Association for Children’s Environment｜Support Project for Children suffered from the Great East Japan Earthquake

At a recovery from the unprecedented huge earthquake, Association for Children’s Environment proposes how to build a “child-friendly- city” where people feel safer for future generation. Unlike traditional institutes, Association for Children’s Environment is an interdisciplinary organization covering various special fields where researchers and practitioners work together. Our basic policy to support the Great East Japan Earthquake victims consists of interdisciplinary comprehensiveness and continuity, collaboration among government, academic institutions and citizen’s organizations such as NPOs (Nonprofit Organizations), and a nationwide support system in coordination with the disaster-stricken area. Making use of our property, we will support children’s mental health care, daily life recovery, families with babies and/or infants, and child- friendly-city development, in accordance with the situation of the victims and stricken area, in the medium and long term as well as in an emergency. We will promote residents’, especially children’s participation in the stricken area, to put emphasis on resident’s vision, feelings, bond and children’s idea, and then aim for reconstruction of better city or child-friendly-city than before the disaster.