YouTuber rallies over 300 people to help clear pumice stone from Shinzato Fishing Port “It is something we can accomplish together”

YouTuber rallies over 300 people to help clear pumice stone from Shinzato Fishing Port “It is something we can accomplish together”

Volunteers removing pumice – November 14, Shinzato Fishing Port in Motobu


November 15, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

Motobu – A crowd of people gathered November 14 at Shinzato Fishing Port in Motobu, where a large amount of pumice stone has floated into the harbor, and got to work helping with the effort to remove it. The crowd was rallied by Okinawa resident Shinji Miayzato, 40, host of the YouTube channel “Okinawa Samurai,” after he put out the call for help on social networking sites. According to Miyazato, over 300 people answered the call to volunteer, with young adults and parents with children making up many of those who came.

There were large transport vehicles, kei trucks, and even excavators brought to the loading site and made available for volunteers to use. Volunteers scooped up the pumice with buckets and shovels, placed them into bags, then loaded them into the transport vehicles.

Motobu mayor Takeyasu Taira was thankful for, “so many people coming.” One 44-year-old dump truck driver who came from Yomitan to help said, “This is a problem that everyone in Okinawa has to work as one to solve.” Miyazato said, “I think that this is something we can accomplish if do it together.”

 

(English translation by T&CT and Sam Grieb)

 

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