In Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture, an area affected by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake, volunteer university students and others are running a soup kitchen providing rice balls and other food to disaster victims who go to work early in the morning.
The soup kitchen was started this week by a group made up mainly of university students from around the country at a store that was closed due to the disaster and is located near Asaichi Dori in the center of Wajima City.
While members were doing volunteer work such as cleaning up houses, they heard from many disaster victims that if they left early in the morning for work, they would not be able to eat breakfast at the evacuation center.
The menu consisted of handmade rice balls and miso soup in response to requests for quick and easy hot meals, and on the morning of the 22nd, people before work came one after another and received rice balls from 7am.
This soup kitchen is scheduled to run until the end of next month, and in the future, it will also deliver to debris removal work sites in the city upon request.
A man in his 70s who visited the soup kitchen said, ``I'm happy to be able to eat hot food in the morning.I'm grateful to have the support of young people.''
Group member and fourth-year university student, Ro*Shinoro Cao, said, ``I'm happy to hear someone say, ``Thank you.'' ``I want to continue listening to their stories and thinking about what I can do to help the disaster-stricken areas.'' Ta.
*There is no “tree” under the bamboo crown of “Shino”.