Maui Students Affected by Wildfires Learn from Tohoku Recovery Efforts in Nonprofit Program; Knowledge Exchanged with Youth from Earthquake and Tsunami-Stricken Area

Maui Students Affected by Wildfires Learn from Tohoku Recovery Efforts in Nonprofit Program; Knowledge Exchanged with Youth from Earthquake and Tsunami-Stricken Area

A new program connecting youth from disaster-stricken areas in Maui, Hawaii, and in the Tohoku region of Japan was launched last month. Eleven students from Lahainaluna High School in Lahaina, Maui, which was devastated by wildfires last August, were invited to areas in Miyagi Prefecture that had been sites of the Great East Japan Earthquake.