WCDRR | Regina Kankinza Pritchett Sendai Japan, 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction Opening Segment Representative of the Major Groups March 14, 2015 [pdf]

Let me get back to telling you about how Japan is giving me new life right now. I work with the Huairou Commission and in partnership with of our local Japanese hosts, Women's Eye and JANIC we held a grassroots academy, with women in Minami Sanriku-cho, Fukushima and Iwate who were affected by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. We were hosted graciously and generously by the municipality of Minami Sanriku in the prefecture of Miyagi (go if you decided to spend an e