Saturday, January 31, 2009

Christmas in Shinjuku: Helping the Homeless for the Holidays

Atsushi Oshima wanted to know more about Christmas in foreign countries and when he learned that many people often do some type of volunteer work around Christmastime, he decided he wanted to do something similar. He's from Shinjuku so he wanted to do something to help the homeless people living in the underground malls and parks. He made a list of ideas about what he could do. In the end, he decided to make presents. He went to Donkey Hote and bought all sorts of things that he thought homeless people might want. Warm socks and heat packs, candy and chips, wet wipes and juice. Atsushi bought it all and put all of the presents into neat little sacks.Then, he went around Shinjuku looking for people to give the presents to. The elderly lady in the picture above looked so happy and kept repeating, "Thank you! Oh, Thank you so much" again and again. Atsushi was pretty nervous at first, but soon he started to feel really confident. It's always nice to do kind things for others, especially when it's really cold outside.

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