Programs, Services and Activities

(For members of nuclear family, Single mother-children family, adopted Filipino children of Filipino wives by the Japanese husband).

Counseling Services for Members of Japanese-Filipino Families

Value Formation, Education and Training

Campaigns and Advocacy

Annual Lantern Campaign

Community Organizing and Networking

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• Counseling Services for Members of Japanese-Filipino Families

A program that helps and support mothers and their Japanese-Filipino children and youth in the usual sequence of difficulties as follows:
a) maintaining their nuclear family values;
b) defense against domestic violence;
c) coping with divorce, separation and abandonment;
d) single mother parenting;
e) youth counseling;
f) children guidance; and others.

• Value Formation, Education and Training

Program in journey to rediscover personal growth and skills upgrading and development for members of Japanese-Filipino families for their eventual growth as new minority group in Japanese society:

Community and Home Based English Teachers Training

Community and Home of Computer Learners and Teachers (CHOCOLATE) Club for Japanese-Filipino Youth

Pathway program for higher education of Japanese-Filipino Youth

• Campaigns and Advocacy

These are programs and activities to ensure the protection and promotions of the rights and welfare of members of Japanese-Filipino families leading to achieve fruitful life and faith that positively contributes and acts as catalyst in building multicultural society of Japan.

Japanese nationality for Japanese-Filipino children out of wed-lock

Monitoring and lobbying for the strict compliance of Japan as signatory to the Children’s Rights Convention

Granting of automatic permanent visa for foreign parents of Japanese children . (http://www.crnjapan.com/japan_law/en/cjff_visa_petition_primer.html)

• Annual Lantern Campaign

Click: http://home.att.ne.jp/banana/cjff/parol.htm for more details

“When they saw the star they were fillied with joy”-- Mathew 2:10

It started in year 2001 to help in finding alternative source of income for Filipino single mothers by making the traditional bamboo, paper and plastic star shaped “parol” or Christmas lantern. In 2003 the Filipino communities and the Philippine Embassy picks the program and launched search for the best made Christmas lantern. By year 2005 wherein the issue of removing the “Article 9” in the Japanese constitution, the education campaign insignia of not to alter “Article 9” of the Catholic Justice and Peace Council was placed at the center of the parol and called as the Prince of Peace Lantern.

Indeed the Annual Christmas Lantern Campaign is an evangelization project of CJFF and making every Filipinos in Japan a missionary even just during Christmas season. Once the parol is hanged inside the house or displayed publicly Filipino will definitely explains that the parol symbolizes the star of Bethlehem that guided the three kings to find baby Jesus.

Click: http://home.att.ne.jp/banana/cjff/parol.htm for more details

• Community Organizing and Networking

As a church based institution, building the community of CJFF program recipients is the key of success in developing volunteer and program staff for achieving the goals of the mission program especially those mentioned projects and activities above. For counseling services the Kalipunan ng mga Filipinong Nagkakaisa (KAFIN) with seven chapters across Japan and the Philippine Women’s League (PWL) with six chapters all over the country are the organization partners. The Community and Home Based English Teachers – (CHOBET) is in-charge with English teachers training. While the Community and Home of Computer Learners and Teahcers (CHOCOLATE) Club are working with CJFF in the internet based information and communications for Japanese-Filipino youth primarily in Japan.