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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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6 Sept 2011

The Sri Lankan Tsunami




 








Suvendrini Kakuchi presenting the achievements of aid efforts in Sri Lanka.












We came to introduce Jonet’s activities and ask for aid.










 
In the Sri Lankan Goods corner, we were permitted to set up a table selling salted seaweed from the Minami-sanriku Chiba Seaweed Store. We sold out in no time.
 

On 26th December 2004, as 30 years of continuous civil war had finally calmed, a severe earthquake of Magnitude 9.0 struck Sri Lanka: the Indian Ocean earthquake. The resulting tsunami added further extensive damage to the coastline that had already been destroyed by conflict.
Suvendrini Kakuchi is currently developing a textiles-based project in Sri Lanka. When I received the message below from women at the textiles centres, I recalled the faces of people in the evacuation centres just after the disaster.

“To our Japanese members,
Thank you very much for your continued support. We are doing all that we can so that you need not fall into despair. We have heard about the frightening damage in Tohoku. We are sending you our thoughts. If we can help in any way, please let us know.
Shantini, Trincomalee Textiles Centre
Kara, Babunia Textiles Centre

On the day, we asked for cooperation with Miyagi Jo-Net. Suvendrini Kakuchi and her group’s ideas and methods shared much in common with our own, and we firmly believe that we will be able to borrow much wisdom from them.

Packs of “Salted Seaweed” from the Chiba –Noriya store were set out alongside wares made by the women from the textile centres’, but they sold out in no time at all.

 


 
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