今年も石巻を支援します！2012年から続けている、石巻市門脇町の子供のための三社祭を今年もサポートします。今年は7月8日（土）～9日（日）に開催されます（8日の早朝に石巻に向けて出発し、9日の夜に帰京します）。数品の料理（マリーフランスさんご自慢の本場フランスのクレープと、マヤさん監修の手料理など）や、ゲームを用意し、さらにお神輿を子供達と一緒に担いで町内を練り歩きます。当日お手伝いをしてくれる方を募集していますので、こちらもどうぞ登録フォームからご登録下さい。
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nadia International Soccer Friendly Cup 2017
本イベントは、東北の被災地、東京、
小児脳腫瘍の会による親睦会イベントのサポート
6月17日（土）に小児脳腫瘍の会の親睦会イベントのサポートをします。場所は横浜市栄区にある「上郷・森の家」です（JR大船駅または京浜急行金沢八景駅からバスで約30～40分）。小児脳腫瘍の子供達を含む約40名の子供と一緒に、正午から夜にかけてゲームやBBQなどをして楽しむ予定です。当日お手伝いをしてくれる方を募集しています。お手伝いをして頂ける方はnadiaの友人に声をかけて頂くか、登録フォームからどうぞご登録下さい。
nadia’s Teikan (official rules) update
3月11日のチャリティーイベントでお伝えした通り、NPO法人nadiaの定款の変更手続きをしておりました。そしてその変更書類が4月10日に東京都に受理されましたことをお知らせ致します。定款の主な変更点は、震災による被災者の支援から、社会的不利を負う人々に対する支援事業へと大きく対象が広がったことです。そしてより良い社会作りに寄与することが最終の目的となります。皆様には今後も変わらぬご支援をどうぞ宜しくお願い致します。
３月１１日東日本大震災・津波 チャリティイベント
３月１１日に恵比寿の What the Dickens で開催されるチャリティーイベントのプロモビデオです。ご覧ください。
当日は会場でお待ちしております！お見逃しなく！
Ogatsu Playground Build Report – September 2016
This fantastic project started back in February 2016, after team nadia was asked to bring a kids playground to the city of Ogatsucho in the Ishinomaki area. Ogatsucho is a small fisher village directly at the cost line. Residential buildings are rebuilt on higher grounds as many houses were destroyed by the 2011 tsunami.
The very fun part was to involve children from the Koyama Home orphanage in Chiba throughout the planning phase as well as the build and opening ceremony.
Thanks to our friends at Playground of Hope (PoH) and the sponsors of International Volunteer Group (IVG) this became a huge success.
nadia volunteer committee members met with the Koyama Home kids the first time in July to introduce and discuss about the project.
The second meeting was a done via Video Conference. The breakfast menu on the day of event was decided with the kids then.
And the third time we met again in August, finalizing the plan and started folding a 1000 paper cranes.
After a night in the bus we started the day early with a rich breakfast prepared by the kids. Salad, sausages, scrambled egg and toasted bread was on the menu.
While the Koyama Home group went on an organized “sightseeing” tour we started with the playground construction from the very beginning. The group came back in the early afternoon and all helped with putting the parts together.
Thanks to the professional lead of Yannick, Angela of POH and Horiuchi-san of Sakae corporation the playground and spring rockers were in place in the evening.
Dinner with deliciously fresh seafood was organized by the local community. That was a highlight by itself.
Day two was all about the opening ceremony.
After quickly folding some more paper cranes the speeches of all involved parties were spoken and balloons released.
A local taiko drum formation impressed with their powerful and synchronized drum performance and our Okinawa music performer Ritsuko animated to dance.
It was a pleasure to see the local and the Koyama Home children playing on the brand new playground.
Another round of BBQ with the freshest scallops and hoya (sea pineapple) for lunch before we went back on the long drive to Chiba and Tokyo.
It was an outstanding experience for team nadia to work together with all the involved groups. Especially heartwarming is the relationship with the Koyama Home children, which we will never forget and hopefully staying in contact with other projects in the future.
by Rolf
nadia Annual General Assembly 2016
nadia’s Annual General Assembly is open to the public. However, room constraints limit us to 30 people including executive members. Please register early to secure your seat.
DATE: Tuesday, November 22 2016, 7:30 pm
VENUE: Our charity partner, Societe Generale is kindly offering us a conference room
• Palace Bldg., 1-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8206 Japan
(Subways: Otemachi or Tokyo stations)
MAIN AGENDA (subject to change):
– reminder of nadia’s vision and endeavors
– previous years activities and financial report
– next years projects and budget
– structure of the NPO
– new appointments
– AOB
– Q&A
We need the following information both for nadia official GA records as well as for communication purposes in case there is any change in dates or place.
Thank you very much and we look forward to seeing you soon,
nadia board members
Ogatsu local newsletter
Sanja Matsuri Report – July 2016
We were able to organize this trip thanks to the fundraiser event with auction on 3/11 earlier this year.
The journey started with a smaller group of volunteers and about the same amount of nadia core members on Friday night from Shinjuku.
The bus drove through the night and we arrived safely early morning in Ishinomaki. We could get another few hours of sleep, laying down in the Minato community center.
Saturday morning we split into several groups:
Gentaro and Joji visited Chiba-san to plan about the Ogatsu playground build in September
Sakiko and volunteer friends went shopping for ingredients and then prepared crepes in the Minato community center kitchen for the Sunday festival
Koss and a fellow volunteer drove to Kamome school for disabled kids where we built a playground at the end of 2014; they did some maintenance and weeding around the play-set
Morgan and Rolf took some volunteers to the annual grass and weed cutting around the Atsuta shrine. Fortunately we got reinforced by locals helpers
It was raining quite hard the whole Saturday but on Sunday it luckily cleared up, right on time for the Sanja kids festival.
The preparations and ceremony started early Sunday morning.
By the time the kids and adults in their blue happis (shirts), carrying the mikoshi (portable shrine), shouting ‘yoisa yoisa’, came back from their rounds around the neighborhood the following entertainment was ready:
giant “magic” bubbles (not so gigantic in the picture)
the shovel guitar players proved again that it doesn’t need strings to play the shovels
the Ogatsu taiko drummers took it away with their outstanding powerful performance
the Okinawa performers sang and played traditional songs with their shamisen guitars
fishing water balloons and toys which turned into a big splash zone in the end – how fun was that!
various foods like yakisoba and others from the local community as well as crepes from team nadia
THANK YOU, supporters of the 3/11 memorial dinner and volunteers to make a difference by supporting this great festival event. We participated the 5th time this year and its always great fun as you can see on the pictures above.
by Rolf
Ishinomaki meets Kumamoto
2016年4月14日に発生した熊本地震による被災者に対してNadiaに出来ることはないか、メンバーで話した結論は「Ishinomaki meets Kumamoto」と名付けた支援で、石巻で被災した食品会社から食料を購入し、被災地に届けるというものでした。これまでに交流のあった食品会社に連絡を取り、協力をお願いしたところ快く食品や物資の提供を引き受けて下さいました。
一方熊本では「西原村たんぽぽハウス」という団体からぜひ食品・物資を頂きたいとの連絡がありました。西原村は阿蘇に近く、益城町と並んで被害の大きかった村です。この団体は本来は障害者施設なのですが、震災直後から炊き出しや救援物資の配送などを行っています。最近はNHKのバリバラという番組で紹介されました。5/29放送「熊本地震から１か月半 西原村・作業所再建の日々」（http://www6.nhk.or.jp/baribara/lineup/single.html?i=128）
支援物資は宮城県に在住の末永さんという方が、ちょうどご自身もボランティアに行かれるということで、なんと車で届けて下さいました（およそ1,600 km!）。私達Nadiaの気持ちが熊本に届いたことを本当に嬉しく思います。また、寄付金などの支援をして頂いた皆様にも心より御礼申し上げます。熊本の一日も早い復興を心より願っています。
