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As discussed
in this
AikiWeb Forums thread, the recent earthquake in Sumatra has
devastated an aikido dojo in the city of Padang, as chronicled in
recent news, when the earthquake struck during their practice,
completely flattening the building in which they were training:
Friday, November 6, 2009: The donation drive was a great
success, owing to the generosity of folks in the US, Norway,
Singapore, Germany, Russia, and beyond! We managed to
raise $1,855 total and was able to send out 165,000 yen (about
$1,824 after PayPal fees, etc) to the Kobayashi Aikido Dojo in Japan
to send over to the devastated Padang, Sumatra dojo in Indonesia.
I received a wonderful e-mail from Hiroaiki Kobayashi sensei with his
appreciations for everyone's donations. He will be heading over to
Indonesia later this month with the collections.
Special thanks go out to Ms Hiroko Tojo who facilitated the transfer
to Kobayashi dojo's bank account.
Thank you, everyone, for your support for this donation drive!
(Note: The donation drive is now over!)
The Aikido
Kobayashi Dojo, of which the Padang dojo is a member, is
collecting donations to send to the Padang dojo (as
written here in their Japanese
language blog (translation courtesty of Google
Translate here).
AikiWeb wishes to assist in this donation effort by collecting
donations to send to the Kobayashi Dojo. Donations will be
collected through October 31st, 2009 to ensure that the collected
amount may be sent to Japan in time for their November 15th deadline
for collecting donations. Donors will be listed below.
Please help out if you can. Every little bit helps. Thank you.
-- Jun
(Please note that donations made through AikiWeb will be charged
PayPal merchant fees (2.9% + $0.30 USD per donation) which will need
to be subtracted from our collected donation.
Please let me know if you wish
for your donation to be anonymous).
As discussed
in 