaphorically) count each grain of rice when they eat to appreciate the farmers who grew the rice. To appreciate God’s blessings, we can do the same thing while we make Onigiri by not counting the number of grain in it, but the number of blessings we receive every day. [HUMILITY]
Do you know how to make Onigiri? Do you want to learn how to make it? Then, come stop by! We’ll provide the rice, seaweed, furikake. All you need to bring is your curiosity to the Onigiri station. [CURIOSITY]
According to UNICEF, there are approximately 3.1 million children in the world dying each year from undernutrition, and 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing countries. Let’s send our love to those children by making Onigiri and posting photos on the Onigiri Action website. Of course, you can eat your Onigiri afterwards. [LOVE]
You might be wondering how your small action like making Onigiri and posting it to a website will be of any help. Well, many corporations that are sponsoring this good cause will provide money to deliver 5 school meals for each of the Onigiri photo you and I upload through November 20th.
This concept of “for-cause” business has become very popular. There is no catch. You don’t need to provide your name, phone number or email address when you post the photo. In fact, we will use our iPad to take your photos, so just bring your smile. If you don’t want to include your face, no worries. All we need is the photo of your Onigiri!
Each one of us may not be able to accomplish a big thing, like saving the whole world.
But, together, we can do many small things, like making Onigiri and posting the photo, with the help from the business community, and with your humility, curiosity and love, we can do this together!
Result: We were able to post 266 photos during the event, which means we helped serve total of 1,330 school meals to the children in countries where food is scarce. We will be back next year, again to make Onigiri with everyone on campus!