By Aya Higa | Project Leader
The LIVES Food Truck Project, which has been a popular lunch destination in Tokyo since 2018, is dedicated to "work, eat, and laugh" for people with disabilities. The purpose of the LIVES Food Truck, where staff with disabilities and volunteers enjoy working together, is to convey the importance of building deep human relationships with each other, regardless of disability, and to contribute to raising social awareness to create a working and living environment that is inclusive of everyone. For the staff working here, it is also a place where they can take the next step toward employment.
LIVES KITCHEN Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/liveskitchen_/
Hilton Group continues to work with us on the life skill project for the differently abled young people, and we are extremely grateful for their support. We constantly have 2~3 people with disabilities work with us on the food truck, and a couple of them will now be attending a trial work days with Wendy's First Kitchen in the next couple of months. Baskin Robbins is also interested in hiring people with disabilities, and we feel the awareness is expanding in our society.
The LIVES Kitchen staff with different abilities and the volunteers all survived the heat of the deadly summer in Tokyo and are now enjoying the beautiful autumn weather.
We are now invited to many local community events, and below are a couple of events we attended in September.
Saturday, September 13
Hosted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government: TOKYO Mimi College 2025
https://mimicollege2025.com/
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan University Arakawa Campus (7-2-10 Higashiogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo)
*LIVES Kitchen will be open only during lunch hours.
Saturday, September 20
Okachimachi Panda Hiroba Sky Market
https://www.city.taito.lg.jp/smtn/070908.html
Venue: Okachimachi Panda Hiroba (South Exit, Okachimachi Station, 3-26 Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo)
*LIVES Kitchen will be open only during lunch hours.
We are invited to attend the Homing Coming event at the American School in Japan (ASIJ) in October, the Minato Ward event in November, and the Setagaya ward event in December.
We work with volunteers of all age groups and nationalities. The project is truly diverse and inclusive, and the awareness is definately expanding!!
And we are able to continue only because of supporters like you.
Cannot thank you enough!!
Till the next report 
Aya Higa
Project Leader
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