Today I want to share my experience about Volunteer Work in Ishinomaki. Ishinomaki is one of serious devastated area by Tsunami. I have been there from Aug 9 to 12. I stayed at Primary school and surprisingly more than 100 victims still live in there. The central camp is Volunteer head office.
On firs day, What i did is digging out around the house. Tsunami washed away house, car, ship, and so on. The oil run out of ship, after that soil absorbed oil and this come to slime. As a result of this, so many flies emerged. We have to dig out slime as soon as possible we can.
On second day, we clean around grave because Obon was coming. Obon is that our ancestor can come back to this world only this day. We believe in this, this day is special for Japanese. I pull up the weeds and wash the grave.
After i finished this work, i worked on replacing things. The second floor on a house is not usually damaged. Thus, we can replaced things on the floor to other people who want to use.
I went for a bike ride near coast line, they ware so damaged. Everything was washed away by Tsunami. I cant believe it, It was shocking time.
On final day, I distributed food, water, livingware to victims at gym. They said to me "it is very hot, thank you for coming as a volunteer". I could not find the words. Because they are more painful than me. They lost everything.
If you have time or opportunity to go, please help them. I hope they will be restored soon.
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