Locations:
- Miyagi Prefecture: Ishinomaki City
Website: http://www.peaceboat.org/english/
Peace Boat is a non-governmental organization established in 1983 that promotes peace, human rights, equal and sustainable development, and respect for the environment through global education programs, cooperative projects, and advocacy activities on global peace voyages. Peace Boat has carried out emergency relief operations for the past 15 years, delivering emergency assistance and raising funds, as well as coordinating the dispatch of logisticians, interpreters, and volunteer teams to affected areas all over the world.
Direct Relief has supported Peace Boat since April 2011 with over $800,000 in cash grants to fund earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster relief and recovery efforts.
Peace Boat’s disaster relief efforts in Japan have concentrated on Ishinomaki City in Miyagi Prefecture, a city of 160,000 with 5,000 dead or missing and over 23,000 displaced after the tsunami. Within one week of the disaster, Peace Boat sent a team to Ishinomaki City to collect information about the damage and needs, as well as distribute 10 tons of emergency aid. Funding from Direct Relief has been used to support volunteer clean-up of cleaning debris from roads and buildings.
Read about grants to Peace Boat