{"id":5293,"date":"2012-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/2012\/07\/20120706hpstory.html"},"modified":"2017-04-25T09:24:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:24:29","slug":"20120706hpstory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/archive\/5293","title":{"rendered":"\u3010JPN Relief-47\u3011 Iwate : Home Partner Story (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"20120706Ofunato2.jpg\"<\/a>In Ofunato, Iwate, Habitat Japan operates a project to rehabilitate individual houses damaged in the disaster. Ms. Konno is one of the beneficiaries of this project.
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\nOn March 11th, when the earthquake struck, Ms. Konno was cleaning up her bar near by the seacoast. She thought her house might have been damaged by the earthquake so she made her way back to her place. However, the bridge she usually takes was shut down. She took roundabout route through Ofunato Hospital which is located on the hill. \"20120706Ofunato3.jpg\"<\/a>There, she was told that the big tsunami reached the seacoast and realized that she had just managed to survive from it.
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\nShe spent 2 weeks at her daughter's place before moving back to her house. The house was full of mud and debris as the tsunami reached up to the ceiling of ground floor. Her post-tsunami life had started then.
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\nIn May 2011, on mother's day, her grandchildren gave her a manicure and a lipstick and told her that \"We hope you can be cheerful again as you used to be\". She had been so occupied with cleaning and repairing the damaged house; too busy surviving to live a life even for a bit. She was inspired by the message from her grandchildren and decided to decorate damaged walls by herself. She used plates and bowls to cut out papers to cover up holes and cracks on the walls as decorations. Ms. Konno recalls those days and says \"All I could use were kitchenware, and everything ended up in round shape!\"
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\n\"20120706Ofunato1.jpg\"<\/a>In April 2012, she found information about Habitat's program on the local newspaper and made application. With having its cost partially supported by this program, she repaired the damaged walls. \"Habitat Japan and so many other people helped me. If, I hope not, but disaster like this happens again, I would love to be a help for someone else. Would there be anything that an old lady like me could do?\" said Ms. Konno with positive attitude. She is one of many disaster survivors who shows us how people can live through struggle of recovery with wisdom and creativity.
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\n2012.06.05\u3000Iwate : Homeowner Story (1)
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\n2012.05.10\u3000Miyagi : Rehabilitating the Community Center (2) <\/a>
\n2012.05.07\u3000Iwate : Storage Cabinets for Community <\/a>
\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>
\n2012.02.22\u3000Miyagi : Painting Pictures of Hopes<\/a>
\n2012.02.11\u3000Miyagi : Volunteers are Back on Sites<\/a>
\n2012.01.13\u3000Miyagi : Winter Items for 1,338 Families<\/a>
\n2012.01.11\u300010 Months after the Disaster<\/a>
\n2011.12.23\u3000Miyagi : Distribution of 2,400 Hot Carpets<\/a>
\n2011.11.17\u3000Habitat Staff Featured in Ofunato Newsletter<\/a>
\n2011.11.05\u3000Distributing 278 Futon Sets in Onagawa<\/a>
\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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donate to Help Japan Rebuild!\u3000 \u3000\u3000 In Ofunato, Iwate, Habitat Japan operates a project to rehabilitate individu […]","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-5293","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\/5293","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=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}