We held a workshop at Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center. In the psychiatry department, children asked questions such as “how do you draw suicide?” “how do you draw family suicide?”; they suffer from deep invisible scars of their souls. We just hope that drawing can be a way to handle feelings that cannot be expressed in […]
We held a workshop in Mobara city, Chiba, where severe damage was caused by the recent typhoon. Furniture, etc. which were no longer usable were seen outside the houses. There was also a lot of garbage like we recently saw in Tochigi prefecture. The workshop was held in a nearby park, and children playing in […]
We held another workshop in Tateyama city, Chiba, where we had visited back in September. The school lunch center still has not been restored, and they are taking lunch to school everyday. Throughout the city, there were still many houses with blue sheets covering their roofs.
The founder Harumi immediately went to SANTA CLARITA in LA County as soon as she heard the wildfire news in the area. It continued to burn for a week. A number of organizations provided various information to the victims of Santa Claus’s refuge. It responded quickly to aiding the victims and providing food and shelter. Many […]
We visited Tochigi City where the typhoon had striked heavily. The Tochigi Technical High School in Tochigi City has been closed for 13 days that had rain filled the area to 1 meter and 90 centimeters. The water rose to nearly 2 meters that even pulled the child’s toy up the tree. The children showed […]
I came to Marumori Town, Miyagi Prefecture, where the typhoon had striked the area. The founder Harumi came along with the support from Dr. Watanabe from Tohoku. It was sad to see the fields that have been nurtured with great care being damaged. Their households such futons and furnitures were destroyed. Since there was no […]
This year we held an art workshop with the children at the Children’s Ward in Todaiji. Todaiji Welfare Hospital accepts children with serious disabilites that are difficult to accept for care. Though the children had difficulties moving and seeing, they showed their smiles and were happy to draw freely.
VALMONT’s WHITE MIRROR exhibition was held at the 6th floor of Ginza SIX. . 50% of their coffret set sales will be donated to the Children’s Earth Fund. We sincerely thank their generous support to Kids Earth fund.
A drawing workshop was held at Ishinomaki City, Iwate Prefecture at the Tour de Tohoku booth with the extraordinary help from Askul. Many children visited to our booth and enjoyed drawing their favorite things.
In Chiba and Tateyama, there were still areas where electricity and water were still not restored due to huge typhoon damage during the middle of September. Our founder Harumi held a workshop to draw pictures from 11.30 am to 4 pm with children spending their day at Tateyama AEON. The schools were closed and their […]