Activities Report 1
Leaflets and paper cranes handed out
Leaflet printed in English and Chinese on both sides.
Paper cranes folded at the March 8th meeting of the KC of Sendai.
Storage metal racks for Arahama Elementary School in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture
The School was devastated by the tsunami, and is temporarily located on the campus of Higashi Miyagino Elementary School in Sendai City. The racks are indispensable to appropriate management of the relief goods from all over the world.
A third grader among 91 pupils of Arahama Elementary School lost life. The family members of 11 pupils died or are missing. 2 of them became orphans. The tsunami reached 40 cm (16 inches) above the second floor of the school building. 320 including pupils and neighbors fled to the roof. Their evacuation by helicopters started at about 5:00 pm and lasted until about 5:00 the following morning.
Arahama Elementary School neighborhood before and after the earthquake.
Arahama Elementary School yard and building before and after the earthquake.
Tsunami-devastated classroom for the first graders at Arahama Elementary School.
A PC, an LC display, a laser printer, a bar-code reader and a shredder for Ishinomaki Girls' High School, Miyagi Prefecture
The High School is located on Hiyoriyama hill side near the mouth of Kitakami River, and was not hit by the tsunami. The earthquake, however, destroyed the PC, etc. indispensable to the school library.
Picture story books for the Day-Care Center for Children run by Special Nonprofit Corporation "Nobi Nobi Welfare Koriyama" in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture
The Center takes care of 80 pre-school kids and 20 handicapped children, who have to stay indoors to avoid radiation caused by Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants. KC of Fukushima donated 61 picture story books and 30 Kiwanis dolls so that the children have enough things to enjoy indoors.
Children surround Ayako WAGO (President, KC of Fukushima), Yoko YASUDA (Director of the Corporation), etc. and sing a thank you song.
President Ayako WAGO and children.
A prefabricated warehouse for emergency goods emergency power generators at Higashi Matsushima High School, Miyagi Prefecture
The High School is located in tsunami devastated Higashi Matsushima City, and needs storage space for emergency goods as well as emergency power generators to run PC and TV for communication and information.
Floor sheets for Ishinomaki Kobunkan High School gymnasium, Miyagi Prefecture
The tsunami flooded 40 cm (16 inches) above the floor level of the school, and destroyed the floor sheets stored in the gymnasium. The floor sheets are indispensable to the school ceremonies held at the gymnasium.
Refrigerator for lunch service to Hirota Day-Care Center for Children in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture.
The tsunami flooded the Center above floor level and destroyed the refrigerator indispensable to lunch service.
Hirota Day-Care Center for Children and Director Keiko FUJIKURA on 28 February, 2012.
On 11 March, 2011, all the 104 children and all members of the staff escaped from the Center (upper right) through the hill behind to the Hirota Junior High School (upper left).
The refrigerator (front in the photo to the right) damaged by the tsunami was replaced by the new one in the lunch service room (photo to the left).
Children enjoying snacks after a nap on 28 February, 2012.
School backpacks for new first graders
The Women's Club of Haranomachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry is to give 23 traditional school backpacks to new first graders. The Haranomachi Area of Minami Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture is located at 20 km from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and has kids orphaned by the earthquake and tsunami.
Ms Miwako KURIHARA (Women's Club, Haranomachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry) and President Ayako WAGO (KC of Fukushima)
School backpacks for elementary school kids
Okabe Children's Association is to give 15 traditional school backpacks to elementary school kids in father-less families or those who live with their mothers to avoid the radioactivity in the Okabe Area of Fukushima City.
Mr. Yoshihiro KATAHIRA (Okabe Children's Association) and President Ayako WAGO (KC of Fukushima)
Instruments for the brass band of the new Marumori Junior High School
Jointly with KC of Sendai, Children's Fund and the Bikki Organization Miyagi
The tuba and glockenspiel for the brass band of the current Marutate Junior High School
that is to become the new Marumori Junior High School.
An outboard engine for the rescue boat for Ishinomaki High School Boat Club
Three outboard engines for rescue boats of the Ishinomaki High School Boat Club (in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture) were damaged by the tsunami. The club has been borrowing outboard engines indispensable to its activities.
Sand prevention rubber mats for 8 schools in Sendai City
Sand prevention rubber mats for the entrances to the temporary school buildings of 8 schools in Sendai City (through the Sendai City Board of Education)
Jointly with KC of Sendai, Children's Fund
Rubber mats at the entrances to the first floor classrooms of Nankodai Junior High School
in Sendai City
Classroom equipment for temporary school buildings in 3 elementary schools and 3 junior high schools in Sendai City
Nakano Elementary School, Higashi Rokugo Elementary School, Arahama Elementary School, Nanakita Junior High School, Nishiyama Junior High School and Atago Junior High School had to give classes in their gymnasium with the makeshift classrooms separated by cardboard partition until they could start using on 7 November the classrooms in the prefabricated school buildings. Through the Sendai City Board of Education, the KC of Sendai donated classroom equipment for the new classrooms that cannot be taken out from the old classrooms in the school buildings too dangerous to enter.
Arahama Elementary School neighborhood before and after the earthquake.
Arahama Elementary School yard and building before and after the earthquake.
A third grader among 91 pupils of Arahama Elementary School lost life. The family members of 11 pupils died or are missing. 2 of them became orphans. The tsunami reached 40 cm (16 inches) above the second floor of the school building. 320 including pupils and neighbors fled to the roof. Their evacuation by helicopters started at about 5:00 pm and lasted until about 5:00 the following morning.
Tsunami-devastated classroom for the first graders at Arahama Elementary School.
Nakano Elementary School three days after the earthquake.
Nakano Elementary School three days after the earthquake.
Tsunami-devastated library of Higashi Rokugo Elementary School.
Nishiyama Junior High School had to give classes in the gymnasium until they could start using the prefabricated temporary school building on 7 November.
Atago Junior High School. The concrete school buildings are too dangerous to enter. They had to give classes in the gymnasium with the makeshift classrooms separated by cardboard until they could start using the prefabricated temporary school building on 7 November.
Door mats, unbrella stands and kerosene stoves were needed for the classrooms in the temporary school buildings.
Schedule boards for the classrooms in Atago Junior High School. The pre-installed monthly schedule boards are useless. They are to convert the donated white boards into the new weekly schedule boards, since the old ones cannot be taken out from the old classrooms. From the right, Kazuhiro TAKAGI (Past President, KC of Sendai), Hitoshi TAKANO (Principal) and Tomoko WAKASA (Vice-Principal).
One of the new schedule boards in action.