{"id":5286,"date":"2012-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/2012\/06\/20120606iwateho1.html"},"modified":"2017-04-25T09:24:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:24:29","slug":"20120606iwateho1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/archive\/5286","title":{"rendered":"\u3010JPN Relief-45\u3011 Iwate : Home Partner Story (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donate to Help Japan Rebuild!<\/a>\u3000
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\n\"20120605Ofunato_yoshidasan1.jpg\"<\/a>In Ofunato, Iwate, Habitat Japan operates a project to rehabilitate individual houses damaged in the disaster. Mr. Choshichi Yoshida is one of the beneficiaries of this project.
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\nOn March 11th, when the earthquake struck, Mr.Yoshida thought there would be no tsunami as the sea was so calm. But his son recognized the critical situation that they were facing, and brought his parents to the evacuation center nearby. The tsunami even reached their feet at the center, and people let children evacuate further on to the roof top. Mr. Yoshida remembered the day and said, \"at that moment I didn't feel any fear. But now I think I was actually in a great shock\".
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\nNext day, he went back to the place where used to be his home. The main house was drifted away by tsunami, and the terraced house next to it had severe damage on its ground floor. He covered up broken walls by plywood and plastic sheeting, and slept on the second floor. He got a wood stove from one of his acquaintances and managed to pick up a sink for kitchen and metal flames for window from the mountain of debris. He also found a source of water supply in mountain nearby and had pipes lay on his own. As handy as he may be, he was actually struggling to repair his house by himself.
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\n\"20120605Ofunato_yoshidasan2.jpg\"<\/a>One day in January, he found out about Habitat Japan's program on Tokai Shimpo newspaper. With having its cost partially supported by this program, the rehabilitation started on April. The long house style structure had a very low heat detainment; the walls were installed to better insulate the house. Damaged floors were repaired to place tatami mats on top for a finish, then the rehabilitation process was completed in May.
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\nMr. Yoshida said \"I am a fisherman and do not want to leave this house near the sea. Thanks to everyone's assistance, I was able to get the daily life I used to have back\".
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\n2012.04.26\u3000Iwate : Habitat Japan featured on Tokaishimpo <\/a>
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\n2012.03.22\u3000Iwate : Flyer Distribution on its 2nd Stage <\/a>
\n2012.03.13\u3000Iwate : Program Flyers to 600 Families <\/a>
\n2012.03.12\u3000Iwate : Habitat Japan on Chinese National TV <\/a>
\n2012.03.11\u3000Rebuilding Japan Program Goes On <\/a>
\n2012.02.24\u3000Miyagi : Building a Gazebo for Community<\/a>
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\n2011.11.17\u3000Habitat Staff Featured in Ofunato Newsletter<\/a>
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\n2011.10.22\u3000Support for Fishery Industry<\/a>
\n2011.10.21\u3000Campus Chapters Raising Funds for Tohoku<\/a>
\n2011.10.20\u3000Corporate Volunteer Teams<\/a>
\n2011.10.12\u3000Futon for the Disaster Survivors<\/a>
\n2011.09.12\u3000KLA-Tencor Donates over 3.7m yen<\/a>
\n2011.09.12\u3000First Volunteer Team in Ishinomaki<\/a>
\n2011.08.14\u3000Quarterly Report (Apr to Jun, 2011) <\/a>
\n2011.06.30\u3000Standard Chartered Raises over 32m yen <\/a>
\n2011.06.30\u3000Volunteer Recruitment Started! (July departure) <\/a>
\n2011.06.13\u3000Oakwood Tokyo Lends Support to 'Rebuilding Japan' Program<\/a>
\n2011.06.07\u3000Volunteer Stories <\/a>
\n2011.06.06\u3000Homeowner Story<\/a>
\n2011.06.06\u3000Reports from the Volunteers \uff08June 4-5\uff09<\/a>
\n2011.05.20\u3000Volunteer Recruitment Started!<\/a>
\n2011.05.14\u3000Disaster Response Team Started <\/a>
\n2011.05.03\u3000First Volunteer Team Finished Its Work<\/a>
\n2011.05.02\u3000\"I Never Imagined that I Would Smile Again\"<\/a>
\n2011.05.01\u3000What Habitat Volunteers Bring to the Victims <\/a>
\n2011.04.30\u3000Children Return to a Cleaned Gym<\/a>
\n2011.04.29\u3000Volunteers Taking Action in Tohoku<\/a>
\n2011.04.28\u3000First Volunteer Team Heads Out to Tohoku<\/a>
\n2011.04.19\u3000Toiletries Delivered to Ofunato city, Iwate<\/a>
\n2011.04.13\u3000Toiletries Delivered to Soma city, Fukushima<\/a>
\n2011.04.10\u3000Thousands Support HFH's Response in Earthquake-Hit Japan<\/a>
\n2011.04.04\u3000Campus Chapters Fundraise for Rebuilding Japan <\/a>
\n2010.03.31\u3000Donation from APP Japan <\/a>
\n2011.03.14\u3000Donate to Help Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Victims<\/a\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donate to Help Japan Rebuild!\u3000 \u3000 In Ofunato, Iwate, Habitat Japan operates a project to rehabilitate individua […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,47,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activity-reports","category-japan","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}