Unmanned food store "Community Fridge Himawari" Starting next month in Fukushima Notification of arrival at LINE anytime.

　Fukushima City's NPO Team Kushima will launch an unmanned food store, "Warehouse Community Fridge Himawari" from mid -January next year.Rent a room in an apartment in the city where the office enters, and create a place where citizens who are suffering from suffering from living can always receive assistance.As the number of families with difficulties in the prolonged colona, the aim is to create a regional development that supports each other.

　The community fridge means "public refrigerator".People who need life support for various reasons can always receive food and daily necessities for free.The use is a registration system, and it will be a single parent household that has received child support allowance and schooling assistance, students receiving scholarships, and graduates of child care facilities.

　The latest digital key is introduced on the door of the apartment for installing the food warehouse so that only users can open and close with a smartphone.Although the room is unmanned, the installation of a surveillance camera has also taken into account safety, such as the theft and trouble prevention.

　The support supplies will be purchased with the NPO funds, such as retort curry developed by the NPO, disaster prevention emergency foods, confectionery, and household goods, and donations to organizations and individuals.The staff manages the stock of the goods and checks when and who brought it.The registrants will be delivered in the free communication application "LINE", and will be notified of stock while watching the stockpiling status.

　The NPO has been supporting children's cafeterias and people who are in trouble with life, but will embark on examinations for food stores to improve convenience.I learned the operation know -how from the Kita Nagase Area Management, a general incorporated association in Okayama City, which invented a series of mechanisms.

　It will be tested on a trial basis until the end of May, and for the time being it will be operated between 10 am and 4 pm.The policy is to use 24 hours when full -scale operation.

　Although there is a concern that there is a shortage of goods for demand, a dedicated website (HP) will be established in the future, and a system will be set up that can donate food from remote areas.Masahiko Yamada (55), a volunteer of the NPO, said, "I want to create an area where everyone can reach out when I am in trouble.I want to proceed. "

　The community fridge from Okayama has been gradually spreading, mainly in western Japan, following the corona.