2015年7月6日～8月7日までの間、京都第一赤十字病院の河野智子看護師長が活動に取り組みました。「こころのケア」指導員であり、日ごろから話を聞くことの大切さを実感しています。今回の活動でも町民宅に訪問して直接話を聞くことに努めました。１カ月にわたる取り組みを振り返っていま、河野看護師は語ります。「実際に現地に赴き、避難されている皆さんのお話を聞かないとわからない現実がありました。今回の活動を通して、震災の状況や町民の思いを広く伝えていくのが、私たち日赤の役割の一つだと確信しました」と語りました。
From July 6 to August 7, 2015, Ms. Tomoko Kono, a chief nurse from the Japanese Red Cross Kyoto Daiichi Hospital worked on the health consultation program. She is an instructor for the JRCS psychosocial care program and knows well the importance of listening to people who are suffering. During her participation in the program, she dedicated herself to listening to the people from Namie by visiting them at their homes in Iwaki. Ms. Kono looks back at her one-month duty and says: “If I had not come here and spoken personally with the evacuees, I never would have understood the reality that they are facing. Working on the program convinced me that one of the JRCS’s roles is to convey to the wider public what happened at the time of the earthquake and tsunami as well as the perspective of the evacuees from Namie.”