JCCU in every summer, cooperates with the Fukushima Prefecture Consumers' Cooperative Union to organize a program under the theme "Fukushima Children's Recreation Project" for children who live in Fukushima Prefecture.

The project offers recreation for children and their parents, enabling them to spend weekends and school holidays in areas remote from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. The Fukushima Children's Recreation Project started in 2011 as a joint program led by the Fukushima Consumers' Cooperative Union in cooperation with co-ops nationwide, the Fukushima Committee for UNICEF and the Disaster Recovery Research Institute of Fukushima University.

This summer the program is being held at 11 locations nationwide from July 21 to August 22, 2017. Since the start of this program 81,133 people including children and their parents have participated. (until March 2017). The project is mainly funded through donation from Japan Committee for UNICEF, Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union and its member co-ops.