On Friday 3 November, nearly 100 people attended a ceremony to mark Ashinaga Senegal’s 2017 programmes in Dakar. Among those present were the 19 candidates for the Ashinaga Africa Initiative programme, 20 primary school scholarship holders, five local higher-education scholarship students, and staff and interns from all over the world. This was the first time […]
One of our first scholars of the Ashinaga University Scholarship Program in Ashinaga Senegal, Maimouna Kouaté, has just graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique of Dakar, one of the most prestigious schools in Senegal. Maimouna benefited for one year from Ashinaga Senegal’s financial and educational support. In addition to covering all the costs related […]
The selection of future francophone students for the Ashinaga Africa Initiative has been completed after several Ashinaga teams conducted interviews and exams with applicants in each of the 15 eligible countries for this year’s programme. We are happy to announce that 19 students have been selected, amongst which five will be going on to study […]
Ashinaga Senegal, in collaboration with Jokkokids, organized its second activity with the scholars from the Senegal Primary School Scholarship Program. The activity gathered the children for two days at the Ashinaga Senegal Kokoro Juku and focused on the theme “From Storytelling to Coding “. As the activity progressed the children opened up to […]
Lecture by Ashinaga at Sciences Po Mr. Yoshiomi Tamai is the founder of Ashinaga, Japan’s largest non-profit organization. With his educational support for orphaned students spanning over 50 years, he has fulfilled the dreams of higher education for over 100,000 young people. His work is not just confined to Japan; Tamai has expanded his remit of […]
On the 7th of August, Dr. Lassina Zerbo, member of Kenjin Tatsujin Council and Executive Secretary at Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) paid a visit to Ashinaga’s main office in Tokyo. Dr. Zerbo took part in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on the 6th of August and has been just been bestowed with a status […]
On July 18, 2018, Kenjin-Tatsujin International Advisory Council Member Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara passed away peacefully from respiratory complications at the age of 105. Dr. Hinohara had been the Honorary President of St. Luke’s International Hospital. During his long career as a physician at St Luke’s hospital in Tokyo, Dr. Hinohara introduced innovative medical checkup […]
Japanese football player and a former member of AC Milan, Keisuke Honda visited the Uganda Rainbow House. After touring around the facility and receiving an introduction to the Ashinaga Rainbow House from Ugandan representatives, he met with the children who attend the Rainbow House. The Ugandan students were unable to contain their excitement during their […]
Ashinaga’s summer camps (tsudoi) run every year and is designed for high school and college students all-over Japan. We are currently recruiting international volunteers studying in Japan to be a part of our global program, in order to create a more diverse experience for everyone involved. For the past four years, we have made our summer […]
Dr. Margaret Mungherera, a member of the Kenjin-Tatsujin International Advisory Council, passed away on February 4, 2017. As the Former President of the Uganda Medical Association and as President of the World Medical Association, Dr. Mungherera worked hard for the improvement of health care not just in Africa, but all over the world. Dr. Mungherera […]