2013年09月12日
【英文】 Sakuyahime Project Page２
4).The Decision
I finally reached the decision that there was no way except to make a place for him by myself.
I rented 198 sq meter of land and began to grow vegetables with him. I had the confidence that working outside in nature must be the best way to cure his mental condition. Another reason was that I realized there were a lot of people who didn’t have a place to go, when they had both social and mental handicaps. There were no places to accept them. They had to stay home as recluses. They didn’t like social contact. Gradually mothers who had such kinds of problems began to gather around me, and we tried to share how to solve the same kind of problems. The reclusive people also began to gather at my home, spending the days with Ryo.
I wanted to give them the joy of working on the farm. We grew chemical free vegetables, egg plants, cucumbers, and tomatoes. I paid them per hour, and even a small amount gave them the pleasure of getting wages by labor. All I wanted was to let the know the joy of work.
We tried beekeeping, made boxes by ourselves and got honey.
But there were problems. Ryo sometimes began to go on rampages, so agricultural machines and scythes were dangerous. In the farm, one idea suddenly came to my mind; “growing wheat and baking breads “ But wheat for the bread is usually cultivate in a cold climate. Fujieda city’s weather is very mild, and isn’t suited for growing wheat.
5) Nishino Hikari
I got the information of an academic meeting about domestic wheat to be held in Tokyo. It was 2002. I took part in that meeting. There was a researcher of Nishino Hikari, a breed of wheat for baking bread, which grows in areas with mild weather. Kyushu and Okinawa agricultural institutions were researching this breed. Kyushu and Okinawa are located in the southern part of Japan, It was still difficult to get these seeds. I begged researchers to give me them telling them why I wanted to grow this wheat, and bake bread with handicapped people in Shizuoka Prefecture. They granted my request and gave the 20 kilograms of seeds.
Growing Nishino Hikari was extremely difficult. I can’t tell how difficult it was in the words.
None of us had experience growing Nishino Hikari, Above all, the rainy season was prolonged that year. We did not use insecticides, so the wheat got damaged by insects. I didn’t even have a reaping machine, so I reaped by scythe alone 198 meter sq farm in the rain.
Another problem was there was no place to store the wheat. I visited farmers in my neighborhood, and asked to lend the barns to store them.
6))Opening of “Bakery caffe Kaze”
At last, I reached the time of opening the “Bakery Caffe Kaze” in November 2002. Kaze literally means wind in Japanese. I used the compensation of the accident and my savings for the construction of Kaze. I didn’t know about the compensation for a long time. One day the insurance company’s man visited me and asked “Are you expecting something for the compensation?” I could not understand what he meant. At that time 8 years had passed since Ryo was involved in the accident. Never had I thought about the compensation, I devoted all my energy to finding Ryo’s hospital, farming and his place to belong.
Before I opened Bakery Caffe Kaze, I established “Kaze” an NPO. The aim of the construction of “Bakery Caffe Kaze” was to make a working place for reclusive people, like Ryo, who have no place to belong in the society. I publicly informed reclusive people about working here. 10 handicapped people and about 5 volunteers came to work. Our effort bore fruit. We did everything by ourselves,
We baked bread using flour made from Nishino Hikari which we grew. We baked, sold,and served the customers .
Bakery coffe Kaze is locatied in a local area, most residents are farmers, and connection of the neighborhood is very strong. At first, people had prejudice. I visited each and every family and tried to make them understand our aim of Bakery Caffe Kaze. They gradually understood and accepted us.
7) Facing the limits after 10 years and the necessity of public help
Since Bakery Caffe Kaze opened, everything was managed without public support.
Thanks to the help of local people and customers, we could run the Bakery Caffe Kaze.
We always tried to bake the best bread with the best quality materials. We did not want to use the fact that bread is baked by the handicapped people as an excuse.
We could run Bakery Caffe without public support. We worked hard with only two hours sleep at night, and got the minimum wage for running the bakery Kaffe. We did everything we could do.
Finally, we had to ask for public support at the local city office. We had reached the limit running Bakery Caffe. I visited city office many times to ask for the public support for the people who don’t have a place to belong.
However, there was a high wall between city office and us, the administrative law was too strict for us to overcome. One city officer told me that you are just a Bakery.
He also advised me that there are still a lot of vacancies in the places for handicapped people. But actually there are a lot of handicapped people who were not able to belong to any of those places. I told him they needed to choose a place to suit for them. Actually there are a lot of people in the shade of public support. That is the reality. I strongly insisted on that point. Gradually city office admitted our daily effort in Bakery Caffe Kaze, how handicapped people were making great efforts to run Bakery Caffe Kaze. At last We could get the city support in 2011. At last I could hire staffs.
8)Fujieda City Regional life Support Center
This place is the workshop for the people who can’t work in Bakery Caffe Kaze.
I reformed my own house and handicapped people spend the days doing creative activities and light work. 30 people are registered. About 10 people use it every day.
Some of them just come and sleep all day and chat with the others at lunch
time. But it was first step for them to associate with other people.
9)Group Home Green Wind
I constructed the Group Home Green Wind. That was my long dream.
There are eights private rooms, and residents are under care of the staff.
Staff help clean rooms and cook dinner every day. I used my own money for the construction. But this time I already got the city to support us, and city office supported this construction.
10)Ryo
Ryo does not act violently any more. He has own place and friends. Gradually he regained his memory. He never even slightly loses his temper. When I mentioned how he acted violently, he laughed and said he was still a child at that time. He likes English and studies English Grammar by PC by himself. He writes short stories in English. He also likes karaoke and goes to karaoke shop alone to sing songs .He spends long hours singing songs with his companions.
These past 20 years have been very long. First I was involved in this work for Ryo. I had to do something for Ryo. But during the process, my origin to do this work changed to anger at the administration. I am still fighting against prejudice and negligence of handicapped people. I am fighting with the administration on behalf of handicapped people. My friends often wonder how I can act like this without crying.
Actually I never cried even when I was told by doctors that there was a 99.9% chance Ryo could not survive. I really never gave up his surviving. The sentence of 99.9% impossibility of surviving gave me the energy to make him survive. I did not accept this sentence seriously, I only thought he can survive, and I did everything what I could.
I believe my next dream will come true, too. That is the progress convincing the administration dealing with handicapped people to make them aware what being handicapped really is, and what they have to do for handicapped as administration without prejudice.
Above I have written my struggle for establishing Bakery Caffe Wind, Group Home Green Wind, and Regional life support Center NPO. I really want to know about the welfare in the world for cases like Ryo’s.; how administration is facing them in the world. What kind of organizations and institutions exist.
I would appreciate it if someone in the world who is involved in this field could send me some information. Also I want to let the people know my struggle as it is written above.
誰もがいつ障害者になるか誰もが考えてほしい事です。誰もが希望を持って生きていける社会作りに関心を持っていただきたく、いろんな国の人達の意見が聞きたいと英文にしました。
NPO法人 風 理事長 岸 俊子
I finally reached the decision that there was no way except to make a place for him by myself.
I rented 198 sq meter of land and began to grow vegetables with him. I had the confidence that working outside in nature must be the best way to cure his mental condition. Another reason was that I realized there were a lot of people who didn’t have a place to go, when they had both social and mental handicaps. There were no places to accept them. They had to stay home as recluses. They didn’t like social contact. Gradually mothers who had such kinds of problems began to gather around me, and we tried to share how to solve the same kind of problems. The reclusive people also began to gather at my home, spending the days with Ryo.
I wanted to give them the joy of working on the farm. We grew chemical free vegetables, egg plants, cucumbers, and tomatoes. I paid them per hour, and even a small amount gave them the pleasure of getting wages by labor. All I wanted was to let the know the joy of work.
We tried beekeeping, made boxes by ourselves and got honey.
But there were problems. Ryo sometimes began to go on rampages, so agricultural machines and scythes were dangerous. In the farm, one idea suddenly came to my mind; “growing wheat and baking breads “ But wheat for the bread is usually cultivate in a cold climate. Fujieda city’s weather is very mild, and isn’t suited for growing wheat.
5) Nishino Hikari
I got the information of an academic meeting about domestic wheat to be held in Tokyo. It was 2002. I took part in that meeting. There was a researcher of Nishino Hikari, a breed of wheat for baking bread, which grows in areas with mild weather. Kyushu and Okinawa agricultural institutions were researching this breed. Kyushu and Okinawa are located in the southern part of Japan, It was still difficult to get these seeds. I begged researchers to give me them telling them why I wanted to grow this wheat, and bake bread with handicapped people in Shizuoka Prefecture. They granted my request and gave the 20 kilograms of seeds.
Growing Nishino Hikari was extremely difficult. I can’t tell how difficult it was in the words.
None of us had experience growing Nishino Hikari, Above all, the rainy season was prolonged that year. We did not use insecticides, so the wheat got damaged by insects. I didn’t even have a reaping machine, so I reaped by scythe alone 198 meter sq farm in the rain.
Another problem was there was no place to store the wheat. I visited farmers in my neighborhood, and asked to lend the barns to store them.
6))Opening of “Bakery caffe Kaze”
At last, I reached the time of opening the “Bakery Caffe Kaze” in November 2002. Kaze literally means wind in Japanese. I used the compensation of the accident and my savings for the construction of Kaze. I didn’t know about the compensation for a long time. One day the insurance company’s man visited me and asked “Are you expecting something for the compensation?” I could not understand what he meant. At that time 8 years had passed since Ryo was involved in the accident. Never had I thought about the compensation, I devoted all my energy to finding Ryo’s hospital, farming and his place to belong.
Before I opened Bakery Caffe Kaze, I established “Kaze” an NPO. The aim of the construction of “Bakery Caffe Kaze” was to make a working place for reclusive people, like Ryo, who have no place to belong in the society. I publicly informed reclusive people about working here. 10 handicapped people and about 5 volunteers came to work. Our effort bore fruit. We did everything by ourselves,
We baked bread using flour made from Nishino Hikari which we grew. We baked, sold,and served the customers .
Bakery coffe Kaze is locatied in a local area, most residents are farmers, and connection of the neighborhood is very strong. At first, people had prejudice. I visited each and every family and tried to make them understand our aim of Bakery Caffe Kaze. They gradually understood and accepted us.
7) Facing the limits after 10 years and the necessity of public help
Since Bakery Caffe Kaze opened, everything was managed without public support.
Thanks to the help of local people and customers, we could run the Bakery Caffe Kaze.
We always tried to bake the best bread with the best quality materials. We did not want to use the fact that bread is baked by the handicapped people as an excuse.
We could run Bakery Caffe without public support. We worked hard with only two hours sleep at night, and got the minimum wage for running the bakery Kaffe. We did everything we could do.
Finally, we had to ask for public support at the local city office. We had reached the limit running Bakery Caffe. I visited city office many times to ask for the public support for the people who don’t have a place to belong.
However, there was a high wall between city office and us, the administrative law was too strict for us to overcome. One city officer told me that you are just a Bakery.
He also advised me that there are still a lot of vacancies in the places for handicapped people. But actually there are a lot of handicapped people who were not able to belong to any of those places. I told him they needed to choose a place to suit for them. Actually there are a lot of people in the shade of public support. That is the reality. I strongly insisted on that point. Gradually city office admitted our daily effort in Bakery Caffe Kaze, how handicapped people were making great efforts to run Bakery Caffe Kaze. At last We could get the city support in 2011. At last I could hire staffs.
8)Fujieda City Regional life Support Center
This place is the workshop for the people who can’t work in Bakery Caffe Kaze.
I reformed my own house and handicapped people spend the days doing creative activities and light work. 30 people are registered. About 10 people use it every day.
Some of them just come and sleep all day and chat with the others at lunch
time. But it was first step for them to associate with other people.
9)Group Home Green Wind
I constructed the Group Home Green Wind. That was my long dream.
There are eights private rooms, and residents are under care of the staff.
Staff help clean rooms and cook dinner every day. I used my own money for the construction. But this time I already got the city to support us, and city office supported this construction.
10)Ryo
Ryo does not act violently any more. He has own place and friends. Gradually he regained his memory. He never even slightly loses his temper. When I mentioned how he acted violently, he laughed and said he was still a child at that time. He likes English and studies English Grammar by PC by himself. He writes short stories in English. He also likes karaoke and goes to karaoke shop alone to sing songs .He spends long hours singing songs with his companions.
These past 20 years have been very long. First I was involved in this work for Ryo. I had to do something for Ryo. But during the process, my origin to do this work changed to anger at the administration. I am still fighting against prejudice and negligence of handicapped people. I am fighting with the administration on behalf of handicapped people. My friends often wonder how I can act like this without crying.
Actually I never cried even when I was told by doctors that there was a 99.9% chance Ryo could not survive. I really never gave up his surviving. The sentence of 99.9% impossibility of surviving gave me the energy to make him survive. I did not accept this sentence seriously, I only thought he can survive, and I did everything what I could.
I believe my next dream will come true, too. That is the progress convincing the administration dealing with handicapped people to make them aware what being handicapped really is, and what they have to do for handicapped as administration without prejudice.
Above I have written my struggle for establishing Bakery Caffe Wind, Group Home Green Wind, and Regional life support Center NPO. I really want to know about the welfare in the world for cases like Ryo’s.; how administration is facing them in the world. What kind of organizations and institutions exist.
I would appreciate it if someone in the world who is involved in this field could send me some information. Also I want to let the people know my struggle as it is written above.
誰もがいつ障害者になるか誰もが考えてほしい事です。誰もが希望を持って生きていける社会作りに関心を持っていただきたく、いろんな国の人達の意見が聞きたいと英文にしました。
NPO法人 風 理事長 岸 俊子
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