Nearly 100,000 Japanese children displaced

UK: A UK-based charity organization has voiced concern about the displacement of about 100,000 children after the recent devastating earthquake in northeast Japan. "We are extremely anxious that up to 100,000 children have been displaced because of last Friday's earthquake and tsunami, Save the Children's Stephen McDonald said, Afp reportsays. The March 11 quake, the biggest in Japan's history, struck off the coast of the country's main Honshu Island, triggering a 10-metre tsunami which swept away houses, trains and cars after slamming into the Pacific shoreline.

"Their homes may have been destroyed and many of them will be sheltering in crowded evacuation centres," McDonald added.

Save the Children said many young people had already talked to them of their fears of returning home, the fact that they were missing their friends and how desperate they were to go back to school. The charity launched a œ1 million ($1.6 million) appeal on Friday to help children in Japan and has several teams working in the country.

The teams are setting up a network of child-friendly spaces staffed by trained volunteers and furnished with toys and games, to help the affected Japanese kids recover from the trauma of the disaster, the charity said. Tuesday, Presstv