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JASA- Japan Earthquake Relief Fund
2011-08-08


I am interested in donating to earthquake relief.

Contributions may be made to:
 JASA- Japan Earthquake Relief Fund 
to directly benefit
the following three Sendai/ Tohoku specific earthquake relief funds:

The Tokyo Volunteer Network for Disaster Relief(東京災害ボランティアネットワーク) is an experienced disaster preparedness, relief and recovery organization based in Tokyo with experience in region (1998 Fukushima flood).  Funds from the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund will support the establishment of a distribution center in the city Tome, Miyagi Prefecture for the food, water, blankets and other goods the Network will collect and distribute.  The network will coordinate the efforts of approximately 3,000 volunteers who will come to the region in groups of 15-50 for one week at a time to help distribute emergency relief supplies and help with clean-up efforts.  

http://www.tosaibo.net/(Japanese only)


JEN(ジェン)  is an international humanitarian relief and development organization with experience in Japan, spending five years in Niigata in response to the 2004 and 2007 earthquakes.  Funds from the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund will support their work in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, a fishing village that is among the hardest hit by the tsunami.  Initially working in a shelter with approximately 2,500 people, JEN will provide emergency relief supplies and will reach out to the community to identify and support the community, including those who are among the most vulnerable (the elderly, disabled, those with special medical needs), and determine the longer term needs of community and other hard-to-reach villages.

http://www.jen-npo.org/en/  (English)
http://www.jen-npo.org/  (Japanese)


Japan NPO Center (日本NPOセンター), established after the Kobe earthquake to support the development of NPOs throughout Japan, will partner with its sister organization, the Civil Society Initiative Fund (市民社会創造ファンド), to use funds from the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund to identify and support local community-based, grassroots NPOs and volunteer organizations involved in relief and sustainable recovery work throughout the affected region. These grants will be mostly be small in size, averaging 1,000,000 yen each, and will reach smaller community-based organizations with speed and flexibility. In this way, community-based organizations that are not well known, but know their community and its needs, can be supported in their efforts in amounts appropriate to their size.

http://www.jnpoc.ne.jp/?p=985  (English)
http://www.jnpoc.ne.jp/  (Japanese)