Vending Machines for Disaster Aid Developed - Lady Gaga Hides in Fear of Another Scandal

*** Update - 12/07/11

Only 23% of donations reach quake victims

Less than one-quarter of some 3.7 billion dollars in donations collected in Japan after the March 11th quake and tsunami has reached the hands of survivors, 4 months after the disaster.

The welfare ministry says that as of last Friday, disaster relief funds sent to the Japan Red Cross Society and the Central Community Chest of Japan from across the country totaled nearly 3.7 billion dollars.

But only about 836 million, or 23 percent, of the total has been distributed.

In the first round of payments, survivors are entitled to receive around 4,400 dollars per family member that died or is missing in the disaster. Nearly 68 percent of more than 1.1 billion dollars disbursed to 15 prefectures has reached its intended recipients.
An additional 1.8 billion dollars have been sent to quake-hit regions for the second round of payments, in which individual municipalities determine their own distribution criteria. But only 3.6 percent of that money has reached survivors' pockets.

The ministry says many affected municipalities are short of manpower and couldn't come up with distribution plans until late June, and that this has caused the slow disbursement.

Citing a lack of staff in the coastal regions affected by the disaster, the ministry is calling on municipalities across Japan to dispatch officials to these areas.

Monday, July 11, 2011 18:56 +0900 (JST)
Copyright NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

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Vending machines for disaster aid developed

New drink vending machines have been developed to allow consumers to donate money for areas devastated by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.

The machines were jointly developed by the Japanese Red Cross Society and Coca-Cola Japan.

People using the machines can press buttons to donate either 10 yen, or about ten cents, or 100 yen, or about one dollar.

The Red Cross is to collect the donations and send them to disaster-hit areas by the end of September.

One hundred of the machines are to be installed in 3 prefectures around Tokyo this year.

Coca-Cola Japan says it will continue to support the Red Cross by installing more of the machines across the country.

Thursday, June 30, 2011 17:40 +0900 (JST)
Copyright NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

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[Boucrate]

Parasites!! Parasites of Goodwill! Business as usual no compassion here! Using the Tsunami as Publicity!? How much can they go low?! Coca-cola is junk in all manners!

[angelialvares]

Yup, Coca-cola will sure help with the radiation. if it can clean out the toilet real good I guess it could all clean out the radiation from one's body. Wonder why they don't put it into the highly radio-active water. Ha Ha! It might just work!

[redbuttonstudio]

is there at least one healthy drink in them freezer?