Educational NPO eboard Strengthens Free Account Issuance and Awareness for Children Not Attending School, Thanks to Donation from Aozora Bank
Educational NPO eboard has received a donation from Aozora Bank through its matching gift program, enabling it to strengthen initiatives for issuing free ICT educational material accounts and promoting awareness for children not attending school. This aims to secure learning opportunities and contribute to solving social issues.
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NPO eboard (hereinafter, "eboard") is pleased to announce that it has received a donation from Aozora Bank, Ltd. (hereinafter, "Aozora Bank") through its matching gift program for the 2025 fiscal year, following similar donations in fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
With this donation, eboard will strengthen its efforts to issue free accounts for its ICT educational material, eboard, and promote awareness, especially to ensure learning opportunities for children not attending school.
## About Aozora Bank Group's Matching Gift Program
Aozora Bank Group's matching gift program solicits personal donations from group executives and employees, with Aozora Bank adding a matching amount based on the number of donations. This program is being implemented for the fourth time in fiscal year 2025, with a total of 19.72 million yen donated to 10 organizations.
The Aozora Bank Group has defined its main areas of social contribution activities as "environmental conservation," "support for the next generation," "community support," and "disaster recovery support," considering both themes of high urgency in solving social issues and themes of high interest to executives and employees. NPO eboard received this donation for its activities in "support for the next generation" and "community support."
## Strengthening Free Account Issuance and Awareness for Children Not Attending School with the Donation
According to a survey by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (*), the number of students not attending school currently exceeds 350,000, and has been steadily increasing over the past 10 years, with elementary school non-attendance increasing 5.3 times and junior high school non-attendance 1.4 times. Consequently, the number of children who cannot receive support is also increasing, with a serious situation where "one in three" currently does not receive specialized counseling or guidance.
* Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, October 2025 announcement, "Summary of the Survey Results on Problematic Behavior and School Non-attendance of Children and Students in FY2024."
NPO eboard has continuously undertaken multifaceted initiatives, such as providing free accounts for its ICT educational material, eboard, for home (individual) use, and developing training programs for personnel supporting children not attending school. With this donation, eboard will strengthen its efforts to issue free accounts for children not attending school and further promote awareness activities to widely communicate this free provision system and the current situation and challenges surrounding school non-attendance to society.
## About Aozora Bank's Volunteer Activities
In addition to financial support through donations, Aozora Bank also provides cooperation through volunteer activities by its employees. More than 100 employees have volunteered to help create "easy subtitles" for eboard's video lessons.
### * What are "Easy Subtitles"?
"Easy subtitles" are subtitles edited to lower learning barriers, primarily for children who are deaf or hard of hearing, children connected to foreign countries, and children with learning difficulties. These subtitles can be used free of charge for all eboard video lessons, regardless of whether an account is held.
With this donation, eboard will strengthen its efforts to issue free accounts for its ICT educational material, eboard, and promote awareness, especially to ensure learning opportunities for children not attending school.
## About Aozora Bank Group's Matching Gift Program
Aozora Bank Group's matching gift program solicits personal donations from group executives and employees, with Aozora Bank adding a matching amount based on the number of donations. This program is being implemented for the fourth time in fiscal year 2025, with a total of 19.72 million yen donated to 10 organizations.
The Aozora Bank Group has defined its main areas of social contribution activities as "environmental conservation," "support for the next generation," "community support," and "disaster recovery support," considering both themes of high urgency in solving social issues and themes of high interest to executives and employees. NPO eboard received this donation for its activities in "support for the next generation" and "community support."
## Strengthening Free Account Issuance and Awareness for Children Not Attending School with the Donation
According to a survey by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (*), the number of students not attending school currently exceeds 350,000, and has been steadily increasing over the past 10 years, with elementary school non-attendance increasing 5.3 times and junior high school non-attendance 1.4 times. Consequently, the number of children who cannot receive support is also increasing, with a serious situation where "one in three" currently does not receive specialized counseling or guidance.
* Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, October 2025 announcement, "Summary of the Survey Results on Problematic Behavior and School Non-attendance of Children and Students in FY2024."
NPO eboard has continuously undertaken multifaceted initiatives, such as providing free accounts for its ICT educational material, eboard, for home (individual) use, and developing training programs for personnel supporting children not attending school. With this donation, eboard will strengthen its efforts to issue free accounts for children not attending school and further promote awareness activities to widely communicate this free provision system and the current situation and challenges surrounding school non-attendance to society.
## About Aozora Bank's Volunteer Activities
In addition to financial support through donations, Aozora Bank also provides cooperation through volunteer activities by its employees. More than 100 employees have volunteered to help create "easy subtitles" for eboard's video lessons.
### * What are "Easy Subtitles"?
"Easy subtitles" are subtitles edited to lower learning barriers, primarily for children who are deaf or hard of hearing, children connected to foreign countries, and children with learning difficulties. These subtitles can be used free of charge for all eboard video lessons, regardless of whether an account is held.