About
Anime For Humanity
Anime For Humanity is a 501©(3) non-profit charity dedicated to using anime, cosplay, and video games as a medium to challenge the stigma surrounding mental health. We attend conventions all over the nation to meet people face to face, start conversations that spark change, and hand out resources to anyone looking for support and community.
the anime therapy kit?
The Anime Therapy Kits contains anime recommendations, mental health resources, contact information, and a spark of joy to remind people that it’s okay to reach out and ask for help. Getting an Anime Therapy Kit in someone’s hands means we’ve reached them with tools and resources to use in times of crisis.
The Projects
Our VISION
Why Anime, Cosplay & video games?
We believe Anime. Cosplay, Video Games and everything fandom give us an opportunity to move people from isolation to community, from pain to hope and healing. There are many who suffer from mental health silently. They might not be ready to reach out or find the courage to step into therapy. Our mission is to reach them and provide them with hope and the mental health resources they need.
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Anime therapy Kit
Upcoming conventions and events
Our impact
We handed 12,469 anime therapy kits so far!
Over the course of one year, we traveled 61,800 miles across the nation to hand out our Anime Therapy Kits, providing more than 10,000 people with mental health resources they can reach out to in times of crisis.
Contributions made to Anime For Humanity drive our ability to print The Anime Therapy Kits and provide them for free to anyone who is looking for hope and professional help.
OUR MASCOT
Meet Ki-Chan
Ki-chan’s loves to travel to conventions to share the message of hope and inspiration through anime. She loves everything about conventions: particularly shopping at the artist alley and meeting her mascot friends. She also enjoys watching anime on her phone, listening to music, relaxing in hot springs, and smelling cherry blossoms.
Ki is a Japanese kana with many uses and definitions, with a unified sense of energy and spirit. It embodies a sense of empowerment and life. Ki-Chan is a symbol of believing in yourself and the power of friendship. She brings anime into her real life to use it as her daily motivation and a reminder that she doesn’t have to face anything alone.
She believes anime can be used as a therapeutic tool in serving mental health needs. Through relating to anime characters, it allows us to see how we can deal with mental health issues and reach out for help in times of crisis.
Meet Ki-Chan
Ki-chan’s loves to travel to every convention to share the message of hope and inspiration through Anime. She loves everything about conventions, particularly shopping at the artist alley and meeting her mascot friends. She also enjoys watching anime on her phone, listening to music, relaxing in hot springs and smelling cherry blossoms.
Ki is possibly the most powerful, useful and even quintessentially Japanese word in the Japanese language. Ki-Chan is a symbol of believing in yourself and the power of friendship. She brings anime into her real life to use it as her daily motivation and always remember she does not have to face anything alone.
She believes Anime can be used as a therapeutic tool in serving mental health needs. Through relating to Anime characters, it allow us to see how we can deal with mental health issues and reach out for help in times of crisis.
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