Send the second round

Saturday June 17, 2006
It is a little cloudy in Vancouver at the moment; weekend and finally I have finished work this week. So, I have more time to update this blog. There are few things that I want to you to know about the progress of the earthquake relief effort in Yogyakarta and its surroundings.

Transfer money to Sheepindonesia
Yesterday, Friday June 16, 2006, I did send the ‘second round’ funds for Yogyakarta. The picture beside is the wire transfer money to sheepindonesia. The total money that I did send is Cdn $ 1000. These from several donations; there are:
- Robin – 150
- Arla - 100
- Ibu Wil – 200
- Lynda - 100
- Audry – 100
- Lil – 40
- Cash – 60 (Wendy, Joyce, Monique)
- Huguette Rondeu (Pascale’s mother from Montreal) – 200
- Total : 950 plus I put 50, So it become 1000, then 20 for transfer fee
Again thank you so much for all the donation and I still collecting donations and looking forward to your participations.

Story from the field
My friend JP Budi Kusumo just returns from Yogyakart from personal mission to help people there. His stories and pictures are available at his blog: http://jogjarelief.blogspot.com/
Here is one of his story:
Mbah Ali, one humble person ...
When we showing another groups of people who carry foods to Bantul area, we make a stop at Ganjuran area also in Bantul district. we met a person called mbah Ali. he told us that the village he lived also destructed by the quake, he sells souvenirs at the local market. he said life must go on, though all gone we must keep optimize an acrry on our life.He said that when the quake strike, the govt dont have any help and all communication were down, he manage to seek for food for his neighbour, which is lived mostly by senior citizen, he manage to have about several hundreds kilos of rice and some instant noodles for the surrounding people around his village about 75 people in his area and about 600 people in his village.He also told us that the aid from govt has not yet reach them, when the helps from his friends runs out, luckily destiny have us meet, we then drive with him accompany us to the village left his tiny shop just like that, showing us the village and we able to at least extends they to survive for several more days by the food we carry.
For more stories and photos, please check his blog.

Eko – Singapore friends – kedjawen Blog
My friend eko has his blog as well and doing fundraising for the earthquake relief effort. Here is his blog: http://kedjawen.blogspot.com/
He is trying to connect with Rina’s organization as well for further assistant from Acicis (Australian organization based in Singapore and yogyakart)

Further fundraising ideas.

Thanks to Arne Sahlen – my host family when I was in Kimberly –east Kootenay, he is president of Cambodian Support group and he also a piano teacher and he is willing to do some fundraising performance. We will see if we can do this event next week, if he is around