About HARU

We provide assistance toward the reconstruction of Tohoku district, devastated by the quake and the following Tsunami on March 11, 2011.Many volunteer students of Tohoku University have joined us in this noble cause. Also, HARU have received official recognition from Tohoku University so that we are able to promote volunteer activities to meet community needs. In the future, we are switching our work to the long-term reconstruction with broad range of cooperation.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

After 8 months

Hi, this is Tsugawa, from public relation of HARU.
We are going to change how we disseminate our acts, as HARU changed its activity form.
Honestly speaking, we have escaped from a lot of things to protect us.
It was because we couldn't presume what would happen, and we were scared that those happenings might turn out to be serious problems.
In fact, we have faced numbers of failures and frustrations.
Also we have hesitated to disseminate our acts, for asking ourselves if we can do something we can really be proud of. We heard people say the word "self-satisfaction."

On this occasion we are re-examining the operations of HARU. We are feeling that we should confront to problems more authentically. We would like to share them here as well.


Through our past actions, we learned how difficult it is to act for others. We have to understand genuinely what they need, sometimes those are implicit or opposite from what they say.
Still more, we have to take the measure if we can handle them. We might trouble even more for not being able to manage ourselves for strong sense of mission and responsibility.
Another problem is whether our actions actually help them or not.
To go to the extreme, the actions might extinguish their opportunity of getting the strength, mind or idea of overcoming the problem, where we cannot help them for entire future.
However, we won't be able to do anything if we thought of such things.
I thought that there is no way other than do things what we can do with cordiality and receptivity.
For that matter we need true heart to sympathize with others.
We will keep acting with real motivation, understanding, and sincerity.



It's getting much cold these days in Miyagi as the daytime gets shorter.
Take care,
Y.Tsugawa

View from Tohoku University @Mt. Aoba


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