JCIE’s managing director, Hideko Katsumata, travelled to Tohoku last week to meet with potential recipients of the long-term recovery portion of JCIE’s Japan NGO Earthquake Relief and Recovery Fund. Ms. Katsumata visited Kamaishi and Miyako—two port towns where many of the vivid videos the world … Read more
JCIE’s Japan NGO Earthquake Relief and Recovery Fund has provided a grant to SakuraNet, a Japanese NPO, to rebuild and operate a senior daycare center, which will double as a community center, in an isolated area outside of Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture. This grant, which is part … Read more
On May 11, JCIE staff visited the Omoe Day Care Center in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, where they met with Ms. Fukiko Ishii of SakuraNet (our grantee for this project), and Mr. Hiroshi Kuzu of the Miyako Social Welfare Council, and learned a bit more about how this … Read more
JCIE staff recently visited with the Miyako City team of JCIE grantee Sankaku Planning Iwate’s “Mederu Car” Project, and spent the day accompanying the group on their delivery rounds and daily activities. The Mederu Car project currently has four teams delivering groceries in the cities of … Read more