The German Charity Fund supports German citizens and their dependents if they have got in trouble in Japan. Examples from BDF's initiatives: - Help and support in Japan for Germans in need. - Supporting the elderly in case they neither have contacts to Germany nor have any support in Japan. - Subsidizing cost for retirement homes, medical treatments and education of children in case of financial distress. - subsidies for surviving dependents receiving only minimal widows annuity. - Supporti