■開催日時：第２回 2021年7月8日 (木) 20:00～21:30

Second Webinar : Thursday, July 8th, 2021, 20:00～21:30
Guest Speaker : Mark Bookman
Topic : Why These Barriers Exist, and How to Move Forward
*This event will be held on Zoom. Japanese/English and Sign Language interpretation will be provided.
*No Cost, Registration deadline is Wednesday, July 7, 2021.

【LIVES 2021】

◇プロジェクトレポート ダイジェスト
Project Report Digest

◇Sign Language Cafe

The "Sign Language Cafe" is a fun workshop for learning Sign Language. In this project, we will learn useful phrases, greetings in Sign Language. We had a "Sign Language Cafe" on Sunday, June 20, in a virtual setting. We practiced various answers such as "The Olympics are coming soon." "We will have the Paralympics in August." "I'm not good at sports, but I like to watch them!" etc. This screenshot is part of a sign language that shows the "Paralympics" symbol with three fingers.

■養護老人ホームの皆さんに元気をお届け！
Activities to engage and boost the spirit of elderly

Our youth volunteers have been core to our digital content development in the past year. This year as well, our high school youths developed a Virtual Talent Show video, where they show-cased their talents (songs, musical performances and dances) to entertain the elderly. Each participant prepared a song or musical track that they would want to perform in front of elderly and filmed their content, which was later combined in a talent show video to make it virtually accessible for the elderly. During this unprecedented time where we cannot directly meet the elderly, we are exploring various innovative ideas to develop fun interactive activities with them.

Support Youth in Need

これまで、ハンズオン東京は、児童養護施設に住む子どもたちの自立支援のために「ライフスキルプログラム」を実施してきましたが、その活動の一環として、施設を巣立った若者たちを支援するプロジェクトが始まりました。コロナ禍で生活が困難になった若者たちに食料品や日用品などのケアパッケージをお届けしています。

Hands On Tokyo has been supporting children in need through our Life Skills Program. Recently, we have expanded the outreach of our program to high school youth graduates from children’s homes who are having a hard time during the pandemic. We have been delivering care packages with food and daily essential items for them. 

The volunteers from Standard Chartered Bank, Tokyo Branch organized a food and daily essentials drive to deliver care packages for youth in need. The volunteers collected a total of 20 boxes with various food and daily essential items to support the youth. 

These care packages with necessary daily items will not only meet their immediate needs but also help to boost the spirit of youths during the difficult time. We have delivered the care packages to our partner children’s homes. The home's staff later delivered those packages to the individuals during their regular visits.