The Singapore Soka Association (SSA) raised a total sum of more than $710,000 for the victims of the devastating earthquake and tsunami which hit Japan in March. The SSA today presented Mercy Relief (MR) an additional $310,948 to support the Singapore-born...
Building on Mercy Relief (MR) Team 5’s distribution of fresh food supplies such as vegetables and fruits to help inject nutrition and normalcy into the diets and lives of more than 13,000 survivors in Otsuchi, MR Team 6 today established a cold storage facility at...
Having personally procured and distributed basic survival essentials including water, food, blankets and undergarments for the first three weeks of the disaster, Mercy Relief (MR) shifted its relief focus to addressing the wellness of the affected communities in Iwate...
Singapore-based Mercy Relief is one of only a few foreign aid agencies to successfully deliver supplies to homeless survivors of the March ii earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan’s north-east coast. On Wednesday, a team from Mercy Relief delivered hundreds of...
Having served the evacuees at the second worst-hit prefecture of Iwate over the last two weeks, MR expanded its area of service to include Miyagi yesterday. MR’s Team 3 arrived at an evacuation centre in the coastal Kesensuma City, within the Miyagi prefecture, to...
The third batch of relief supplies arrived at the supply collection centre near Iwate early Tuesday morning. The supplies, comprising blankets, water, hygiene kits and play kits, were personally procured by the Mercy Relief (MR) team from the neighbouring unaffected...
Having established the necessary supply chain and delivered the first batch of supplies at the designated supply collection centre near Iwate prefecture, Mercy Relief (MR) team today arrived at the devastated coastal towns of Kamaichi City in Iwate where mountains of...
Mercy Relief’s (MR) Team 2 arrived Japan early Saturday morning to combine with Team 1 near Iwate prefecture. The combined team proceeded to dispatch the first batch of relief supplies to the designated supply base for consolidation and sorting by prefectural...
Mercy Relief’s (MR) preliminary 2-man team to Japan has established the logistics supply network in the northern part of quake and tsunami-affected areas near Iwate. Operating amidst sub-zero temperatures, the team is now able to procure much-needed relief supplies...
Following the devastating 9 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan, immense damage have occurred across three worst-hit coastal prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. With over tens of thousands reported dead and missing and a looming nuclear...
