Becci Manson : (Re)touching lives through photos

Becci Manson at TEDGlobal 2012
(Re)touching lives through photos (transcript)
Summary
Thank you for helping Japan after the tragic tsunami on March 11, 2011.

I am grateful that the speaker told us this beautiful story in tears and I’ve just found it luckily. Today is the day when seven years have just passed since then.

The speaker participated in volunteer work to help Japan after a big earthquake and a tsunami. Some towns had been devastated and almost all things were buried in soils and debris. Many volunteers from not only Japan but also other countries cleaned to rehabilitate there.

And then, in the evacuation center, many muddy photos were being collected unknowingly.

People in the photos but people having those photos were probably in the soils. That's why volunteers would think that they had to do something.

Through the internet, more other people help fix those photos. When owners of them appeared, cleaned the photos were given to owners emotionally.

People must make sure that photos really have the power to connect people to people, even strangers beyond the time.

There is even a small thing that can help people in our hands.

Words in this story
restore /verb/ reinstate, bring back, reinstitute, reimpose
gut /verb/ remove the guts from, disembowel, draw, eviscerate
evacuation /noun/ the action of evacuating a person or a place