東田由紀子さん（石川県在住）
専業主婦として、家事・育児をすることに不満もなく、むしろ楽しみながら生きてきました。ところが、夫が単身赴任となり、一人娘が県外で大学生活を始め、介護していた父親が亡くなり…。私を必要としている人がいなくなってしまった、その空虚さ。人間は、誰かの役に立っているという自己有用感がなければ、さみしい毎日だと思います。何かしたい…。
そんなある日、新聞の中から有尾さんの笑顔と「抱っこボランティア」の文字が私を呼んでました(笑) 瞬間、これだ！
縁ってこんなものなんでしょうね。新しいことを始めるのにためらうことはありません。子供たちのしあわせを願う気持ちがあれば大丈夫ですよね。
Supporter ,Higashida Yukiko san (lives in Ishikawa Prefecture)
As a at home wife I have lived enjoying house work and raising a child without any complaints. But my husband was assigned alone to work at a different location. My only daughter started at a University outside the prefecture. I took care of my father, but he had deceased. Now I don’t have anyone who needed me. This emptiness! People would feel that every day would be very lonesome without having a sense of usefulness. I felt I wanted to do something useful.
And then one day I came across Ario-san’s smiling face and her article asking for “volunteers to “hug infants who cannot live with their parents in the newspaper I felt that it was calling me. This must be so-called chance encounter. One does not have to hesitate to start something new. Everything will turn out to be fine if one has the feeling of the happiness and wellbeing of these children.