Brookline philanthropist Atsuko Toko Fish takes action to help her native Japan through activism and generous donations to the Japanese Disaster Relief Fund of Boston. Her story is featured in the Boston Globe here.
The Initiative is a grateful recipient of a portion of Fish’s generous gift.
MIT News highlights some of the Initiative’s goals such as the creation of the Memorial Community Center and long-term research. (July 20, 2011)
“In addition to the immediate social need for a memorial community center, our underlying aim is to create a more holistic approach to disaster relief planning and disaster-resilient design that isn’t quite embedded in Japan yet. They already have great expertise in individual disciplines such as disaster relief, seismography, engineering, medical technology, and more. We see our role as finding practices and processes that integrate all of those areas for better-informed reconstruction efforts as well as more effective responses to disasters by future generations.”
// Shun Kanda, quoted by William Manning in the MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) Institute Insider (July 15, 2011)
Read more here.
MIT CIS officially released news of the Japan 3/11 Initiative in the following announcement (June 30, 2011).
