Charity Tee: To Japanese with love

This is a backdated post as I have just received the tee from the boss last Thursday during his visit. On one afternoon of March 2011, we were all shocked about an earthquake and tsunami happening at Japan with an 8.9 earthquake on the richter scale and a massive tsunami was sweeping into Sendai. It was really shocking and saddening. Though rescue workers continue their frantic search, Japan's death toll is already expected to exceed 10,000 (via here).

Today, although Japan is in its midst of recovering from the virtual nightmare, the government's Reconstruction Design Council has proposed a set of steps for rebuilding areas clobbered by the Great East Japan Earthquake, but it left unanswered where money needed to implement them will come from (via here).

Almost the whole world is taking part in giving a little hand to the Japanese, and I am impressed that even kids as young as kindergarten age are exposed to the values of lending a hand and sharing sorrows. They made their move in contributing pre-loved books and toys for the children in Japan at such a tender age.

As for our side, if you have been following my previous cyber-home, you will know that the boss is a craver for all-things-Japanese. I am glad that he and the kaki-s (buddies sharing a common interest in scale modeling and collectible figures) shared the same mind in purchasing the charity tee organized by Red Monkey Company based in Hong Kong. I didn't know that I have my share too until he brought over the tee for me the other day ;).

With RMC's non-profit making aim this round, all the moneys paid will be contributed to the Red Cross for the Japanese orphan victim. You can see the boss and his kaki-s basking in their new tee here ;).

The graphic on the tee were designed by two Japanese Children; Kurata Rakuyo (5 years old) and Kurata Narumi (6 years old) whilst the slogan ひとりじゃないよ (Read: hitori janai yo) with the meaning ‘you are not alone’ were created by Kurata Mihoko. These three young kids wanted to highlight the plea as the kids are waiting for the parents to collect them but unfortunately their parents are no longer around. For this design, they were released in April 2011 and sold for HKD 201.63 each :).

The boss has his in black whilst mine was white. The boss had over-estimated my size and ordered a M size for me and I have sent mine for alteration along with another souvenir tee which I have gotten from him for quite sometime ago ;P.