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My JTE and I just went to the bank to send the money that we collected for the people of Haiti. We collected over 15305 en from teachers! I challenge your school to beat this! If 4 other ALTs do this, that’s $500 dollars. 9 ALTs that’s 1000 dollars. Even if a few teachers donate, you’re spreading international awareness.

It will take you less than 10min to organize this and it will be more than worth it:
1.Print out the flyers in English and Japanese
2.Get a large envelope. On the envelope write a message in English and have your JTE translate it.—“Thank you for donating. The people of Haiti really need our help. Small or big, your donation will go along way.” I also put a place for teachers to write down their names if they donated (40 teachers donated).
3.Get a clipboard from your school and the clipboard check list
4.Put everything together and send it around the room---it’s that easy.

When you go to the bank, you need to use a furikomi or you can fill out a bank slip. I’ll attach a picture of the bank slip identifying what information you need to have. The flyer has the bank information on it to donate, but it’s lacking the the bank account type: It’s a normal bank account. That means it’s a 普通　ふつう (futsuu).

I’m working on getting students involved to: I have a flyer system every week with students—I give each class a flyer and they post it in their classrooms each week. Here’s an already made flyer that you can post in classrooms or your bulletin board. My JTE said to me that some students are thinking about what they can do.

People are happy to help when you give the opportunity: give them this chance.

Chris