On December 23, we had an extra meeting with the help of TM Project Co., Ltd. staff members, who undertake a task of taking wheelchairs for us. What we did was putting our warehouse in order and packing buggy-type wheelchairs undone.
While it’s been hard to refurbish lots of wheelchairs at a time since last year, more and more wheelchairs have been brought in from special schools and certain number of individuals. That’s why our warehouse is full to capacity and we need to work on it. Actually we have been asking some of our overseas partners whether they’ll be able to accept wheelchairs undone.
Mr. Syed in Malaysia, to whom we had sent wheelchairs undone before, offered to accept buggy-type wheelchairs as they’re popular in Malaysia and relatively easy to refurbish. We did send 90 wheelchairs to Malaysia in August this year, but they seem to want buggy-type additionally because of the popularity of that type being light and easy to handle.
In such a situation, we got offering from TM Project that they’d like to do something for our NGO in return for getting a job of transporting wheelchairs. So we asked them to check how many buggy-type wheelchairs were in the warehouse and pack them. There was also one of our voluntary member, Mr. Tanabe, working with us.
We all carried out buggy-type wheelchairs, put them both number and logo stickers, then packed them. It took only a few hours to finish packing 22 buggy-type wheelchairs.
We expect to add relatively small wheelchairs to all the buggy-type wheelchairs we have, and send 90 wheelchairs to Malaysia in the beginning of February. Thank you very much, TM Project members and Mr. Tanabe!
December 23, 2021 Secretariat
Carrying out buggy-type wheelchairs from the warehouse.
Putting wheelchairs both number and logo stickers and packing them. Surprisingly quick and neat work of professionals!
Today’s participants. Five people from the right are TM Project members, the sixth is Mr. Tanabe, and the last one is our President, Mr. Morita.