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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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7 Sept 2011

Campaign “Please make hair ties and pouches for Miyagi”


There was a campaign, where women could express their heartfelt support through “handmade charity” by sending Jonet handmade shushu (hair ties covered in fabric) and pouches. Around 400 individually made shushu and pouches came together and were delivered to the Jonet office today.
Every single one was different in colour and pattern and showed lovely workmanship.
The “dried seaweed hairstyle” which the ladies in Kesennuma taught us, is still fresh in our memories, but this Yokohama shushu certainly has a soft finish!

To all of you who contributed these gifts, thank you so much! We shall bring these lovely presents as soon as we can to the women in the disaster areas. 

From the event blog that featured the campaign

 

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