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Children's Programs

The Resona Group believes that companies have a mission to work together with their local communities to help raise children who will shoulder the next generation. Toward this end, the Group conducts various activities utilizing its banks' assets.

Financial and economic education for children

Since 2005, the Resona Group has been conducting a children's financial and economic education program named Kids Money Academy.
The program, developed by Group employees, incorporates quizzes and games to enjoyably teach children the importance of working and the role of money, a subject they need to learn about to realize their dreams.
The Group holds events and seminars and dispatches employees to schools as guest lecturers.
The Group provides financial and economic education in various forms, by developing e-learning materials in collaboration with academic institutions and co-sponsoring Economics Koshien, an academic competition in which high school students are quizzed on their financial and economic knowledge.

For global children (Table for Two)

Resona Bank, Saitama Resona Bank, and Kinki Osaka Bank are participating in Table for Two, a program promoted by Table for Two International, a non-profit organization, at their head offices' employee canteens. Whenever employees order from a menu of low-calorie, healthy meals, ￥20 per meal is donated to fund school lunch programs in developing countries. Group employees have answered Table for Two International's call to contribute to society while eating more healthily themselves. The Resona Group was the first company in the world to adopt the Table for Two menu everyday on a long-term basis. This program has now spread to the US, China, and India, gaining global recognition as a charity movement that originated in Japan.

Table for Two participation to date (Group-wide totals as of November 30, 2009)

Duration: 436 days
Total meals: 164,984

For local children (Kodomo 110-ban)

The Kodomo 110-ban program aims to protect children from becoming crime victims by providing emergency safe havens to which they can run to seek help and notify the police if they are approached by a stranger or otherwise feel endangered.
As one component of Group activities to contribute to society and the local community, Resona Group banks' manned offices (approximately 600 locations) have been participationg in the Kodomo 110-ban program since April 2005.
After extending their business hours, many branches are now available to provide refuge to children on the way home from school. By participating in this program, the Group hopes to be of some small service to the local community.