Naha ¨C When TELL outreach organizer Saya Tanahara, 34, returned home to Okinawa in 2019, she was looking for an opportunity to help those with experiences like her own.
¡°It¡¯s a very typical Okinawan girl¡¯s story,¡± Tanahara recalls while sitting in TELL¡¯s Okinawa offices near American Village in Chatan. ¡°I married a Marine, and we lived in the States for about six years. Then I came back as a single mother of three children.
¡°I wanted to contribute to the community here. TELL seemed like a great opportunity to use my experiences ¡ª as an Okinawan and as someone who had experienced military life ¡ª to help people.¡±
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