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KIST Helping Out in Tohoku on April 15th & 16th (updated April 22, 2011)

Another trip to the Tohoku area on Saturday, April 16, was planned as a part of KIST’s East-Japan Earthquake Appeal. To prepare for it, students, parents, teachers and staff spent time the day before preparing food, cooking, sorting supplies and packing donations. As before, volunteers will be serving approximately 2500 hot meals. Thank you everyone for your support!
A big thank you to KIST families for your many donations. Thank you also to the K1 students for baking scones and cookies, grade 2 classes for collecting school supplies, to the KIST teachers who raised money through the Yamathon, to Coca Cola for their financial donation to our efforts and especially to the students who have made donations on their own because they are caring and want to help others.

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On Friday the 15th of April, a two ton truck and a KIST school bus packed full of equipment, food, and donations, left the school grounds at 10:30pm for the journey to the evacuation sites. We arrived at the first site, the Tagajou city sports center in Tagajou city, Miyagi prefecture on Saturday the 16th at 7:30am. Here we were able to serve around 1500 lunches to evacuees and neighboring community members. Our next stop was at the Shichigahama central community center and the third at the International village in Shichigahama; we were able to serve around a 1000 dinner meals at these two locations.
Due to the requests of the locals our menu received a little change; we served the vegetable and meat chanko prepared by the Kitanoumi-beya sumo wrestlers, udon, bulgogi (Korean grilled beef), simmered meat and potatoes, Salmon flakes, shirasuhoshi, tsukudani, three varieties of pickles, and for dessert, oranges, bananas, tangerines, donuts and dorayaki.

The food situation at the locations hadn’t improved a great deal since our first visit two weeks after the earthquake. The locals were delighted to receive the meals, telling us that it felt like it was their birthday, and that they didn’t expect to eat such nice food since the quake.

The second location at the Shichigahama central community center was located on a hill, looking down we could see the town which had suffered severe damage with houses being swept away in the tsunami, so during our break time we decided to have a walk around. That area was just a few kilometers from the ocean so all the houses had been swept away and reduced to piles of rubble. Amongst the rubble were high school graduation albums, children’s clothing, toys, and dog kennels, and this left us picturing the people who had been going about their normal lives just before the earthquake hit.

We would like to thank the whole KIST community for your donations, your assistance with the preparations, also to those who have been planning for this event, and finally to those who helped with the early morning cleanup on the Sunday morning. Thanks to the assistance of students, parents and school staff we were able to make this appeal a success.

However, it is vital that we continue our support for the victims of the quakes. Therefore, we are planning another visit on Saturday 30th April. We will be sending out more information in a separate notice in due course and we thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

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KIST Helping Out in Tohoku (updated March 30, 2011 2:20am)

Dear KIST Community,

At 1:00 am Friday morning, 24 KIST staff began their journey to Tagajou city in the Miyagi Prefecture. A KIST school bus and a truck full of equipment, food, donation supplies and fuel headed to two elementary schools serving as evacuation sites as part of the KIST's Tohoku Earthquake Appeal. The school bus and truck received authorization as emergency aid vehicles; the preparation for departure involved making sure we were completely self-sufficient and could carry enough fuel for the return trip. I am happy to report that we all made it back to KIST on Saturday morning at 6:00 am.

We traveled 7 hours to reach the first school, Tagajou Elementary School. Requested donations were provided to the shelter, hot meals served to evacuees and neighboring community members and donations of snacks, diapers, clothing and other items were made available to the residents who needed them. The hot meals consisted of grilled fish, rice, Korean 'Purukogi', curry, udon as well as tea and fruit. There were lots of smiles to go around as residents were happy to have a hot meal two weeks after the quake.

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Our next stop was Jounan Elementary school where we repeated the process of serving hot meals of yaki niku, grilled fish, rice, udon, fruit and snacks. We were getting the setting up and packing up process down to a routine. With the help of JCI for letting us know of a school who really could use a hot meal, Mr. and Mrs. Komaki were able to arrange for us to visit a third site, Tenshin Elementary School. We were able to set up and serve meals to the 950 evacuees living at that school very quickly. The remaining supplies which were brought were donated to the school and to JCI as with the other donations the school has been collecting. The residents we visited sincerely appreciated the organization, planning, collection, purchasing, volunteering, serving and chatting.

One group of girls came up to me at our first school and were very excited to hear what we were going to do. They told us they were hungry as they were only given one donut and a sausage for breakfast so they very happy to hear they would be given a hot and delicious lunch. Thank you everyone for your support from those who have been planning for this event in the office for weeks to those who made a donation, it all made, and is, making a difference.

KIST Volunteer Staff.

Tohoku Earthquake Appeal Thankyou to Volunteers (updated March 30, 2011 1:32am)

Dear KIST Community,

KIST would like to thank the many volunteers for their help with the Tohoku Earthquake Appeal. Today (Thursday March 24), many students, parents, teachers and staff helped prepare for serving about 2,000 hot meals on Friday, March 25, to earthquake victims who are currently at the Takajou Elementary School and Jounan Elementary School evacuation sites. Volunteers helped prepare food and other ingredients to be used to cook the meals, cooked rice, organized donations and packed the truck. Thank you for your support.

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Tohoku Earthquake Appeal (updated March 21, 2011 21:32pm)

Dear KIST Community,

Today the school finalized the collection of more donations to be delivered to the JCI Tokyo dispatch warehouse. The school would sincerely like to thank the local residents living near the school and more than 200 members from the KIST community who brought many donations to the school. Due to this generosity, the school was able to deliver three dispatches to the volunteer organization.

In order to do more to help the Tohoku earthquake victims, KIST’s next planned support involves sending 20 staff members by school bus on Friday, March 25th to Takajou City in Miyagi Prefecture to prepare about 1,000 hot meals for earthquake victims who are currently at the Takajou Elementary School and Jounan Elementary School evacuation sites. KIST’s school buses have received authorization as emergency aid vehicles; the preparation for departure involves making sure we are completely self-sufficient and carry enough fuel for the return trip.

The school is planning to take as many donations as possible to the people at the evacuation sites. Therefore the school will be open to accept donations until 8:00pm Thursday, March 24th. The school has contacted officials in Takajou City and was given the list below of specific items that are most desperately needed.

Diapers, baby wipes, underpants for adults and children (new only) , clothes , blankets
Rubber gloves for gardening/reconstruction work, raincoats, rubber boots
Various medicines sold in pharmacies: Seirogan (actual product name), Eye drops (disposable type), Netsusama sheet (actual product name), cough medicine (for adults), Oronain ointment (actual product name), nail clippers, gauze that doesn’t stick easily to wounds, Ichijiku Kanchou (actual product name)

The school also needs volunteers on Thursday, March 24th to help prepare food and other ingredients that will be used to cook the meals in Miyagi. The work will involve cooking rice, organizing the above donated items and helping to pack them into the school buses etc. If you are able to help out with this preparation please email the school regarding your availability at admin@kist.ed.jp .

Volunteers are asked to:

Meet at KIST at 10:00am on Thursday, March 24th
Bring their own cutting knife and chopping board

Thank you.

Tohoku Earthquake Appeal (updated March 20, 2011 18:49pm)

Dear KIST Community,

Thank you very much for your cooperation. We have collected many donations from neighboring residents, parents, staff, teachers and individuals belonging to their respective personal communities. All the donations were delivered to the Junior Chamber International Tokyo’s dispatch warehouse (located in Shinsuna, Koto-ku) today, Sunday, March 20th at 3pm.

This is the second donation we have sent to them. We will still be accepting donations tomorrow, Monday, March 21st, from 10am to 2pm. We sincerely ask for your cooperation.

Another trip to the Tohoku area on Saturday, April 16, has been planned as a part of KIST’s East-Japan Earthquake Appeal. To prepare for it, students, parents, teachers and staff spent time the day before preparing food, cooking, sorting supplies and packing donations. As before, volunteers will be serving approximately 2500 hot meals. Thank you everyone for your support!
A big thank you to KIST families for your many donations. Thank you also to the K1 students for baking scones and cookies, grade 2 classes for collecting school supplies, to the KIST teachers who raised money through the Yamathon, to Coca Cola for their financial donation to our efforts and especially to the students who have made donations on their own because they are caring and want to help others.

See photo gallery

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