The Tokyo-based Takagi Fund received a three-year grant from JCIE’s Japan NGO Earthquake Relief and Recovery Fund to assist its efforts to educate and promote collaboration and information-sharing among grassroots groups in the Fukushima region and elsewhere that have been dealing with radioactive contamination. The project includes research seminars and technical lectures, as well as a website to help the mothers’ groups, neighborhood associations, and other grassroots groups that are monitoring radiation in the area. The ultimate goal is to empower the people in these communities by providing these groups with a more scientific basis upon which to make the informed decisions that will help them lead healthy and secure lives.
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