FOR PRESS RELEASE

June 2, 2006

 

To the Director, Press Agencies

ASHINAGA

 

Japanese ASHINAGA orphaned students have arrived in the devastated area of Yogyakarta today.

 

We would like to request the following to be considered for press release:

 

June 2, Japanese ASHINAGA orphaned students have arrived in the most devasted city of Bantul to conduct the research on the java earthquake orphans’ psychological state, and will provide emotional care.

 

june 3, 10 am, orphans of the great hanshin earthquake in 1995 will conduct a fund-raiser in shibuya, tokyo and in motomachi, kobe.

 

ASHINAGA (President: Yoshiomi Tamai), an organization supporting children who lost their parents to illness, disaster, suicide and other reasons, has decided to support children who lost their parents in an earthquake that struck in Java on the 27^th of May 2006. Today, 2 of ASHINAGA college scholars, who are working as volunteers in Banda Aceh aiming to provide emotional support for tsunami orphans, have arrived in the most devasted city of Bantul. They will conduct a research on the emotional state of Java earthquake orphans, and will provide emotional care.

On June 3, ASHINAGA Student Body will conduct a fund-raiser at Shibuya station in Tokyo and at Motomachi station in Kobe at 10 AM. This fund-raising was called by Masaki Nishiyama (a freshman at Japan College of Social Work), who lost both of his parents in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in Kobe 10 years ago. Masaki contacted other orphaned youths, who are his friends at ASHINAGA, and 15 of them will gather to raise money for Java Earthquake orphans.

The donations will be used to provide emotional care for those Javanese children and to bring them to the ASHINAGA International Summer Camp for Orphans, which ASHINAGA will hold in this coming August inviting 100, including 50 tsunami orphans from 20 different countries/regions.

We wish to ask for your understanding and consideration for press release.

 

On-site survey and emotional care for Java Earthquake orphans

Date:                    June 2, 3

Venue:                  Yogyakarta, Bantul

Students:              Toshihiro MUKAI (a senior at Tokyo University of Agriculture)

                            Kanako AMANO (a junior at Kobe Shinwa Women’s Universtity)

 

 

ASHINAGA Fund-Raiser for Java earthquake Orphans

Date:                    June 3, 10 AM to 12 AM

Venue:                  Tokyo JR Shibuya station, South Exit (Mr. Okazaki: 090-2434-3274)

                            Kobe JR Motomachi station, East Exit (Mr. Ogawa: 090-1547-1184)

Participants:          About 15 orphaned college students and the Great Hanshin Earthquake orphans

 

We are also receiving the donations via postal transfer. We wish to ask for the coverage for this.

Post Account: 00120-7-355615

Account Name: ASHINAGA fund for Java earthquake orphans

 

Contact:          ASHINAGA (Contact: Mr. Okazaki, e-mail: okazaki@ashinaga.org)

                        1-6-8 Hirakawa, Chiyoda, Tokyo, JAPAN 102-8639

                        Tel: 03-3221-0888   Fax: 03-3221-7676  URL: www.ashinaga.org