{"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":"<p><em>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/\"><strong>JETAA USA<\/strong><\/a> website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/featured-posts\/shimane-jets-raise-over-21000-usd-for-tohoku-disaster-relief\/\">originally posted<\/a> by <strong>JETAA USA Country Rep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/author\/jessycaw\/\">Jessyca Wilcox<\/a><\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/visitshimane.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jetaausa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sanbe-Shimane-Hike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/>Shimane<\/a> JETs Raise Over $21,000 USD for Tohoku Disaster Relief<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>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 &#8220;Charity Hike.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hike took place on Shimane\u2019s highest mountain: <strong>Mt. Sanbe<\/strong> in <strong>Oda City, <a href=\"http:\/\/visitshimane.com\/\">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<p>In the weeks leading up the event particpants raised <strong>$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<p>In the week after the event, the money was transferred to the <strong>Japanese Red Cross (70%)<\/strong> and <strong>&#8220;SMILE and Dreams: Tohoku Kids Project&#8221; (30%)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>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<p>Check out the project website for video coverage and photos: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanbehike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.sanbehike.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>*Shimane JET alums (and anyone else), please don&#8217;t hesitate to post words of support for the terrific work of Shimane AJET and all involved in the comments section below.<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-58h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19733"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19738,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions\/19738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}