Welfare and Health
We will expand health promotion and promote welfare services and mutual help.
"10 Basic Care by Co-op"
On May 22, 2018, JCCU announced the full-scale introduction of the "10 Basic Care by Co-op," which is the basic guidelines for nursing care and welfare businesses by consumer co-ops nationwide. As of March 2021, 30 co-ops and corporations adopted the guidelines.
Project to support the social participation of the elderly by Okayama Co-op
Okayama Co-op held a paid volunteer activity by two elderly participants who use a nursing care facility, to weed around the Co-op Saidaiji Store. Through this activity, Okayama Co-op promotes the social participation of the elderly.
Health promotion initiatives at the COVID-19 disaster
With the spread of the COVID-19 infection, people have been living a life of self-restraint, and there have been various restrictions on the health promotion activities that the Health and Welfare Co-ops have been carrying out. In such a situation, to prevent frail* from advancing due to lack of exercise, each Health and Welfare co-op published information on "health promotion at home" in its magazines, distributed flyers and videos. By organizing activities where co-op members could participate with their friends, each co-op was able to expand its efforts to make people aware of their connections.
*Frail: A state of decline in physical and mental vitality due to aging.
"Shopping Experience" by Iwate Co-op
Iwate Co-op is engaged in child-rearing support activities for infants and their parents. As part of these activities, the co-op has been holding the event, "Shopping Experience" since 2015 for preschool children and their parents during long vacations.
Sado Crested Ibis Supporting Rice Project
The Co-opdeli Consumers' Co-operative Union and its member co-ops have donated 3,149,822 yen raised through the Sado Crested Ibis Supporting Rice Project, an activity promoted by Sado City in Niigata Prefecture to promote environmentally friendly agriculture (biodiversity farming) and to support the return of the crested ibis to the wild. The total amount of donations since the project's inception is 32,741,592 yen over 12 years.
Kyoto Co-op Parent-Child Online Live Cooking Class
Kyoto Co-op held a parent-child online cooking class as a dietary education project with the support of Japan CO-OP Insurance (Kyosai) Consumers' Co-operative Federation. Mr. TAKIMURA Masaharu, a cooking expert, was invited as the instructor for the online cooking class to encourage parents and children to think about the importance of cooking together and to spend more time around the table with their families.