{"id":1703,"date":"2013-12-14T01:07:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T01:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/cnt\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2013-12-14T01:07:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T01:07:48","slug":"more-typhoon-fund-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiadivers.com\/cnt\/blog\/more-typhoon-fund-raising\/","title":{"rendered":"More typhoon fund raising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the sponsored head shaving has been a huge success for typhoon fund raising, hardly a surprise as anyone sitting in the Point Bar is going to be fully aware of the crisis in the central Philippines and likely to donate, there have also been some very committed efforts elsewhere.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Dave Ross\u2019s<\/b> sister <b>Tracy <\/b>was in touch from the UK for ideas on how to help out, and get around the unfortunate notion that every single cent given to Philippine Charities gets pilfered. Something that can put a block on people overseas being willing to donate actual money.\u00a0 Goods and clothing are another matter though and she got stuck into the staff at her son\u2019s school, The Westgate School in Winchester, who mobilized the troops for a clothing donation drive that resulted quickly in this mound of plastic bags in Tracy\u2019s back yard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/cnt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pp8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1704\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/cnt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pp8.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>Having collected it, <b>Tracy <\/b>and willing neighbours then had the job of boxing it up for shipping to handle, weeding out some of the more misguided donated things along the way. Football boots, some of the more adventurous women\u2019s under underfashions, and welly boots being among the things that won\u2019t make it into the final batch of 51 boxes that will leave the UK soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/cnt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pp9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1705\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/cnt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pp9.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to the school and all that contributed, and especially <b>Tracy<\/b> for having the energy to put everything together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the sponsored head shaving has been a huge success for typhoon fund raising, hardly a surprise as anyone sitting in the Point Bar is going to be fully aware&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-community"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More typhoon fund raising - CN-Traditional<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More typhoon fund raising - CN-Traditional\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While the sponsored head shaving has been a huge success for typhoon fund raising, hardly a surprise as anyone sitting in the Point Bar is going to be fully aware...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/asiadivers.com\/cnt\/blog\/more-typhoon-fund-raising\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CN-Traditional\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-12-14T01:07:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Asia Divers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Asia Divers\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asiadivers.com\/cnt\/blog\/more-typhoon-fund-raising\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asiadivers.com\/cnt\/blog\/more-typhoon-fund-raising\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Asia Divers\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asiadivers.com\/cnt\/#\/schema\/person\/053718f3939e442d578f6896140290d3\"},\"headline\":\"More typhoon fund raising\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-12-14T01:07:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asiadivers.com\/cnt\/blog\/more-typhoon-fund-raising\/\"},\"wordCount\":236,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asiadivers.com\/cnt\/blog\/more-typhoon-fund-raising\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Social &amp; 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