Tohoku Pacific Earthquake: Report 6 on Medical Activities on the ground - Médecins du Monde Japan

[Tohoku Pacific Earthquake: Report 6 on Medical Activities on the ground] It is now over two and a half months since the earthquake. Just as the attention of the mass media is gradually fading, recovery activities, in many senses, are carrying on in the affected areas. It is a month since the opening of make-shift town halls and health clinics, and construction of provisional housing is also slowly going ahead. As for education, some schools have begun classes again, and the number of students that can be seen walking around in school uniforms and school regulation sportswear has increased. These are students who, whenever I pass them in the corridor greet me cheerfully, students who tell me that they complete their homework assignments as best they can despite the fact that their textbooks were washed away. From witnessing these views of day to day life, I begin to feel that Ohtsuchi is slowly beginning to move again