June 20th, 2011 @Bratislava, Slovakia
March 11th, 2011. An email from Sandra with Notabene, a Slovak street magazine got to The Big Issue Japan, about three hours after the earthquake happened. Next email from her said that she decided a monthly profit of Notabene would be donated to the Japanese one. I wanted to express our gratitude to this Madam Solidarity.
An editor Dagma, fundraiser Zuza, Social worker Ivan and some vendors welcomed me at the door. Talking to a vendor, Ivan, “Thank you so much for your empathy,” and he responsed “The smile of Japanese people encouraged me a lot. I also try smiling at my pitch. I’m so sure that the severe situation will be getting be better, because so my life was!”