our kodomiru christmas

hello everyone! hope you are well. today we'll be giving you a quick update on our Kodomiru Christmas project.

it's very nearly december, which means it's time for us to send off the gifts to everyone at in Fukushima. Ms Ishimaru, of the kodomiru charity, told us about a school and their wish when we were talking about our role in helping Kodomiru at Christmas time.

in the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, the coastal and some inland towns in Fukushima were completely destroyed, with very little or no remaining buildings left intact. we are helping one of the schools demolished in the flood. they are a pre-school and nursery, caring for children ages 0 to 6. their school was left in ruins by the earthquake, but Ms Ishimaru told us that their christmas tree, which was carefully put away in storage upstairs in the building, was one of the few things that they could retrieve from the wreckage. what a touching story. but of course, all of the decorations were lost. so they needed some help, and that is where kodomiru and yukari sweeney design came in!

here are some photos of what was left of the school. i think you will agree it is a worthy cause to help out with.

we asked our friends and colleagues to help us with getting together some decorations that we could send to Ms Ishimaru for her to give to the school, which has relocated to another school to look after the children. you can read more about that, and the kodomiru charity, in this blog entry posted earlier last month. we were so very pleased and surprised that we got a good response! we have to say a big thank you to the kind messages of support we recieved, as well as the decorations that were sent. 

みんな　ありがとう　ごさいます！

thank you so much, everyone!

below are some of the gifted decorations that we were sent. we think they will have a charmingly decorated tree this year! we really do appreciate it, everyone. we hope you will continue to keep supporting us so greatly with our charity work in the future.

lorna at garrendenny lane interiors sent us a big box of elegant decorations and a signed card. thank you lorna!

this is a box of cute baubles from everyone at the illustration studio i work at. we also signed a card! thanks guys!

 

the brilliant people at the church of london agency sent us this cool decoration and a message to the children. thank you!

and these are just a few of the decorations and gifts we are sending the school, on behalf of yukari sweeney design. we hope they like them!

as ever, please do leave any comments or messages below, or email me at kimika@yukarisweeneydesign.com - we love to hear your thoughts! we also have a facebook, twitter and website for you to visit, all of which we update frequently with pictures and notices of what we are getting up to. we hope you enjoyed reading the blog!