Tohoku Tea Relief Caravan

Tohoku Tea Relief Caravan

~ Let’s warm Tohoku (Northern Japan) with Tea this winter.

In the first 2 weeks of January, 2012, we’ll be going around North-Eastern Japan (Tohoku) to warm the people of Tohoku in the cold days of mid-winter with our tea and your warmth.

Schedule

There is a packed schedule, so we’ve put it on a separate page. SCHEDULE

Outline

International Tea Farms Alliance (www.teafarms.org, Director: Yasuharu Matsumoto) and Obubu Tea Plantations (President: Akihiro Kita) will be touring areas affected by the March 2011 earthquake. In the first two weeks of January, 2011 we’ll be travelling from the northern part of Iwate Prefecture to the Kanto Region. We are planning to visit places such as temporary shelters, senior citizens home and many others for this project.

Our project aims to warm the hearts of people in Tohoku in the cold mid-winter months with our tea and to gather together people in Japan and overseas with the same aim to share your warmth with them. It will be something delightful for the communities there who are living in temporary shelters and who have just moved from evacuation areas.

This project is being supported by donated funds collected earlier this year, Obubu’s revenue, and by funds from the ITFA.

Send message to disaster victims

Our overseas business partner, Matcha Latte Media, is volunteering to translate your messages and print them on New Years greeting cards to give away at some of the events (depends on how many messages we get). Submit your own message here.

We are currently looking for volunteers to assist us with the Tea Caravan Project

- people who are directly or indirectly affected by the Great Tohoku Earthquake Disaster
- people who have knowledge of the local areas in Tohoku
- people who can help out for at least a whole day
- donations: monetary and/or daily necessities
- individuals who wishes to lend a hand
- companies who would like to do a collaboration with us for this project
- media, press people and sponsors (individuals or corporate)
Further details are still available only in Japanese.