To sustain our work of Mobile Image Theater,
we greatly owe to your support.

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Like Water Press is a nonprofit organization was founded in April 2003 as an authorized NPO.
We started our activities from support of educational materials to Noornikah primary school at Agha Zharand village in Afghanistan on 2002.
On 2003, we commenced [Mobile Image Theater] and performed twice at Afghan refugee camps and schools by 2004. On 2005, we started to support shoes for children and delivered shoes and the seed of the dream to Afghan children, who are internal displaced people, orphans, or street children living around in Kabul.
We visited 22 places and met with more than 5,000 children and delivered 3,000 shoes.
The main project of Like Water Press is [Mobile Image Theater]. But presently, LWP is composed of three other programs. Supporting Shoes, Eltamas Fund and Like Water Press Picture Book Library. We aim to reach the deprived children with pride and dream not just only things.
No matter how harsh environments, children grow up and live with their emotions. Watching their smile and shinning eyes gives us a joy and lets us know that how itﾕs important to continue on [Mobile Image Theater].
On the other hand, every caravan shows us lots of reflections and challenges. We accept those joys and challenges as milestone towards our next step.
To reach our next milestone, we continue to develop following activity.
To sustain its success, Like Water Press needs your support.
It is great pleasure for us to think together with all of you about the meaning of being deprived of various rights regardless of their wills.

Support and Fund-raising

Mobile Image Theater/Project of the Seed of the Dream

Mobile Image Theater is a project for children who are deprived of their rights of dreaming and shining their eyes in harsh environment. We visit and show them our own-made fantasies in order to give them the seed of the dreaming.
Now we have 5 stories (Overture, An Adventure of the Zeb-Rabbit, How to be a Friend with the Bird, The Tale of a Mother-tree, and The Boy Who Has Never Seen The Sea).
We are making another story now to the end of this year. We visit children with tapes of those stories, a projector, a screen, speakers, and an amplifier by car. Beginning from Afghan refugee camps at border area of Pakistan and Afghanistan, then presently weﾕve been performing inside Afghanistan.

Supporting Shoes/Shoes for the Barefoot Children

"Barefoot" means not only no shoes practically but also heart without covering and protecting by shoes.
In Afghanistan, winter is freezing and summer is terribly hot. The temperature heats up to 30-40 in the daytime. It is proper that children are sandaled in refugee camps or in Kabul even though sandals are shabby. Sandals may be one of numerous relief supplies. Big aid organization could supply this kind of goods.
But through our experiences with children, we came to realize that what children need now is the specific ﾒloveﾓ to each individual.
The children of refugee camps or IDP(Internal Displaced People) camps can hardly have their own specific things. Shoes or sandals might distribute to them as supplies. But they don't have experience of getting shoes with their parents at a shoe store. Almost no parents can take children to a shop to buy fitted shoes to them.
Children have been deprived of receiving such love.
Seldom do children have chance to feel such casual and natural affection which should give them in daily life.
We could not be in their parents place. But we might have children feel that there is a specific love for each of them, not a love for all.
Shoes become the important emblem of the above facts. It is especially necessary to touch children's foot and measure the size of each child. It helps us to make communicate with children by shoes. Without communication, every present should turn to be a supply.
We visit children not to give just shoes themselves, but give a pleasant memory with shoes as we show our fantasies to them. We deliver the specific affection in the shape of shoes to each child.
We aim to deliver about 1000 shoes for 1000 children on each caravan tour which we're going to do 4 times in a year.

Eltamas Fund

We met a 13-year-old girl named Eltamas Sayed Kasim on our tour of March, 2005.
She lost her father and elder brother in a civil war and returned to Afghanistan with the rest of her family three years ago. A family of five are now living in a IDP camp in Kabul.
We were attracted to her earnest gaze when we first met her. Her dream is to become a history teacher. She told us that she wants to know what happens all over the world and to see everything in the world. We thought we might help her to make her dream come true, then decided to support her education expenditure.
There are many children who are deprived of opportunity of learning in this world although they have a rich sensibility and an intellectual curiosity. Helping realization of their dream is one of LWP's objects.
Here we settled a new program named Eltamas Fund.
The necessary expenses of going to school is 300$ per a year in Afghanistan. We choose supporting children among those who we would meet on our tour. We aim to choose 10 children a year for the time being. We work for materializing the second, the third, and the fourth presence of Eltamas.

Like Water Press Picture Book Library

We brought picture books to the children of second time meeting on tour of June 2005. A total number was 72, which every stuff of LWP purchased at own expense.
Itﾕs important for us to know how children react when they have books in their hands. Their reaction was enormous, more than what we expected. Without understanding words, they can make their own stories by watching books. Their faces with joy made for Like Water Press Picture Book Library.
Our procedure for presenting picture books is the same with shoes. First, raise the money and then choose and gather books, and lastly hand them to children. We donﾕt care about language, Japanese, English, or Dari. But we prefer to buy in Afghanistan rather than here in Japan.

Payment Method

Postal Transfer
  Account Number：00100-2-353542
   Account Name： NPO Like Water Press
Bank Transfer
  Bank Name: Mizuho Bank/Komagome branch (559)
  Account Number: (general) 8095084
  Account Name: NPO Like Water Press
※As we'd like to send a card of thanks to you, we would appreciate it if you choose a postal transfer in which we can find your address.

●SUPPORT and TAKING PART IN ACTIVITY

▼ The Children of Kabul and Ghosts Exhibition
As many Afghan refugees returned to their homeland because of the repatriation policy of neighboring Pakistan and Iran, we have performed in Afghanistan since March 2005 tour.
And weﾕve followed the figure of ghosts held in the mind of the children of Kabul since then.
We asked children to draw the picture of ghost in their mind at everywhere we went. We plan to have an exhibition of pictures of ghosts along with showing of our documentary film.
We expect your cooperation in this matter.