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▼ Girls Make Newspaper For Evacuees
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The Yomiuri Shimbun
MASHIKI, Kumamoto — Four sixth-grade primary school girls in quake-hit Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, have started publishing a handmade newspaper featuring topics related to life in evacuation shelters.
Decorated with illustrations of animals, the inaugural issue was distributed at evacuation centers and other places at the end of April. It was a boost for residents weary from the difficulties of life in the shelters.
“We’ve made a newspaper. Please read it,” members of the Hiroyasu newspaper club called out Friday morning to evacuees who were lined up to receive relief goods at Mashikimachi Hoken Fukushi Center, a health and welfare facility in the town. The club consists of four girl students at Hiroyasu Primary School in Mashiki.
The faces of adults who took the newspaper softened as they read it.
Hiyori Tsuzuku, 11, is the editor of the newspaper. She has been taking shelter at the center with five family members since the night of April 14, the day a foreshock with a maximum level of 7 on the Japanese intensity scale hit the town.
Her primary school has been closed, and a teacher recommended that Tsuzuku make a newspaper. She invited her friends — Nanami Mizuho, Maika Saeki and Seriho Taguchi, all 11 — with whom she was involved in volunteer activities at the school. Saeki was staying in a car with her family, while Mizuho and Taguchi were waiting at their homes for school to reopen.
The inaugural issue was made by handwriting articles on B4 size paper measuring 257 millimeters by 364 millimeters. They prepared 300 copies using a copy machine in a teacher’s room.
“Two weeks have passed already. Let’s do our best by cooperating altogether!” — the four girls’ message was added beside the masthead of the newspaper.
MASHIKI, Kumamoto — Four sixth-grade primary school girls in quake-hit Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, have started publishing a handmade newspaper featuring topics related to life in evacuation shelters.
Decorated with illustrations of animals, the inaugural issue was distributed at evacuation centers and other places at the end of April. It was a boost for residents weary from the difficulties of life in the shelters.
“We’ve made a newspaper. Please read it,” members of the Hiroyasu newspaper club called out Friday morning to evacuees who were lined up to receive relief goods at Mashikimachi Hoken Fukushi Center, a health and welfare facility in the town. The club consists of four girl students at Hiroyasu Primary School in Mashiki.
The faces of adults who took the newspaper softened as they read it.
Hiyori Tsuzuku, 11, is the editor of the newspaper. She has been taking shelter at the center with five family members since the night of April 14, the day a foreshock with a maximum level of 7 on the Japanese intensity scale hit the town.
Her primary school has been closed, and a teacher recommended that Tsuzuku make a newspaper. She invited her friends — Nanami Mizuho, Maika Saeki and Seriho Taguchi, all 11 — with whom she was involved in volunteer activities at the school. Saeki was staying in a car with her family, while Mizuho and Taguchi were waiting at their homes for school to reopen.
The inaugural issue was made by handwriting articles on B4 size paper measuring 257 millimeters by 364 millimeters. They prepared 300 copies using a copy machine in a teacher’s room.
“Two weeks have passed already. Let’s do our best by cooperating altogether!” — the four girls’ message was added beside the masthead of the newspaper.
- May 3, 2016
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