« News about Khempone-Lao PDR | Main | Condolence from Daniel Moll-Venezuela »
March 03, 2008
Please don't take our sunshine away from us.
Dear jicafriends,
It is so sad to inform you, but Mr. Ichiro Maruyama, Course Leader of Vocational Rehab. Course passed away yesterday.
Mr. Maruyama is the one who advocated the necessity of a training course related to persons with disabilities. He persuaded the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and finally started the first training course in 1984, which has now developed to two JICA training courses, "Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with disabilities" and "Leadership Development of
Persons with Disabilities."
We believe that many of you still clearly remember his lecture and his big smiles.
He loved to sing and always closed the training program with a song "You're My Sunshine."
It is a great loss for the disability field.
We pray his soul may rest in peace.
The Secretariat of jicafriends
Posted by jicafriends at March 3, 2008 04:45 PM