It was a fair, pleasant Sunday. Our work today was for Malaysia. We planned to send 90 wheelchairs at first, but we’ve changed the number into 160 to 180, so our goal today became 100.
Our usual process is cleaning, refurbishing including exchanging tires and adjusting brakes, putting seals, taking measurements, and packing, but as we have confirmed that our partner in Malaysia can cover refurbishing, we can omit refurbishing part, which has shortened the working time and has doubled the number of wheelchairs we can clean and pack today. However, there’s a possibility that the local partner cannot get new tires, so we offer tires for some wheelchairs which will need exchanging tires.
Today we had about sixty people in total: Sagami Women’s University group, Vietnamese group, Nokko Asset Management group, Ethiopian group, and volunteering members. Thanks to these participants, we finished cleaning and packing more than 100 (103!) wheelchairs. We’re going to do the same way next month and will be able to send 180 wheelchairs to Malaysia at the end of June.
100 wheelchairs waiting for volunteers.
Our staff explaining to participants how different today’s work is.
(Left) A bathing chair. This is very helpful for getting a child into a bath.
(Right) A wheelchair with electric assistance. It doesn’t self-drive, but helps to move, so it’s easy to advance with less power. This is an electric wheelchair, so we will talk with Saito Factory about how to use it.
(Left) Nikko Asset Management group.
(Right) Vietnamese group.
(Left) Participants listening to today’s results.
(Rigth) Yamashita talking about his bicycle event, where he is going to run a fund-raising campaign for us.
Thank you, everyone!