Love in Action

CAJ's Disaster Relief Fund: Love in Action Nepal (2015)

Our Love in Action fund is currently collecting funds to be used for disaster relief in Nepal following the earthquake of April 15, 2015. The funds will be distributed to organizations connected to CAJ through alumni or community.

CAJ's Disaster Relief Fund: Love in Action Philippines (2013-14)

CAJ raised funds in 2013-14 to assist in long term care for those affected by typhoon Haiyan in the Phillippines. Our first fund raising drive is to provide OperationSAFE camps - read more about this in December's headmaster blog

How to Donate

To donate, please visit our donations page and scroll down to the Love in Action section. You can also donate in the CAJ business office with cash or by having your family account charged.

CAJ's Disaster Relief Fund: Love in Action Japan

CAJ was blessed with significant funds to support long-term recovery, rebuilding and support efforts in Japan - specifically those which CAJ students and staff will be directly involved. See one of our digital Thank Yous.

Projects

Work projects

Our students and staff have worked with local government volunteer centers, Samaritan's Purse, and other local churches and organizations. In October our entire 10th and 12th grade classes worked on a project to prepare houses for carpenters. In June, 2011, right after graduation, a number of our just graduated seniors made a trip to volunteer for disaster clean up.

Food is Love

Our staff provided one BBQ for a large number of people living in an evacuation center, and our students did another. We are currently working with Second Harvest to prepare food boxes for distribution to those living in temporary housing.

Staff involvement

Most of our staff have personally donated time, money, fruits and vegetables, and much more to alleviate the suffering and work on the rebuilding. Many of our staff are regular volunteers with other organizations (such as CRASH) working with recovery efforts. Our most recent group staff trip was the weekend of the 8th month anniversary of the tsunami where we did work on three houses in cooperation with Samaritan's Purse.

Recorder project

Our principals are working directly with a school that was destroyed by the tsunami, and we provided musical recorders and kenban melodeons for these students. The money to purchase these specifically came from the sale of t-shirts designed and sold by our volleyball team.

Day care center recovery

We have assisted a day care center with replacing their electronics, and our students and staff have spent time interacting with their students.

Soccer camps

In June we partnered with Sports Ambassadors to use our students to run soccer camps in June in the affected areas. We also taught English, played with students and did a number of clean up activities in the Tohoku area including recovering fishing boats, reclaiming farm land, and public area clean up.