{"id":2281,"date":"2022-04-29T15:47:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2022-04-29T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T15:48:24","slug":"ukraine-fundraiser-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/ukraine-fundraiser-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Fundraiser Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although the initial shock of the situation in Ukraine has subsided and the media\u2019s interest has largely moved on, it is clear that much has transpired that money or humanitarian aid cannot fix; loved ones lost, atrocities suffered, and lives forever changed. The war in Ukraine has also, sadly, not yet come to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are proud to have been able to offer what little support we can, though, and thank each and every person who has supported us in our fundraising efforts thus far, but we&#8217;re not done yet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are still some <a href=\"https:\/\/store.phseakayaks.com\/index.php\/ph_en\/ukraine.html\">\u2018Flag of Ukraine\u2019 Virgos available to order on our UK\/EU Webstore<\/a>, and via the dealers below; if you know of anyone in the market for a Virgo, please do let them know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ireland<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bantry-bay-canoes.com\/\">Bantry Bay Canoes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i-canoe.com\/\">I-Canoe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Germany<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denk-outdoor.de\/\">Denk Outdoor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sport-schroeer.de\/\">Sport Schroer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadermann.de\/\">Gadermann<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Norway<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.padlespesialisten.no\/\">Padlespesialisten<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfafritid.no\/\">Alfa Fritid<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Switzerland<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.siestaoppi.ch\/\">Siesta Oppi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sweden<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aterra.se\/\">Aterra<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Netherlands<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kajak.nl\/\">Kanocentrum Arjan Bloem<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Italy<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozonekayak.com\/\">Ozone Kayak<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New Zealand<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furtherfaster.co.nz\/\">Further Faster &amp; Long Cloud Kayaks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1892\" height=\"1261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e.jpg 1892w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e-1280x853.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1892px) 100vw, 1892px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The P&amp;H staff who gave up their time in aid of the fundraiser.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A large part of what has been raised so far was via the raffle held for a \u2018Flag of Ukraine\u2019 Volan. Congratulations to the winner, Christopher Chan, and thank you to everyone who entered! Here is Chris&#8217; reaction to when we gave him the good news, and what he had to say about his motivation for getting involved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhen I received word that I had won the Flag of Ukraine Volan, I wasn\u2019t sure whether to believe it and I\u2019m still surprised even now. I\u2019m excited to paddle it soon on the East Coast of the US! I am extremely grateful to P&amp;H, their suppliers, and the staff who donated their time to make this happen.<\/p><p>I supported the raffle because I wanted to be part of a larger community contribution to the Disasters Emergency Committee with the paddling community to the people of Ukraine. It\u2019s heartening that so much was raised so quickly and that the funds will support Ukrainians immediately.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If you pre-ordered a \u2018Launch Kayaks, Not Missiles\u2019 T-Shirt, these were shipped out from the 12<sup>th<\/sup> of April in the UK\/EU and have just landed and begun to be despatched this week in North America. We really appreciate your support and patience with these!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-1280x960.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Once all orders have been fulfilled, we will list any remaining t-shirts on our webstores and the sales of these will also go towards the fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to each and every person who supported us in our fundraising efforts thus far, but we&#8217;re not done yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8892,"featured_media":2282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[240,7],"tags":[242,243,244,241,254],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundraising-activism","category-news","tag-disasters-emergency-committee","tag-flag-of-ukraine-virgo","tag-launch-kayaks-not-missiles-t-shirt","tag-ukraine-relief-fund","tag-volan-raffle-winner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4582e.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phseakayaks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}