Most of the wheelchairs our NGO send to overseas children are donations from special schools in the Kanto district. They give us five to six hundred wheelchairs every year. In November we got offeres from the following four schools.
– 11/1 Kitatsunashima special school 10 wheelchairs
– 11/11 Itabashi Murasaki Aiikuen 32 wheelchairs
– 11/19 Shikamoto Gakuen 11 wheelchairs
– 11/22 Wakabadai special school 11 wheelchairs
As for receiving these wheelchairs we arrange to send a truck to each school. School teachers and PTA members help us carry out wheelchairs and load them into the truck. They thank us for not wasting their wheelchairs and reusing them as well.
We promise them to refurbish the wheelchairs completely in our activity and send them to needy children abroad. We also thank them for offering their wheelchairs and giving us help.
－－－－－－－－－ This is how we get wheelchairs. －－－－－－－－－
〇At Shikamoto Gakuen(11/19)
Shikamoto Gakuen is ten-minute bus ride from JR Shinkoiwa station. It has two sections, one is for the physically disabled and the other is for the mentally disabled. The lot is very large and the school buildings look spacious.
(Left) When we got to the school the PTA members were carrying out wheelchairs.
(Right) They moved the wheelchairs close to the truck.
Loading wheelchairs into the truck.
(Left) The last two wheelchairs and the PTA members.
(Right) The truck heading for our warehouse in Hamura.
〇At Wakabadai special school(11/22)
Wakabadai special school is twenty-minute bus ride from JR Tokaichiba station. It has a physically disabled section and a mentally disabled section like Shikamoto Gakuen, and about eighty students come to each section.
Schoolteachers and PTA members helped us load wheelchairs into the truck.
(Left) Teachers gathered wheelchairs in the hallway beforehand.
(Right) Teachers and PTA members carried wheelchairs by an elevator.
(Left) Wheelchairs under the eaves waiting for the truck.
(Right) Using a lifter for loading.
(Left) Loading in the rain, unfortunately.
(Right) Thanks for helping us.