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Happy New Year!
With the support of many of you, we were able to deliver about 450 wheelchairs to overseas children in 2023. (January – December, 2023) This is all thanks to special schools providung us with wheelchairs and parents bringing us their … Continue reading
Fussa Blues Festival was held.
Under a crisp autumn sky, the annual Blues Concert was held on November 5. The venue for this year’s event was the large parking lot of Maru Fuji supermarket near Higashi Fussa Station on the JR Hachiko Line. The … Continue reading
President Morita was featured in the newspaper.
President Morita was featured in the July 30 Chunichi Shimbun newspaper. The newspaper’s “Who’s Who” section carries the headline “Hirokazu Morita, 64, Continues to Send Children’s Wheelchairs Overseas. (Click the article on the right to enlarge.) The article says how … Continue reading
Interview by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation “TSUNAGARI.”
On July 1, 2023, we were interviewed by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation “TSUBAGARI.” While the group was shown the wheelchairs at our Haijima warehouse, President Morita answered interviews from the foundation members. As a policy partner of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, … Continue reading
We’ve got a racing wheelchair.
On April 5, we got 29 wheelchairs from Saitama Prefectural Kawashima Hibarigaoka Special School. There was a racing wheelchair among them, which weighs 7.2 kg, about half or one third of regular bicycle. The frame is made of aluminum alloy, … Continue reading
Wheelchairs for Ukraine.
Our first wheelchairs for Ukraine were 12 units through a Ukranian resident in Japan(detail from here), Tokar Lesya. Though they left Tokyo port in October 2022, we have not yet received any information about the recipient children. It would be … Continue reading
A Happy New Year!
Twenty years have passed since we established our NGO. Thanks to the support of many people, the number of wheelchairs sent to children overseas is nearly 10,000. However, the spread of corona infection and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have become … Continue reading
BIKE&CAMP KANTOU 22.
“BIKE&CAMP KANTOU 22” is an event chaired by Mr. Yamashita, one of our voluntary members. “BIKE&CAMP is Japan’s only bicycle and camping themed ‘travel event.’ It is not a bicycle event nor a camping event. It is a travel event … Continue reading
12 wheelchairs for children were shipped to Ukraine.
Tokar Lesya, the second person from the right, is a Ukrainian living in Japan. She visited our NGO to send wheelchairs for children to Ukraine. On the far right is Ms. Yamabe of “More Jobs Better Lives,” a public benefit … Continue reading
Wheelchairs for Mongolia.
Our NGO, together with four other groups below, has sent 140 wheelchairs, 115 for grown-ups and 25 for children, to Mongolia. It’s Mr. Saito, NPO Sakura Wheelchair Project, who set up this Mongolia project. The five organizations have collaborated separately … Continue reading