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The 3rd state of emergency for Covid-19 was cancelled on June 20 and we’ve had a mini-meeting twice since then. However, the fourth state of emergency was issued on July 12 and it’s on effect through August 22. We’ve decided to suspend mini-meetings until August 22.
If the state of emergency is released on Aug. 22 as scheduled, we’ll restart our mini-meeting on Aug. 29. Thank you for your cooperation.
July 12, 2021 Hirokazu Morita
On July 10, though it was announced that the 4th state of emergency would be issued on July 12, we had a mini-meeting as we had planned. We naturally took strong measures against the new corona virus infection. There were six members from Sagami Women’s University group and two from Vietnamese group joining the activity. To read more,
On July 4, we had a mini-meeting with great care of preventing the new corona infection. We held the meeting after a long interval as the state of emergency was released on Jun 20. It rained on and off all day, so we took tents from our warehouse so as not to wet wheelchairs and ourselves.
To read more,
We held an annual meeting on June 20(Sun). The annual report and 2021 activity plan were approved. The detail(written in Japanese) is from here.
The state of emergency for Covid-19 was cancelled in nine prefectures on June 20, but seven prefectures including Tokyo have been under the priority measures preventing prevalence. Although these measures are mainly for restaurants and diners, corona virus infection is still spreading. So we think it’s necessary for us to be strict about our behavior.
We’d like to restart refurbishing wheelchair activity by holding a mini-meeting with a small number of people in July. The mini-meeting we assume is as follows:
-The number of participants should be less than eleven.
-Every participant should take their temperature before the meeting and
should not join if they have anything unusual.
-Every participant should disinfect their hands.
-Every participant should wear face mask, face shield or mouth shield.
-Every participant should work two meters away from others.
-No loud voices.
Mini-meetings are to be held on Sundays, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. from this July. If you want to join the meeting, contact us to the secretariat. Then we adjust the schedule and get back to you.
The donation plan for 2021 is about 200 wheelchairs in total, much less than that of 2020. We intend to refurbish and send as many wheelchairs as we can to receivable countries by increasing the number of mini-meetings. We’d like to ask for your cooperation.
June 21, 2021 Hirokazu Morita
On May 19, we went to Chiba Prefectural Matsudo Special School to get 36 wheelchairs. Ms. Matsudo, chair of the PTA, showed us around the spacious school building.
We put stickers of the school name and wheelchair management number on each wheelchair. With the help of PTA members and teachers, it took much less time than expected to finish putting stickers and loading the truck with 36 wheelchairs.
We told them we’d send their wheelchairs to Thailand, and they offered to prepare wheelchairs for us again as they collect such wheelchairs once in two years, hoping their wheelchairs would be of help to children in Thailand.
We’d like to express our thanks to PTA members and teachers of Matsudo Special School.
May 19, 2021 Secretariat
(Left )PTA members and teachers helping us putting stickers on each wheelchair.
(Right)They also helped us by moving wheelchairs one by one for stickers and carrying them out to the place for loading.
Loading wheelchairs into the truck in the rain.
With a big call, “To Thailand!”
In spite of the rain, it was a heart-warming visit with a great help of people there.
The state of emergency for COVID-19 has been postponed until the end of May and the number of infected people is still increasing.
Even though we’re in a difficult situation, we are glad to get some wheelchairs again. On May 8, Mr. Inagaki, who’s been doing nursing support and child support as an advisor at SO company, came over to deliver wheelchairs with his wife. He has often brought us wheelchairs which aren’t used anymore for various reasons in his workplace.
We’re likely to get another wheelchairs from special schools from now on, so we’ll be able to collect about one hundred wheelchairs in the period from April through May. We really appreciate it.
May 10, 2021 Secretariat
The wheelchairs we’ve got was nine in total.
The logo of SO Company.
On May 1, 2021, Ms. Yamanaka, representative director of NGO Saboten-no-Hana in Aichi prefecture, came over to my house to deliver six wheelchairs, driving for several hours by herself. NGO Saboten-no-Hana, which Ms. Yamanaka founded, is a multi-role facilities supporting children with seriously mental and physical disabilities and providing day care for children after school. I was impressed by the spirit of their activity with which the staff have been learning and trying to create a better place together with disabled children and their parents in that area. In their activities some wheelchairs are not to be used anymore with various reasons. Ms. Yamanaka didn’t want to dispose of those wheelchairs but to make use of them and has found our group.
I promised Ms. Yamanaka to deliver the wheelchairs to overseas children who need them and saw her leaving off.
May 6, 2021 Hirokazu Morita
Ms. Yamanaka(on the left)
～～～ About NGO Saboten-no-Hana ～～～
“CANPAN Project”, run by Nippon Foundation, is a nationwide database regarding organizations which provide public services. The following is the introduction of NGO Saboten-no-Hana in that database.
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The organization was founded by mothers who had children with seriously mental and physical disabilities and it works on the three issues below with the viewpoints of children and parents concerned.
1. Creating a place for children with seriously mental and physical disabilities |
〇Click here for detailed information of their activities.
All is written in Japanese.
・NGO Saboten-no-Hana – Basic Information
・NGO Saboten-no-Hana – Home | Facebook」
・NGO Saboten-no-Hana – Blog page
As the state of emergency for COVID-19, issued on January 7, 2021, was lifted on March 21, we had a mini-meeting on April 11, after a long interval. The participants were Sagami Women’s University group and Vietnamese group.
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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.