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1- Taking a plane , when you are going to volunteer work the governament pay the plane ticket 2 - Staying on a school where all the people doing this work stay For more informations access : http://www.volunteerabroad.com/search/japan/volunteer-abroad-1
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No relief organization takes spontaneous volunteers for overseas deployment. Here's why: As I am sure you are aware, relief organizations are funded by donors. Donors expect that their money will be spent wisely. That means that where possible, expenses not related directly to helping survivors, have to be kept to a minimum. Flying people thousands of miles and spending money on their airfare is not a good use of money, when there are many local volunteers available. (Not all of Japan suffered damage, and they have a large and functional national Red Cross themselves.) Providing shelter and food to these people costs money, and strips scarce resources from the disaster survivors. Inexperienced volunteers are often shocked at the living conditions they have to deal with. Limited water, no electricity, shared open showers, and hot, crowded volunteer shelters are the norm. It's one thing to say that you can deal with them while sitting at home, but a very different thing to endure them when working 12-16 hour days and sharing them with dozens of people you don't know. Sending home a volunteer who's had an emotional meltdown is just another unnecessary expense--and keeping them around is even worse. Many people have skills that may seem useful. However, disaster scenes are much more complicated than everyday life. Resources you take for granted (like electricity--see above) while doing your job are not present. In Japan, communication and cultural issues would be huge. The language is complex, it is not written in Western alphabets, and it is very difficult to learn. If a volunteer needs a translator, that ties up two people to do one job, and that is inefficient. The Japanese put a very high value on etiquette, nuance, and protocol. Informal Americans--even ones who can manage some of the language--run a very high risk of insulting the people they want to help. This is a common problem at disasters even in the U.S., with American volunteers not understanding the local culture. (For example, I have heard of one group of good-hearted people arriving with beef ribs to feed a Hindu community. They couldn't eat the food due to their religious beliefs, and the volunteers were insulted at the refusal of their "gift.") Processing would-be volunteers is also a problem. Existing volunteers and staff have to take time away from planning and executing the response, in order to register, interview, and track prospective helpers. This takes time, and it doesn't help when the prospective people get rude and yell at the existing workers for "taking too long." By the way--being rude or exasperated is the fastest way to being rejected from a volunteer agency. If you behave like that in your home country, in your home language, in a comfortable setting, what kind of tantrum will you throw under real stress? So, those are just a few of the many reasons spontaneous volunteers are not used. Now--if the same people who are mad that they can't go to Japan, had been proactive after the Haiti earthquake and had gotten trained as disaster volunteers then, they would a) understand the whole process and b) may already have gotten experience in local and regional disasters. Make the commitment to training and volunteer time now, and when the next disaster comes, there may be a place for you in the response.
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Unless you are a trained emergency responder, unless you have extensive medical, engineering or logistics experience in post-disaster zones, and unless you are *already* affiliated with an emergency response agency (and you have been fully vetted), do NOT go to Japan. Please don't *try* to go to Japan. The American Red Cross and ReliefWeb can give you complete details on where to donate financially for Japan. That's what's most important right now. Also see the Japanese Red Cross http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/ American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org Or Text REDCROSS to 90999 to give $10 (will be added to the donors’ next cellphone bill). Mercy Corps in the USA has set up a donation fund for its partner, Peace Winds Japan, and its emergency assistance on the ground. http://www.mercycorps.org/donate/japan Check the ReliefWeb web site http://www.reliefweb.int Volunteering To Help After Major Disasters (earthquake, hurricane, tropical storm, flood, tsunami, oil spill, etc.) http://www.coyotecommunications.com/stuff/vols_in_disasters.html
