To “Kanan”

Konno: (After the disaster,) I kept working at the cake shop cleaning up things that had fallen down in the earthquake. At that time I was already living in the temporary housing.

But one day when it was raining really hard, I had an accident. I bumped into a car and hurt my foot.

(Being physically and mentally unstable at that time), when I started living in the temporary housing I was in no state to go to work. I took a long time off, and ended up quitting the cake shop.

Then I was introduced to Kanan, and I started working there.

Yanagibashi: As Shoshinkai’s staff in charge of career support heard about Mr. Konno’s case from HItakami-en, they started to liaise closely with Kanan. After having experienced the disaster, a changed home environment, his accident, and especially what happened with his parents, Mr. Konno was missing work often. He was no longer able to continue working. So after discussing it amongst themselves, the staff who had been seeing Mr. Konno introduced him to “Kanan” and suggested he try it for a while until things calmed down.