Economic Recovery

Relief 2.0

Relief 2.0 -- Tohoku: Road to the Future Global Art and Photo Exhibition will resume in May 2013 and it will be bigger and better than ever!

If you are interested in learning sustainable ways of disaster relief and recovery, Relief 2.0 team can run the exhibtion in the city near you.

This show as several parts:

1) Photo Exhibition.

Relief 2.0 is planning a series of events in Mexico, including Art and Photo Exhibits as well as conferences and presentations on efficient disaster response and sustainable recovery. Join us from January 10 to January 20 at multiple venues in Rosarito, Baja California.

We will be in North America to do Relief 2.0: Tohoku - Road to the Future in Nov 2012.

As part of the global launch of Markets of Hope, the organization Relief 2.0 will host a conference about efficient response and sustainable recovery disaster.

We are looking for collaboration to run this show in North America and Mexico (Jan 2013) and if you have a Gallery or a venue, I would be glad to come. I would appreciate accomodations as well. 

The show and exhibition is usually a 1 weekend event, and I've done shows that are 1 week or 1 day.

The event went pretty well, we had a Facebook event page which we invited more than 1000 people, and we pitched successfully to several sites,

It is the final day of Social Business Forum Asia 2012 and the social businesses are presenting for the audience. 

Singapore's 17 year old social entrepreneur Kim Min Seok also presented his social business Novoglobal.

2 Interns from Relief 2.0 mission -- Fukuoka also volunteered at the flooded areas in Kyushu 

You can read about XinMin's experience at: 

One of the fascinating things about this internship is how the following 12 hours would always be unexpected. At times, this could mean a lack of planning, but in this instance, the flexible nature of the internship allowed us to go ahead and create our own plans.

Day 3 is getting rather exciting. 3 of the interns left at 5am on a long train ride to the disaster area to volunteer for disaster Relief in the flooded areas in Kyushu where more than 250,000 families are ordered to evacuate.

Meanwhile in Grameen House Fukuoka, Prof Yunus arrived and opened the event officially today. "Keep up the good work" Commented the Nobel laurette for Peace as he walks around the exhibit and understands what the event, "Tohoku Road to the Future: March 2011 - March 2012" is about.