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The 90 wheelchairs were shipped on November 14 2019 from Tokyo Bay and arrived at Hai Phong port,Vietnam, on 24.
This marine transport is for free thanks to the APL. We’d like to express our gratitude for their support.
The handover ceremony were held on Jan.13 and 14 2020 in two provinces, Vietnam. Our two members attended the ceremony.
The detail is from here.
We have donated 8,092 wheelchairs to 24 countries as of the end of December, 2019. We couldn’t have done this without your help. I’d like to express our gratitude to everyone who have supported our activities.
The next goal would be 10,000 wheelchairs to overseas children.
January 26, 2020 Hirokazu MORITA
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The following is the revised graph of the presentation results by country. The details can be seen from “Donation Record“.
The first meeting in 2020 was blessed with fine weather, warm and pleasant to work. There were as many as 75 participants; Sagami Women’s University group, Vietnamese group, Tama Technical High School group, US Yokota Air Force Base group, Ethiopian group, and regular volunteers. To read more,
It’s a long way to deliver wheelchairs to overseas children. We can’t do it without your great support. I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
I hope that needy children overseas will use donated wheelchairs as long as possible and I’d like to advance our activities considering what we should do after donating wheelchairs.
I will do my best, with your great help, to deliver wheelchairs to children who want to go out of their house freely but can’t.
I wish all of you a happy new year.
January 1,2020 Hirokazu MORITA
The photo is from “Mount Fuji Photos“(free page).
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 December we got offers from the following three schools.
– 12/2 Ryokuseikai Seiikuen Center 25 wheelchairs
– 12/18 Chiba Sakuragaoka special school 40 wheelchairs
– 12/23 Kamakura School for the disabled 11 wheelchairs
Now that we got 76 wheelchairs this month, the number of the wheelchairs we’ve got from April through December in 2019 is 380 in total.
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. －－－－－－－－－
We went to Ryokuseikai Seiikuen Center in Kodaira, Tokyo, on December 2. It’s a day care center for children with disability.
(Left) The day care center is next to Ryokuseikai Seiikuen Hospital.
(Right) We worked in the cold rain.
(Left) We loaded 25 wheelchairs and buggies into the truck.
(Right) Mr. Koizumi, a physical therapist of the center, had cleaned the wheelchairs, removing mold since they had been stored in the basement for a long time and full of mold. The wheelchairs were very clean and we took care not to make them wet.
The detail is from here.
There was no cleaning or refurbishing work today. We had a mochi making and eating party instead. Many participants had fun at the party; Sagami Women’s University group, Vietnamese group, U.S. Yokota Air Force Base group, Tama Technical High School group, Ethiopian group, and voluntary members. To read more,
A woman in Akita prefecture found our website and asked us for an wheelchair in September this year. A Phillipino employee of her father’s company has left her daughter home, who has cerebral palsy(CP) and needs a wheelchair. So we chose a wheelchair which seemed fit for the daughter with the information we got and sent it to the woman in Akita.
The following is the excerpt mail from Akita.
“There is a Philippino woman working in my father’s company. She has left a daughter home, who seems to have CP. The employee is going home in November and we’d like to give her a wheelchair when she leaves Japan. Our address is Akita. If you could send it to me from Tokyo, we will pay the delivery fee.
The daughter is fourteen years old and we’ve got her height and waist size. We’d like to be of a help for a Philippino working with us. It’s hard to purchase a wheelchair for a child with CP on her own. It would be nice of you to give us a hand.”
The woman in Akita gave us a photo after sending a wheelchair to the Philippines.
“I’ll send a photo from the Philippines, which shows the daughter sitting on the wheelchair happily. Her smile makes us so happy. We really appreciate your great help. Thank you very much.”
The photo makes us happy too.
“Bike & Camp”, organized by one of our voluntary members, Yamashita(his official site）, was held at Kasmigaura, Ibaragi, on November 23 and 24.
It was rainy all three days including the preparation day, unfortunately. In spite of such weather, however, 38 participants stayed in their tents, 42 shops were open, and about 80 makers and lots of people supported the event. They had also planned various kinds of workshops, some of which were cancelled due to the heavy rain.
On the night of 23, there were a talk session and a charity auction. In the talk session, Mr. Nishikawa, who has been traveling around the world by bike, told us interesting stories based on his own experiences. In the charity auction, they offered more than eighty goods, which seemed to be so attractive to bike riders and camp goers.
There were three kinds of charity at ‘Bike & Camp’ this time. The first is the charity auction and the second is cake sale. We asked Mr. Nishikawa to sell cakes baked by a voluntary member of our NGO with his ‘free coffee.’ Mr. Nishikawa offers ‘free coffee’ during his bike travel around the world too. The third is collecting donation through ‘rental helmet’ for bike trial.
Though not many people tried riding a bike in the rain, our donation box became full, much more than the rental fee(100 yen for each).
The half of the charity auction went to the typhoon victims in Ibaragi and they donated the other half to our NGO. The total donation was over 100,000 yen. We really appreciate it. Thank you very much.
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(Left) Around Kasumigaura is 100 km. The event was held at Ayuzaki park, in the north lakeside.
(Right) Schedule of ‘Bike & Camp.’
The main tent and our NGO’s tent.
Our NGO’s tent. Look at the handmade signboard and photo panel.
(Left) They had lots of firewood in the main tent. The firewood was provided for free.
(Right) Rainy and windy all through the event, but bike riders didn’t seem to care.
(Left) Participants at the main tent. The first thing to do was to sign up for application.
(Right) Yamashita, being interviewed by the PR department of Kasumigaura city.
(Left) There were many food shops.
(Right) Original spoon making by pounding brass.
(Left) Kids are always energetic, rain or shine.
(Right) The bike with a small baggage car.
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A talk show was held upstairs of Kasumi Kitchen at the lakeside on Saturday night.
(Left) So many goods for the auction. There were bags attached to a bike, T-shirts, various kinds of bike parts, and a bike frame, which was sold at 20,000yen.
(Right) Looks like this auction was so exciting to bike freak participants.
(Left) Mr. Nishikawa was offering free coffee all through the event.
(Right) He sold our cakes with free coffee for our NGO.
There was a moment of sunshine on Sunday, only once though.
Rain, rain, rain. Every group started to put away things and take down before the closing time, 14:00.
Thanks to everyone at the event, it was successful even though it was under rainy weather.
We have got news that the wheelchairs we had offered to Saito Workshop Co.,Ltd and NPO”good!” on October 24 reached Erdenette, Orkhon county, in northern part of Mongolia. They are refurbishing the wheelchairs at a Mongolian vocational college and will send them to children there, they say. Mr. Saito is going to visit the college to give them technical instructions.
Thus the number of the countries we have sent wheelchairs to is 24, and the total of wheelchairs we have sent is 8,066.
The donation record graph is from here.