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The ANA Group's initiatives after the Great East Japan Earthquake included providing and transporting donations and relief goods, making aircraft available for medical experts and carrying out a charity mileage points campaign in which passengers participated.
At present, reconstruction support activities, mainly by Group employee volunteers, are continuing around Sendai and Fukushima airports and in Minami Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture. The following section highlights some activities in Minami Sanriku.
2013/4/1
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Heartfelt Bonding and Attachment Evoked Immediately after the Earthquake
A total of approximately 200 employee volunteers helped to regularly provide hot water three times each day.
For over two months after the earthquake, the ANA Group used aircraft de-icing vehicles to function as boilers that provided hot baths at evacuation centers in Minami Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture.
The project, named ANA Hearty Baths, supplied hot water every day for 63 days from April 28 to June 30, 2011, to a total of 2,237 people.
Ongoing activities by Group employee volunteers to deepen communication with local residents include sunflower planting and organization of a Christmas party.
Long-Term Support through Forestation
Group employee volunteers participated in the first phase of forestation.
The activities will continue over the long term.
Wooden Products using wood thinned from ANA Hearty Forest for sale on domestic and international flights
(March 2013)
Valuing the bonds built through ANA Hearty Baths, in July 2012 we launched a new project to plant a forest in Minami Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, called ANA Spirit Forest. ANA Group employee volunteers work with local residents on tree thinning and other activities to create a lush forest.
In March 2013, products made by local residents using thinned wood from ANA Spirit Forest were available for sale on ANA's domestic and international flights.
In addition, a factory in Minami Sanriku makes products locally by using wood thinned from the forest, and in turn has created a cycle of use that contributes to the vitalization of local industry and job creation.
Art from Debris for the Town of Minami Sanriku
Tabi suru kujira(The journeying whale)
will keep watching over the future of children of Minami Sanriku as a symbol of reconstruction.
A photo was taken with the children of Minami Sanriku who had participated in a workshop last year.
Tabi suru kujira(The journeying whale), an artwork made with tsunami debris by Japanese flower arrangement master Hiroki Maeno, has returned to Minami Sanriku, the place where it was created, where it will watch over the future of children there as a symbol of reconstruction.
The ANA Group sponsored the ceremony marking the donation of Tabi suru kujira, to the town of Minami Sanriku to which we are deeply attached and connected.
Invitees to the ceremony which was held on March 6, 2013 at the Minami Sanriku Hotel Kanyo included20 children from Minami Sanriku who had participated in a workshop using tsunami debris with Mr. Maeno a year earlier. Each child had colored pieces of wood with his or her own precious memories, and Mr. Maeno used the wood to decorate his whale-shaped objet d'art.
The children at the ceremony were delighted to see their drawings on the wood, filling the event with their smiles.
Two years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, long-term support for reconstruction is needed to restore vitality we recognize that of the disaster area. The ANA Group is determined to continue its support to help revitalize and rejuvenate the people,forest,sea and sky of Minami Sanriku.
