On March 23, Manager Asano and other related personnel of the Kawashima Industrial
Complex visited Ashitanokai Kyodo School (workshop for the physically-challenged)
in Kagamigahara City to donate tables and benches made from timber of trees chopped
down in the Industrial Complex.
In the name of “Industrial Complex with a lush plant,” we have been
spending a lot of money and effort for the Kawashima Industrial Complex from
the day of its opening. However, some of the dead pine trees had to be chopped
down.
At first, we took care of the disposal of those trees by burning them or donating them to a shrine in our neighborhood for their religious rituals. However, after discussing with the persons concerned, we then decided to use the timber to make tables and benches. The Greenery Management Group of Sunplanet Co., Ltd., our affiliated company, took on the production. The finished products were set up beside the Japanese garden in the industrial Complex and in the Pine Garden which was opened last year.
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| Together with students of Ashitanokai Kyodo School. |
This was our first occasion to donate the furniture to outside company. So that
the students of Ashitanokai Kyodo School could use them conveniently, we adjusted
the height of the benches and tables while making them.
On the day we brought those products to them, all the students greeted us in happi jackets (traditional Japanese jackets) and performed Soran-bushi (traditional Japanese song) in appreciation of the furniture. We then sat on the benches, had their handmade cookies and tea and were able to spend an enjoyable moment together.
We hope to keep utilizing recycled timber so that we can continue such charitable
activities in our community.
Ashitanokai Kyodo School is a workshop where the physically-challenged make and sell original cookies and cakes as means of self-support. A caf'e called “TOMO” is also located in this workshop and operated with hopes to create a wonderful tomorrow by making friends in the community and living together.
At the Kawashima Industrial Complex, sales of cookies baked by the students are
sold by Eisai Workers Union Kawashima Branch to the employees during their lunch
break several times a year. In addition, we are also conducting sales of pound
cakes at the Naitoh Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in the Kawashima
Industrial Complex.
