Volunteer activities utilizing the experience of the disaster 6 years ago Chiba Mobara October 31, 15:38
In Mobara City, Chiba Prefecture, where the heavy rains on October 25 caused significant damage, every year we conducted training to efficiently accept and dispatch volunteers based on the experience of a typhoon six years ago. This heavy rain brings that experience to life and helps the victims with more than 100 volunteers every day.
The heavy rain on October 25 caused a lot of damage in Mobara City, including over 1800 houses flooded.
In Mobara City, a large area was flooded in Typhoon No. 26 in October 2013 six years ago, but there were still issues such as delayed recruitment of volunteers and waiting for the gathered people.
For this reason, the city's social welfare council has conducted training once a year in order to smoothly dispatch volunteers in the event of a disaster in cooperation with local welfare officers.
Specifically, we visited the victims' homes in advance to understand the details of the necessary work, dispatched mainly men to sites that require hard work, and worried about the homes of elderly living alone This means that we have confirmed the procedure for quickly dispatching human resources that meet the needs of the disaster victims, such as adding women so that they do not feel.
There was also a system for registering people who could ask for volunteer activities in the event of a disaster.
In this heavy rain, as a result of calling about 300 people who had registered in advance by e-mail, the first day of the 30th day when the volunteer center was launched was about 160 people and over 31 people on the 31st. Gathered and helped the victims.
Deputy Director Yoshifumi Iwamura of the Mobara City Social Welfare Council says, “As a result of repeated training every year, I think we are able to operate smoothly compared to six years ago.”
Volunteers also support local governments
The smooth operation of the Mobara City Volunteer Center has also led to the support of neighboring local governments affected by the disaster.
Nagagara-cho, Chiba, which is adjacent to Mobara City, started to accept volunteers for the first time since the heavy rain on the 25th of this month caused landslides and flooded houses.
However, on the first day, only 17 people gathered, and there is not enough manpower.
In response to this situation, the Social Welfare Council of Mobara City started an effort to dispatch volunteers who came to Mobara City to Nagagara Town in the afternoon.
On the 31st, a man who visited Mobara City after noon to volunteer was moving to Nagagara-cho immediately after receiving an explanation from the person in charge.
Mr. Yoshiyuki Ikezawa of Nagagara Town's Social Welfare Council said, “Since the number of volunteers is insufficient, Mobara City's cooperation is very grateful. Because it is a small town, I would like more volunteers to come and support me. "