The IRC's Shinko Tana presents a shovel and a snow blower -- gifts that represent a donation from the IRC and our partner AAR Japan -- to an official from the tsunami-devastated city of Kamaishi, Japan. Many of the coastal city's  tsunami survivors are spending the winter on snowier high ground.

Children at the Karakuwa elementary school in the tsunami-wrecked town of Kesennuma, Japan. The IRC and its partner Peace Winds Japan have helped equip the school with furniture and other items.

Children play on swings in tsunami-devastated Ishinomaki, Japan. In an instant, some 3,000 people disappeared when a 30-foot-high wall of water washed over the city on March 11. The International Rescue Commitee's partners are helping survivors in Ishinomaki and other hard-hit communities recover and rebuild.

The IRC funded road repairs so that people with disabilities could reach vocational skills programs at Asunaro Home, in the heights above tsunami-devastated Rikuzentakata.

The Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki lost 74 of its 108 pupils, and 10 of its 13 staff members to the tsunami.