{"id":8731,"date":"2011-03-14T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=8731"},"modified":"2011-03-14T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T17:30:21","slug":"brock-raising-money-for-japan-and-new-zealand-relief-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/03\/brock-raising-money-for-japan-and-new-zealand-relief-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock raising money for Japan relief efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8732 alignleft\" title=\"Japan - Brock University is raising money for Japan and New Zealand earthquake efforts\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/japandreamstime.jpg\" alt=\"Japan - Brock University is raising money for Japan and New Zealand earthquake efforts\" width=\"307\" height=\"173\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=1101\"><em><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There will be a meeting at Brock tomorrow to plan fundraising activities to help victims of the earthquake in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/international-services\" target=\"_blank\">International Services and Programs Abroad<\/a> will host the meeting on Tuesday, March 15 at 3 p.m. in International Centre 207. Volunteers will discuss how to collect money for the Canadian Red Cross to help those impacted by the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>The earthquake, which at a magnitude of 8.9 is estimated to be one of the largest ever, caused a massive tsunami that wiped out several towns and villages in Japan. The confirmed death toll is nearly 2,000, and more than 15,000 are missing.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the Brock community has collected substantial donations for the Canadian Red Cross for victims of the South Asian tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact John Kaethler at <a href=\"mailto:john.kaethler@brocku.ca\">john.kaethler@brocku.ca<\/a> or 905-688-5550 x3732.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related links:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/story\/2011\/03\/14\/japan-reactor-monday.html\" target=\"_blank\">Japan search teams dig for survivors \u2014\u00a0<em>CBC News<\/em><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/story\/2011\/02\/21\/new-zealand-quake.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/a><em>\u2022 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=1101\">Victims of Haiti tragedy remembered<em> | The Brock News<br \/>\n<\/em><\/a><em>\u2022 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=905\">Earthquake in Haiti prompts fundraising effort<em> | The Brock News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a meeting to plan fundraising activities to help victims of the earthquake in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8735,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions\/8735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}