Fussa Blues Festival was held today, and a lot of people came in spite of the rain. I cooked Ethiopian curry for fifty people with Mr. Abebe and it was sold out in the morning.
I was pleasantly surprised that the Ethiopian minister, Mr.Samuel , visited the festival. I am also grateful that many guests made a donation for our NPO. Last, but not least, I’d like to thank professional musicians for their nice and voluntary performances.

  November 4, 2018
     President, Hirokazu Morita

Mr. Abebe with Ethiopian curry.	Photo with Mr. Ishikawa, owner of Ishikawa Brewery.

  Oct. 7, I went to “Paraguay Festival,” an event held annually at Hikarigaoka Park, in my neighborhood. It was a hot day, but there were lots of people joining the festival.

  I visited the guests’ seats to find Mr. Toyotoshi, the former ambassador. He is now the president of Toyotoshi Group, which deals with selling cars, mostly Toyota. He says he’s still traveling between Japan and Paraguay.
  Mr. Raúl FLORENTÍN ANTOLA, the present amabassador, also recognized me as a volunteering member and both of them were very pleased when I told them about our plan to deliver 80 to 90 wheelchairs to Paraguay next year.
  Mr. Toyotoshi said, “The container will be 20-feet, then,” and Mr. Raúl said he’d like to join our monthly activity. As for the paperwork of the delivery, my job is to talk with the secretaries from now.

  The festival was full of entertainments like Paraguay music and “ParaColle(by the emcee),” a show of folk costumes of the country. The ambassador said in his speech that this is the 40th year since JICA started its activities in Paraguay, and the representative of JICA made a speech, too.

  There also was smoke rising thickly from the barbecue booth, and so many people were waiting for nice and giant grilled beef for more than an hour in a long line.

　　　　　　　　　Oct. 7, 2018　　　Direcotr, Oda

(Left) Mr. Toyotoshi, the former ambassador, Mr. Oda, Mr.Raúl, the present ambassador(from left to right).
(Right) Mr.Raúl, making a speech on the stage.

(Left) The stage.
(Right) Mr.Raúl, introducing their folk costumes.

(Left) Great crowd.
(Right) A long line for giant beef.

  More than 250 drawings from 10 countries were sent to us by request of our late director, Mr. Katano, who had asked overseas children on wheelchairs to show how they felt by drawing a picture.
  We held an exhibition of those drawings on August 27th ~ 29th at Fussa Art Gallery so that many Japanese people especially those children and their families who provided us with their wheelchairs could see the pictures.

  The exhibition was held under the joint support of the NPO, ILSC. Into the donation box there was put 6,000yen. We really appereciate such donation and ILSC’s support.

  We’re planning to hold the next exhibiton on Wednesday, October 24th through Sunday 28th. We hope lots of people will come to see the children’s drawings.

August, 2018 Hirokazu Morita

－The first Exbition at Fussa Art Gallery－
Mr. Nakajima, president of the NPO, ILSC, Mr. Morita, Mr. Yamaguchi, director of the NPO(from left)

Next Exhibition’s Schedule: 10:00 ~ 18:00, October 24th ~ 28th, 2018, at
Fussa Art Gallery.