Get involved. Call or email church leaders, community leaders, business leaders and government leaders. Ask them to get involved in immediately flying food, clothing, and water to communities in Northern Japan where people are cold, hungry, and thirsty.
While the nuclear meltdown has attracted a lot of attention, there are people not getting food, water, and clothing. It is an easy thing for planes to drop food and bottled water to communities needing immediate help. The winds are favorable for dropping supplies without going through radiation. This can be done by the military or NGOs. It must be done immediately. There is no need for parachutes. Clothing and food can be packaged and dropped without chutes. Small bottled water can be dropped into water where it can be retrieved.
The US Air Force dropped thousands of regular military “Meals Ready to Eat” (MRE’s) packages from high altitude without parachutes by just kicking them out the back of a cargo plane flying at 5,000 feet. Quaker Oats Company quickly contributed 100,000 sealed granola bars to go along with the MRE’s. Most of the packages dropped without parachutes were unbroken and the food was scattered over a wide area so that all refugees had an equal chance of picking up the food. The US has done this in Afghanistan also.
We do not accept donations for Japan. Here are some links for you to contact for financial donations to help support the relief effort.
ADRA JapanBank name: The Bank of Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ (0005)
Branch: Omotesando (133)
Account number: 1956381
Swift code: BOTKJPJT
Account name: ADRA Japan
Please mention [Tohoku jishin] or [Emergency], in addition to your name.
Should you require the receipt, please also mention your address, phone number, the date and the amount transferred.
[Postal transfer]
Account number: 00290-2-34169
Account name: ADRA Japan
Please mention [Tohoku jishin] or [Emergency], in addition to your name.
Should you require the receipt, please mention so.
ADRA International