2008年12月22日月曜日

~Paper Craft Shop~ Any Idea ?

I have visited a shop selling hand-made paper.
They sell supping paper with many different prints, swaing, decorations etc... also note books, paper bags and more, and because shop keeper came to talk to me i was explainning about the work with kids. then she said if we make something like that possible they can help to sell.

i thouhgt maybe we can also find a work for chidlren who can work with paper, sawing on the paper to just make a rupping paper or display as decorations in a house or sew to make a bags with strong enough papers.

then maybe good for lucie to teach drowing on the paper? Ghandhi said it is very important for us to teach how to drow before start teaching how to write for children.

hope you are all healthy and are smiling

love maiko

~ Greeting from Paris ~

How are you?

I came to visit my friends in Paris and today I walked around this area. I visited some shops and I have asked the possibility to sell Furoshiki after explaining of our fair-trade project.

All of them said it is possible, so if you can find the way to start with any disadvantaged children, youths or adults who have a passion to make their lives change and whom we can trust with, it will be nice. I have sold all of them which Duc Duc children have made before.

I also want to bring some back home with me to ask shops and people in Japan to make this project long-lasting. I plan to leave the end of Jan.

I always talk to people to share this idea and many western people are interested in because they care about environment and Furoshiki is so useful! I never give up!

the other night, I joined a demo of Free Tibet. The real Tibetian monk did such an amazing speach and attached my heart a lot. I believe we can bring peace and love to all creatures as long as we do not give up. After the demo, I came to pray in front of the statue of Gandhi and just pray pray pray....

I hope you are all well and happy in Vietnam and Japan.
I really appreciate your big support

take care of your health

love Maiko

2008年12月14日日曜日

素敵なタグもできました


拝啓 お元気ですか? 日本は寒さが増してきているのではないでしょうか?
体調は崩していませんか?

私がシェアする記事で少しでも多くの方々にベトナムでの現状を理解してもらえ、何かを始める、または何か大切なものに気付いてもらえたきっかけとなってもらえればと願います。

これからまだまだ大変なしなければいけないことはありますが、しかし自分に与えられた使命をこの人生でまっとうできるように、皆様のサポートも借りながら頑張っていきたいと想います。

先日和歌山の友人が主催したクリスマスPartyで子供達の手作りの品や、AIDSデーの品を売ってくれ、5万円以上の売り上げが出たようです。

エイズデーでは3万近くベトナムの皆さんが協力してくれました。他にも私を信じ、ドーネーションをしてくださる方々や活動を支えてくれる方がいること、本当に感謝の気持ちでいっぱいです。 これから子供達が一つ一つ作る作品が、人々の手に届き、皆様にも愛情や希望を届けられると良いですね。もし協力してくれるお店や、どなたかいらっしゃれば声を掛けてください。

(手作りの風呂敷など)オーダーメードで作ることも出来ます。 皆様の心が平穏なれそして世の中に平和の風が吹きますように

Maiko Takenaka
ヨガ伝授者困っている人々支援

2008年12月9日火曜日

~ Angel ~


Xin chao


I have recieved such a cute picture of a child from Phuong san, who has helped HIV/AIDS disadvanatged people. She has weekly Sunday activity with disadvanatged children due to AIDS/HIV at the park. I want to share with you the picture from her(-: He is so cute. He is about 10 months old, but he lives with his grandmother. His mother died due to AIDS and his father ran away to somewhere, so he is an orphans. He also infected with HIV as he was born. He was really ill last week, but he got better now. I hope he can live longer and enjoy his life as much as he can even though infected with the virous. To do so, we have to give him and his grandmother a hand to support! I hope you smiled and felt peace seeing his picture


(-: Babies are amazing, make you happy without any reasons(-: Love Maiko(-:

~Visiting Holland ~


I came to Holland for participating humanitarian work here in Amsterdam.

There are so many things to learn from this country. There are many HIV/AIDS infected people here but they are well treated by government.


I have been walking around cities in Holland to get some new ideas and images for the humanitarian project. I found fair-trade shop, organic store selling local hand-made products by handicapped, a shop and wearhouse with a project to help disabled people working on the back and selling hand-made products in the front. I share some pictures and also I will bring back to Vietnam to show you! Their products are so cute, beautiful, well done and resoanble! How they display those products are great as well! It is always good to see big windows with shops and restaurant that easy to get people's attention. http://www.slzorg.nl/ is the website, but written in Dutch(><) cannot understand....

World AIDS day event !







Xin Chao to everyone who have devoted beautiful love to people who need help due to HIV/AIDS issue,

I would like to thank you all who had helped me to make that World AIDS Day event happen.

Special thanks to:
Duc san, who is an amazing nun at Quan Am temple, She accepted my ask if I could use the temple as the place for the event, and she has talked to the master at the temple to get the permission. For the opening prayer, she talked other nuns to join to do that. More, she contributed that red ribbons to make the symbol of red ribbons and raise donations. She also helped me to translate to Vietnamese and lead the event. Cam on co rat nhieu! Also, nuns and people who were at the temple, thank you so much for your kind support and beautiful pray!

Yoko san, who had announced about the meeting of making red ribbons, donation box, and volunteers who came to join it. Thank you very much!

Kaori san and her co-workers, thank you for devoting your time and energy to do those beautiful embroideries of red ribbons on the masks(-:

Suzzane san at Saigonyoga, thank you for letting me to put the donation box at the studio to let people know about the event, also raise some funds for HIV/AIDS victims.

Dan san, thank you so much for your big help! I really felt sorry for you to make too much work right before the event! Without your big big help, the vent did not come out like that way. I really appreciate your hard work with all the technical stuffs even though you had to do your own humanitarian project.

Ezio san, thank you for the beautiful music(-: Arigatou(-:

And, all who came to the temple to get involved with the event, I hope you could enjoy being there with us and share what you have learned from the event with others to change the Vietnamese HIV/AIDS reality better.

I also appreciate everyone who could not come, but cared about the event and sent much loves and contributed donations for those people who need much hlep.

Without all those help, I could not do anything. Thank you so much(-: Arigatougozaimashita!

I have recieved e-mail from Phuong, who has helped many people in need and has made action to save disadvantaged children due to HIV/AIDS thesedays. Thus, I hope you will undertsand more about how the funds we could raised at the event will be used for, and maybe you will continue giveing a hand to support our humanitarian works(-:

Once again, thank you so much for everything for everybody(-: Big hugs and love from my soul(-:

Oh, if you have any question about my activities for disadvantaged due to poverty, HIV/AIDS, D.V or Neglect.., please don't hegitate to ask me(-:

Maiko Takenaka

Yoga instructor(RYT 200)
Supporter for disadvanataged

Greeting to Friends





世の中はクリスマスモードでしょうか?サイゴンは毎日夏のような気候なので季節感をほとんど感じません。ここ最近は世界エイズデーのイベントもあって目が回るほど忙しく次から次に走り回る日々が続きました。


一昨年、昨年と日本で行なったイベントを今年は偶然にもそのイベントを始めるきっかけをくれたベトナムで開催しました。私が通っていたお寺を借り、そこの尼さんたちによるAIDSでなくなられた方々への追悼の意を込めてお経を唱えるという心に響くオープニングから、ヨガダンス、歌、ベトナムのHIV/AIDS現状を移したドキュメンタリー、トークを多くの方々に支えてもらいながら無事終えることが出来ました。


HIV/AIDSが原因でとても大変な生活を強いられている子供たちの学費や医療費、食費などの為にボランティアの方々と作ったレッドリボンをドーネーション形式で販売し3万円ほど集まりました。昨年の推定ではベトナムのHIV感染者数は30万人、AIDS死者は約2万人、何と15分に1人という速さでHIVに感染しているのです。しかし現実では、人事のように過ごしている人がほとんどで、路地裏ではヘロインの売買をする者達や町中には売春婦、同姓愛者で溢れています。


イベントでは、とにかく一人一人の意識を高め、レッドリボンを付け偏見の無い共存社会を築くと示し、周りの人達に話すことが大切であると確かめ合いました。


*風呂敷計画の方はと言うと、田舎から出稼ぎに来て危険な路上での仕事をしている子供達の未来を、少しでも明るく出来たらと、路上で働く代わりに縫い物をして給料を渡す制度でやり始めています。その子供達による作品が驚くほど素敵に仕上がっています!


手縫いで一生懸命作業している子供達、貧しい子供達を支えているスタッフを観ていると、どうにか力になりたいと心から想い、色々な方に訴えかけています。その結果、私の想いに賛同してくれる方々も現れ共にアイデアを出し合い活動を進めています。完璧な商品というよりも、愛と希望のこもった子供達の作品として購入してもらえればと想っています。


皆様の手に届き、何か自分の中で忘れていたものをもう一度見直すきっかけになってもらえれば幸いです。貧困やHIV/AIDSの問題を抱えながらも一生懸命生きている人々に愛の手を差し伸べる行動を起こす人が増え、ゆっくりでも世の中の流れが善くなり平和な世の中になりますようにと心から願います。(*販売や購入で協力してくださる方は是非御連絡下さい。販売で得たお金は子供達が立派な大人に育っていくよう役立たせて頂きます。)