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Illust by Junko Suzuki
Prop Station, a Nonprofit Social Welfare
Organization Supporting the Challenged.

Quoted from
The Sankei Shimbun
Wednesday, May 29, 2002

     
 

Make the Challenged become Taxpayers

 
     

This is the catch phrase of our Prop Station, a social welfare NPO. We have been supporting the Challenged (people with disabilities) with a strong enthusiasm to developing their abilities to work in the society with confidence and self respect, and become taxpayers to support the country.

"Challenged" is used to call the people with disabilities in place of "handicapped" considering them as the people given a variety of challenges by God. That is to say, every person is given an ability to solve his/her challenge. The more challenges are given, the stronger they become. This sure is a positive approach, isn't it?

I, Nami-ne, was given a seriously disabled daughter 30 years ago. Since then, I have been facing both sides of Japan's welfare administration. I'm disgusted with a flood of "welfare" terms such as "poor" or "pity".

Every person is talented with various individual capabilities. Now is the time to change our conventional welfare provisions eliminating the challenged by counting their disadvantages to a positive and prospective one so that they can carry out their talents respectively to enjoy their independent life in the society.

The Prop Station has been giving IT based job trainings for their employable skills in these ten years, and there are many challenged graduates working as professionals in various fields while they work at home receiving cares from their families, or in a care house or a hospital.

Back to our motto "Make the challenged become taxpayers," this was originally advocated by President John F. Kennedy. In a free economy country like America, people's role in the society starts with their voices as taxpayers. "That's it". Nami-ne slapped her knee reading this gentle but encouraging article.

Some Japanese people like to imitate the Americans. However, let's stop looking at their externals only, but let's model after their true essence. For more than 10 years there has been an excellent program established in the Pentagon (DOD) and provides the latest possible technological facilities and assistive devices to support the people with severe disabilities working for the federal government Challenge of Prop Station to reforming Japan's welfare provisions is now going on.

  Nami Takenaka, Chair

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