"Doing Charity by

Doing Business," presented by Makoto Yamada of Seibo Japan

 

Thursday, September 25 at 7PM

 

As a global social enterprise, Seibo Japan is working to make social impacts in the African nation of Malawi, helping to provide school meals and to help create a better future for Malawian kids and the next generation of the world. Seibo also works with young people in Japan to nurture social entrepreneurship. In this lecture, Seibo director Makoto Yamada will introduce its vision and explain how they collaborate with students to help Malawi.

 

Tokyo native Makoto Yamada has degrees in English Literature and Theology from Sophia University.  He joined NPO Seibo in 2017 and launched Warm Hearts Coffee Club, a donation-based coffee subscription brand introducing Malawian specialty coffee to Japan. In 2019 he was appointed Seibo's President. In 2020, he was named to the International Youth Advisory Body of the Vatican's Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life, where he served for four years. He received the 2022 Social Contribution Award from the Public Interest Incorporated Foundation for Social Contribution Support, sponsored by The Nippon Foundation.

 

-To attend the event in person, there is no need to register. For a map and directions to Lakeland's Ryogoku campus, see our website: https://luj.lakeland.edu/contact

 

--To join on Zoom, please register here (before 5PM on the day of the event). You will be emailed a link that afternoon https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Uhqc0xZaBx3Nk2e-oZ7QyqisGHXbd9_5JjShIHVVAtA/edit

 

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Roger Grabowski, Jr.

Assistant Professor of General Studies

Lakeland University Japan