Tsunami Victims Helping Tornado Victims

[alsame]

Tsunami Victims Pay Back By Helping Tornado Victims

When Hideko Oikawa first saw the mangled aftermath of Moore, Okla., on the evening news, she cried.

Oikawa had never visited the Sooner state. She’d never even met anybody from Oklahoma. But the images of flattened communities, cars tossed aside, and schools ripped apart hit close to home, thousands of miles away.

“The debris fields I saw took me back to our disaster,” Oikawa, 66, said referring to Japan’s tsunami and nuclear disaster. “It pained me to hear about those young kids [who died].”

The emotions propelled the Japanese denim factory owner to tap into an emergency fund her company Oikawa Denim had set aside to help residents in Kesennuma rebuild. Last week, she donated $2,000 to the U.S. embassy on behalf of her three sons and 20 employees.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/tsunami-victims-pay-back-by-helping-tornado-victims/

[OneGrassRoot]

1. Beautiful. K&R, and thanks. :) n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

2. if there were such a thing as a super kick..

This would have it , k&R

[kentauros]

3. $2000! That's great!

I managed to give about a tenth of that through Global Giving. And with the latest tornadoes, I'll be using them again.

Thanks for posting this!