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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Rika Morioka <<a href="mailto:rikamorioka@gmail.com">rikamorioka@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, April 4, 2011 5:28:18 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> We created a website to help you help Japan!<br>
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<div>Dear Friends,</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"></span>I am writing to inform you that a group of Japanese students and
professionals at the Johns Hopkins University (including myself!) have developed
an English website to provide people with greater options for donations for
earthquake and tsunami relief in Japan.<span style="">
</span><b>I hope that you can help us circulate this website.</b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Due to the lack of information on locally-active NGOs in Japan
that are engaging in emergency relief, donations tend to concentrate on a few
major international organizations. This could result in excessive resource
allocation to some organizations, while other experienced locally-active NGOs
fail to receive sufficient funds for their relief efforts.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Motivated by this concern and numerous personal requests from
those seeking information on reliable NGOs, </span><b style=" "><span style="">Action for
Japan Hopkins</span></b><span style="color:red;"> </span><span style="color:black;">developed an English website to provide people with greater
options for donations. From about 40 organizations, we hand-picked seven
locally-active NGOs and seven organizations indirectly supporting the
locally-active NGOs using robust criteria.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">We
hope that this website will serve as a guide for your donation to better reach
reliable locally-active NGOs in need of funds. We truly appreciate your
consideration to help Japan overcome this time of hardship.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; ">Please visit our website at:</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#500050;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://donate-japan.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3333FF">http://donate-japan.com/</font></a><br clear="all">
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="">Action
for Japan Hopkins (AFJH)/Tokyo</span></b><span style=" "></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">AFJH
is an organization initiated by the Japanese community at the Johns Hopkins
University that aims to support from abroad the people in Japan affected by the
Northeast Japan earthquake and tsunami.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Email:<span style="color:#500050;"> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mail.jhsph.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=273cac29a52d4fa5b0a8e255fd630504&URL=mailto%3aactionforjapan.hopkins%40gmail.com"><span style="color:blue;">actionforjapan.hopkins@gmail.com</span></a></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Facebook:<span style="color:#500050;"> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mail.jhsph.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=273cac29a52d4fa5b0a8e255fd630504&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2f%23!%2fpages%2fAction-For-Japan-Hopkins-AFJH%2f106527679429875"><span style="color:blue;">http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Action-For-Japan-Hopkins-AFJH/106527679429875</span></a></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Twitter:<span style="color:#500050;"> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mail.jhsph.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=273cac29a52d4fa5b0a8e255fd630504&URL=http%3a%2f%2ftwitter.com%2fActionForJapanH"><span style="color:blue;">http://twitter.com/ActionForJapanH</span></a></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Donation
site for Japanese people (In Japanese):<span style="color:#500050;"> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://mail.jhsph.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=273cac29a52d4fa5b0a8e255fd630504&URL=http%3a%2f%2fkifusuru.com%2f"><span style="color:blue;">http://kifusuru.com/</span></a></span></span></div>
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-- <br>
Rika Morioka, Ph.D.
<div>Co-investigator<br>
<div>Lighthouse Studies</div>
<div>Johns Hopkins School of Public Health</div>
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<div>Tel: (410) 350-1349</div>
<div>Email: <a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:rikamorioka@gmail.com">rikamorioka@gmail.com</a></div>
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