{"id":5391,"date":"2013-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/2013\/12\/jpn_relief-83.html"},"modified":"2017-04-25T09:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T00:24:30","slug":"jpn_relief-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/archive\/5391","title":{"rendered":"\u3010JPN Relief-83\u3011 Home Partner Story (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HP20131218(4).png\"<\/a>Habitat for Humanity Japan's ongoing project in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture supports house repairs. Since March 2013, HFH Japan has chosen 45 families as partners for this project. Kenichi Yoshida is one of the home partners. His community, Shintona was attacked by 7-meter-high tsunami, but his house located uphill barely escaped from the direct impact of tsunami.
\nAlthough his house sustained no severe damage, it was partially damaged. Kenichi and his family kept living in that house with tsunami sludge remaining under the floors. Kenichi has been unwell probably due to the humidity and contaminated air, caused by the unsanitary underfloor condition.
\nKenichi was finally able to repair his house with the financial and consulting support provided by HFH Japan. Old floor boards were stripped, all sludge was removed, the foundation was reinforced with concrete and new floor boards were installed.
\nKenichi looked back on those days after the 3.11 disaster and said, \"I never thought that tsunami would be coming uphill to reach my house. My family and I rushed onto the mountain top and were watching the tsunami approaching. We were shocked at the sight. Gathering around an open fire with my family, we spent the night in the mountain. \"HP20131218(5).jpg\"<\/a>On the following day, we found that 1.2 meter tsunami washed furniture and other household items away. We had to replace them with new purchases and expended the little money we had. That's why we could not afford repairing our house for a long time. If HFH Japan had not reached out to my family, my family and I would not have been able to repair the house. We are very thankful.\" Kenichi's greatest joy now is playing with his grandchild in the living room.
\nHFH Japan finishes 45 house repairs in Higashimatsushima as planned by the end of 2013.
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\n2013.11.20 Repairs of 'Yume House' (dream house) in Onagawa<\/a>
\n2013.11.18 Building a tree house at the ruins of Matsusaki castle<\/a>
\n2013.11.11 Repair work of Kawakudari Community Centre Completed<\/a>
\n2013.10.21 Installation of solar system completed<\/a>
\n2013.10.11 More than 30 houses repaired in Miyagi<\/a>
\n2013.09.19 Home Partner Story (4)<\/a>
\n2013.09.02 Home Repair Project in the UN report <\/a>
\n2013.08.22 Installed Solar Panels at Community Centers <\/a>
\n2013.08.15 Solar Project is up on National Geographic<\/a>
\n2013.07.18 Home Partner Story (3)<\/a>
\n2013.05.31 Installed first panel in solar power project<\/a>
\n2013.05.09 YouthBUILD : Japan Team Volunteered for Disaster Relief<\/a>
\n2013.04.09 Miyagi : Completion of A Community Center<\/a>
\n2013.03.18 Miyagi : House Repairs in Higashimatsushima<\/a>
\n2013.03.08 Rebuilding Homes, Communities and Hope<\/a>
\n2013.01.31 Iwate : Building Shed for Fishermen (3)<\/a>
\n2013.01.08 Iwate : Housing Consultations Continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Habitat for Humanity Japan’s ongoing project in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture supports house repairs. S […]","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-5391","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\/5391","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=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habitatjp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}