The Nishitama weekly paper ran an article of the Global Citizenship Award on March 12, 2021.

  The article says that the Award was founded in 1985 and that in 2020 three out of ninety-eight organizations applying for the Award have won the prize. It also shows how we have been doing our activities and that Mr. Morita, our president, started sending wheelchairs to overseas children after miraculous recovery from cancer.

  Mr. Morita expresses his determination by saying, “My life is a saved one. I’d like to promote social contribution and international exchange to show my gratitude.”

March 31, 2021    Secretariat

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(Right) Mr. Morita and Tanabe brothers, who’re Fussa residents and have been supporting our activities. The center is Hidehisa Tanabe, elder brother, and the left is Naohisa Tanabe, younger one.
(Left) Refurbishing wheelchairs.

  The ceremony of the Global Citizenship Award held on February 24, 2021 is in the website of the Global Foundation.  Click here.

  Three organizations out of 98 applying for the 2020 Global Citizenship Award won the prize after a fair and strict judgment and in the ceremony the reasons for the awarded organizations are presented. There are also moving pictures of the activities of each organization and delighted comments by the three representatives.

  Our president, Mr. Morita, expresses his gratitude and determination by saying, “It’s all thanks to lots of support that we’ve been able to continue delivering wheelchairs to overseas children for 17 years. There are not only Japanese volunteers but plenty of foreign residents in Japan joining and supporting our activities, which is great help to us. We’ll keep on working from now on, longing for children in the next generation to live with dignity and enjoy freedom.”

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March 22, 2021 Secretariat

  The award ceremony of the Global Citizenship Award was held online on February 24. The certificate of the Award and the inventory of the extra prize, two million yen, have been delivered to us.
  The funds for our activities consist of every member’s annual fees, donations and subsidies, which would be said goodwill of many people. The extra prize of the Award has meant a great support to us. Although we’re still under the corona crisis, we’d like to make the best use of the prize so that we can deliver as many wheelchairs as possible to overseas children.

March  4,  2021    Hirokazu Morita

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  Several newspapers have reported that our NGO received the Global Citizenship Award by the Japan Foundation.
  The Global Citizenship Award was found in 1985. The Award aims to encourage organizations which collaborate with both Japanese and foreign citizens, exchange wisdom and ideas with them, and think together.(from the website of the Japan Foundation)

  As for the year 2020, nearly one hundred organizations applied for the Award and we were selected one of the three winners after a strict and fair judgment.

  Since the announcement of the prize winners by the Japan Foundation on February 4, we’ve got applications for news coverage by the press. In answering their questions, our president, Mr. Morita, said, “It’s all thanks to our supporters who have helped us for a long time that we’ve got this great award. Let me express my gratitude to all of them. I’d like to deliver as many wheelchairs as we can to overseas children from now on.”

Our sincere appreciation for your support on our activities.

March 6, 2021     Secretariat

”Nisino Kaze Shinbun”　March 4,2021	”Yomiuri Shinbun”　March 2,2021

”Minichi Shinbun”　Feb. 23,2021

  We had planned to ship 90 wheelchairs for Thailand at the end of March 2021 as the third project in fiscal 2020(April 2020 through March 2021). So, after shipping 180 for Myanmar in October we’ve had mini-meetings for refurbishing wheelchairs for Thailand. Due to the emergency declaration by the government on January 7, however, we’ve decided to cancel even mini-meetings and our activities are suspended now.

  We wipe the slate clean with the original project for Thailand and will start off with a new plan when we can do refurbishing work again and expect to finish 90 wheelchairs. Then we’re going to announce clearly when we will ship wheelchairs, judging the situation of corona crisis in Thailand.

  I hope everyone giving support to our NGO will be in good shape and overcome this crisis.

January 19, 2021 Hirokazu Morita

  On December 20, we had the last mini-meeting of 2020. The participants were five members from Sagami Women’s University group and a few voluntary members. To read more,

  We keep having a mini-meeting at our new activity base under the corona-influenced situation, and we’ve got used to working in a small group. On December 6, Mr. Takano, ex-teacher of Tama Technical High School, and five members from Sagami Women’s University group joined this meeting. It was a warm, pleasant day for December. To read more,

  Instead of holding a big monthly meeting, we’ve been doing a mini-meeting several times. On November 22, it was held mainly with Sagami Women’s University group, and on November 29, it was with Vietnamese group.
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