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Barb
- 505 days ago - thepetitionsite.com

Hello everyone! As of December 28th 2011 I lost my C2 status. I cannot sign in to C2 not that I ever sign out, but, please sign my petition. I love you guys and want my identity back! Thnx, you're ALL THE BEST!

21 comments

U.S. Volunteer Group Earns Tragedy-Hit Iwate's Respect
Offbeat (tags: Iwate Prefecture, Ofunato, volunteers, clean up, debris, tsunami, March 11, Great East Japan Earthquake, help, respect, thanks, US, All Hands, goodnews )

Naoko
- 684 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp

Since its formation in the wake of the 2004 Sumatra tsunami, American nonprofit organization All Hands has dispatched more than 6,000 volunteers to the scenes of more than a dozen disasters across te globe.

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Help On Hand For Quake-Zone Fish Owners
Offbeat (tags: fish, tropical species, help, disaster-hit areas, aquarium, fish tank, Kawasaki, environmental conservation, Osakana Post )

Naoko
- 692 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp

A Kawasaki-based environmental conservation group is accepting aquaruim fish, mostly foreign tropcal species requiring well-equipped fish tanks, from owners in disaster-hit areas who can no longer afford the hobby.

4 comments

CARE Official Helps Tohoku After A Career Of Hot Spots
Offbeat (tags: CARE, help, Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, March 11, earthquake, tsunami, JEN, aid worker, same, refugees, refugee camps, Pakistan, international studies, emergency to recovery, commitnent, Iwate Prefecture, humans )

Naoko
- 720 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp

"I realized, if you could just peel off your skin, everyone all over the world is the same. We all have the same muscles, the same bones, two eyes, one mouth. I started looking at the problems all over the world, and wondering what I could do to help."

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Cambodian Weavers Repay Japanese Aid With Donation
Offbeat (tags: Japan, Cambodia, aid, disaster, help, donation, March 11, weavers, Nature Saves Cambodia, Fukushima, Namie Town, Red Cross, humans, goodnews )

Naoko
- 738 days ago - asahi.com

Help for disaster survivors is arriving from Cambodians who once were on the receiving end of aid from Japan.

7 comments

Click-To-Donate - for the Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake
Offbeat (tags: click-to-donate, Japan, March 11, quake and tsunami, Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, reconstructions, help, Fiat Group Automobiles )

Naoko
- 741 days ago - fiat-auto.co.jp

One more click-to-donate opportunity for the victims of the March 11 megaquake in Tohoku, Japan. The Fiat Group Automobiles Japan, will donate 1 yen for every click to the Peace Winds Japan, a Japanse NGO woriking in the affected areas.

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Birthplace of Jazz Helps Miyagi Musicians Play Again
Offbeat (tags: Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, New Orleans, jazz, help, musicians, March 11, Great East Japan Earthquake, music, children, school orchestra, goodnews )

Naoko
- 747 days ago - asahi.com

KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture - Across the Pacific, the birthplace of jazz reached out to help a local group of school musicians keep their sound alive following the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Mongolians Offer Support, And A Sheep, For Quake-Hit Japan
Offbeat (tags: Mongolia, support, nomad, sheep, ofer, help, Japan, Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, donation, hardships )

Naoko
- 757 days ago - asahi.com

On the grassland that stretches to the horizon in Mongolia's Tov province, a nomad named Ganbaatar tends to his goat and sheep, but his mind is on the suffering of the faraway people in northeastern Japan.

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One More Click-To-Donate Opportunity to Help the March 11 Megaquake Survivors
Offbeat (tags: Japan, March 11, earthquake, tsunami, help, victims, Civic Force, click-to-donate, Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, disasters, NPO, emergency team, relief, donation )

Naoko
- 762 days ago - mylohas.net

This is similar to the one I posted before. Please click the orange box to donate 1 yen to the "Civic Force", an organization that responds to domestic humanitarian disasters in Japan.

37 comments

Second Harvest Rallies Support for Tohoku
Offbeat (tags: Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, help, Second Harvest, food, water, supplies, donations, volunteers, Miyagi Prefecture, soup-kitchen, instant food, diapers, face masks, baby food, canned food, distribution )

Naoko
- 776 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp

In the days immediately follwing the earthquake, the Tokyo-based NGO was one of the first local groups to respond. They put out an urgent call for donations and set out to distribute food to survivors in Miyagi Prefecture.

3 comments

Peace Boat Rallies Help for Victims
Offbeat (tags: Peace Boat, help, March 11, earthquake, tsunami, Miyagi Prefecture, volunteers, victims, suffering )

Naoko
- 781 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp

A nongovrnmental organisation base in Tokyo in recruiting volunteers, both Japanese and non-Japanese, to travel to Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, and work to help those who are stillsuffering there after the March 11 earthquake ans tsunami.

1 comment

Evacuees Taking Shelter in Shut Down Factory Banded Together to Survive
Offbeat (tags: Tohoku Kanto Earthquake, tsunami, shelter, together, help one another, survive, help, disaster, Iwate, evacuation )

Naoko
- 783 days ago - mdn.mainichi.jp

OFUNATO, Iwate - At a makeshift evacuation shelter here, people who lost homes and loved ones to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami banded together to survive when outside help was cut. They continue to live together and encourage one another now, trying

24 comments

Charity Knows No Limit When Disaster Strikes
Offbeat (tags: help, ho food, disaster, tsunami, Japan, Taiwan, needy, volunteer, Tzu Chi Foundation, Buddhist charity organisation, evacuees )

Naoko
- 786 days ago - asahi.com

Mako Hayashi was immediately on the phone, frantic to find a community where hot food was needed. She planned to deliver stir-fried vermicelli rice noodles and "mabodofu" tofu in chilli-spiced sauce to needy people.

7 comments

Japan's Musicians Show Their Hearts
Offbeat (tags: Japan, music, musicials, artists, gearts, earthquake, help, donations, Red Cross, JRCS )

Naoko
- 789 days ago - search.japantimes.co.jp

Amid a flurry of cancellations of festivals and other concerts around the nation since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, there has been growing number of domestic artists, labels and event organisers who are making use of their music to do >>

6 comments

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United People Fund - Another Click-to-Donate Opportunity for the Quake Rescue in Japan
Offbeat (tags: donation, click to donate, japansese site, United People Fund, Civic Force, rescue, help, quake, Tohoku )

Naoko
- 791 days ago - clickbokin.ekokoro.jp

This is a Japanese site - Please click the box under the photo of the devastation. One click = 1 yen.

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