Noto Peninsula Earthquake: Ongoing support for the survivors
02/01/2024 ( update 21/11/2024 )
More than a half-year has passed since the Noto Peninsula earthquake struck in Ishikawa Prefecture on 1 January. We would like to express our deepest sympathies to all victims of the earthquake.
In the affected areas, while progress has been made in restoring infrastructure and relocating residents to temporary housing, approximately 2,200 people are still forced to live in evacuation centers. AAR Japan (Association for Aid and Relief, Japan) began providing emergency assistance in Ishikawa Prefecture immediately after the earthquake and continuing to work closely with the survivors.
Activity #1 Soup Kitchen
Survivors receiving AAR’s soup dishes at Wakayama Elementary School in Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture
We provide cooked hot meals at evacuation centers and community centers where neighborhood residents gather. The menus such as local dishes ‘Tori-Yasai Miso’ are carefully balanced in terms of nutrition, and were appreciated by everyone. We have provided 170,000 hot meals so far.
Activity #2 Distribution of Supplies
AAR Shinichiro Ohara (left) delivers relief supplies to a meeting place in Machino district, Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture
The Noto Peninsula earthquake devastated the transport infrastructure and made it difficult for relief supplies to reach areas with small populations. We distribute a variety of supplies, including food, foodstuffs, drinking water, hygiene and daily necessities, clothing and paraffin, mainly to evacuation centers and welfare facilities in such areas.
Activity #3 Support for welfare facilities for persons with disabilities
Providing portable toilets and small tents to the community life support facility “Umudu Sora”. AAR Mitsuru Namatame (left) with the facility’s residents in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture
We deliver food, drinking water, hygiene products and essential equipment to welfare facilities for people with disabilities who are often left out of assistance when major disasters strike. We are helping to reopen these facilities by repairing buildings damaged by the earthquake and providing equipment, materials and equipment.
Activity#4 Support for Foreign Survivors
Yuki Sakurai, an AAR staff member, visits the homes of foreign residents affected by the disaster and listens to their stories in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture
In cooperation with welfare networks and other support groups in the affected areas, provided food, drinking water, hygiene items and fuel for heating to foreigners who were often isolated. We are working with the government and local support groups to provide assistance to promote interaction between them and local people.
Activity#5 Community Support
Lecture & Consultation session held at the “Concert Noto” in Noto Town, Ishikawa Prefecture. Attorney Kai Nagano (right) and AAR Shinichiro Ohara (left) in front
As supports tailored to the needs of the survivors living in evacuation centers or at home, we provide on-site massages by physiotherapists and other specialists, a ‘hot mobile bath’ service using a converted truck, lectures and consultation sessions in which attorneys explain support systems for rebuilding lives in an easy-to-understand manner, and the provision of electrical appliances to those who have moved into temporary housing.
From emergency assistance to medium- and long-term support
It will take a long time for the survivors to regain their normal lives. AAR will continue to provide medium- and long-term support by accurately identifying their gradually changing needs.
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