IPPF is supporting our partner in Japan, the Japanese Organisation for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP), to respond to the needs of women and children: badly affected in times of crisis, and too often overlooked. Please support our appeal.
A massive relief operation is now underway involving the government, the army and civil society. IPPF’s partner - JOICFP - has started supporting women and children in the hardest hit northern area where needs are greatest.
JOICFP is working with local midwives in the affected areas to provide healthcare for mothers and newborns, and counselling and psychological care for trauma victims, and are distributing relief supplies such as diapers, sanitary napkins and clothing for women and newborns to meet their daily needs.
Many thousands of people are now known to have died in Japan's earthquake and tsunami. With entire villages swept away by the tsunami and thousands more missing, it's expected that the total number of dead could reach 10,000.
We now need your support so that this can continue in the next critical phase of the emergency.
From JOICFP's site
Relief goods are arriving to reach women in Tohoku area
Voices from affected area
Special report by Giles Murray, writer who came to the affected area.
Services provided by JOICFP