The disaster created fuel-rod meltdowns at three reactors, radioactive contamination of the air, sea and food and resulted in the evacuation of 160,000 people in the area, north of Tokyo.
UNICEF is working with the government and other UN agencies to provide much-needed supplies, and assisting in the evacuation and recovery of victims on all islands.
"Outside of initial first responders and assisting in the evacuation of our attendees and staff, Midwest FurFest relinquished complete control of the onsite emergency response and the subsequent criminal investigation," the convention wrote in a statement published last November.
Reaching out UNICEF is working with local charities to provide child-friendly spaces, education and psychosocial support to children like Arries and Evander in the evacuation centres.
On Thursday, Japan's deputy prime minister and minister of finance, Taro Aso, hinted that the government would step in to fund the decontamination of towns and villages in the evacuation zone around the plant.
The situation might have been considerably less dire if all of Louisiana's and Mississippi's National Guard had been mobilized before the storm so they could organize, enforce and aid in the evacuation of vulnerable low-lying areas.
The ship participated in Operation Demon, the evacuation of Allied troops from Greece in April, and assisted in the evacuation of troops from Crete to Egypt after the Germans invaded Crete on 22 May (Operation Merkur).
UNICEF staff who are members of its internal Pacific Emergency Response Team (PERT) are scheduled to leave for the affected areas this weekend to participate in a multi-agency rapid assessment on the situation of children and women in the Evacuation Centers.
With the exception of a handful of people in the State Department and U.S. military and of citizens involved in the evacuation and refugee resettlement, Americans had had enough.
Between March and May 1919 she patrolled the Black Sea as part of the Allied intervention against the Bolsheviks and took part in the evacuation of German and Allied troops from Nikolaev, Ukraine in March and from Odessa in April.
