DC-CAT (Disaster Community Care Assistance Team)

We are a team of Care professionals involved in long-term support and reconstruction of disaster-affected areas, from the subacute stage to the chronic stage. We protect the lives and livelihoods of disaster victims who require Health and Welfare Services. We will rovide support from a wide range of areas to provide care that is lacking in the region until the Health and Welfare Services in the disaster-stricken area are restored and an independent care delivery system is established. In other words, we support the revitalization of local communities and integrated care systems.

Preventing Disaster-Related Deaths in the Noto Peninsula Earthquake. Not only to save lives, but beyond that, to support living.

When many Self-Defense Forces personnel and paramedics work at a disaster site to rescue an elderly person, it is reported in dramatic news stories. This is reported as dramatic news. However, most of the media are indifferent to the fact that many people are dying in evacuation shelters, unnoticed and weakened. Although so many resources are invested to save lives, there is not enough care for the lives that are saved.

All DC-CAT members work as professionals in medical institutions and care facilities and are using their vacation time to participate in activities. Many professionals are involved in relief activities while traveling back and forth between the affected areas and their workplaces. In principle, the costs of such activities are borne by the participants themselves.

In principle, the work of providing the necessary care to disaster victims should be done as public support based on public budgets. However, in contrast to the growing need for care in the affected areas, public support is overwhelmingly scarce.

Therefore, we have established this organization to provide support activities on a voluntary basis.

Message from the Representative

Please Join us in our mission to prevent further tragedies and ensure a future where every life is safeguarded, every community rebuilt, and every survivor's dignity and well-being preserved. We can rewrite the narrative of disaster response and recovery, together.
We ask for your support so that DC-CAT members can continue their activities to prevent disaster-related deaths in the Noto Peninsula.

Thank you for your generosity and compassion.

How donations are used

Donations will be used to cover the cost of continuing DC-CAT's support activities to prevent disaster-related deaths.
Many professionals want to participate in disaster relief, but the number of those who can actually do so is limited due to lack of funds, lack of skills, and lack of vacation time.
However, if funds can be secured, they can be used to cover transportation costs, provide training, and increase the number of professionals who can go to the field.