Hopes for revival prevail in earth

10th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake

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Hopes for revival prevail in earth

～ Painting Exhibition and TV Conference～

Date：January 18 ( Tue ), 2005

Place: Awaji Yume Butai International Conference Center

Our forum was held as an intermediate presentation of 'Bosai Sekai Kodomo Kaigi 2005 in Hyogo' which will be held in March 2005. Its official English name is 'Natural Disaster Youth Summit 2005 in Hyogo.' The purpose of this forum was to discuss 'the importance of
human lives' with children around the world beyond the differences of country, language and religion.

The conference was broadcasted globally by the Internet live streaming. We also had a teleconference with Iran, Armenia and Taiwan by connecting the conference site and those three countries.
Painting exhibition was held with the title of 'Think about the earthquake through children's pictures at Yumebutai at the same time.
Those paintings are painted by the children whose countries were suffered from natural disasters.

Human has to live with the dangerous situation occurred by nature. We can prepare and decrease the damage from natural disasters.
JEARN supported children in Bam, Iran soon after the earthquake by utilizing the Internet.
We can support them though the experience of Hanshin Awaji Great Earthquake.
Children in Bam are now recovering little by little. The reports from Iran tell us that the ICT created a miracle from the ashes of Bam.

We are still continuing the project as the Natural Disaster Reduction Education in the Information Age, by connecting the classes and children online globally.

Program　Time　 Activity / program proposal

Part 1 Commemorative Tree Planting

"Kawazu" cherry trees at "Haru Ichiban no Oka", with the hope for growing as the reminder of the Great Hanshin- Awaji Earthquake

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Part 2 Geetings: Video Letter

Dr. Badaoui Rouhban (Chief, Section for Disaster Reduction, UNESCO, Paris)

Message

Dr. Badaoui Rouhban

The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction

at Portopia Hotel, KOBE

Chief, the Executive Committee

Kazuko Okamoto (left)

Yoshie Naya (right)

Part II Program １

Keynote speech "Disaster Relief of the Information Age"

(Bam Paint Shop Project)

Ms. Mojgan Momeni (Representative of iEARN-Iran)




Bam with its extensive palm groves and citrus gardens, used to be a city full of life. At 5:26 AM on December 26,2003, an earthquake with magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale destroyed the city of Bam. - The city is almost destroyed - About 40,000 people are killed - 30,000 injured - Up to 75,000 left homeless - 10,000 students left without school -Temporary housing, field hospitals were provided -Students were called to register and start school in pre-fabricated class rooms -National and international governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGO) started the relief work -SAF considered the above idea and- - Prepared a proposal to establish a paint shop in Bam -The idea of the paint shop was published on the web site - Donations started to pour from Japan, Canada and Taiwan Outcome: The children largely welcomed the Paint Shop program --They were heart warmed by the world痴 kind support -- The black and white picture of life in Bam gradually absorbed color by the joy of life again -The miracle of ICT and Internet emerges out of the ashes in Bam -iEARN helps to expand peace and friendship -Global Village comes to the rescue of tsunami victims