Mitsubishi Electric Australia Pty. Ltd. supports the local community and promotes wholesome development of youth through sport by sponsoring the popular Bulldogs Rugby League Club of Canterbury, an Australian Rugby League team with a proud -- and winning -- history that goes all the way back to 1935.

Mitsubishi Electric is a gold sponsor for Breakfree Foundation, which provides educational and support programs for the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse among youth in the community. Breakfree works closely with schools, businesses and community organizations, and Mitsubishi Electric's support helps fund the creation of presentations to increase awareness of drug and alcohol abuse.

PT Mitsubishi Jaya Elevator and Escalator, a Mitsubishi Electric Group company based in Jakarta, Indonesia, strives to make positive contributions to the local community and environment. In celebration of the company's 11th anniversary in 2007, employee volunteers enacted a special program based on the theme, "education and clean environment empowerment" in the surrounding area of its factory in Karawang and Jatiluhur, West Java Province. A 350-strong contingent of employees mobilized to donate desks and other resources to a local primary school in Margamulya Village, Karawang, and install dozens of waste bins in various locations throughout the beautiful Jatiluhur Recreational Park and Water Dam Complex.

The SOCIO-ROOTS Fund has made contributions to the Total Care Assistant Dog Center in Atsugi City, Kanagawa Prefecture for raising and training dogs that give physical and psychological support to people with disabilities.

The Mitsubishi Electric Nakatsugawa Volunteer Club in Japan, known as the MV Club, helps out at nursing facilities in the local area during summer festivals. Recently more than 30 employees from three facilities set up and maintained booths with popular treats for festival goers.

Mitsubishi Electric's Nagatsugawa Works Iida Factory in Japan is the home of an apple orchard that employees harvest each year; the harvested apples are presented to social welfare facilities in Iida City.

Held every November since 1992, this city festival in Kyoto (Nagaoka Kyo) is based on the theme of Garasha Hosokawa's famous "Tale of Love and Emotion." About a hundred Mitsubishi Electric company volunteers participate in the festival every year.

Employee volunteers from Mitsubishi Electric Taiwan Co. Ltd. hosted an event with special activities to support a Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, including a "Skyscraper Mounting" activity to climb the 1006 steps to the top of the Shin Kong Skyscraper in Taipei. All participants succeeded in making the climb to the top and increased their awareness of this important issue related to women's health.

Mitsubishi Electric, the Mitsubishi Group and other local companies related to Mitsubishi in Taiwan cooperated in sponsoring a special "Angel Heart Charity Concert" in March, 2007 to raise money for children with disabilities. Two orchestras -- Orchestra Plettro from Japan and the Angel Heart Orchestra from Taiwan -- performed at the event, which attracted an audience of 800 and helped raise awareness by all participants of the good that can be done by taking a proactive approach to corporate philanthropy.

The Mitsubishi Electric Thai Foundation annually grants 30 grade schools recommended by the Thai Ministry of Education a sum of 10,000 baht each for use in the buying of feed and fertilizer with which to grow crops and cultivate livestock. These provisions are then used to provide nourishing lunches to schoolchildren in need. The program was begun in 1999.