{"id":19733,"date":"2011-06-01T21:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T01:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=19733"},"modified":"2011-06-01T22:01:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T02:01:59","slug":"shimane-jets-raise-over-21000-usd-for-tohoku-disaster-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/01\/shimane-jets-raise-over-21000-usd-for-tohoku-disaster-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Shimane JETs Raise Over $21,000 USD for Tohoku Disaster Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the JETAA USA<\/strong><\/a> website originally posted<\/a> by JETAA USA Country Rep Jessyca Wilcox<\/a><\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Shimane<\/a> JETs Raise Over $21,000 USD for Tohoku Disaster Relief<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shimane AJET<\/strong> gathered their local ALTs, CIRs and Japanese community members to join together for a charity hike. On May 15th over 60 ALTs and CIRs and 50 Japanese people took part in a sponsored “Charity Hike.”<\/p>\n

The hike took place on Shimane\u2019s highest mountain: Mt. Sanbe<\/strong> in Oda City, Shimane<\/a><\/strong>. It was attended by people from 14 countries: America, Ireland, France, England, Jamaica, Canada, Scotland, Kenya, China, Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.<\/p>\n

In the weeks leading up the event particpants raised $21,023 USD (\u00a51,715,338)<\/strong> from local and international donations (via the internet). At the summit of Mt. Sanbe, the participants held a photo opportunity and called out a strong message of support for the people of Tohoku and Japan from the international community. Please see the photograph below.<\/p>\n

In the week after the event, the money was transferred to the Japanese Red Cross (70%)<\/strong> and “SMILE and Dreams: Tohoku Kids Project” (30%)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lauren Hale<\/strong>, a Shimane JET from Denver, CO said, \u201cJapan has been such a great home to us all and we were so glad that we could be a part of the relief effort. \u00a0We raised over twice the amount that we had originally hoped for!\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the project website for video coverage and photos: www.sanbehike.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

*Shimane JET alums (and anyone else), please don’t hesitate to post words of support for the terrific work of Shimane AJET and all involved in the comments section below.<\/em>
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From the JETAA USA website originally posted by JETAA USA Country Rep Jessyca Wilcox: Shimane JETs Raise Over $21,000 USD for Tohoku Disaster Relief Shimane AJET gathered their local ALTs, CIRs and Japanese community members to join together for a charity hike. On May 15th over 60 ALTs and CIRs and 50 Japanese people took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[378,133,369,282,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquake-tsunami","category-fundraising","category-japan-local","category-jet-roi","category-volunteer"],"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