Social Contribution Activities
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The Bell-Park Group uses a broad range of initiatives to play a role in achieving a sustainable society. Carrier shops use their position as an interface with customers to conduct a variety of social responsibility activities that are possible only at shops. Group subsidiaries also use their business activities to help solve social issues.
Eliminating the Digital Divide
The Bell-Park Group is using the activities of mobile carriers to promote and facilitate the use of digital devices and using other programs in order to reduce the gap in information between different segments of the population, a problem generally known as the digital divide. We are determined to make it possible for everyone to receive the benefits of digital technologies.
Smartphone classes
Bell-Park shops have smartphone classes for customers who are using a smartphone for the first time. Lessons cover basic functions as well as maps, cashless payments and many other ways to use smartphones.
Furthermore, we are using the Project for Supporting the Use of Digital Technology by Consumers, which is supported by the participation of mobile carriers, to offer lessons on the use of smartphones to apply for personal identification number cards, use e-Tax and perform other procedures.
Safe and responsible internet use by young people
Bell-Park promotes the use of filtering to prevent young people from using the internet to access harmful and other improper types of information. We also participate in the e-Net Caravan for internet literacy and manners. The caravan is backed by companies and organizations in the ICT field as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Certified instructors are sent to schools and other locations throughout Japan at no cost to lead classes for students from elementary to high schools as well as for parents, educators and others.
Using Business Activities to Solve Social Issues
The Bell-Park Group uses the business activities of subsidiaries to aim for solving a diverse array of social issues that cannot be solved only through business operations of carrier shops.
Measures concerning Japan’s falling population
Subsidiary Bellbride Inc. operates a marriage consultation and support business. By providing marriage counseling and other marriage activity services, the company is helping to combat Japan’s declining birthrate.
→Link to the Bellbride website
Support for single mothers and fathers
Single mothers and fathers often have to deal with problems like disadvantages in job hunting, financial instability and social isolation. To help solve these problems, subsidiary Bellbride has a matchmaking service to provide an opportunity to find a new partner with no initial fees (new member deposit and registration fee) for single mothers and fathers with incomes below a certain level.
Contributing to Community
As integral members of the areas they serve, Bell-Park Group carrier shops are dedicated to using business activities to provide valuable services and support for the residents of these communities.
Child safety stores
253 shops operated by Bell-Park have been registered as locations where children can stop on their way to or from school if they feel they are in danger.
Emergency recharging service
Bell-Park shops have battery-operated chargers that can recharge smartphones and other devices during power outages due to a natural disaster or other reason.
Work experience day for children
We accepts primary schools students for work experience sessions, providing educational opportunities for local children and deepening exchanges with them.
Community clean-up program
Bell-Park employees participate in activities to pick up trash and other items around Bell-Park shops and near railway stations for communities we serve.
