"OMRON Outreach" in Southeast Asia

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"Providing meals and school supplies helps children from disadvantaged backgrounds."

In July 2007, OMRON Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. in Singapore launched "OMRON Outreach," a regional initiative aimed at improving the living standards of poor communities in Southeast Asia.

The first program under the initiative consisted of a joint effort with OMRON Electronics (Indonesia) for the students of the Yapendik Eirene elementary school in the northern part of Jakarta, Indonesia. In Indonesia, there are millions of out-of-school children and the country also faces problems of child labor and street children. This program therefore comprises a ten-month nutrition program and distribution of packages containing school supplies to help students from lower economic backgrounds attend school.

: Ms. Julien Massie
Headmistress
Yapendik Eirene Elementary School

In our school, most of the 70 students come from poor or disadvantaged backgrounds.

The OMRON Outreach initiative provides these children with nutritious meals once a week and milk and nutritious snacks five times a week. The students also receive packages of school supplies, which help motivate students to attend school. One child who had been carrying a broken bag and an old notebook said, "I was very happy when I got a bag and a textbook. I'm also very happy because I can drink milk every day."

We hope that OMRON will continue to support our school.

OMRON staff distributing fruits to children