Japan Disaster

Dear Readers,
Japan as we all know has been hit by the worst natural disaster in it's history. Today in Religion we held a small prayer service for the people of Japan, all the lovers, friends, parents, children, family, the lonely, for them all, we had them in our thoughts. We layed out yellow paper to symbolise the coast line and green paper to symbolise the land. We put out the Japanese flag to symbolise the people of Japan, as well as a picture of a Japanese women crying. We lit candles to symbolise hope, and a gong to represent the Japanese culture. We lit incense to help us pray, and we lay out pebbles along the yellow paper to symbolise our prayers and thoughts reaching the people who are grieving for their loved ones and their country.

The Japanese disaster. "Disaster", such an appropriate word. These peoples lives are still in the middle of a disaster, with the possible meltdown of the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, farms ruined, water and food shortages, also the lack of shelter! People say that Japan are not a developing country, that they have money and previsions, that their "lucky". This angers me, they now have no jobs, schools, farms, homes, cars, lack food and clean water. These to me are characteristics of poverty and developing countries. A part Japan has become a developing country over night and the rest of the country feels that. The money this will cost to fix the damage already done, and that's if nothing else goes wrong. This is a chain reaction disaster; earthquake, tsunami, aftershocks, nuclear reactor fail. Lets hope the atoms chain reaction inside the reactor and the disaster chain reaction will slow and stop! I pray for Japan and I'm thinking of what I can do as an individual person in this world, of over 6 billion, can do to help.

Please give your thoughts and prayers to Japan and it's beautiful culture and people.

Thank you,
Roisin.P.