{"id":21146,"date":"2011-08-16T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21146"},"modified":"2011-08-19T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T22:22:10","slug":"ottawa-jet-alum-brent-stirling-to-visit-tohoku-as-part-of-mofa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/16\/ottawa-jet-alum-brent-stirling-to-visit-tohoku-as-part-of-mofa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa JET alum Brent Stirling to visit Tohoku as part of MOFA program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brent Stirling (Fukushima-ken, Fukushima-shi, 2006-10)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ottawa based JET alum Brent Stirling<\/a> (Fukushima<\/a>-ken, Fukushima-shi, 2006-10)<\/strong> is one of only 2 Canadians out of 20 JET alumni selected to return to the Tohoku region to volunteer, engage and share their experience for the benefit of others, according to an article in the Ottawa Citizen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

(Note:\u00a0 This post previously repeated the error in the Ottawa Citizen article that Brent was the only Canadian participating.\u00a0 But it turns out that Toronto-based Tanya Gardecky (Miyagi-ken, Shiogama-shi)<\/strong> will also be participating.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Stirling, who writes on his blog ForYourBrentertainment<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and was actively involved in the creation of Quakebook<\/em><\/strong><\/a> following the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, submitted a proposal which was accepted by the program established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the Japan Tourism Agency to bring 20 Tohoku-area JET alums back to Tohoku to play a role in helping their communities and then spread word of their experience afterwards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read the full Ottawa Citizen<\/em> article here:\u00a0\u00a0 “Months of blogging leads to trip to Japan: Kanata teacher will help with disaster relief in the country he writes about”<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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*************** Ottawa based JET alum Brent Stirling (Fukushima-ken, Fukushima-shi, 2006-10) is one of only 2 Canadians out of 20 JET alumni selected to return to the Tohoku region to volunteer, engage and share their experience for the benefit of others, according to an article in the Ottawa Citizen. (Note:\u00a0 This post previously repeated the error […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,378,25,318,304,282,368,132,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-interviewprofile","category-jets-in-the-news","category-notable-jet-alums","category-jet-roi","category-traveltourism","category-volunteer","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t