Where We Live: Japan, One Week Later

What CT residents are doing and can do to help

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Where We Live: Japan, One Week Later, How we can help
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After a full week of pictures and words and statistics, it’s still hard to get a grip on the scope of the tragedy.  Thousands killed, with many thousands more missing.  Hundreds of thousands without water or shelter.  And, the specter of a nuclear meltdown that has taken the world’s attention away from the devastation of the original event.

Today, a week after the earthquake – we’ll look at Japan.  How it’s coping, and how people in Connecticut are helping.

 What’s your connection to Japan?  Do you have loved ones there, or a business interest?  Are you doing something to help – to send aid?  Let us know.

 

Ways To Donate to Relief Efforts:

(Click below for links to sites)

 

Japan Society of New York

Japan Society of Connecticut

Yale Relief Efforts




  

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My son in the Navy was

My son in the Navy was deployed to his ship in Japan one week before the earthquake & tsunami. I am very proud that he is participating in the rescue and recovery mission and very worried about his safety at the same time. I plan to donate monitarily and wish that I could do something more concrete...

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