日本国際飢餓対策機構 ハンガーゼロ hunger Zero

【東京事務所イベント】
チャリサイズvol.3～エクササイズで飢餓をなくそう！～
Charicise vol.3 ～Let's Exercise and end hunger！(English below)

※4月のイベントがキャンセルになったため、同イベントを5月に開催します！

「日本でも世界でも、健康で元気な人たちが増えてほしい！」
そんな思いで、2018年2月にスタートした
『チャリサイズ～エクササイズで飢餓をゼロに～』
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３回目となる今回は
「体幹・クロスフィット風」をテーマに
体幹を鍛えることを意識した動きをHIIT（高強度インターバルトレーニング）に取り入れていきます。
サチカイロプラクティック院長ゆきえ先生＆パートナーJakeがインストラクターをしてくださいます！

以下のような、メリットがあります！

・短時間で効率よく筋肉力アップ
・脂肪燃焼が通常の筋トレの6倍(個人差あり)
・バランス機能アップ
・運動しながら英語も学べる！

You can now see what it was like when in late September 2011, our managing director Hirohisa Seike and Hunger Zero special envoy to Africa Yoshihiko Akimoto visited a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya.

I visited a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. This camp has around 440,000 refugees.

Can you imagine there being no rain for three years? That was what exactly happened in Somalia. "The last of my cattle died." Even though nomadic people are used to droughts, they lose their means of making a livelihood if their cattle die.

I visited a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. This camp has around 440,000 refugees.

Due to a severe drought not seen in 60 years in east Africa, the flow of refugees from Somalia to refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya is not stopping.
Many parents are forced to abandon their children. Others make it to camps only to be turned away. Graves of children keep on increasing.

Given this crisis in east Africa, from June 12-22,our managing director Hirohisa Seike and Hunger Zero special envoy Yoshihiko Akimoto (president of Pan Akimoto) will be visiting Kenya to assess the situation. A report of their assessment will be made on this year's World Food Day.

In the "Horn of Africa," consisting of countries such as Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, there is a severe food shortage due to drought. Currently over 13 million suffer from hunger.

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.

Please visit the Photo Gallery below:

https://picasaweb.google.com/104220333221620895150/JIFHLoveEastJapan#

Volunteers rich in diversity come to JIFH base-camp from all over the nation: a Christian youth group from Kanto area, pastors and members of local churches, a group sent by a national organization of university students, a group of Brazilians living in Aichi prefecture, and other individuals.

Mr. Yoshihiko Akimoto, the president of Pan Akimoto Co., Ltd and JIFH volunteers distributed canned soft bread in a town in Oshika peninsula, where supply shortage is serious.

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).

On the 23rd of March, a soup-run service took place near a Christian church in Higashi-Matsushima City.

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 "

Japan International Food for the Hungry(JIFH) decided to support the victims and the suffering caused by "Earth quake Japan" which happened in March 11th, 2011.

Niger:
In cooperation with BarnabasFund, food distributions are carried out in semi-desert and desert area in the central part of the country. More than 1,400 families will receive 50kg sack of rice, and 100kg sack of millet or sorghum(approximately 2-3 months worth of food for a family of 6) each in the most affected communities.

Sudan:
Meal programs for 110 school children in Rumbek region of South Sudan is carried out. Parents of these children receive instruction on how to prepare nutritious meals for their children. Agricultural programs that allows for the villagers to provide sufficient meals for their family is to be provided.

Zimbabwe:
In Seke region, located 25 km away from the capital, Harare, one pack of eggs is provided to each of 100 AIDS orphans to supplement nutrition.

Zambia:
This project provides support (financial and know-how) for poor women in the community of Chipulusuku to start a small scale business in order to increase their income. The goal is for them to be able to earn enough to send their children to school and eat at least twice a day.　　Carried out concurrently with this project is the support for the education of children in Chipulusuku community.

This project provide stationery, uniform, books, and tuition for their schooling.