This portal is being produced by friends of Second Harvest Japan while the core team on the ground is consumed with response and recovery activities.  Its purpose is to provide the Second Harvest Japan community of supporters and agencies with the latest situational updates, access to resources, and information on the very latest needs in response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami activity off the coast of Sendai. 

Latest News

Second Harvest Japan mentioned in Kahoku-Shipou article and Thanks for Your Support video

Here are links to Kahoku-Shinpou (translated) article and 2HJ Thank you video.  

 Kahoku-Shinpou (translated):  http://www.2hj.org/index.php/news/kahoku_shinpo_article/

 Thank You video: http://www.youtube.com/embed/i6E3S9noc3A

  We are grateful for all the people who make our efforts possible. Thank you very much for your support! 

Umamimart starts a virtual aid drive.

Tasteful but provocative anti-foodies Umamimart show us that their good taste and humour comes with heart as they start their own virtual aid drive. Umamimart entertains and informs with an original and well-researched website covering food and drink from across the galaxy.

   Friends of Umamimart can donate here.  

   Read their blog and learn about Umamimart here.

  For public donations or enquiries about setting up your own aid drive please see Information & Inquiries to the right.     

Second Harvest Japan Releases Disaster Relief Plan

  Currently, Second Harvest Japan (2HJ) is using all of its personnel power to work on the disaster relief activity for the people in Tohoku area affected by the Pacific earthquake. Here are what we are working on now: 1) establishing the network to recruit all kinds of items we need; 2) establishing safe and secure routes to deliver needed items to the disaster victims; 3) collecting information about what exactly the disaster victims need. With your support, we will engage in the emergency disaster relief and the reconstruction assistance that will follow the emergency action.

  Phase II Plan
  
Phase II of 2HJ disaster response has begun. 2HJ are working in five regions from Iwaki-shi in the south to Miyako in the north, some 400km. 2HJ have partnered up with NGOs and other groups in those areas to provide more constant and steady stream of supplies. Nearly half of the original number of people in evacuation centers have left and now the major cleanup has begun.

  2HJ's hot meal and pantry programs have been running as normal since the disaster. Its food bank operations had to be scaled back in order to respond. Beginning on April 11th 2HJ will resume full food bank operations while at the same time respond to the needs up north.  

2HJ have updated its list of items it need. Incoming individual donations will be used both in the disaster zone and outside the zone to reach those in need. 

2HJ have received more than 40 million yen in donations for disaster relief. We are currently laying out a long-term relief plan that will address the need to create a “food lifeline” and “food safety-net” for the region. 2HJ have asked companies and foundations wishing to make large donations for disaster relief to wait until things settle out and the picture becomes clearer.  

From now on, further donations will be used both for disaster relief and to support 2HJ's current operations. 2HJ thank you for your understanding.

Contact us:
Phone: 03-3838-3827
Email: info@2hj.org

Maypro starts a virtual aid drive

Maypro, one of the world's leading suppliers of raw materials for natural products and health related industries, has started a virtual aid drive to allow its employees and business partners to contribute donations.

Friends of Maypro can contribute to the Maypro aid drive here

Find out about Maypro from their website www.maypro.com

For pblic donations or enquiries about setting up your own aid drive please see Information & Inquiries to the right. 

2HJ received an offer from the people of the “Tohoku he Tida no Megumi Wo! Project” (Sending Sunshine to Tohoku (the northern area)! Project) in late March of this year, to send natural brown sugar from Taramajima, Okinawa to aid victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. This project purchases Taramajima natural brown sugar with donations collected in Miyajima and surrounding communities, and sends the sugar to people affected in the Tohoku region via aid volunteer groups. 2HJ helped out by breaking down the sugar and repackaged them with help of group volunteers from various schools and corporations,and sent them to Tohoku.

 

YCHS students help individually wrap and enclose the brown sugar bags with a message.

Read more from our blog: 2HJ Blog

Financial Donations

You can support Second Harvest Japan financially by Clicking Here. Financial donations will provide the quickest and most flexible response for the 2HJ team, as well as help them procure locally to help the economy recover more quickly.

Product Donations

Please click on the Aidmatrix Donations Management Portal for Japan Second Harvest. You can donate items or match needs and help Second Harvest Japan assist the recovery efforts post the earthquake.

Needed Items (As of May 9, 2011):
* Food & Beverage (MUST be unexpired): rice, canned items and retort-pouch food
* Packing gum tape (to seal the boxes for shipping out
* Snacks (this would help people psychologically a lot);
* Portable stoves
* Diapers for children and the elderly;
* Pet food

Aidmatrix is working to coordinate the delivery of aid to Japan Second Harvest and is in need of donated and discounted transportation services to make this happen. Please email brad_watts@aidmatrix.org if you are able to help with this.

Volunteer Efforts

Japan based volunteers can email volunteer@2hj.org

 A special THANK YOU to Microsoft Disaster Response and to The Aidmatrix Foundation for their emergency deployoment of this portal and other support. The content of this portal is being managed by our friends and volunteers at the moment, so thank you!