SunWriter Spring 2018 - EN_V4

| SUNRIDERS UNITE
SUNRIDERS
UNITE
TO RAISE
FUNDS FOR
DISASTER RELIEF
Sunrider reaches out to its IBOs and staff in fundraising drives to aid victims of devastating hurricanes.
From hurricanes and flooding to earthquakes and
landslides, 2017 was hit by a record-breaking number of
deadly natural disasters. Among these was Hurricane
Harvey, an extremely destructive Atlantic hurricane that
became the first major hurricane to make landfall in the
United States since 2005. In a four-day period in August
2017, the system meandered over eastern Texas and adjacent
waters, causing catastrophic flooding, inundating hundreds
of thousands of homes, displacing more than 30,000 people,
and prompting more than 17,000 rescues.
Later in the autumn of 2017, the one-two punch of Hurricane
Irma and Hurricane Maria hit regions in and across the
Florida Keys, the Caribbean, and Puerto Rico. Irma was the
strongest Atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded, and its
winds devastated the island nation of Barbuda, damaging
95% of the buildings there.
Maria hit the US territory of Puerto Rico in the middle of
September. It was the first Category 4 hurricane to directly
impact the island in 85 years, and its damage was sprawling.
In the immediate aftermath, nearly all of Puerto Rico's two
million citizens were without power. To date, many of them
are still in need of basic supplies and amenities.
In response to these disasters, Sunrider organied two
fundraising campaigns spearheaded by Dr. Tei-Fu and Dr.
Oi-Lin Chen, pledging to match donations contributed by its
staff and IBOs in the U.S. and Canada. The combined amount
for the two campaigns totaled more than $50,000. Much
of this amount was given to Direct Aid, a humanitarian aid
organisation whose work has earned wide recognition from
independent charity evaluators, including a 100% fundraising
efficiency rating from Forbes.
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