Students studying for reconstruction make flower gardens with residents
In Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture, where evacuation instructions were partially lifted due to the accident at the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, students studying reconstruction and local residents worked on flower gardening.
In Okuma Town, where evacuation orders were issued to all areas after the nuclear accident, in April last year, eight years after the accident, the evacuation order was lifted for 40% of the town area for the first time.
About 20 people, including students from a college of technology in Iwaki City and local residents, worked on weeding and sowing on a plaza in the Okawara district, one of the canceled districts on the 13th.
This initiative suggests that students learn to recover from the nuclear accident and encourage residents to feel a little more cheerful.Students plant seeds of cosmos while talking with residents, I was watering the roses that had been planted in and blooming.
It has been more than a year since the cancellation, but the number of people living in Okuma Town remains 235 as of the 1st of this month.
A couple living in Okuma Town said, "The feeling of life is gradually returning in the town, and when I see the flowers, I feel relieved and calm."
Chiri Kobayashi, a second-year student in the Fukushima National College of Technology, said, “Since the number of opportunities to visit Okuma Town has increased little by little, I want to continue interacting with the local people and contribute to the reconstruction.” It was.