LATEST NEWS
David Lee has recently spend time with the volunteer group, It’s Not Just Mud to plan further joint projects. They have done a brilliant job restoring two houses which now provide accommodation for volunteers increasing their capacity to include more projects. Amongst these the Playground for Ishinomaki project is moving forward well with the generous financial support of the Stephen Cropper Tohoku Educational Fund.
Sarah Outen has recently completed the Japan leg of her round the world tour and is supporting the winter clothes for Tohoku project. We are pleased to accept donations for this project which can be gift aided by completing the form on the donations page. You can follow her trip online and this entry describes her visit to northern Japan.
We wish to thank Nuclear Risk Insurers Ltd for their very generous donation of £17,832 which has been passed on to a psychiatric clinic in Soma.
We have updated our volunteer in Tohoku programme which gives free full support to anyone wishing to volunteer in Japan. See HERE for further details.
We wish to thank some special people for recent fundraising:
Celia, Teruko, Harriet and Jenny raised ￡1500 by entertaining 50 people to a cello recital in their barn, with delicious sushi and wine, followed by an enjoyable yushoku typical Japanese supper, made up of various tasty dishes and finished with a display of traditional Japanese dancing.”
Simon and Satsuki arranged an amazing birthday party after their two sons asked to have donations for Japan instead of birthday presents. The party was based on “Takeshi’s Castle”, a well known Japanese TV programme, and raised over ￡540.
One of our trustees, David Lee, has recently returned from a trip to Tohoku and has completed a report which can be viewed here.
We are delighted what was achieved on this trip, as described in the report. With a permanent representative now established in Ishinomaki we will continue to fundraise, assist volunteers and support identified causes as much as we can.
The Special Needs students at Abingdon & Witney College have done brilliantly in their sponsored event making Origami cranes. To date they have made 640 and their target is to complete 1,000 which will be taken to Japan by David Lee and presented to a school there.
Please see the latest press coverage of Helping Hands for Japan, this time in the Japan Times.
Click HERE for the full article.
The children at Woodstock Primary School have produced some excellent calligraphy with messages to be passed on to a school in Japan.
A concert held by the children of Hill View School in Banbury raised £303.85.
£509.73 was raised at a cake sale at the Nuffield Hospital in Oxford – a fantastic effort!
One of our Trustees, David Lee has been in Japan volunteering and factfinding in the affected area. You can read his reports HERE
Read more about the projects we’re supporting HERE
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