~ Article & photos from Australia Japan Society Far North Queensland ~
During the recent 2016 NFAJS Conference held in Cairns, the AJS FNQ introduced the Japanese ‘Not for profit’ group, “Smile with Kids”. (SWK) http://www.smilewithkids.com.au/
The AJS FNQ partnered with SWK during 2015 and worked together on joint fundraising events for the AJS Student Scholarship and the SWK organisation. Maki McCarthy the President of SWK gave an interesting presentation during Day 2 and the Conference and community session, of why and what is SWK. There was an Anniversary & Celebration Dinner held at the Cairns Pacific Int. Hotel on the Saturday night with a specially made Clair Jet Program 30th Anniversary and the Australia-Japan Foundation 40th Anniversary. There was a cake cutting ceremony of the delicious Anniversary Cake. The AJS FNQ also donated several items for the SWK Fun / Fundraising Auction of bottles of Sake, locally made sweets from ‘Stillwater’ and more.
The generous dinner attendees seemed to have a lot of fun with cross-bidding for the ten or so items which raised over $1000.00 for the SWK organisation. The Vice President AJS FNQ, Jeff Haynes as the dinner auctioneer was extremely pleased with the result as was Maki McCarthy of SWK.
Jeff Haynes – Vice President 0417 756 849
Makoto Kamatani Haynes – Scholarship Program – 0405 144 533
Australia Japan Society Far North Queensland
PO Box 2188, Cairns, Queensland 4870 AUSTRALIA
www.ajsfnq.org.au, president@ajsfnq.org.au
