By Charles McJilton | CEO
While Japan has managed to curtail major outbreaks seen in other parts of the world, 2021 started on a somber note as state of emergency will be soon announced for Tokyo and neighboring prefectures
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We continue to provide food assistance from marugohan market. However, as we wrote in our previous reports, it is still not safe to allow people to come in and "shop" for what they need. We understand that this aspect of the project was very appealing to our users and we are continually asked, "When are you going to reopen?" As much as we would like reopen and allow people to shop for what they need, we still feel it is not completely safe for our users and volunteers. The space is very small compared to supermarkets that are open.
On October 1st, introduced a coupon system that has similar aspects to marugohan. Registered users are issues a member card good through 2021 and five coupons. Each coupon is good for one pickup and users can receive an additional five coupons once everty two months. This has dramaticlly reduced the processing time which means there are fewer people waiting in line. In the next couple of weeks we will discuss and create a plan where users are asked to perform so good deed / action in order to receive an additional five coupons.
With the new state of emergency announcements and discovery of a new strain of the virus, we do not see re-opening marugohan any time earlier than May 2021.
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