Charles E. McJilton

Charles E. McJilton is CEO and executive director of Second Harvest Japan, which distributes food to soup kitchens, orphanages, the elderly, emergency shelters, single mothers, the homeless, migrant workers, and others.

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Opinion April 2011

Best Intentions

“What can I do to help? What do you need?” are the two most frequent questions I hear, several times a day. And not just from people in Japan. We have been inundated with offers of help from as far away as Germany and Africa. We fully appreciate this desire to help, especially in a crisis of this magnitude. It represents one of the best aspects of humanity—that we are willing to make sacrifices for people we probably will never meet. It does give us hope.