http://peaceboat.jp/relief/reports/cans-of-hope/ Peace Boat Disaster Relief Volunteer Center | 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:21:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://peaceboat.jp/relief/reports/cans-of-hope/#comment-6 6 months on – Part 4: Kinoya and the cans of hope « Get beneath the surface – The IJT Blog Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:14:38 +0000 http://peaceboat.jp/relief/?p=1275#comment-6 [...] “There they found our cans, everywhere, thousands of them. They opened one and found it was good to eat so this is what we all ate. Kinoya cans of fish. However, since many people knew that the cans were from our factory, nobody tried to pick them up because they felt it was inappropriate to eat them without permission. So, after few days, some people living in the shelter came to our CEO – who was also staying at the shelter like the others – and asked for permission to pick up and distribute the cans to the people in the shelter. Our CEO accepted their request, and then 50 or 100 people started picking the cans up, to share with the thousand people waiting at the shelter. Afterward the newspapers heard about it and began calling them the ‘cans of hope’.” [...] [...] “There they found our cans, everywhere, thousands of them. They opened one and found it was good to eat so this is what we all ate. Kinoya cans of fish. However, since many people knew that the cans were from our factory, nobody tried to pick them up because they felt it was inappropriate to eat them without permission. So, after few days, some people living in the shelter came to our CEO – who was also staying at the shelter like the others – and asked for permission to pick up and distribute the cans to the people in the shelter. Our CEO accepted their request, and then 50 or 100 people started picking the cans up, to share with the thousand people waiting at the shelter. Afterward the newspapers heard about it and began calling them the ‘cans of hope’.” [...]

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