http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/ Transforming lives by sending refurbished wheelchairs throughout Asia ja Copyright 2007 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:47:06 +0900 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss After months of cleaning, repairing, and preparing, we packed our first container May 20th.]]> http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/packing_20_foot_container_for.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/packing_20_foot_container_for.html Events Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:47:06 +0900 March 17, 2007 Wheelchair Cleaning Day at Matsukawa Place http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/wheelchair_cleaning_day_at_mat_1.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/wheelchair_cleaning_day_at_mat_1.html Events Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:46:42 +0900 March 15, 2007 Wheelchair Cleaning Day at Matsukawa Place http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/wheelchair_cleaning_day_at_mat.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/wheelchair_cleaning_day_at_mat.html Events Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:46:17 +0900 March 11, 2007 Wheelchair Cleaning Day at Higashi Yamato Christ Church http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/wheelchair_cleaning_day_at_hig_1.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/wheelchair_cleaning_day_at_hig_1.html Events Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:45:36 +0900 March 7, 2007 Wheelchairs boxed for Cambodia trip http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/wheelchairs_boxed_for_cambodia.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/02/wheelchairs_boxed_for_cambodia.html Events Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:45:01 +0900 images/070130.jpg" width="290" height="217" />]]> http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/john_and_his_sister_rufamae.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/john_and_his_sister_rufamae.html Stories Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:38:58 +0900 images/Penner070126.jpg" width="290" height="436" />]]> http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/new_years_greeting.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/new_years_greeting.html Hot News Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:01:53 +0900 Early one Saturday morning this last November 40 elementary students gathered in a park to run. These children were from the Christian Academy in Japan and had come to run to raise money for wheelchairs. They had already gone to their parents, friends, and neighbors and gathered promises of a donation for every 500 meter lap they ran, and now they were eager to start. I was there to cheer them on knowing that young children could not run very far for very long and would need much encouragement. Before the run Ms. Ellison again explained they were running for Jesus; they were using their healthy legs to raise funds for wheelchairs to give to those in another country who aren窶冲 so fortunate to have legs that can run. Then they were off. Seeing the small legs on those tiny kids and seeing how fast they took off running I was sure some would make 2 or maybe 3 laps, then rest for 15 minutes and then maybe run another lap or two. How wrong I was!. This was not an easy, level track, yet there was not one single slacker in the entire group! How they ran still amazes me. Two second grade boys ran side by side the entire hour! The determination they showed to run and so help others was simply incredible. The amount they raised was also totally unexpected. In that morning those children raised 650,101 yen. One first grader, little "Will", single-handedly had over 90,000 yen in pledges. Their gift makes it possible to send 125 wheelchairs to Mongolia! The Christian Academy in Japan窶冱 motto says that they "equip their students to impact the world for Christ." They certainly did that day! Wheelchairs of Hope salutes the elementary children who ran, the high school cross country team members who showed up to run along side of the children and encourage them and keep track of laps run, the parents who got up early on a Saturday morning to take their children and show that this was something worth participating in. Thank you to the many sponsors who pledged as they could, so accumulating such a generous amount. Thank you Christian Academy for your generosity in giving many not just the gift of mobility but also opened the doors of hope.]]> http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/children_from_the_christian_ac.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/children_from_the_christian_ac.html Stories Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:58:26 +0900 Our English site is released! http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/our_english_site_is_released.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/our_english_site_is_released.html Hot News Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:33:27 +0900 2007 March 4 Wheelchair cleaning day at Denen Grace Chapel, Kawasaki City http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/wheelchair_cleaning_day_at_den.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/wheelchair_cleaning_day_at_den.html Events Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:32:51 +0900 2007 January 25 Wheelchair cleaning day at You-I Church, Ichikawa, Chiba http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/wheelchair_cleaning_day2007_ja.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/wheelchair_cleaning_day2007_ja.html Events Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:31:27 +0900 images/Candlelight0701a.jpg" width="290" height="386" /> Thein Aung, is a 58 years Burmese Muslim man with partial quadriplegia. An ox cart rolled with he was on it. Lort is a 19 year old Buddhist Mon man who had polio as a child. He is pictured here in the canoe factory where he works. Ramasean is a 56 year old Hindu Indian man diagnosed with strokes. People from a Japanese church gathered the chairs and cleaned them. A group of school administrators flew the chairs to Thailand when they went to a conference there. A physical therapist from New Zealand working with refugees on the Thai Burma border drove 7 hours to Bangkok to get them, and then helped fit them to the recipients. It is amazing the different people who work together to get wheelchairs to people who need them.]]> http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/ekhai_a_lao_woman.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/ekhai_a_lao_woman.html Stories Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:29:06 +0900 images/AIDS0701a.jpg" width="290" height="386" /> ]]> http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/aids_orphanage_in_cambodia.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/aids_orphanage_in_cambodia.html Stories Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:28:13 +0900 images/Gantida0701.jpg" width="290" height="233" />]]> http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/gantida_tagaw_in_thailand.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/gantida_tagaw_in_thailand.html Stories Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:27:32 +0900 February 22, 2007 First Annual General Meeting http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/first_annual_general_meeting_f.html http://www.k-kurumaisu.org/en/2007/01/first_annual_general_meeting_f.html Events Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:41:31 +0900