On March 12, Nippon Paper Group invited physically challenged guests to the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum for the Collections from Musée d'Orsay. Blessed with fine weather, nearly 850 guests and their attendants visited the museum.

The special invitation program for physically challenged guests is run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. Nippon Paper Group's voluntary involvement in the program has continued for more than one year since the exhibition of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in 2005.
This time, 19 staff members from our Group participated. It was the first time for many of them to take part in the program. At first, the new volunteers seemed to be somewhat overwhelmed by the large number of visitors.
Looking after the physically challenged guests, the volunteers worked very hard in fulfilling their roles, such as working as receptionists and guiding visitors around elevators.
Two of the volunteers, Yasuko Suzuki from Nippon Paper and Michitaka Kubota from Nippon Daishowa Paperboard, joined the staff of Able Art Japan in providing explanations about the exhibits to the guests.
According to one of the volunteers, helping the guests get on and off the elevator and guiding them through the Museum provided excellent opportunities to understand the feelings of physically challenged persons to some degree, and to learn the importance of helping each other. Another volunteer said the invitation program led them to realize, at least to some degree, what would cause worries or troubles for physically challenged persons in their everyday life.
To encourage voluntary involvement of its staff members, Nippon Paper Group will continue to support the invitation program held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

Reception		Our volunteers