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What is Miyagi-Jonet?

MIYAGI JO-NET (Miyagi Women’s Support Network) is a non-profit organisation supporting women in the Tohoku area that was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. We aim to connect the women in the affected areas with women and supporters from around Japan and the world. To this end, we are cooperating with various other women’s and relief organisations. Our many projects are designed to help women individually in reconstructing their lives and livelihoods. We thereby hope to brighten their everyday a little bit. We also collect relief/support goods and other donations to distribute them among the women and families affected by the disaster. Through regular meetings, our ‘salons,’ and consultations, we gain insight into women’s needs and concerns, and propose adequate measures to local and regional administrations.

Many of Miyagi Jonet’s members are women affected themselves by the disaster.


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10 Jun 2011

We received messages from persons we met at our Jonet Salon


Each time we hold a Salon in the disaster area, our hearts ache in view of our powerlessness vis-à-vis the tremendous devastation.
More than any image can possibly convey, the direct experience of sniffing the smell of the air, the feeling of walking that ground, the sight of pieces of clothes caught here and there in building or of swaying vinyl-tape that has been torn to shreds is so overwhelming that we are lost for words.
The ordinary everyday things somebody has been using are now buried in sludge. As if by intention, a single shoe of a child and smashed up toys are strewn about.
There can be no more cruel sight than this.




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