日本・東北・宮城・仙台のご当地アイドルグループ みちのく仙台ORI☆姫隊は、被災地の女の子たちが東日本大震災の復興支援を目的に立ち上がった、世界に唯一の社会貢献型ボランティアガールズユニットです。

東北のハブとして重要なセントラルシティ仙台。
その仙台が2011年3月11日、私たち大人から子供までが前例の無い程のダメージを受けました。

それはとても衝撃的なことでした。

津波が襲った宮城県、岩手県等の東北沿岸部では、たくさんの方々がお亡くなりになり、子どもたちの家や学校が流されたり、想像を絶するようなたくさんの悲劇が起きました。また、福島県では「福島第一原発事故」の影響により未だ多くの避難者・帰宅困難者がおり、風評被害などの解決が困難な問題を抱えています。

「なんとかしなければならない。」と思い悩みました。
県外や世界に散らばっている知人友人に義援金や物資を呼びかけました。

そしてそんな私の願いが通じてか、全国そして世界中の心優しい方々から、被災地のためにたくさんの支援が届けられるようになりました。

私はその時、支援してくださった方々に、一日でも早く被災地が復興を遂げられるようになり、苦難を乗り越え元気で明るく頑張っている子どもたちの姿をお見せして、感謝の気持ちを届けられるようになりたい！と思いました。

そして、そんな祈りの思いを込めて、2011年7月20日宮城県内被災地の小中学生に声をかけ、ガールスカウトのようなアイドル「みちのく仙台ORI☆姫隊」を結成しました。そして同時に社会貢献ボランティア活動組織「ORI☆姫隊復興支援プロジェクト」を立ち上げました。

ORI☆姫隊組織の理念は、大切な子孫を残す、被災地の“子女教育”です。
愛と平和の精神を基に『ORI☆姫塾クレド』を創りました。そしてそのクレドを精神の羅針盤として活動の意思決定を行っています。

震災で知った、人と人との“絆”を支縁するための、ヒューマニズム型の“エンターティンメント”を表現手段として活動しています。

東北の玄関口である政令指定都市「仙台」の持っている〝地の利〟を活かし、ここを活動拠点として、七夕で有名な「織姫」にあやかった名を戴いて、震災復興支援のことのみならず、仙台・宮城そして東北、日本の素晴らしさを、ORI☆姫隊を通じて全国、海外に情報発信して行きます。

ORI☆姫隊のデビュー曲復興支援ソング『I’m Home』の歌詞には、

「悲しみのかたまりに、泣き続けた時あるけど、ありがとう、そばにいてくれて」 とあります。

それは、前を向いて明るく、強く、助け合って生きて行く少女、そしてそこに住む人々の姿です。
ORI☆姫隊を通じてこの想いを共感して戴ければ幸いです。

「みちのく仙台ORI☆姫隊」メンバー全員の目標は、世界中を笑顔でハッピーにするための
『アジアを代表するアイドルになる！』です。

どうぞ暖かいご声援を宜しくお願い申し上げます。

What happend?

I founded a nonprofit organization “JASIA” in 2011. And I am the representative of the organization. We have been doing volunteer activities for the reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake. At that time the area where I lived and I worked was terribly damaged by the tsunami and the earthquake. Worst of all, the accident at the FUKUSHIMA No.1 nuclear power plant had occurred. This serious problem really struck me most, and triggered off my activity of the ORI☆HIMETAI. “Is there anyone who teach girls about the effects of the nuclear disaster?” I was the most anxious about the education of the children of the devastated districts. Because they would be mothers to have babies in the near future!

I gave priority to such issue as the FUKUSHIMA nuclear plant crisis, on the other hand there were tons of problems left in TOHOKU districts, e.g. the rebuilding of the economy, the natural disaster prevention, the environmental preservation, the support of children, elderly persons, persons with disability, sick persons, and the mental reconstruction aid…and I was confirmed absolutely all of them were the motivations for startup of the ORI☆HIMETAI.

SENDAI is an important central city as the hub of TOHOKU district, which is called “City of trees." This beautiful city and from children to elder people were suffered from unprecedented damage. In fact some of the ORI☆HIMETAI members and their friends had lost their family, relatives or friends, and had their school, home washed away. I made up my mind to support our hometown and the areas which still face to many hard-to-solve problems in not only MIYAGI but also IWATE and FUKUSHIMA, and to extend our thanks to all people who sent money and many goods for the aid, especially for the children from Japan and abroad since immediately after the quake. And then I invited 9 girls who they lived in the damaged areas in MIYAGI prefecture to be a member of the ORI☆HIMETAI.

First, I brought them to the temporary houses and stores here and there to deliver their performance with their big smile, and handed the donations. And almost ten years have passed, now we are kept on cheering up some new houses and brand new towns where the people moved to from the temporary houses. Besides, we are trying to challenge new volunteer activities for the disaster prevention for kids, global environmental problems, the welfare for our children's future.

Mainly, I have been educating and bringing them up to be a leader who will be active internationally in the future from the natural disaster areas. Actually for over the last 9 years since that quake, I visited 9 foreign countries with the ORI☆HIMETAI members to express gratitude directly to the people for the aid. Many children got truly a great help from overseas at that time. And English is the most useful language to communicate with numerous people all over the world. I want them to express their thankful feelings in English or the other mother tongue of the countries that we visited, in order to communicate by themselves and know each other. After all, I believe the aim of our activities could lead us to the peace of the world.

What’ the ORI☆HIMETAI?

The ORI☆HIMETAI is an idol unit based in SENDAI, MIYAGI prefecture to support post-disaster reconstruction, consisting of elementary, junior high school, high school, and university students, who are living around the coast in MIYAGI, which were devastated by the tsunami in March of 2011.

The girl members practice hard to sing and dance day in day out so that they can deliver smile and courage to the people in the area with slow progress in reconstruction through our stage event activities.

To take advantage of the location of SENDAI, as seen in our unit's name after ORIHIME-legendary Princess Weaver for whom we holds famous Star Festival.
We aim to send out information on not only the disaster but also wonderful charm of our local districts and Japan to home and abroad.
We will be happy if you find people here forward-looking, cheerful and strong through ORI☆HIMETAI.

As you can see in the lyric of ORI☆HIMETAI’s reconstruction supporting song “I’m Home” -「悲しみのかたまりに、泣き続けた時あるけど、ありがとう、そばにいてくれて～ Once I was a bird I could not fly. But now no tear no time to cry. Believing you, it's nice to know you'll stand by me～』

The ORI☆HIMETAI members have a big and global dream. Be the most famous artist in Asia!

We will be very happy if you give your support to us!

The presentative and total producer of JASIA ORI☆HIMETAI project
Yoshie Murata