皆さん、楽しいクリスマスをお過ごしでしたか？感謝のシーズンにあたり、私たちのヨルダン プロジェクトのご報告をします。
We hope you had a very Merry Christmas!! This is the season of giving so we thought we would take this time to share an update about our latest project in Jordan.
今夏、私たちが多くの方々から支援され癒されたそのお礼に私たちが支援できる人々がもっと何処かにいるのではないかという想いに至り ました。そして、ヨルダンにいるシリアからの難民たちが寒い時期に入る前に、こちらから私たちの手作り作品を送るプロジェクトが始まりました。
In the summer, we really felt that it was time for a new donation project. It helps keep all of our eyes on the fact that we are very blessed and can and should bless other people. Miraculously, it did not take long to form a plan and send our goods to the Syrian refugees in Jordan in time for the cold weather!
支援物をヨルダンに届けてくださった人が、これらは東日本大震災の被災者たちが手作りした作品で寒い季節に少しでも心と身体を温めて欲しいと説明すると、難民の人たちはとても感動したそうです。特に、子供たちは大喜びだったそうです。そして、世界中から忘れ去られてしまっていると思っていたのに、遠い日本の人々が自分たちのことを思っていてくれることを知り、喜んだそうです。
Our representative who took the items shared with us that it was very moving to be able to tell these families that some ladies who survived the tsunami in Japan wanted them to have something to keep warm in the winter. They were so happy! He said that it meant a lot to the children to have one thing that belongs to them. And it meant so much to know that even people in Japan are thinking of them. We know that these people really feel that the world has forgotten them, so this project might have helped in a tiny way to help them know that people are thinking of them.
小さな帽子、スカーフ、セーターなどの支援はささやかな好意ですが、苦しんでいる人々の少しでもお役にたてたことはヤーンアライブのメンバーたちに生きる喜び、目標を与えました。メンバーは難民子供達の写真を見て、それぞれが自分たちの作った作品を見つけて心から嬉しそうでした。こうして、受ける側もあげる側も祝福されるのですね。
In the grand scheme of things our few little hats and scarves and sweaters, doesn't mean much, but just the act of making something for suffering people has brought great joy and purpose and happiness to these women in Japan. It has been a great thing. It was fun to see them look at the pictures and see that the things they made were on the children. So many people have been blessed all around!
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