{"id":23862,"date":"2018-08-29T17:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T22:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/?post_type=project&#038;p=23862"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T19:21:11","slug":"eiwan","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/project\/eiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima Immigrant Women Support Network (EIWAN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan killed 16,000 people. Over 100,000 evacuees still can\u2019t return home due to contamination, including the thousands of non-Japanese migrants, two-thirds of whom are women, who are still struggling for equal access to resettlement services. Global Ministries partners, the United Church of Christ in Japan and the Korean Christian Church in Japan have a tradition of speaking out for minority rights in Japan and were quick to provide services to those affected by the 2011 Fukushima disaster. They have been committed to working with this marginalized community through the Fukushima Immigrant Women Support Network (EIWAN). EIWAN was created to provide language training, children\u2019s education, training on health and radiation, and other services.<\/p>\n<p>Although many immigrant women have been in Japan for decades, overall their Japanese language competency is low, especially the reading and writing skills needed to complete government forms to apply for services. Families displaced by the disaster all have trouble adjusting and fitting in, but these challenges are doubly hard for non-Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; margin: 3px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/eiwan.jpg\" alt=\"eiwan.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">EIWAN began networking immigrant and migrant women for support and began offering language classes in 2013. Today, the relationships between Japanese and immigrant women are much stronger because of EIWAN\u2019s work. EIWAN provides services such as language training, counseling, radiation and disaster-prevention training, education, and camps for children. Volunteers, who are primarily women and women\u2019s groups from UCCJ and KCCJ congregations, coordinate and provide many of these services. Global Ministries welcomes gifts for the Fukushima Immigrant Women\u2019s Support Network in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23863,"template":"","region":[20019,20018],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fukushima Immigrant Women Support Network (EIWAN) - Global Ministries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/project\/eiwan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fukushima Immigrant Women Support Network (EIWAN) - Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan killed 16,000 people. 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