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. There were also Tanabe twin brothers, Fussa residents, working with us during the morning.
We took great care in holding the meeting such as measuring body temperature, sanitizing with alcohol, and wearing a mask so as to prevent the new corona virus infection.
The day’s task was cleaning, refurbishing, and packing wheelchairs for APHT, Thailand, started in November last year. We’ve finished cleaning and refurbishing twelve wheelchairs and packing seven out of them, meaning we’ve got 30 wheelchairs ready for APHT now.
Under the corona crisis, all we can do is hold mini-meetings, which means activities by a small number of people. As the number of wheelchairs we can refurbish in such meetings is not large, we’ve entrusted NGO Youth Support Center to refurbish wheelchairs in the same way as we do. They’ve finished refurbishing 22 wheelchairs as of April 11, so there are 52 wheelchairs for APHT in total, and we plan to refurbish 38 more for Thailand.
April 11 Secretariat
The activity went like this.
Sanitizing with alcohol and measuring temperature first, then filling in the form.
Sagami Women’s Uni group, cleaning wheelchairs.
(Left)Vietnamese group, cleaning wheelchairs.
(Right)Giang, chief of Vietnamese group, refurbishing wheelchairs as usual.
Tanabe brothers, cleaning wheelchairs.
It was a fine day.
Today’s participants. Thank you for joining the meeting!