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Nine years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, which occurred on March 11, 2011. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the memorial ceremonies and the reconstruction memorial events that were planned to take place at the affected areas are forced to be downscaled or canceled. The children have been resuming their normal lives, but because of the coronavirus, they are now facing similar situations from the past where schools are closed and going out is restricted.

In the midst of the outbreak, Bridge for Fukushima, a partner NPO of Civic Force, declared “Let’s make the best of it,” and “Turn tough times into opportunities!” Bridge for Fukushima organized online courses titled “Ready to Go” for high school students in Fukushima Prefecture. They are giving the students unique participatory classes every day from March 5 - soon after the school closure was announced - inviting “cool” adults from various backgrounds such as a company CEO, nature school director, battlefield journalist and social entrepreneur.

Civic Force began emergency assistance activities to combat the coronavirus at the end of January. In addition to the assistance to China, since February, we have provided 870,000 masks that we had stocked for disaster response to medical, welfare, and nursery facilities. We are receiving many thankful and encouraging messages. We are going to lease our trailers and tents to medical facilities from March and these will be utilized based on the hospital’s needs including outpatient examination room and waiting room.

This newsletter will feature the effort of “New Dream Support × NPO Partner Projects” - an assistance program related to the Great East Japan Earthquake - as well as the development of the disaster response activities as a member of the Airborne Rescue & Relief Operations With Search (ARROWS), which was established in December 2019. It will also provide an update on the current assistance activities for Typhoon No.19 (Hagibis)-affected areas.

NewsLetter Vol.20.pdf

Contents

P2 Supporting Disaster Affected Areas

【Great East Japan Earthquake】

･New Dream Support × NPO Partner Projects

【Typhoon No.19】

･Implementing nine projects in six prefectures

【COVID-19 Emergency Assistance】

･Offering Masks to Medical and Welfare Facilities

･Leasing a trailer to a hospital

P4 Creating Emergency Preparedness Mechanism

･Addressed in Media

･Support our Activities Easily!

･Airborne Rescue & Relief Operations With Search “ARROWS” Establishment Ceremony