MUFG is tackling poverty issues in line with its support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to create a sustainable world that leaves no one behind. In addition to utilizing our financial functions to help those in need, our initiatives in this field include a broad range of social contribution activities, such as making donations.
| MUFG’s recognition |  Poverty often results in a variety of other problems posing serious threats to social stability (e.g., public health, hygiene and security) and human rights (e.g., sufficiency in food, clothing and housing) as well as to the formation of a basis for sustainable economic growth (e.g., educational equality). |
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Main Initiatives
Continuous Support
To support the healthy upbringing of children, we engage in ongoing donations contributing a total of ¥180 million over a three-year period. These donations are directed to three separate NPOs(note) that strive to assist poverty-stricken families and children battling diseases.
- CliniClowns Japan, Learning for All and Chance for Children
Supporting Dining Services for Disadvantaged Children
MUFG implements “MUFG SOUL”, a framework in which employees are invited to submit passionate and original ideas for CSR activities, with MUFG providing financial support for these activities. This is designed to encourage employees to set their sights higher regarding what they can do for the public good and to take tangible action. This contributes to the resolution of a wide range of social issues by addressing them from the perspective of employees.
Utilizing this framework, MUFG supported several volunteer-run cafeterias that provide free or inexpensive meals to children) through monetary and food donations.
Children's Poverty Symposium
We held an in-house symposium on children's poverty, inviting representatives from Learning for All (NPO) and Chance for Children as well as experts from Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting. In addition to an overview of the reality of child poverty in Japan and its impact on society, the activities of each organization were introduced. At the end of the event, speakers answered questions from the participant employees, helping them deepen their knowledge of the social issue of child poverty as well as providing an opportunity to think about social issues around them.
Donation of sanitary products through the "Period Poverty Countermeasures Support Project"
To help solve the social issue of "period poverty," by which women are unable to access period-related products due to economic circumstances or lack of social understanding, the Securities donated sanitary products to Nerima Ward in Tokyo through the "Period Poverty Countermeasures Support Project" led by Insource Co., Ltd. The project solicits corporate sponsors that agree to donate sanitary products and provides the products to local governments and social welfare councils across the country, bringing companies and communities together nationwide to solve period poverty. Sanitary products donated by the Securities were distributed to persons in need at a total of 12 facilities including the Life Support Center, insurance consultation desks, and social welfare offices in Nerima Ward.
(As of October 2023)