Volunteer Manual

HANDS Volunteer Manual

Volunteer locations：Kamaishi・Rikuzentakada（Oofunato・Ootsuchi）

What to Bring (Items in bold, please do your best to bring. Other items, recommended but not required.)

・Work gloves

・ Masks

・Boots

・Cold weather clothing (Coats etc.)

・Drink (Such as water, sports drinks)

・Lunch

・Rubber gloves

・Towels

・Safety insoles（For protection against stepping on nails）

・Parkas or raincoats（Sometimes we work with large water guns for cleaning.)

・Caramels and other candies (For quick energy)

・（Helmet）

・（Eye guard）

It is possible to borrow some items at the volunteer center, such as gloves, boots, and safety insoles, but there is a limit to the sizes available. Please do your best to bring what you can.

Schedule

Meet at Kitakami station, east entrance, by 7:40 am. (For volunteers coming by car, we do have a parking lot available. Please contact HANDS for more information.)

? Depart Kitakami after role call.

? Arrive at volunteer center. Leader receives details of volunteer activities for that day and explains to group. Volunteers load tools onto vehicle(s).

? Depart volunteer center.

9:30 Start work. (We take regular breaks during volunteer work.)

12:00 Lunch.

1:00 Start work again.

2:45 Clean volunteer site and load tools onto vehicle(s).

3:00 Depart for volunteer center. At volunteer center, wash and return tools.

4:00 Start drive to Kitakami.

6:00 Arrive in Kitakami.

A Final Note

Please deal with residents carefully and thoughtfully. Try to put yourself in their shoes and act appropriately to the situation.

It’s not common for volunteers to enter dangerous areas, but there are some risks to the activities we perform. Please be careful while volunteering to prevent injuries or accidents.

Also please note that while the disaster area may look to a volunteer as if it’s filled with rubble and trash, to the residents it’s a place where their most precious belongings have been buried, with the possiblity that at least some of those items could be recovered. We ask that you please keep this in mind and treat the items you handle with respect, even if they happen to to be covered in mud.

HANDS、NPO

〒024-0061 Iwate Kitakami Oodori, 2-11-25-101

Volunteer work may be canceled depending on weather. In the case of bad weather, please confirm with HANDS that volunteering will be held that day.