{"id":267,"date":"2018-03-04T17:15:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T08:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2020-04-24T05:45:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:45:02","slug":"balikpapan-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/success-stories\/balikpapan-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Balikpapan, Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--Success stories - 2: Balikpapan, Indonesia.--><\/p>\n<p><!--GENERAL INTRO--><\/p>\n<p>Mr Nori Sato and five other people delivered wheelchairs to Tunas Bangsa, a special<br \/>\nschool in Balikpapan, the Republic of Indonesia, in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>We received a <a href=\"#tyl\">thank you letter<\/a> from one of the school students.<br \/>\nIn addition, the story was featured in a <a href=\"#newspaper\">local newspaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We are extremely grateful to an Indonesian exchange student who translated<br \/>\nboth articles for us.<\/p>\n<p><!--THANK YOU LETTER--><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"tyl\">Thank you letter<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0078a6;\"><br \/>\n<em>Dear Go!Fly!Wheelchairs,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0078a6;\"><br \/>\n<em> How have you been?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I am writing this letter to convey my gratitude to get the new<\/em><br \/>\n<em> wheelchair.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I am so happy to have the new one. I have no words to<\/em><br \/>\n<em> express my feeling and just say thank you.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0078a6;\"><br \/>\n<em>The new one is very comfortable and I am growing to be very fond of it!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The new one is not only cozy, but also easy to use.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Without a wheelcair, I can&#8217;t go anywhere, even to school.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The wheelchair has become &#8220;my legs&#8221;.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0078a6;\"><br \/>\n<em>Thank you again.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0078a6;\"><br \/>\n<em>Arief Fadillah<\/em><br \/>\n<em> September 3rd, 2016<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--NEWSPAPER EXTRACT--><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"newspaper\">Extract from an article in the local newspaper<\/h3>\n<p><!--insert image of newspaper clip here; make sure it is out of the blockquote item...--><\/p>\n<p><!--also add some text highlighting \/ different colours or weights etc--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-288\" src=\"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tunas Bangsa special school in Balikpapan has been supported by<br \/>\na Japanese NPO again. This kind of aid has been given almost<br \/>\nevery year.<br \/>\nSeveral days ago, Mr. Sato and others handed five<br \/>\nwheelchairs to Susan, the vice principal of Tunas<br \/>\nBangsa special school.<br \/>\nTheir main purpose here in Indonesia was sightseeing, but they voluntarily<br \/>\ngave up their time to deliver the wheelchairs to the school.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the fifth donation from that particular NPO; we had<br \/>\nalready received 10 wheelchairs, so now the total number of received wheelchairs becomes 15!<br \/>\nOur students use almost all the wheelchairs but few are used<br \/>\nby those in the national special school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(vice principal, Susan)<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of Tunas Bangsa special school, Susan gave a<br \/>\nthank you speech.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We express our utmost gratitude to the NPO in Japan who sent us<br \/>\nthe wheelchairs. This will provide a fantastic support to the students<br \/>\nwith disabilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The teachers were impressed by the volunteers who spared<br \/>\ntheir time to deliver the wheelchairs during their sightseeing trip to<br \/>\nBalikpapan.<br \/>\nSusan continued by saying that the school was extremely grateful that<br \/>\nMr. Sato and others are carrying out continued maintenance as well as successive<br \/>\ndelivery of wheelchairs through Go!Fly!Wheelchairs, the NPO.<\/p>\n<h3>Continued support<\/h3>\n<p>Every year, Mr. Sato and others also conduct mainetenance of the wheelchairs that they<br \/>\ndelivered through Go!Fly!Wheelchairs.<br \/>\nThrough their work, they provide both the joy of receiving wheelchairs and the sense of safety by durabililty through their maintenace work.<br \/>\nWe also wish to stress our thanks for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Nori Sato and five other people delivered wheelchairs to Tunas Bangsa, a special school in Balikpapan, the Republic of Indonesia, in 2016. We received a thank you letter from one of the school students. In addition, the story was featured in a local newspaper. We are extremely grateful to an Indonesian exchange student who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":108,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/648"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tondeke.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}