4-450: The Sawayaka Welfare Foundation ( さわやか 福祉財団 , Sawayaka Fukushi Zaidan ) is a Japanese foundation. Founded in 1991 by Tsutomu Hotta, former inspector and lawyer, under the name Sawayaka Welfare Promotion Center , it has been promoting its Fureai kippu system as a means to make a new “ Fureai society”. This article about an organization or organization-related topic in Japan is
8-504: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fureai kippu Fureai kippu ( Japanese : ふれあい切符 lit. "caring relationship ticket") is a Japanese sectoral currency created in 1995 by the Sawayaka Welfare Foundation so that people could earn credits helping seniors in their community . The basic unit of account is an hour of service to an elderly person. Sometimes seniors help each other and earn
12-464: The credits in exchange for services. Alternatively, the users may transfer credits to someone else. A surprising part of the project has been that the elderly tend to prefer the services provided by people paid in Fureai Kippu over those paid in yen . This may be due to the personal connection. When they surveyed the elderly, it was clear they preferred the people who worked for Fureai Kippu over
16-400: The credits, other times family members in other communities earn credits and transfer them to their parents who live elsewhere. For example, an elderly woman who no longer has a driver’s license; if you shop for her, you get credit for that, based on the kind of service and the number of hours. These credits accumulate- users may keep them for when they become sick or elderly themselves, then use
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