Action Plan under Recovery Assistance Project in 2014

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Project aimed at training young people in Fukushima Prefecture
Some young evacuees struggled to plan for the future, while others needed opportunities to broaden their horizons. ADRA Japan provided learning opportunities and vocational experience to such young people. It established work experience programs, exchanges with university students in the US via Skype, seminars provided by working people and summer schools. The project was open to about 300 students enrolled at elementary, middle and high schools in the prefecture, as well as one municipal middle school and eight prefectural high schools. ADRA Japan saw a number of positive changes. The students started looking to the future. One student who used to regularly skip school began attending classes again. Another who had no aspirations started thinking about working at UNIQLO.

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Farming sector aid

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ADRA Japan published and distributed 30,000 copies of Hakaru, Shiru, Kurasu. It also created and printed 30,000 copies of the comic book version. So far, 10,000 copies have been distributed. ADRA Japan also produced an English version of the comic book, which it distributed to about 1,000 people from outside Japan at a UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction that was held in Sendai in March 2015.

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ADRA Japan and the farmers and residents of Fukushima and surrounding prefectures measured radiation in the air and broadcast reports on their lives. About 300 people took part, and the reports were seen by several tens of thousands of Internet users (over 100 hits per day on average).

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ADRA Japan has created and managed two pages on the website of Kodomo Mirai Sokuteijo, which monitors radiation levels for the protection of children. One of the pages provides information on radiation, while the other features a database about the fishing industry.