As a member of regional society, the ANA Group conducts various activities to contribute to local communities.
The Okazaki Kaheita International Scholarship Foundation was established in 1990 in line with the will of Kaheita Okazaki, ANA’s second president, with the objective of providing support for nurturing people in Asian countries. Every year the Foundation awards scholarships for several international students from China, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar and Taiwan to study in Japan, and offers support for graduate studies.
To date, the Foundation has granted scholarships to 97 students. Program alumni are striving for development of their home countries and building friendly relations with Japan.
To date, the Foundation has granted scholarships to 97 students. Program alumni are striving for development of their home countries and building friendly relations with Japan.
» The Okazaki Kaheita International Scholarship Foundation website (Japanese only)
At its Airframe Maintenance Center, ANA offers free maintenance facility tours for the general public that attract a wide range of participants, from students on school trips to families. With nearly 60,000 visitors participating every year, the total number of visitors topped 700,000 as of August 2012.
» ANA Airframe Maintenance Center Facility Tour website
(Japanese only)
The ANA Group takes advantage of various opportunities including events at schools and airports to offer Aviation Classrooms, occupational lectures and other experiences to familiarize children with air travel.
ANA Virtual Flight faithfully recreates time and space inside an airplane at hospitals to give happy memories to sick or injured children who would otherwise be unable to enjoy air travel. ANA Group employee volunteers conduct this activity.
In 2010, we conducted ANA Virtual Flight at Juntendo Hospital in Ochanomizu, Tokyo. Wearing child-sized uniforms, the children played the roles of flight and cabin crews to experience their work, viewed videos of aircraft prior to takeoff, and enjoyed the experience of travel.
In 2011, we conducted ANA Virtual Flight at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tsukiji, Tokyo. We collaborated in the hospital’s plans for hula dancing so that children in the pediatrics ward and their families could enjoy a virtual flight to Honolulu, the home of hula dancing. The event also included commemorative photos of the children in appropriately sized uniforms and a quiz competition, and ANA employees visited children who were unable to leave their rooms to attend.
The ANA Group will continue to energetically conduct activities that convey to children and their families ANA’s “Reliable, Warm, Enthusiastic!” mindset. Iwaya Co., Ltd., which supplies toys for in-flight sales, cooperated in these activities.
Aviation Classrooms are conducted in various regions.
Regional Aviation Classrooms in the Fiscal Year ended March 2012
Japan: Fukuoka, Saga, Takamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, Fukushima, Sendai, Sapporo, etc.
Overseas: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Singapore, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Qingdao, etc.
ANA Virtual Flight faithfully recreates time and space inside an airplane at hospitals to give happy memories to sick or injured children who would otherwise be unable to enjoy air travel. ANA Group employee volunteers conduct this activity.In 2010, we conducted ANA Virtual Flight at Juntendo Hospital in Ochanomizu, Tokyo. Wearing child-sized uniforms, the children played the roles of flight and cabin crews to experience their work, viewed videos of aircraft prior to takeoff, and enjoyed the experience of travel.
In 2011, we conducted ANA Virtual Flight at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tsukiji, Tokyo. We collaborated in the hospital’s plans for hula dancing so that children in the pediatrics ward and their families could enjoy a virtual flight to Honolulu, the home of hula dancing. The event also included commemorative photos of the children in appropriately sized uniforms and a quiz competition, and ANA employees visited children who were unable to leave their rooms to attend.
The ANA Group will continue to energetically conduct activities that convey to children and their families ANA’s “Reliable, Warm, Enthusiastic!” mindset. Iwaya Co., Ltd., which supplies toys for in-flight sales, cooperated in these activities.Aviation Classrooms are conducted in various regions.
Regional Aviation Classrooms in the Fiscal Year ended March 2012
Japan: Fukuoka, Saga, Takamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, Fukushima, Sendai, Sapporo, etc.
Overseas: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Singapore, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Qingdao, etc.
Each year in June, ANA Group cabin crew and ground staff visit patients at Japanese Red Cross Medical Centers and other hospitals throughout Japan to hand out pressed lily of the valley bookmarks. On June 8, 2012, ANA Group employees visited 47 hospitals nationwide.The ANA Group has been conducting this activity since 1956. In the language of flowers, lilies of the valley communicate happiness and the return of health. Hospital patients have praised this program and its prayers for their earliest possible recovery.
Lilies of the valley bloom near Chitose Airport. Under the guidance of Japan Remiko Pressed Flower School, ANA Group employees make lily of the valley pressed flower bookmarks by hand, one by one, so that this flower may bloom forever.
The ANA Group has cooperated in the educational efforts and fund-raising activities of Central Community Chest of Japan since 1962.This organization holds a fund-raising drive each year in October. The ANA Group participates by putting out collection boxes at the departure counters of the 51 domestic airports that the Group serves, at approximately 80 ANA FESTA airport retail stores managed by All Nippon Airways Trading Co., Ltd., and at ANA counters in four cities nationwide. We also solicit donations on the street at Haneda Airport, in the Shiodome area, and elsewhere.
In 2011, Central Community Chest of Japan and the ANA Group celebrated their 50th year of cooperative fund-raising by creating a shared commemorative logo for carrying out activities.