CNN: “Lost and found: Japan one year later”
Posted: March 11, 2012
Many of the women in Shichigahama lost everything in the tsunami and continue to live in cramped temporary housing. Teddy remembered the depression that so many felt after the Kobe earthquake in 1995, so she wanted to give the local women something to do.
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Wall Street Journal: “Japanese Elderly Knit a Safety Net”
Posted: March 5, 2012
SHICHIGAHAMA, Japan—Every Tuesday in this tsunami-ravaged fishing village, the “Yarn Alive” knitting club meets—an accidental support group for a handful of the thousands of elderly Japanese still homeless after disaster swept away their lives nearly a year ago.
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仮設住宅に生まれた年配者の輪 きっかけは「編み物」
Wall Street Journal: “An Ohio Church Puts the Yarn in Japan’s ‘Yarn Alive’ Club”
Posted: March 4, 2012
Ms. Sawka has organized a knitting club there to give elderly tsunami survivors an activity, appealing for yarn in the U.S., Europe and all over Japan.
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CNN ireport: “Yarn making a difference”
Posted: March 4, 2012
Yarn Alive was born out of a desire to help women living in temporary housing as a result of the March 11, 2011 tsunami.
Chunichi Shinbun: 「米国女性 被災者に編み物指導」
Printed: June 23, 2011
Reprinted web edition: June 26, 2011
宮城県七ケ浜町の中心部にある仮設住宅の集会所で、中高年の女性たちがおしゃべりしながら、盛んに手を動かしている。
where do we send this yarn?
Hi Ann, thank you for your interest! All yarn donations can be sent to:
Yarn Alive
#36 TBC
Hanabuchihama
Shichigahama Machi
Miyagi-ken
Japan
985-0803
Many thanks!