Question:
50 percent Disabled vet with years construction experience.
Answer:
Your desire to help is commendable. Simply showing up in a country with a willingness to help, however, while a nice gesture, can actually do more harm than good. Unless you can determine that you will be able to help in a way that a Japanese person cannot, you may be taking a job away from an unemployed Japanese (and doing it for free) while adding strain to the country's stretched resources. I am guessing that you do not speak Japanese. This will be a major impediment to your ability to genuinely help. Please be realistic about what you can do and what networks are in place to help you do it. As a well-developed economy, their situation is obviously far different from the one in Haiti, but the number of untrained volunteers pouring into Haiti after the earthquake was a serious problem considering that there was not enough clean water for the Haitians themselves and these new arrivals were diverting medical attention away from those who needed it.
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