抄録
This paper examines the reconstruction support by the local NPO (FAIR TRADE TOHOKU) in Ishinomaki-city, Miyagi prefecture after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Among a number of tsunami victims, the local NPO found the fact that socially disadvantaged people; elderly people living alone, a person with handicap, and a single-parent family, were not receiving enough relief goods and information about livelihood supports through a public and major volunteer support at evacuation shelter. They suffer inconvenience from the lack of support and it accelerated when the evacuation shelter were closed. Under these circumstances, the local NPO have played a major role to redress the disparity of reconstruction support. Concretely, the local NPO launched some projects to support those socially disadvantaged people. For example, free meal distribution, home visiting support, and social firm. The local NPO has an important role in Ishinomaki-city especially because the city experienced a large-scale municipal merger in 2005 and the detailed assistance is necessary especially for those in need. On other hand, the local NPO can not spend lots of time to review and develop their each project because of shortage of time, money and manpower. So we have been supporting the local NPO from diverse points of view in each special field. Even if it is not large scale reconstruction support, researchers at university might have a role of backup to sustain those niche supports among reconstruction support.
