Blogger's Day of Silence - For Japan With Love

Sorry for the mini-hiatus from blogging. I promise I will do better...starting on Saturday. Why Saturday? Because tomorrow I am taking part in the Blogger's Day of Silence for Japan. This movement, which is the brainchild of Utterly Engaged and Ever Ours, calls for participating bloggers to refrain from posting anything on Friday, March 18 in order to raise donations for ShelterBox, which has been on the ground from the beginning providing supplies and support to the victims of last week's earthquake and tsunami.

There are two parts to the Day of Silence.

Fundraising:

For Japan With Love has a direct link on the website to their fundraising page for ShelterBox. ShelterBox was one of THE first organizations asked by Japan to help and were on hand on the Saturday after the quake.  Each large, green ShelterBox is tailored to a disaster but typically contains a disaster relief tent for an extended family, blankets, water storage and purification equipment, cooking utensils, a stove, a basic tool kit, a children’s activity pack and other vital items.

Please check it out and whatever you can contribute will be so appreciated.

Blogger's Day of Silence:

Anyone that has a blog can help out with this one. The aim is just raise awareness and respect and acknowledge the devastation going on in Japan.

The guidelines are simple.

1.  This coming Friday, March 18th, no posts at all on your blog.

2.  Please post a blog post about what you will be doing this Friday whenever possible in hopes to spread the word and whoever else would like to join in. You all can check out what Lydia of Ever-Ours did for her’s here or how Utterly Engaged did one here and do it your way if you’d like. 

3. Tweet and Re-Tweet the shiznit out of the link to http://www.forjapanwithlove.com please.

4. Encourage your readers to contribute to donate shelter to Japan.

Whatever anyone can contribute will be appreciated. Every little bit helps.

Please consider donating to ShelterBox to help with their ongoing relief efforts in Japan, and keep the Japanese people in your thoughts and prayers.

Until Saturday,