2HJ Comic - Food Package Making for Disaster Area!

A cartoon artist, Roberto De Vido, created great comics explaining Second Harvest Japan (2HJ)'s disaster relief. (Visit Roberto's site here.)


Today, we show you "Packing Day," which is about our wonderful volunteers making food packages for the disaster-struck area and load them onto a truck. You can see how the volunteers work and make a difference.


After you read this, you will feel like volunteering at 2HJ! Please visit our website to learn about our volunteering. We would really appreciate your help! Thanks to your help, our relief activities become possible. Thank you!

You can view the whole comic here!

1,000-Mile Cycling for Disaster Relief - From Kobe to Sapporo

A philanthropic cyclist, John Rucynski, biked from Kobe to Sapporo, which is about 1,000 miles, to raise money for Second Harvest Japan's disaster relief in Minami Sanriku town. Second Harvest Japan sends about 300 food packages to the disaster struck town every week. (Please read the article about the food packages here.) So far, we have sent more than 4,000 packages to temporary houses in Minami Sanriku and Minami Soma. John's fundraiser will help us deliver more food to the people in temporary houses in Minami Sanriku. Here is a message from John:

Message from John Rucynski/CyclingforJapan 

This summer I had planned a 1,000 mile cycling journey from Kobe to Sapporo. After the events of 3/11, of course this turned into a charity ride and also a mission to show the safety and beauty of the Tohoku region. Thanks to generous donations from the United States and Japan, I was able to collect 100,000 yen. This money will be used to assist the food package program in Minami-Sanriku town, Miyagi prefecture. For more details on this project, please check details on Second Harvest Japan’s blog. Thanks again to all of you for your support and generous donations. It’s still a long road to recovery, but I hope we could make a helpful contribution together. 

Thank you very much, John Rucynski and all the people supporting 2HJ's disaster relief! We will deliver your cheer as well as food to those in most need now! 

Biwa-ko in Shiga, Day 1 

Towada-ko in Akita

Sign like this kept me going

Reached my favorite hostel in Sapporo after 3 weeks!

Welcome party in Sapporo

Celebration in Sapporo

Delivered Food in Ofunato and Kamaishi: No.2

Some members of 2HJ and I, 2HJ COO Masahiro Otake, went to Ofunato and Kamaishi in North Japan on July 30. 


Our goals:

1) Set up a large-size tent in Ofunato

2) Deliver food to our partner agencies in Ofunato and Kamaishi in the disaster area

Previously I reported about the tent setting. In this report, I would like to report about food deliveries in Ofunato and Kamaishi. 

In the same-day afternoon, we visited aid-agencies in Ofunato and Kamaishi to deliver food. 

We delivered grapefruits to this aid-agency in Kamaishi.

We distributed grapefruits in Ofunato and Kamaishi along with posters with autographs and warm message from Sachi Suzuki, a Japanese model. 

The lady in the picture had her house swept away by the tsunami. 

With a smile, she said, "We will rebuild since I survived!" She is engaged in aid operations to help other disaster victims. I thought there were a lot to learn from her attitude. 

Through Second Harvest Japan's work, I encounter many people and learn life lessons from their attitudes and values. 

They teach me how important to both us and them to be connected through our aid activities. 

It will be six months soon since the disaster but we really need to keep the momentum of our disaster relief. 

Thank you very much for your continuous support!