On September 10, 2021, we went to Saitama Prefectural Miyashiro Special School to receive 23 wheelchairs for children. There were teachers and PTA members waiting for us and helping us load them into the truck.
Before loading, we put a sticker which says “Miyashiro special school, Sep. 2021” on every wheelchair. With this sticker we can recognize which wheelchair goes to which country and report it on our website.(Click the photo to enlarge.)
We were moved to see all the wheelchairs covered with a plastic sheet. It was the teachers who had done it so that they would not be covered with dust while putting them in storage. How considerate of them! With their warm heart in mind, we are sure to deliver these wheelchairs to overseas children.
Thank you everyone in Miyashiro Special School.
September 14, 2021 Secretariat
〇About Miyashiro Special School(From the school website)
(Click the above photo to move to the website of Miyashiro Special School)
Miyashiro town, where Miyashiro Special School is located, is in the eastern center of Saitama prefecture, and there are Tobu Dobutsu Koen and Nihon Kogyo University in the middle of the town.
The school has 135 pupils in total as of May 2021, 66 in elementary school, 34 in junior high school, and 35 in senior high school. As the photos show, large school buildings stand in the spacious land and the school is fully equipped with facilities such as gym, playground, heated pool as well as swimming pool, and outdoor training ground. The above photo shows a big garage for large-sized school buses.
〇Loading wheelchairs.
The wheelchairs were outside, waiting for us. They were all carefully covered with plastic sheets.
We checked which type each wheelchair was and loaded them into the truck, putting down how many they were.
The truck leaving school.
(Left) Photo taken before loading work(We asked them to take off their masks only for this moment).
(Right) Photo after finishing the work. The man on the right in the back row(in the right photo) is Mr. Kasai, teacher of the school.
Ms. Saito, the chair of PTA, is the second from the left in the front row(the same photo). The men on the truck are Tanabe brothers, who were in charge of transporting this time.
Thank you, everyone! We are sure to deliver these wheelchairs to overseas children.