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A community fund forNaoto Matsumura

Guardian of Fukushima Mr. Matsumura

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Naoto Matsumura has dedicated his life to the animals of Fukushima. He lives alone in his town deserted after the 2011 earthquake sent residents fleeing a nuclear power plant meltdown. He is only able to feed and care for the animals who were abandoned and left behind with money donated by supporters. He is still going strong 4 years later but needs donations and support to continue his wonderful mission. Plumfund will donate all profits back to Mr. Matsumura's work. Thank you for supporting this animal hero!

 

Plumfund has been directly in touch with Mr. Matsumura and has sent the first wire to his Toho Bank account on April 27th, 2015. Mr. Matsumura confirmed he received the funds. The next wire will go out once more funds have been raised.

 

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It has been a little while since our last update. We wanted to thank everyone who has donated to this wonderful cause and to also let you know that we have been transferring the funds to Mr. Matsumura every few months! Mr. Matsumura is always very thankful for the kindness and generosity of each supporter. Let's keep this campaign alive by sharing and spreading the word! Thanks again to everyone who has donated. Warmly, The Plumfund Team

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September 12 at 12:37pm

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Debee Lynne — 5 years ago

Thank you Sir ! Bless you ♥

Carly Schindler — 6 years ago

You are a treasure to humanity.

Cathy Almeida — 7 years ago

It warms my heart to see such a loving and caring man!!! These animals would be lost without him!!! Please donate to help Mr Matsumura!!!!

I had the wonderful opportunity to write a blog post about the Guardian of Fukushima Plumfund campaign I started (with my awesome Plumfund team) earlier this year. This post is a part of a series produced by the Huffington Post and Plumfund. I was so honored to be able to share his story and am thrilled at the prospect of more people learning about his amazing life, and possibly donating to his cause. Here is the blog post if you would like to read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/plumfund/the-guardian-of-fukushima_b_8525312.html

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November 11 at 11:01am

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Bea Pludow — 7 years ago

I am curious what the % of donations are sent to take care of the animals?Thank You

Victoria McCullough — 7 years ago

How can I go there to help him?

Kasey Lawson — 7 years ago

You inspire me. Thank you.

Karen Nakamaki — 8 years ago

Thank you

Carol Dombkowski — 8 years ago

God bless this man , I pray more people will find a little humanity within them to help

Patricia A. Herbert — 8 years ago

thank you for what you do for the earth

Darlene Melcon — 8 years ago

A wonderful, caring person..........

We are so happy to report that we are getting close to reaching our goal! Thank you to everyone who has generously donated! I have been in close touch with Mr. Matsumura and he is very thankful to everyone who has donated!! He has mentioned on numerous occasions that the donations are paying for food for his animals. To keep everyone in the loop, Plumfund sent the second wire last month and we plan to send the third wire once we have reached our goal. We are getting close so please keep spreading the word and sharing with your community. Thank you again to everyone!!! Cheers, Christine and the Plumfund Team

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July 20 at 1:03pm

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Darlene Melcon — 8 years ago

A wonderful person.......

On April 27th we successfully sent the first wire in the amount of $5000. Here is Mr. Matsumura's response: "I got the call from my bank that I got the wire of $5000 the other day. thank you very much. every dollar goes to the food for my cows."- Naoto

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May 6 at 11:35am

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Thank you to everyone who has generously donated so far. We reached out to Mr. Matsumura informing him of our campaign and he responded with a big THANK YOU. We would also like to send a special thanks to Gloria Miller at Examiner.com, Ema O'Connor at BuzzFeed and Alex Smith at RYOT.com for including info about this campaign in their articles on Mr. Matsumura. We will keep going until we have reached our goal!! Thank you again everyone and please spread the word.

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March 27 at 10:15am

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Linda Allen — 7 years ago

It really doesn't get any sweeter than this! His compassion is beyond words ... Bless you my friend and thank you for taking care of all of the animals let behind :( which is a whole Nother topic, I have no idea how those people that their babies behind ... SMH :(

Erica Britton — 8 years ago

The world needs more people like this man!

Darlene Melcon — 8 years ago

Here's how you can donate funds to this wonderful person..........

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