As you know there are many men working at Fukushima nuclear plant trying to make the place stable. One of the women in an online group I belong to is the wife of the guy who supplied the 58m Putzmeister pump. Yesterday she wrote saying that they will be soon be getting a new 70m pump, the largest in the world and only 3 exist.
Her husband and his team trained the workers on how to use the pump, these workers left for the Daiichi plant have not returned. They are staying at J Village - a football training ground that they are using to house all the Daiichi workers and SDF crews.
This week her husband will meet with one of the Daiichi workers for extra training and this is where you come in. They are collecting letters or notes to put in a binder to send back to J Village with the newly trained worker, these notes of hope and encouragement need to be written in Japanese.
These men are putting their lives on the line, they are working in awful conditions and many of them have lost family and their homes. For a lot of them, they have no idea if their family is alive, dead or missing or even if they have a house to return to once the mess is cleaned up. They have not slept in a proper bed since the quake and are working on rations, a fact I find disgusting, these men are doing such a tremendous job, the least TEPCO could do is feed them 3 decent meals a day.
So... If you write Japanese please write a short message to the workers you can leave a comment on this post (in Japanese) or you can mail it to me at montessori.swapshop 'at' gmail 'dot' com, I will collect them all together and send them on. Time is of the essence so I will collect them all on Tuesday evening JST and send them. Please put your name and where you are from at the end of the message, I am sure the workers will appreciate it.
If you don't speak Japanese but would still like to leave a message, there is a FB page dedicated to the workers,
Three Hundred Silent Samurai
I heard about the silent samurai. Thank you for the link to the facebook page. I'll pass the word along too.
ReplyDeleteヘルパーの皆様へ、
ReplyDelete最初に、私の日本語はそんなに上手じゃないから、どうもすみません。アネッテと申します。2007年日本に留学したんだから、ちょっと日本語はできます。大惨事起きてから、毎日毎日ドイツからニュースを見ているんです。そんな危険そうな仕事をしてくれるのには非常に感心しています。日本の住民だけでなく、世界の皆様は確かにとてもありがたいんだと思っています。
では、頑張ってください！それに、できるだけ気をつけてください。ご無事を心から祈ります。
アネッテより。
福島の英雄たちへ、
ReplyDelete日本語を余りできなくて、すみません。
アメリカのテキサス州から、東北にある地震と津波の災害を見て、心が痛感しています。そして、今福島の原子力発電所のことに、危険な仕事から逃げなくて、毎日その大事な義務をやって頑張る皆さんの勇気に感動させています。簡単にいうと、どうもありがとうございます。無事にこのことを終えると祈ります。
リナ(岩手県、１９９７－２００３）より