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Volunteer positions for September now open! We need your help!
August 23, 2011
Short-term and weekly volunteer positions for September are now open.
The need for help with delivery of aid supplies and help with meal preparation in areas where Peace Boat is conducting volunteer activities (including Ishinomaki, Oshika Peninsula, Ogatsu and Onagawa) is stabilizing. However, we are now in need of volunteers to help with diversifying needs including cleaning of graves, fishing industry support, provision of bath facilities, delivery of daily necessities to temporary housing facilities assistance with town-building activities. There are many areas in which the help of volunteers is needed. Please help by becoming a disaster relief volunteer!
See here for further details.
TAGS: cleanup • debris removal • delivery • Disaster Relief • Earthquake • food provision • information session • international volunteers • Ishinomaki • Japan • Kanto-Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami • mud removal • Ogatsu • Onagawa • Oshika Peninsula • Peace Boat • peaceboat • Relief • September • Tokyo • Tsunami • Volunteer • volunteering • VolunteersPeace Boat videos featured on Ganbatte 365 Project
August 19, 2011
Ganbatte 360 is a project which aims to visually document and disseminate information about the rebuilding process following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. They have created a series of 15 second-long videos which explain the work that Peace Boat is doing. The videos can now be seen on our website here.
About the project: ‘Ganbatte 365 is a project to document renewal in the aftermath of the 3.11 disaster in Japan. While mass media and documentaries cover news and issues from many angles, they sometimes leave viewers with an unsettled or helpless feeling. We want to reach out to the world and tell the stories of individuals that have responded to an inner call to Act!’
http://www.ganbatte365.jp/en/about/
TAGS: cleanup • debris removal • Disaster Relief • Earthquake • Ganbatte 365 • international volunteers • Ishinomaki • Japan • Kanto-Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami • mud removal • Peace Boat • Relief • report • Tsunami • video • Volunteer • volunteering • VolunteersCharity cover of Coldplay’s “Fix You” released!
August 11, 2011
To benefit the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that shook the lives of so many in March 2011, 49 artists from 18 countries including Simple Plan’s Pierre Bouvier and Sebastien Lefevbre, Evaline, These Kids Wear Crowns and 11 year old Yuto Miyazawa came together in Singapore to rerecord Coldplay’s Fix You.
The arrangement and recording was done in just 36 hours, during the 6th annual Music Matters gathering in Singapore this past May. Coldplay donated the right to use the song, while promotion is being handled by Universal Music Group. This song has now been released worldwide, and all proceeds will go towards the Japanese Red Cross Society and Peace Boat, or you can donate directly here.
More information about the project is available on the Music Matters website, or else you can read about it on the CNNgo news page here: Coldplay cover to raise funds for tsunami relief.
To buy the Music Matters track, search for it on music sites around Asia, including Tencent in China, MOOV in Hong Kong and SingTel in Singapore. An iTunes release will follow shortly; pricing is according to territory.
Thank you to everyone who was involved in the making of this track!
TAGS: charity song • Coldplay • CSR • Disaster Relief • donations • Earthquake • Fix You • fundraising • international volunteers • Ishinomaki • Japan • Kanto-Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami • Music Matters • Peace Boat • Relief • Simple Plan • TsunamiNews about material donations
August 10, 2011
Since immediately after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Peace Boat has called for material donations for the people of Ishinomaki, Miyagi where our organisation is active. Due to local requests, Peace Boat’s collection, management and distribution of relief goods is now to be undertaken together with the Ishinomaki City Hall. For this reason, we are no longer receiving donations of material goods directly.
Until now, Peace Boat has been working together with other aid organisations, the Ishinomaki City Disaster Volunteer Centre and the Ishinomaki Disaster Assistance Recovery Council (IDRAC) to jointly use an indoor sports training area at the Ishinomaki Senshu University for material donations storage, and Peace Boat volunteers have been active in managing and distributing these items to evacuation centres and other parts of the affected areas. Every day, generous donations from around Japan and even overseas have arrived at the storehouse. As the transportation and delivery systems were wiped out by the tsunami, this aid was absolutely vital for the citizens of Ishinomaki. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who contributed to these donations.
If there are any further changes in local circumstances or Peace Boat calls for further material donations, we will announce on this homepage. The Ishinomaki City is accepting larger donations from corporations and individuals through their website here, and as some other organisations may still be accepting direct donations, we encourage you to check their homepages.
Press Release: Fukushima Youth Return to Japan
August 3, 2011
August 4: Press Conference upon Arrival at Narita International Airport
49 Junior High School students from Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture who travelled through Asia onboard a ship organised by Tokyo-based international NGO Peace Boat will return to Japan tomorrow (August 4, 2011).
The youth ambassadors, from 6 different schools in Minamisoma (20-40 km from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant), will return to Japan having completed a 13-day journey to Viet Nam, Singapore and Sri Lanka since their departure from Minamisoma on July 23.
The students participated in exchange programmes in each of the ports of call, including meeting young victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin in Da Nang and with children who survived the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Onboard Peace Boat, which is carrying 800 participants, the students joined English conversation, music and sport programs were also held.
Hiroshima Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor) Mr Nakamura Hiroshi (President of the Yachiyo City Atomic Bomb Survivors Committee) also accompanied the students and shared his atomic bomb experience with them.
ARRIVAL AND PRESS CONFERENCE DETAILS
August 4, 2011 (Thursday) 12:30-13:00 Narita International Airport Arrival Lobby
Arrival of students at 11:50 on Sri Lankan Airlines flight UL460.
Please be aware that their arrival time is subject to change due to flight circumstances.
13:30 – Press Conference on the first floor of Narita Airport Rest House “Blue Sky”
(5 minutes by car from Narita International Airport Terminal 2: inside the Narita International Airport grounds, 282-0004 Chiba Prefecture, Narita City)
Contents: Reports by several student representative, accompanying staff, Q&A.
Time for individual student interviews will also be available.
Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor Mr Nakamura Hiroshi and Peace Boat Fukushima Project Director Mr Kawasaki Akira will also be present.
14:30 (approximate) Students depart Narita by bus
19:00 (approximate) Students arrive at Minamisoma Kashima Municipal Junior High School
ABOUT PEACE BOAT
Peace Boat is a Japan-based NGO providing dedicated disaster relief and long-term support for the recovery of several cities in Miyagi prefecture following the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11.
Peace Boat is also long committed to education and advocacy efforts for a nuclear-free world.
MORE INFORMATION/CONTACT
* Peace Boat’s relief activities: http://peaceboat.org/relief
* Fukushima Youth Ambassador project information: http://bit.ly/pbfukushimalaunch
* Fukushima Youth voyage blog (Japanese): http://ameblo.jp/pbfukushimayouth
Contact: Kawasaki Akira, kawasaki@peaceboat.gr.jp / 03-3363-8047 / 090-8310-5370
For a pdf version of this release, click here
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