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Playground of Hope - First Round completed.
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Playground of Hope Project

by × on April 3, 2012 at 01:54 × 0 comments

Today was an exciting day. The first round of play-sets were officially opened in Ishinomaki, courtesy Michael Anop’s phenomenal Playground of Hope initiative. Big thanks to Jamie El-Banna and the NPO It’s Not Just Mud for assembling the Miyagi sets! The project addresses a very real need for kids stuck [...]

BBC Interviews It’s Not Just Mud project
disaster relief / INJM / Ishinomaki / It's Not Just Mud / support / volunteer group

BBC Interviews It’s Not Just Mud project

by × on January 1, 2012 at 14:16 × 0 comments

 I’m currently up here in Ishinomaki with the group, so I may be a little biased, but thought it would be of interest to FVJ members to see this interview by BBC News with Jamie El-Banna, founder of the It’s Not Just Mud volunteer group, based in the Watanoha district [...]

INJM Working on a landslide-relief project in Onagawa town.
aid / clean-up / Community Support / current project / distribution / INJM / Ishinomaki / It's Not Just Mud / volunteer group / Watanoha / 石巻、 ボランティア、泥、助け合い、still accepting volunteers

It’s Not Just Mud

by × on November 5, 2011 at 08:08 × 1 comment

This is one of the groups in Tohoku that has playedgracious host to Foreign Volunteers Japan members on several visits up to Tohoku so far. The group was originallyformed in the famous “Tent City” in Ishinomaki, that ran frommid-March until September 30th, on the grounds of Senshu University inIshinomaki. The [...]