This Sunday, come visit us for BRUNCH and participate in a small action to help the quake and tsunami survivors in the Tohoku region. We are coordinating basic hygiene kits that are going north from here via assistance from the LDS Humanitarian Services. You can come eat and relax a bit OR just drop off materials.

If anybody in Tokyo wants to donate materials and make kits, here is what goes into them.

Two face towels, 35x63cm
Four toothbrushes
One tube toothpaste, 6-8 oz
Two bars of soap
Two combs

It all goes into a one gallon ziploc bag. We will have bags on site.

This is the project page for the Kimono Solar Lantern. The name comes from Lauren's restaurant, the Kimono Winebar. She wanted something to decorate her restaurant's patio at night and this was the result.

The concept is to reuse things like mason jars or other objects and turn them into solar powered lanterns. Lauren originally suggested the concept of using mason jars, but we decided to put this in kit form and with mounting holes so that anything can be used as a solar powered night light.

Some interesting features of this kit is: