Help us rebuild our local shrine in the mountain of Kyoto

　Typhoon 21 caused serious damage to the Kansai area of Japan in September 2018. Our hometown, Bessyo, in the Hanase area of Sakyo ward in Kyoto, was cut off for about a week. Due to the countless fallen trees, all the four roads were blocked, telephone and power lines were cut off, and the cell phones were out of service. It took more than a month for the main road connecting the city center of Kyoto to be reopened. Despite such a terrible circumstances, all the buildings in Bessyo escaped with almost no damage, except for one...
That building was our local shrine, Hiyoshi shrine (also called Miwa shrine). Only the biggest and oldest sacred tree has survived, and all the other very large trees were downed. The shrine has was crushed by the falling trees. When you look at the devastation, you would find it hard to believe that no one's house was destroyed. The people of Bessyo say that Hiyoshi shrine must have protected them from the typhoon.

We are volunteers who graduated from Bessyo Elementary School. Most of us left Bessyo for higher education and work, but our parents still live there. Infrastructures has been/will be restored by the administration of Kyoto city and/or Sakyo ward, but the shrine has to be taken care of by the local people. As they need to recover their livelihoods first, we decided to support our hometown by fundraising to rebuild our local shrine that protected our families and neighbors.