Short-term volunteer positions now open

May 18, 2011

Until now, Peace Boat has only been organising volunteers to assist relief efforts for one week (8 nights / 9 days total), however we are happy to announce that we are now able to offer a plan for short-term volunteers also.

Such short-term volunteers are asked to make their own way to Ishinomaki, using public transportation (train / bus), and volunteer for two days. The short-term volunteers are also based at Ishinomaki City and Onagawa Town in Miyagi Prefecture, assisting with efforts to remove mud and debris, and generally clean, homes and businesses in the area.

Of course, it is important to ensure continuity in the relief efforts such as providing hot meals to survivors, and so we are still encouraging people to volunteer for a full week. However, there is such a need for helping hands that we have organised this shorter plan to try and make it easier for as many people as possible to participate in the volunteer efforts.

We hope that this will be a chance for many people who have wanted to volunteer, yet found it hard to make a full week, to join the relief operations.

At this stage, orientation sessions and information on short-term volunteer programmes is only available in Japanese. Please see the Japanese website here for further details, or directly contact the Peace Boat International Volunteer coordinator at relief(a)peaceboat.gr.jp.

Volunteers cleaning