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NAME: Approved Specified Nonprofit Corporation REALE WORLD

ADDRESS: 1-466 Omuro Kogen, Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan 413-0235 (Inside the Fair Trade Shop LOLOSITOA)

TEL / FAX: (+81)557-51-5227

Establishment: 2015 Specified Nonprofit Corporation
2019 Approved Specified Nonprofit Corporation

Content of operation: ①　Business activities related to culture and sports.
②　Workshops to promote improvements on health and communication.
③　International exchange projects to deepen the learnings and mutual understandings upon overseas culture and history.　
④　Business on merchandise sales to create more employment opportunities and development of vocational skills/education.
⑤　Public awareness campaign through the sponsorship and operation of events and publication of newsletter.
⑥　Collaboration and/or sponsorship to organizations with a similar purpose.
⑦　Other necessary operation in order to achieve the goal.

Types of nonprofit activities: （１）Activities to promote health, medical care or welfare
（２）Activities to promote social education
（３）Activities to promote town development
（４）Activities to promote tourism
（５）Activities to promote the development of science, culture, arts or sports.
（６）Activities to sustain the environment.
（７）Activities to support/revitalize the victims of natural disaster.
（８）Activities to promote human rights or act of peace.
（９）International cooperation activities.
（10）Activities to promote the well-being of child development.
（11）Activities to promote economic activity.
（12）Activities to promote the development of vocational skills and/or increase of employment opportunities.
（13）Operating, assisting or supporting the management of the organizations that may carry out the activities listed in the preceding items.

Officer

Chairman of the Board Aya Miyoshi

Born in 1976
Graduated from the Shinshu National University (Japan) with a Bachelor of Education.
After her career in fashion industry, Miyoshi opened a fair trade shop “LOLO SITOA” in 2004.
Making contributions on environmental issues, she began to involve deeply with the emerging struggles of Tuvalu and humbly continued her work for the next generations.

Vice Chairman of the Board Michinori Nagano

Music Producer/ Music Director/ Music Engineer/ PR Planner
A successful music producer in classical and pop music genre, film music and theater music both within and outside Japan.
Featured Artists: Taeko Oonuki, Yoshitaka Minami, LUNA SEA, Dick Lee, Tracy Huang, A-MEI, Taro Hakase, Yukie Nishimura, Band of Pleasure, F4, Sodagreen, etc.
Film Music: “Whisper of the Heart” (Studio Ghibli)

Board Member SANTOSH SHAHUKHALA

Born in 1988
Began to play soccer in his childhood, with bare feet on a patch field, Santosh crossed over the river everyday with his uncle to commute for the practice. Regardless of the poor advantages of his environment, Santosh persisted his career to become the youngest professional player in Nepal when he was 15.
Soon after, he was selected for the National team of Nepal in 2007 and had continued to play until 2015. Also played for the overseas club teams such as Bangladesh, Maldives and Indonesia, his achievements were acknowledged with many awards.
In 2020, he set a new record of scoring most goals, and became the first person to reach 100 goals in the Nepal league history.

Board Member: Hiroyuki Tsumagari Keiichi Tada Kimiko Takemura Masaya Kibe Ryouhei Kitamura Yosuke Takao Yusei Sakamoto Woldemicheal Yonas Sileshi

Auditor: Takeshi Kojima

Adviser: Kousuke Tamaki

History

2004: Opening of the fair trade shop “LOLO SITOA”, which was the predecessor of REALE WORLD.

2005: Initiated a fair trade community of mothers in Tuvalu.

2007: Conducting seminars on climate change to elementary school teachers in Shizuoka, Japan.

2007〜2008: Began a caravan of picture story shows to elementary schools in Shizuoka, Japan, for a topic of environmental issues in Tuvalu.

2008: Initiated a fair trade community of mothers, “Rainbow World” in Nepal.

2009: Initiated a youth soccer club in Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan.

2009: Invited a Nepali guest to Japan for a cultural exchange program.

2010: Conducted a lecture on environmental issues at the middle school in Thimi Village, Nepal.

2011: Initiated a team of fair trade activity for women in Dharamshala, India (Tibetan refugee autonomous region), motivated by the act of donation from a young girl in Ito City.

2011: Invited a Romanian guest to Japan for a cultural exchange program.

2012: Conducted a lecture on fair trade for the students of Native American High School in Los Angeles.

2012: Invited a Tibetan refugee to Japan for a cultural exchange program.

2013: Renamed the youth soccer club in Ito City to “FC REALE” and officially registered to JFA (Japanese Football Association).

2013: Initiated a youth soccer club FC REALE in Thimi Village of Nepal.

2013: Invited overseas soccer coaches from Croatia, Scotland and England to Japan.

2014: Invited 2 middle school students and a soccer coach from Kenya, and 3 students and a coach from the FC Reale Nepal for a cultural exchange program.

2014: Invited a Croatian professional soccer coach to Nepal.

2015: Signed a partnership with the Anandakuti Vidyapeeth School in Nepal to begin social work activities through school.

2015: Signed a partnership with the Rotaract Club in Nepal to begin social work activities.

2015: Founded the Santosh REALE Fund on the day of catastrophic earthquake in Nepal to begin restoration activity.

2015: Inauguration of specified nonprofit corporation REALE WORLD.

2016: The chairman of the board and representatives of FC REALE visiting Marcet Academy in Spain and the Croatian soccer club.

2017: Conducted the first REALE CUP as an experimentation.

2017: Conducted the IZU CHALLENGE CUP 2017 in Japan (collaboration with the SSIZU）

2017: Reached the amount of fund through a cloud funding in Japan for the Fence Project.

2018: Conducted a friendly match as a funding event for the restoration of Nepal’s earthquake victims.

2018: Began and completed the construction of fence around the FC REALE field in Nepal. (Fence Project)

2018: Initiated the Hero Project

2019: Initiated the Coffee Project

2019: Initiated the World Friends Project

2019: Inauguration of Approved Specified Nonprofit Corporation.

2019: Opening of the educational soccer tournament, REALE Cup for U12 in Japan.

2019: Coordination and assistance for the “Heartful Soccer in Asia” in Nepal by the Urawa Reds Heartful Club’s grass roots activity project.

2019: Signed a business partnership agreement with the general incorporated association SSIZU, which allows FC REALE to become the youth club academy of SSIZU.