Typhoon #12 Wakayama: End of Volunteer Activities
Peace Boat is wrapping up its volunteer activities following the typhoon in Wakayama Prefecture.
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Nov 2011
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Nov 2011
Turkey Earthquake Emergency Relief Donations
Peace Boat has started collecting donations for the purpose of providing emergency relief to people suffering in earthquake affected areas of Turkey. See here for details.
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Oct 2011
Team from Malaysia hard at work!
A volunteer team from the Malaysian Association of Youth Club (MAYC) spent five days in Ishinomaki between 18-22 October, working together with the local community to help support the recovery of the local fishing industry.
To date, international volunteers from 49 countries have worked together with Peace Boat.
The 20 members of the Malaysian Association of Youth Club were in their 20s-40s, and came all the way from Malaysia to contribute to supporting Japan. Having experience in disaster relief activities in their own country, they were able to play a large role in the activities, particularly supporting the recovery of the local fishing industry.
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Oct 2011
Newspaper delivery to temporary housing
Peace Boat is now creating a weekly newspaper to be delivered to temporary housing throughout Ishinomaki as part of its relief activities. Currently it is being delivered to around 4000 households in 70 different locations. (The newspaper itself can be downloaded at the bottom of this report.)
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Oct 2011
7 months on – the closure of the Ishinomaki evacuation centres
As of October 11, 7 months since the disaster, all evacuation centres of Ishinomaki City have been closed. This report introduces the situation as people move into evacuation centres, and Peace Boat plans to continue supporting the local community such as through provision of newspapers to temporary housing.
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Oct 2011
Report on emergency relief efforts – ‘Creating a system to utilize volunteers’
On October 13 the “Report on emergency relief efforts 7 months on from March 11 – ‘Creating a system to utilize volunteers’” report session was held at the JICA Global Plaza in Hiroo, Tokyo. Many guests attended the event including people who came all the way from Ishinomaki. This report covers the report session which included information from the mid-term report.
Approximately 500 people including, including representatives of media organisations, embassies and corporations, attended the event at the JICA Global Plaza. Many of the individual participants were people who had experience as volunteers in Ishinomaki and there were joyful reunions here and there prior to the commencement of the event.
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Oct 2011
Letter from Ishinomaki
Peace Boat received this message of appreciation from Oginohama Junior High School in Ishinomaki city which suffered damage from Typhoon No. 15.
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Oct 2011
Mid-term report now available
The Japanese language mid-term report for the Peace Boat Disaster Relief Volunteer Centre’s activities between March 11 – August 30 is now available.
We hope that all those who have been involved in supporting the relief and recovery activities until now will find this information useful.
The English language report will also be available online shortly.
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Oct 2011
Fire-lighting ceremony: Takahashi Tokuji Store commences operations!
On October 1, the long-standing business of the Takahashi Tokuji Store, established in 1905, recommenced business operations.
At the time of the disaster in March, a 7-meter tsunami hit the store which was producing kamaboko (minced fish products) and the store was filled with mud of 20cm in depth.
This report is about the “fire-lighting ceremony” which was held to celebrate this occasion.
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Oct 2011
Cleaning Assistant Director (AD) (Part 2)
The second half in the report following Cleaning Team Assistant Director Ichijo Kenji, who has been in Ishinomaki since March 21 and is responsible for debris clearance and home cleaning activities.