Hello, this is Shibata from 2HJ’s Ishinomaki Office.
We had volunteers come and join us from Tokyo this week and
last week.
Let me introduce Mr. Jack, one of the volunteers who stayed
with us for two nights at Ishinomaki.
Mr. Jack flies from the U.S. and stays in Japan for 2 months
every year. He joined us for volunteering at Ishinomaki last year as well.
As soon as Mr. Jack arrived at Ishinomaki, we had him come
with us to temporary houses of earthquake survivors and post flyers with info
on food support as well as deliver some food packages. We also had him help us out
with unloading food we received from Food Bank AGAIN.
On Saturday, Mr. Jack and local residents helped us out distributing food.
(Unfortunately, the picture does not show them clearly since
shows since they are working in a van.)
After distributing the food, we went to Onnagawa-cho (a
town) with Mr. Jack, since he had never been there before (the picture above
shows Mr. Jack standing by an alter with flowers.)
He seemed to have been shocked seeing the four story
building destroyed by a tsunami.
Mr. Jack was
so much help for us! Thank you so much!
He said that
he will visit us in Ishinomaki again when he comes to Japan next year. See you
then!
