Participated in the "Fukushima Sunflower Foster Parent Project" to support reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake

Harvest sunflower seeds at Usuzan SA with a support group for high school students and people with disabilities

-Promotion of "Flower and Green Peace Highway Garden Project" and "Kofuku Collaboration"-

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Harvest sunflower seeds at Usuzan SA with a support group for high school students and people with disabilities

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令和3年9月28日
東日本高速道路株式会社
室蘭管理事務所

NEXCO EAST Muroran Management Office (Muroran City) cooperates with Hokkaido Otani Muroran High School and "Taiyo-no-en", a comprehensive support facility for people with intellectual disabilities, E5 Do-O Expressway (Hokkaido Expressway) Usuzan Service In the area (SA), we will harvest the sunflower seeds raised by the "Fukushima Sunflower Satochika Project", which we have been participating in since 2018 for the purpose of supporting reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake.
This initiative is the "Flower and Green Peace Highway Garden Project" that transforms SA into a relaxing space that customers can easily use and refresh by improving trees and flowers, and Expressway to revitalize the region. We will utilize it as a resource and implement it as part of the "high fortune (happiness) cooperation" to provide employment opportunities for people with disabilities to Large.

[Last year's harvest work]

1. 1. Date and place

　10月2日（土）10時～11時・有珠山SA（上り・函館方面）

2. Participating groups

Hokkaido Otani Muroran High School
Hokkaido Social Welfare Corporation "Sun Garden"

3. 3. Organizer

NEXCO EAST Muroran Management Office
NEXCO Maintenance Hokkaido Muroran Office

Four. About coverage

Please contact the inquiries on the back side in advance and come to Usuzan SA (In-bound / Hakodate area).

"Fukushima Sunflower Satochika Project" What is
In an activity aimed at supporting reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake, we purchased sunflower seeds from a welfare facility for people with disabilities in Fukushima Prefecture, sent the seeds harvested from the grown flowers to Fukushima, and symbolized the reconstruction at schools and companies in Fukushima. It is an effort to make the sunflowers bloom.
Today, it is widely implemented nationwide not only as reconstruction support, but also as part of children's education and corporate CSR.
Fukushima Himawari Satochika Project

What is "Flower and Green Peace Highway Garden Project"?

　休憩施設園地などを利用しやすく、心地よい空間への転換を図るとともに、地域らしさの創出と地域との連携を目指した「ハイウェイガーデン」を整備し、お客さまにさらなるやすらぎと癒しの空間を提供するために推進しているプロジェクトです。

What is "Takafuku Kofuku (happiness) cooperation"?

Origin of the name
The name was inspired by the "Agriculture and Welfare Cooperation," which is a collaboration between agriculture and welfare.
The logo mark is Expressway, the right side represents our company, and the left side represents our partner, supporting each other. It looks like a plus (+) and is reminiscent of improvement.
Contribution to SDGs
NEXCO EAST Group will work to revitalize local communities and solve social issues through the activities of "high fortune (happiness) cooperation" in which Expressway

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