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(2020.4.22) [Message from President] Urging your support towards ‘Emergency Aid for HU Students’ in the context of the further spread of novel coronavirus in recent months

Message from President Issue 81

Following a sharp increase in the number of outbreak cases of the novel coronavirus, Japanese government expanded the declaration of a state of emergency to all 47 prefectures including Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan on 16th April.

In line with that, the governor of Hiroshima Prefecture made the official announcement on 18th April in which he requested all the relevant businesses be closed down from 22nd April until 6th May 2020. Because of that, many students are feeling uneasy and stressed at home as they are not able to devote themselves in full expectations to studying on campus or engage themselves with some extracurricular activities at HU even though the new academic terms has already begun with great anticipation in April. I have been informed that some HU students are having financial difficulties and are not able to feed themselves properly as a result of losing regular income from their part-time work.

Today, HU has decided to start asking donations from HU members (faculty and administrative members) by setting up an ‘Emergency Aid for HU Students’. The aid is to support those HU students as much as possible, who are currently under great financial difficulties. Fortunately, we already have a system in place for collecting donations which was set up following the torrential rain in July 2018 (Heisei 30). More details about the Aid will be announced on Iroha (HU’s on-campus portal) shortly. The link for the Aid is as follows:

https://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/yakudou/news/57698

Although it may be quite draining on your wallet at this time of the year, I would be very grateful if you could be obliged to contribute towards the good cause of this Aid.

22st April 2020 (Reiwa 2)
Mitsuo Ochi
President, Hiroshima University


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