Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori talked with pupils of Sakuragaoka Elementary School, Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture, encouraging them in their fund-raising campaign for Nepal. The "virtual meeting" grew out of a letter to the Prime Minister by sixth grader Hanako Takada in which she told him how children at her school had been voluntarily collecting aluminum cans to raise funds for school construction in Nepal. She decided to write to the Prime Minister when she heard that on his visit to Nepal in August he had announced government assistance for school construction in that country. The Prime Minister told the children, "What you are doing is admirable. When I met the Prime Minister of Nepal in New York I told him about it, and he was very happy."