{"id":18678,"date":"2011-04-08T10:44:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=18678"},"modified":"2011-04-08T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:44:11","slug":"jet-alum-canon-purdys-save-miyagi-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/08\/jet-alum-canon-purdys-save-miyagi-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"JET alum Canon Purdy’s “Save Miyagi Fund”"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jen Wang (Miyagi-ken, Tome-shi, 2008-09)<\/strong>, writer for J-music website Purple Sky<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 She also maintains her own J-pop culture blog, Gaijin Teacher Otaku<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

JET alum and tsunami survivor Canon Purdy<\/strong> (Miyagi-ken, Shizugawa-cho, 2008-10) has created the Save Miyagi<\/a><\/strong> fund with her family to help the students in Minamisanriku<\/strong>.\u00a0 Currently she is working with the mayor and the BOE to determine where the funds are needed most.<\/p>\n

In addition to seeking donations, she is asking both current and former JETs to send her links to fundraisers and other charity events to be promoted on the Save Miyagi<\/strong> site.\u00a0 She is also looking for photos of places before they were destroyed by the tsunami<\/strong> to send to the victims as a way to raise morale and give them something to hold onto.<\/p>\n

You can email your links and photos to canon.purdy [at] gmail.com<\/strong> .<\/p>\n

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By Jen Wang (Miyagi-ken, Tome-shi, 2008-09), writer for J-music website Purple Sky.\u00a0 She also maintains her own J-pop culture blog, Gaijin Teacher Otaku. JET alum and tsunami survivor Canon Purdy (Miyagi-ken, Shizugawa-cho, 2008-10) has created the Save Miyagi fund with her family to help the students in Minamisanriku.\u00a0 Currently she is working with the mayor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[378,133,318,319,304,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-fundraising","category-jets-in-the-news","category-local-government","category-notable-jet-alums","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t