How Can You Help Japan?

Japan has recently been hit by one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history, with a magnitude of 9.0. Thousands of people are reported dead and even more are still missing. Many non-profit organizations have started to accept donations in order to fund the relief efforts. Some of these organizations include:

– American Red Cross

– GlobalGiving

– Salvation Army

– AmeriCares

– Convoy of Hope

– International Medical Corps

– Shelter Box

For further information regarding the status of the Japan relief efforts, please see some of the following resources:

– CNN: Japan’s earthquake and tsunami by the numbers

– BBC

– Yahoo

– Fox News

– The NonProfit Times

– Huffington Post

– Al Jazeera

 

Volunteer: HandsOn Tokyo affiliate is continuing to monitor the situation and will be identifying volunteer appropriate activities. For now, you can register your interest to volunteer for potential upcoming volunteer opportunities related to the relief and recovery of earthquake and tsunami impacted communities by registering with HandsOn Tokyo.

• If you are local to Tokyo volunteer opportunities may become available more quickly.
• If you live outside of Japan, volunteer opportunities may take longer due to need to find proper accommodations and support for international volunteers.
• If you register your interest to volunteer, as soon as volunteer opportunities become available HandsOn Tokyo will send you an email updating you on those opportunities. Until then please do not call as HandsOn Tokyo’s offices as they are temporarily closed.

Donate: Right now, monetary support is needed more than anything else.  To donate resources to support recovery efforts Visit your Hands on Tokyo homepage on eBay (Please do not send goods, monetary resources are most useful until needs are fully assessed)

Teach: Resources at GenerationOn can help children and young adults better understand what their role in disaster relief, even when the disaster is far away, through lessons of philanthropy. Lessons and other resources can be found here.

Follow: Up to date information related to the disaster will be posted on twitter “hondisaster” (this will only be updated when new information is available)

AS WITH ALL DISASTERS, PLEASE DO NOT SELF DEPLOY TO THE REGION IMPACTED BY THE DISASTER. PLEASE WAIT UNTIL VOLUNTEER ASSISTANCE IS REQUESTED.

 

 

 

Posted by Elyse Mathos – emathos at ltu.edu

Tagged: disaster relief, International

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