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In November 2012, JIFH started self-reliance support program in ShahWalla Village, Multan, in Punjab province. This is an education- based program which helps people identify problems in their daily life and solve the problem by themselves.

[Women learning sewing work with sewing machines]

In coordination with local authorities, churches and volunteers, following relief activities are carried out to respond to the needs of the people affected by the flood :

Report from FH Philippines
August 9 near Makati, Rizal

Three days of monsoon rains caused flooding in nine provinces in the Philippines. The flooding forced approximately 250,000 people from their homes. Many of Food for the Hungry's communities located near fast-moving, overflowing rivers have evacuated.

Over 100 groups of disaster-victims visit JIFH's warehouse daily. They are situated in a variety of conditions:

Photos of the damage and JIFH relief efforts are available.

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A JIFH overseas partner-organization, Korea Food for the Hungry International (KFHI) procured 100,000 bottles of 500 ml water for the quake-victims in Japan.

Report from Osaka

More than a dozen volunteers ranging from teens to seniors in their eighties helped with shipping at the JIFH Osaka head office today (March 25).

Reported by a JIFH staff member Tomoki Yoshida from Sendai

In the late afternoon of 24th of March, upon arrival of relief supplies from Yao City, JIFH staff members and volunteers unloaded the truck and opened the boxes in a warehouse, which JIFH rents in Sendai City.

Yao City government and JIFH have agreed to cooperate in the efforts of delivering relief supplies to the victims of Tohoku-Kanto earthquake.

Meisen kindergarten reopening tomorrow (March 24) to resume pre-schooling, JIFH will relocate its base-camp(s) today to 2 separate places in Sendai City: YWCA Sendai and Sendai Church of the Korean Christian Church in Japan, both located in Aoba-ward.

Reported by a JIFH staff member Tomoki Yoshida from Sendai

In the afternoon of March 22, Mr. Yoshihiko Akimoto, the president of Pan Akimoto Co., Ltd, arrived at JIFH base-camp in Sendai City in his van, filled with oven-fresh bread for 2000 people and several hundred portions of their Kyu-Can-Cho brand canned soft bread.

Planning to conduct soup-run service in Sendai City, Japan International Food for the Hungry has decided to procure ingredients,such as vegetables, rice and miso (fermented soybean) paste, from eruption-stricken farmers in Miyazaki prefecture. A Kobe-based non-profit organization will coordinate the procurement.

In cooperation with a disaster-relief volunteer team of Japan Evangelical Free Church Council, JIFH plans to serve hot meals to the quake-victims on the 23rd.

Lots of aid supply came by a bus from Aichi-prefecture. It included diapers, toilet paper, rice, powdered milk, blankets, water, and snacks that little children made.

Samaritan's Purse, a large-scale relief international relief organization from USA has arrived in the base in Sendai and we brought cup noodles, water, tea, toilet paper, and sanitary products as the first critical material to a junior-high school which is one of the safe shelters in Tagajo-city.

Mr. Seike, Managing Director and Mr. Shin on 16th had put things in order for preparations for rescue missions.

JIFH has been receiving a cheer from Hee Ah Lee, called as a miracle pianist with four fingers who are going to be a guest for "Hunger Zero Charity Concerts" which are going to be held on March, 2011

At the base in Izumi-ward, Sendai-city, Mr. Seike, Managing Director of JIFH gives a report of a severe situation hit by Tsunami.

Afternoon in March 15, 2011, Mr. Seike, Managing Director and Sin Okchul a staff of JIFH visited the port of Miyagino-ward, Sendai-city and saied, "I was so astonished to face this total defeated situation by Tsunami, this was much worse than the scenes I knew through TV. How powerful and awful the Tsunami was!"

At night in March 14th, 2011, JIFH had a report from Mr. Seike, Managing Director who reached to the most wanted places. He said, "people at the places are very in need of food, water, blankets, cloths and all other things. And gasoline has been greatly needed at the local places, the local people are having a hard time not to be able to get food, and to visit how their relatives are who lives in not near places without transportations "