津谷大沢区振興会会長三浦 広文 氏

Mr. Hirofumi MiuraThe Head of Tsuya-Osawa Residents' Association

Speaker

津谷大沢区振興会 災害対策事務局菅原 梅男 氏

Mr. Umeo SugawaraDisaster Countermeasures Office of Tsuya-Osawa Residents' AssociationFormer Deputy Mayor of Motoyoshi Town

Speaker

①Welcome to Tsuya-Osawa!

②The relationship between our area and APCAS

We appreciate APCAS’s quick and long support since tough situation period soon after tsunami damage.

Relationship 01Aid Supplies

(2011/03-2011/06)

Talking about victims current needs and problems with APCAS staff (April. 2011)

APCAS staff Ishikawa and Mr. Sugawara at Temporary Coordinating Center(April. 2011)

Relationship 02Reconstructing Community Center

(2011/08-2012/06)

Laying groundwork of community center by the residents and volunteers (Nov. 2011)

Rakuno Gakuen University students volunteers joined laying groundwork (Nov. 2011)

Construction work continued during the winter (Mar. 2012)

Interior Finish Work by the volunteers and Mr. Miura (May. 2012)

The Completion Ceremony (Jun. 2012)

③Occurred Disaster

*Retired from Motoyoshi town officer 10 years ago and started small fishery as the second life.

*Occurred Disaster*maximum 19.37m Tsunami

*Tsunami struck in 20 minutes after earthquake

Tsuya-Osawa affected data (the Great East Japan Earthquake)

Number of deaths 1

Damaged for houses 38

Damaged for fishery 59 fisher boats/ 1 fishing port / 58 farming rafts

Damaged for agriculture

5.0 ha (paddy and field)

Damaged for public facility

Community Center

No electric period 2011/3/11 – 2011/5/30

No water period 2011/3/11 – 2011/6/14

④Through the aid activities in our area Tsuya-Osawa.

-Supporting victims by the community-

*Challenging “Minpaku( 民泊 )” Style in emergency period

Minpaku means….“no affected households accepted

affected residents in the area”.

*Why we selected Minpaku Style

1.Destroyed assembly house2.Affected houses were limited3.No damaged households cooperation 4.Day-to-day effort to make good relationship

Normal Case of Tsunami affected area

*What is Minpaku Style?

Tsuya-Osawa area affected case

*What is Minpaku Style?

Tsuya-Osawa Temporary Coordinating Center using resident’s milk shop(April. 2011)

Evacucation data on the board, “25 households accepted 47 families/137 victims in the area”

(9th April 2011)

Distributing long-needed “Meat” for all Minpaku accepted households (16th April. 2011)

Distributing aid supplies for all households at

Temporary Coordinating

Center (April. 2011)

⑤Making community reconstruction Plan

*Residents‘ Association board member actively held Informal Meeting through various situation with residents and decided to make a community reconstruction plan for the future (Oct. 2011 ～ June.2012)

-Reconstruction Planning Workshop-with participatory way

(Cooperated with “NPO Groundwork Sagae”)

The Meeting of submitting plan for city At Kesen-numa city at city office (June. 2012)

Submitting Tsuya-Osawa community reconstruction plan to Kesen-numa mayor (June. 2012)

⑥The aims of reconstruction plan

*”Community Development with all members” including residents who take refugee to distant place.

*”Building safe and secure region” as the first priority

*Do not fade the memory of the disaster. Do not forget the lesson learned from disaster.

⑦Appreciation for all precious support !

*Not only practically but also emotionally, More than 100 individuals and groups had supported us and which enabled us 3 months emergency assistance for victims after tunami damage.

*We just repeated to say “Thank you” now but we will go forward to reward such precious support from the world in the future!

⑧At the end

*Residents' strong Network is truly essential factor for future recovery

*Community = All basis of harmonious coexistence society