I still feel very tired so have been staying in my house since I came back

It's because I didn't take enough days off during my volunteer work, so all tiredness of my body came now.

As generalization of my stay,

Ishinomaki city is getting clean magnificently, a store that full of mud two month ago has opened, and people in evacuation center started to come back to their home to clean.

However, still a lot of debris and mud left. Also need more temporally home for victims, and get the economy in this city recovered to open more job.

The need is to help continuously by volunteers.

I have a interesting comment from the owner of the house that we helped cleaning.

She said they have been encouraged by seeing many volunteers helping community, cleaning mud and serving food.

I think it is very help victims by just being there and seeing situation.
I hope people keep interested in helping north.

Second visit to Ishinomaki

帰って来てからというもの、身体が重くてグダグダする毎日。

まともに休んでなかったから、疲れがドッと出たのかな。

この1ヶ月を通して思った事。

石巻は少しずつ綺麗になってる。2ヶ月前に泥まみれだったレストランがオープンしたり、避難してた人達が徐々に掃除しに戻り始めてる。

ただ、瓦礫やヘドロの撤去はまだまだ残ってるし、それ以外に被災者の仮設住宅の準備や、産業の再生と雇用という課題が残ってる。

これからも、ボランティアや支援団体が継続して入って、長い目で復興支援する事が必要。

現地で掃除をさせてもらった家族が、
ボランティアが泥かきや炊き出しを手伝ってワイワイやってるのを見るだけで元気づけられるって言ってた。

ボランティアって、いるだけであっちの人達の支えになってるのかも。だからこそ、沢山の人達に現地行ってほしいな。