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April 25, 2011 05:29 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Z6JHe2hT-90/unbeaten-by-rain-cha.html
Unbeaten by Rain: charitable poster to raise money for Japan's new orphans
My friend Yasuko is a Japanese woman living in London. She was haunted and moved by the recent disasters in Japan, and decided to undertake a fundraiser for the people who were hurt and displaced by the tsunami, quake, and nuclear disaster. She translated Miyazawa Kenji's beautiful poem "Unbeaten By Rain" into English, and produced a beautiful poster with a lovely typographic treatment of the poem. She's selling the poster as a fundraiser for £20; all net proceeds go to Ashinaga, a 40-year-old Tokyo nonprofit that provides "education-focused financial and emotional support to children who have a parent/guardian with a serious disability, or who have lost one or both parents/guardians due to illness, accident, disaster, or suicide." Unbeaten by Rain...Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Z6JHe2hT-90/unbeaten-by-rain-cha.html
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