Bernard Krisher

4-1-7-605 Hiroo, Shibuyaku, Tokyo Tel: 3486-4337, Fax: 81-3-3486-6789

October 2, 1995

Dear Hiroo Garden Hills Neighbor:

I live in L-605 and like you, am aggravated by the tons of junk mail from pizza shops, real estate agents and massage parlors which flood our mailbox every day.

However, I hope you won't mind this urgent message from a neighbor requesting an emergency request for donations of your clean, used warm winter clothes to be sent to the 500,000 homeless North Koreans hit by the worst floods in their country's history.

As a former Newsweek correspondent, I traveled to North Korea three times and have been in contact with the Flood Damage authorities there as well as the U.N. representative in Pyongyang, Mr. Faruq Achikzad. They have both appealed to me to help them with relief activities on behalf of the flood victims. I have established a Home Page on the Internet for this relief campaign and am receiving a good feedback from all over the world. The need for clothes, before the harsh winter reaches this vast homeless population, is very urgent and I am moved to appeal to you, my neighbors, as well, for your kind donations.

We will welcome clean used blankets, clothes, cloth, shoes as well as pots and pans. Our local dry cleaning shop, Nikko at Nishi Azabu, 4-3-8 (Tel: 3400-6717) has agreed, for this charity, to clean such clothes and blankets, unpressed, for about half the normal price.

Please deliver your donations in cardboard boxes to us at L Building #605. You may call in English or Japanese at 3486-4337 or fax 3486-6789 for further information.

When we have collected a large enough quantity, these donations will be trucked to Niigata and sent to North Korea on the once a week ship that leaves from there for the port of Wonsan. I or a member of my family plans to go to North Korea with the first shipment of clothes and return with a receipt and verification, which has been offered to me by the North Korean authorities, that your donations were properly distributed to the needy.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Bernard Krisher

Akiko Krisher