IAAF makes donation to Japan for disaster relief
Monday, August 29, 2011
DAEGU, South Korea (AP) -- The IAAF has donated $250,000 to Japan to assist the country in rebuilding from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
The IAAF says President Lamine Diack presented Japan Athletics Association President Yohei Kono with a check Monday.
Diack was in Tokyo only a few days after the disaster and says he was moved by the resilience of the Japanese people.
Diack says "what I saw was a lesson for us all, to see a country which had been through such a disaster, continue to live and determinedly get on with daily life. I was so moved that when I returned I was determined that the IAAF should contribute some help to Japan."
The March 11 earthquake and tsunami left 23,000 people dead or missing.
More like this
IAAF completes blood sampling program at worlds
