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1.6. Student volunteers working in the affected areas of Noto Peninsula Earthquake © Hokurikugakuin Univ. 2. Carrying relief supplies into a storage warehouse with the mayor ofKomatsu City 3.4. Exhibiting at a disaster-prevention event in Tochigi City to convey the thoughts and feelings for Noto 5. Ashiyu Group continuing volunteer activities in Noto © The NGO
Collaboration Center for HANSHIN QUAKE Rehabilitation

More than Six Months since Noto Peninsula Earthquake

For Preventing Increasing Number of“Disaster-Related Deaths”
More than half a year has passed since the Noto Peninsula Earthquake occurred onJanuary 1, 2024. However, there still are some areas where the path to recovery is not
visible at all as restoration of water supply and demolition of damaged buildings aredelayed. In May, an elderly person living alone in a temporary house died, showing thatthe risk of disaster-related deaths is still high. Through the NPO Partner Project andthe activities for relief goods support, Civic Force has been focusing on supportive
efforts for preventing the isolation of affected people and disaster-related deaths.
In May and July, Civic Force exhibited at events held in Chiba and Tochigi Prefecturesand conducted awareness-raising activities focusing on support to Noto andpreparation for disasters that may occur this summer. In June, Civic Force signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Takeo City, Saga Prefecture, on relief
goods supply and the use of facilities in times of disaster, and also visited a private
disaster medical organization in Taiwan. We have been working to establish acooperative system across countries and organizations in preparation for the coming
flood season when people are on high alert.
This newsletter reports on our disaster preparation efforts and focuses on ourrecovery and reconstruction supporting activities.

Tomioka 3.11 Discussion GroupBringing Up “Sign Language
Kataribe (Storytellers)”
to Pass Down Lessons Learned!
Civic Force’s NPO Partner Projects for the Great East
Japan Earthquake have been focusing on thepassing down the lessons from the disaster. Civic
Force began a training course for Kataribe to use
sign language as a communication method inFukushima Prefecture on June
Scan here30, 2024. The attendees, 25 infor details
total, include those withhearing impairment as wellas sign language translators.
Three sessions will be held by
the end of October.

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Supporting
Disaster-Affected
Areas

Half a Year Since Noto Peninsula Earthquake

The affected areas face an uncertain future and Civic Force is focusing on preventing isolation

To Prevent Isolation of Disaster Affected PeopleNEW
Affected
Places inIshikawa

The Noto Peninsula Earthquake highlighted a major concern for disaster response in Japan - the lack of manpower.

Wajima Anamizu
BIG UP Ishinomaki

Providing TransportationIn response to people having lost their meansof transportation, BIG UP Ishinomaki, based in
Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, has been
providing a car service since April. Users ofthe service reached over 250. People whocontinued secondary evacuation in areas
such as Kaga, Komatsu, Hakusan, Takaoka,and Kanazawa used the service to go backhome or to move back and forth between
their affected houses and temporary houses.

With a desire to pass on the experience of the Great East
Japan Earthquake, the members listen to the problems of theaffected people and offer advice on the drive to theirdestinations. Not only do they provide transportation, butthey also try to understand the situation of individuals andoffer proper support for them.
BIG UP Ishinomaki also continues operating shower booths inSuzu City. The shower booths set up in the prefectural
gymnasium are going to be open until autumn to meet thelocal people’s needs.

and disaster-related deaths in tandem with four organizations
that work in affected areas such as Oku Noto area and Kanazawa City.

Preventing Isolation while Understanding
Situation of Individuals

Small Cove Project

Making Places for Evacuees

KanazawaWajima

NotoHokuriku Gakuin University
Disaster Area Support Center

Student Volunteers to Disaster Areas“After the earthquake thirty years ago, many people died alone. We don’t want tolet the same thing happen again.” To make use of the lesson learned from the Great
Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, after which over the next five years 250 people diedalone, the NGO Collaboration Center in Kobe promptly started emergency support
at evacuation centers in Nanao City after the Noto Peninsula Earthquake. They
continue providing support for individuals such as visiting affected houses inWajima City and Anamizu City and dispatching a “Foot Bath Team” who lend an ear
to the evacuees in community centers.

While labor shortages are serious in the disaster areas, Hokuriku Gakuin
University Disaster Area Support Center in Kanazawa City sends their student
volunteers to areas such as Wajima City and Noto Town. They have carried on
various activities, including cleaning shelters and victims’ homes, washing
photos, and creating gathering spaces at
temporary housing and for secondary
evacuees around Kanazawa City, and safeplaces for kids. They also have played a role asa hub which connects the disaster areas anduniversity students across Japan who want totake action for the victims. Going forward,
they are going to implement programs such as
coordinating social events at public spaces.

SUZU
WA JIMA

KanazawaNPO Partner
Projects

The NGO Collaboration Centerfor HANSHIN QUAKE Rehabilitation

NOTO
ANAMIZUNANAO

The Small Cove Project, started by the owner of Café Cove and others, is running a small
café in front of Kanazawa Station to provide a gathering space for evacuees. Itencourages people to take a step forward in their recovery while enjoying handmade
healthy food and sharing anxiety and concerns of evacuation life. In May, they temporally
opened another “Small Cove” for seven days in Kanazawa City for evacuees who couldn’t
come all the way to the station, and a total of 284 people visited.

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Delivering Necessities
to NPO Supporting Children

Summer Vacation
Helping Hands
Free Delivery Promotion
Now Underway

Good Links*, an online matching platform run by Civic Force, delivers goods toUntil August 30 (Fri.)

organizations working in disaster areas. In June, it provided box tissues and toilet
paper to NPO Gakuso in Suzu City, which has created a safe place and offered

K ANA Z AWA

academic support to the children who evacuated to Kanazawa City.
* Good Links is available for nonprofit organizations working on disaster relief. A form for registering needed items
in affected areas is available. For more information, please contact our office at gl@civic-force.org

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We are undertaking various efforts to develop our emergency preparedness
mechanism. This page introduces media coverage of our activities andinformation associated with our partner organizations.

Memorandum Signed with Takeo City
for Joint Stockpiling of Relief Supplies

Listed on“Nippon Fukufuku” Website

Civic Force has been listed as a donation recipient on the website “Nippon Fukufuku.” Thereis an arrangement that Nippon Warehouse, which operates this real estate information
website for warehouses and factories, donates 20% of the brokerage fee to social
contribution organizations.

Value Books: “Charibon”
Empower “Donation withGoods at Kaitori Daikichi”

Brilliance+ “secret stone”

Speeches, Lectures and AwarenessRaising Activities Held in Various Locations
Speaking at Study Session for Councilwomen

On May 24, Civic Force Executive Director
Kaori Neki spoke on “Passion and Senseof Mission for Work” at a training session
for educational administration officials inSaga Prefecture.

Call for Support for Noto at Events
On May 26, we exhibited at an Amazon
in-house event held in Chiba Prefecture. We
also participated in the Koedo Tochigi
Festival in Tochigi Prefecture on July 6, callingfor support for Noto and promoting theimportance of preparation in normal times.

Media Coverage
24.07.08

WEBEngift

24.06.25

TVEC Navi “Smile Project”
Season LLC “Charity Brand BeMee”
Great East Japan Earthquake
Yahoo! Net Donation
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NHK

SNS

“In preparation for disasters, Takeo City jointly stockpilingemergency supplies with a disaster assistance organization”

24.06.25

TVSaga Television“Takeo City and a disaster assistance organization step up
countermeasures and bring in new stockpiles as flooding season begins”

24.06

Magazinebooklet“Guidebook for Evacuation - Saga City Edition”

24.04.11

Newspaper

The Asahi Shimbun (KYUSHU)“Presence of CSO Grows in Disaster Preparedness”

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translated by ILV of the YWCA of Tokyo“Why Civic Force, an active disaster assistance platform,engages in legacy giving”

Hondana-Otasuke-Tai “Donation by Selling Second-Hand Books”

Head office : Tomigaya Ogawa Bldg.2F,2-41-12 Tomigaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN 151-0063

Training in Saga Prefecture“Passion and Sense of Mission for Work”

SUNNAP (sales limited in ASKUL)“Phase-free Certified Paper Cup with Measurement”

e-mail : info@civic-force.org

Civic Force Executive Director Kaori Neki
joined Ishikawa Prefecture Governor
Hiroshi Hase and others on stage at the“National Congressional Women's Policy
Study Group” held in Tokyo on May 16. She
spoke on support for disaster-affected
people and reconstruction assistance.

Hometown tax payment program

Publisher : Civic ForceRegina Clinic "SDGs Plan”

We welcome yourdonation of supplies
in preparation for
future disasters!

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Yahoo! “Buy and Support Delivery Pack”

Saga office : Marunaka Bldg. 6F, 1-3-5 Matsubara, Saga City, Saga Prefecture, JAPAN 840-0831

The 2023 Activity Report (May 2023-April 2024) on
the NPO Partner Projects for the Great East Japan
Earthquake is now available.

NEWTEL : +81-3-5790-9366

Tohoku Project Report
Released

General Donations

Summer 2024

On June 25, Civic Force signed an MoU withTakeo City in Saga Prefecture regarding the useof relief supplies and facilities in times ofdisaster. Supplies were delivered into a stockpile
warehouse and they will be promptly delivered
to disaster-affected areas, when needed.

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