Volunteering Projects: Aid Distribution #1: The Warehouse Loading Trucks with Aid for Temp Housing For today’s entry, I thought I’d quickly talk about the process of warehouse distribution. On Jan 26th, we worked with a team effort by It’sNot Just Mud and the On The Road project to lend support to DSP (DisasterSupport Project) to … Read more
March 21st 2011 – FVJ Distribution to Ishinomaki This is a post based on a recent conversation on the forum. There’s been a lot of conflicting information that has been passed around regarding the issue of aid distribution, and the matter that even the Tokyo Metropolitan Government stopped taking donations as of March 21st, there’ve … Read more
Almost a year ago, a few days after the tsunami hit Tohoku and the Fukushima Daiichi Plant started to go into meltdown, I quoted to my friends and family part of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, written in Germany in the years following the First World War: The sap is mounting back from that … Read more
As soon as we left our motel the following morning, it was clear that both domestic and international media were all over the city. We ourselves were even stopped and interviewed while on our way to the It’s Not Just Mud house by Fuji TV, who asked for our reflections as part of the network’s … Read more
FROM http://foreignvolunteers.org (image courtesy Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) I really didn’t know what to say about the one-year anniversary of the quake and tsunami. At 2:46 on March 11th the entirety of Japan apparently came to a standstill. From Shibuya crossing to Rikuzentakata, everybody just stopped what they were doing, whether they were in a grocery store or … Read more
FROM http://foreignvolunteers.org Today was an exciting day. The first round of play-sets were officially opened in Ishinomaki, courtesy Michael Anop’s phenomenal Playground of Hope initiative. Big thanks to Jamie El-Banna and the NPO It’s Not Just Mud for assembling the Miyagi sets! The project addresses a very real need for kids stuck in temporary housing to … Read more
FROM http://foreignvolunteers.org A break from weeding around a tsunami-damaged home – time for a debate about the TPP! (with thanks to Hai Huynh for permission to reproduce this photo here) Where are the Students? While volunteering with Meiji University students in … Read more
From Relief Request Document 111012-A Diaper delivery for Fukushima City 86-9 Emadaira, Watari-aza, Fukushima-city, Japan 〒960-8141 10 Boxes of Diapers. They continue top support community retirement home Rescue Japan delivery was Fukushima City, but the entire trip was to survey area of Koriyama, Tamura and surrounding areas during delivery for another group.
Rescue Japan will host an outdoor event at the Yunuki Temporary Housing Community in Soma City, Fukushima October 13th, 3pm. レスキュージャパンは福島県相馬市柚木仮設住宅にて、１０月１３日に野外ＢＢＱイベントを開催予定です。 Operation Plan: Volunteers locally will participate in notifying residences, cooking, cleaning and helping with distribution of free goods donated from corporations thru Rescue Japan. 地元の方々にもご参加いただき、調理、清掃、協賛企業からの物資の受け渡しなどお手伝い頂く予定です。 Tokyo Team: The team from Tokyo will include members … Read more
Iwaki City at the request of Shirou Sawai, principal of Fujima Junior High School, Iwaki Fukushima. He continues to support the housing community where earthquake victims are in need of daily household items. Relief Request Document 082412-A includes the following: Large Tape Diapers 10 boxes Large Pants Diapers 20 boxes Small Tape Diapers 8 boxes Soap 60 … Read more