Youth Ambition & Education

Kadonowaki elementary school

On Mar 11, 2011, an earthquake off Fukushima Prefecture triggered a tsunami that hit Ishinomaki.

There are 362 students and 19 teachers and academic staff dead or missing in Miyagi Prefecture alone.

As part of our efforts to connect youth and kids around the world and to create awareness among them about the actual issues that affect us at a local and global level, Relief 2.0 is having two video conversations via Skype with 6th grade students at César Chavez Preparatory School (better known as Chavez Prep) in Washington, DC.

Japanese kids from Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan sing for the children and youth of Haiti on a special video prepared for and presented at TEDxYouth@PortauPrince, November 20, 2011. Travailler ensemble!

Haitian kids participating on TEDxYouth@PortauPrince send a message of hope to the kids and the people of Japan: Ganbatte Japan!

We are collaborating with the We Have Dream initiative to promote their dream visualization and drawing workshops for youth around the world. Within the next few weeks Relief 2.0 volunteers and Educar.org partners will coordinate and host workshops in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Argentina to add even more local dreams and drawings to the growing collection of We Have a Dream and to their current workshops in Japan.

Our fourth mission to Tohoku focuses in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture and is done in support of the Women Help Women initiative launched by the Global Summit of Women and lead by a group of Korean and Japanese business women.