How does a relief organization based in Missouri mobilize to help a stricken country more than 6,000 miles away? Last March, when a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck northeast Japan, Junior Chamber International, an international disaster relief and recovery organization based in Chesterfield, Mo., immediately began working to aid people in the disaster zones.
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