Just to make something clear before I bore you with my excitement, I am paying for my trip entirely myself! This fundraising is only for additional supplies/basics/goodies for the orphanages once I get to Taipei.
These orphanages need anything they can get! Books, first aid materials, antibiotics, children's clothing, musical instruments, stickers, stamps, games, paper, pencils, pens, chalk, anything really!
I will be living and working in Nepal for 7 days, staying with a host family and also doing overnight stays in the orphanages. Staff are overstretched and these places run with the support of volunteers.
I will already be purchasing some of these things once I get to Nepal (to support the local economy) but I would love to be able to add to this with your support!
Thank you in advance for any donation, no amount is too small! Especially with the amazing Nepalese currency that means for just US$150 you can get all sorts of children's colouring books etc!
You can guarantee that you'll be seeing my updates on Facebook (even if it is twice a month)!
Lots of Love xxx
Local Rural development research project in Hong Kong - lantdb.hk
Following Lantau
I am fundraising for a month long trip to Borneo in July 2017. I will be helping the local community by taking part in building projects in a village. I am going with a group from my school as part of a Camps International expedition. I have a lot of money to raise and it would be great if you could help me reach my end goal. Thank you!
http://gogetfunding.com/around-australia-in-100-days/
100 days
We are Nathalia and Ella. Two girls passionate for exploring the world and helping others do the same.
Since we started our trip we have helped a lot of small businesses connect with the online world and helped them reach more travellers. Most of these people have great ideas, but have limited Internet access and little or no understand of the digital world.
We have been working with the digital world for a while now and decided to join our skills with our passion for travel.
We offer our digital consultancy services for free and only ask in exchange for food and accommodation.
We have started our trip 2 months ago and now only have 2 more months left. Soon we will be heading to the Outback and there will be so much to explore and see and hopefully more people to help.
We have worked for a few days in Sydney to raise money for the trip and are using our skills to help people and to be able to continue this trip.
We need your help to fund our petrol costs. Unfortunately we were not able to partnership with a petrol station yet
If you would like to follow our 100 days’ trip, you can do it via Nathalia’s page (in Portuguese) Facebook Page “Viajante Sem Fronteira” and Instagram vsemfronteira or Ella (in English) Instagram _TRHRT
Looking forward to hearing from you and thanks for your help,
Nathalia and Ella
Triathlon and visual art social activist travel fund
As you probably know, Patrick and I are saving all of our money for a grand adventure to Europe and beyond in 2017. This page was created in response to friends and family asking us what we want for our birthdays, Christmas, etc. In lieu of receiving all of your wonderful gifts for all of the various reasons we do (we have great friends and families!), we'd like to ask that you donate instead to our travel fund!
We are still deep in the planning phases, and will update everyone once things become finalized. We'd like to spend a good amount of time abroad, so we're planning on finding work along the way for the inevitable unexpected costs, and so we're not totally destitute upon our return (lookin' at you, mom!). :) This is an amazing opportunity for Pat to cook under some of the world's most renowned chefs, and I've always wanted to scoop Gelato! (not really, but I have a feeling I'll come back from this trip a 'Jack of all trades!')
The Centennium Mother Memorial Fund.
I am raising for my lovely grandmother's memorial fund for the full funeral service.
Grandmother Lee was dead in May 1, 2016. (Aged 96) She led a life filled with sacrifice and honor to her generation family in her whole life. Let us tell her story. Born in Guangdong, China
She taught my family that to be truly successful, you had to maintain your focus on the betterment of the next generation like me. She had no extensive knowledge at all but her life experience which she used to help anyone who needed it at any time of the day or night. She prepared all of us (and many others) for life by constantly teaching us everything he could.
How about Grandmonther Lee's story?
Grandmother Lee was born in Guangdong, China in 1920. In 1960 - 1970's, She was self employed with her manufacturing business with his husband for the vast majority of her life in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), South Vietnam, but unfortunately she did not garner her financial success, but she leaves a legacy of personal connections and strong generation.
Her first generation family moved to Hong Kong before "Saigon falls 1975" and my mom started her agricultural and retail business and own her first flat for the second generation family. However, Lee's husband Young dead in the third year in Hong Kong due to his bad temper before I was born. Fortunately, her family got better in the next 25 years because her property assets was highly rising during the "Economic Sunrise".
She was badly suffered the extreme illness since she was moved to the elders' home and extended to the last life while less than 100 years old.
The Funeral expense is HK$100,000 (Estimated about US$13,000)
This fund raising is to help my family with the funeral and memorial services and the clean up (significant) for preparation of property for renewal and credit card loan debts from the third generation family.
http://gogetfunding.com/the-centennium-mother-memorial-fund/
http://www.treasuretrooper.com/omglia
These orphanages need anything they can get! Books, first aid materials, antibiotics, children's clothing, musical instruments, stickers, stamps, games, paper, pencils, pens, chalk, anything really!
I will be living and working in Nepal for 7 days, staying with a host family and also doing overnight stays in the orphanages. Staff are overstretched and these places run with the support of volunteers.
I will already be purchasing some of these things once I get to Nepal (to support the local economy) but I would love to be able to add to this with your support!
Thank you in advance for any donation, no amount is too small! Especially with the amazing Nepalese currency that means for just US$150 you can get all sorts of children's colouring books etc!
You can guarantee that you'll be seeing my updates on Facebook (even if it is twice a month)!
Lots of Love xxx
Local Rural development research project in Hong Kong - lantdb.hk
Following Lantau
I am fundraising for a month long trip to Borneo in July 2017. I will be helping the local community by taking part in building projects in a village. I am going with a group from my school as part of a Camps International expedition. I have a lot of money to raise and it would be great if you could help me reach my end goal. Thank you!
http://gogetfunding.com/around-australia-in-100-days/
100 days
We are Nathalia and Ella. Two girls passionate for exploring the world and helping others do the same.
Since we started our trip we have helped a lot of small businesses connect with the online world and helped them reach more travellers. Most of these people have great ideas, but have limited Internet access and little or no understand of the digital world.
We have been working with the digital world for a while now and decided to join our skills with our passion for travel.
We offer our digital consultancy services for free and only ask in exchange for food and accommodation.
We have started our trip 2 months ago and now only have 2 more months left. Soon we will be heading to the Outback and there will be so much to explore and see and hopefully more people to help.
We have worked for a few days in Sydney to raise money for the trip and are using our skills to help people and to be able to continue this trip.
We need your help to fund our petrol costs. Unfortunately we were not able to partnership with a petrol station yet
If you would like to follow our 100 days’ trip, you can do it via Nathalia’s page (in Portuguese) Facebook Page “Viajante Sem Fronteira” and Instagram vsemfronteira or Ella (in English) Instagram _TRHRT
Looking forward to hearing from you and thanks for your help,
Nathalia and Ella
Triathlon and visual art social activist travel fund
As you probably know, Patrick and I are saving all of our money for a grand adventure to Europe and beyond in 2017. This page was created in response to friends and family asking us what we want for our birthdays, Christmas, etc. In lieu of receiving all of your wonderful gifts for all of the various reasons we do (we have great friends and families!), we'd like to ask that you donate instead to our travel fund!
We are still deep in the planning phases, and will update everyone once things become finalized. We'd like to spend a good amount of time abroad, so we're planning on finding work along the way for the inevitable unexpected costs, and so we're not totally destitute upon our return (lookin' at you, mom!). :) This is an amazing opportunity for Pat to cook under some of the world's most renowned chefs, and I've always wanted to scoop Gelato! (not really, but I have a feeling I'll come back from this trip a 'Jack of all trades!')
The Centennium Mother Memorial Fund.
I am raising for my lovely grandmother's memorial fund for the full funeral service.
Grandmother Lee was dead in May 1, 2016. (Aged 96) She led a life filled with sacrifice and honor to her generation family in her whole life. Let us tell her story. Born in Guangdong, China
She taught my family that to be truly successful, you had to maintain your focus on the betterment of the next generation like me. She had no extensive knowledge at all but her life experience which she used to help anyone who needed it at any time of the day or night. She prepared all of us (and many others) for life by constantly teaching us everything he could.
How about Grandmonther Lee's story?
Grandmother Lee was born in Guangdong, China in 1920. In 1960 - 1970's, She was self employed with her manufacturing business with his husband for the vast majority of her life in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), South Vietnam, but unfortunately she did not garner her financial success, but she leaves a legacy of personal connections and strong generation.
Her first generation family moved to Hong Kong before "Saigon falls 1975" and my mom started her agricultural and retail business and own her first flat for the second generation family. However, Lee's husband Young dead in the third year in Hong Kong due to his bad temper before I was born. Fortunately, her family got better in the next 25 years because her property assets was highly rising during the "Economic Sunrise".
She was badly suffered the extreme illness since she was moved to the elders' home and extended to the last life while less than 100 years old.
The Funeral expense is HK$100,000 (Estimated about US$13,000)
This fund raising is to help my family with the funeral and memorial services and the clean up (significant) for preparation of property for renewal and credit card loan debts from the third generation family.
http://gogetfunding.com/the-centennium-mother-memorial-fund/
http://www.treasuretrooper.com/omglia
漁民出海捕魚面對的是驚濤駭浪，在無法預測的大風險中維生，性命與工作一線牽；漁民之間流傳了許多不成文的傳統禁忌，雖然大部份都偏向迷信，但老一輩的漁民為求心安理得，時至今日仍舊遵循。不過，隨著時代的進步，許多禁忌已被年輕一代的漁民打破，但年輕漁民對部份禁忌還是抱持“寧可信其有”的心態，祈求能出海順利，平安歸來。
據漁民透露，目前幾乎所有漁民仍一定要遵守的禁忌，是女性不可以接觸船頭。原來，油上紅漆的船頭下海前，都會事先經由神明“開光”，這與神象被開光的道理是一樣的，因此嚴禁女性觸碰，尤其是把腳踩在船頭上，更被視為對神明與漁民的最大不尊。
船頭被漁民視為一艘船的“靈魂”，有漁民以“龍”來形容一艘漁船，意味著船頭是“龍頭”或“龍眼”；除了女性不可觸碰，連男性也不可站或坐在船頭，更不可在船頭一帶大小解。
女性出海易惹怒海龍王
許多人都誤以為女性不可出海捕漁，但一些漁民解釋說，其實是因為在大海中，若有女性非常不便，因為女性力氣較弱，並無法協助男性在海上的作業，最重要的是船上的男性在海中大小解都是“公開性”，許多時候還會赤裸相對，若有女性在船上就非常不便。
不過，也有一些較傳統的漁民持反對意見，他們認為，女性確實不可出海捕魚，因為她們在海上等於是把“海龍王”踩在腳下，此舉會令海龍王動怒，進而容易招惹風風雨雨。
另外，一些漁民也指出，女性的禁忌還包括嚴禁跨過漁網，因為魚網被指擁有“網魂”，女性補網時須小心翼翼，不可賤踩。
在船上禁吹口哨
另一方面，目前仍有許多漁民遵守的禁忌是“吃魚不能翻魚身”，因為漁民把魚比喻為在海上行駛的漁船，若漁民在吃魚時把整尾魚都翻過來，意喻“翻船”，是個不祥的動作。
因此，許多漁民吃魚時，當向上的一面魚肉被吃光後，他們會直接穿過魚骨挾下方的魚肉，而不是把魚翻轉過來。
與此同時，許多人在小時候常被大人叮嚀，在入夜後不能吹口哨，因為會惹來蛇蠍；原來，漁民也嚴禁在船上吹口哨，因為此舉被指會招惹水鬼，這是許多漁迄今仍遵守其中一項禁忌。
海上遇到浮屍
撈起安葬免冤魂纏身
漁民在海上作業時，最忌諱遇到浮屍，但若漁民真的不幸遇到浮屍，並不可以裝作看不到或刻意迴避，反過來還要把浮屍撈上來，然後靠岸作法安葬，否則漁民將會“幽魂纏身”。
據漁民指出，在海上出現的浮屍大部份都有很大的冤情，死因相信都是死於非命；若漁民在海上遇到浮屍，代表是死者找上門向這名漁民“申冤”，若有關漁民還刻意視若無睹就是對死者的不尊，將會遇上不吉利的事情。
“漁民一旦遇到浮屍，一定要把屍體打撈上船，然後再運上岸安葬，否則死者會把怨氣出在不肯協助的漁民身上。”
屍首不可放船正中央
另外，打勞屍體原來也有一定的禁忌，這點連許多年輕的漁民也不知道；據老一輩的漁民指出，打撈上來的屍體不能放在船的正中央，否則會為漁民帶來霉運。
據瞭解，若漁民發現的浮屍是在船身的右邊海面，那麼打撈上來的浮屍就必須安放在漁船的右側；若是在左邊海面發現浮屍，則放在漁船的左側，同時打撈起來的屍體也千萬不可跨過船身的正中位置。
與此同時，若漁民在捕漁時打撈到的是人骨，也不能把人骨重新丟回大海，同樣須把人骨載回上岸，並作法安葬。
避免被水猴拖下海
漁民不在漁船過夜
據知，雪州吉膽島漁民數十年前曾流傳遭“水鬼”纏身的傳言，島民指稱有關水鬼貌似猴子，因此被稱為“水猴”，當年的漁民嚴禁在漁船上過夜，避免被水猴拖下水；不過，數十年後的今天，雖然無人能確定水猴是否真的曾經出現過，但大部份漁民仍不會在漁船上過夜。
島民指出，水猴的動作緩慢，入夜後，它們會從海面浮現，然後慢慢爬上漁船，若有漁民在船上睡覺就會成為它們的目標。
屬傳聞、沒人見過水猴
“水猴會趁漁民睡覺時，慢慢靠近漁民，然後就發力把熟睡中的漁民朝海中拖去；由於水猴的力量很大，一旦被拖入水中，有關漁民必定九死一生，難逃死劫。”
不過，老一輩的漁民描述有關水猴的傳聞時，強調只是從別人口中獲知此事，他們由始始至終並沒見過水猴。但是，事隔多年後，堅持不在漁船上過夜的漁民仍大有人在。
腳不伸出船外搖晃
挑釁舉動易招惹水鬼
漁民出海時，若是坐在船的邊緣，絕不可把雙腳伸出海面並懸在半空中搖晃，據說這樣的舉動等於是在“挑釁”水鬼，一不小心就會招惹水鬼，然後被拖下海喪命。
不過，現在的年輕漁民大部份已不再相信水鬼之說，不過，為了安全起見，漁民還是會儘量不靠邊坐，畢竟大海上的風浪不斷，坐在船邊也很容易會掉下海。
七月鬼節不出海
農曆七月是鬼月，漁民在這個月的禁忌也特別多，他們通常不會選擇在這個月份出海捕魚，避免“好兄弟”在海上干預他們的作業，若運勢低還可能招惹水鬼，分分鐘命喪大海。
據瞭解，大部份漁民在鬼月絕不出海，同時也嚴禁家人在岸邊戲水和游泳，因為這個月是水鬼最活躍的時期，漁民都會儘量不讓家人接觸到海水，避免招惹水鬼被拖下海。
同時，以海為家的漁民也會吩咐家人儘量在入夜前就回家，並不可再出門；因此，在以漁民為主的地方，例如吉膽島，直到如今的每年農曆7月一到，入夜後的街道一定是人煙稀少，甚至可用“不見人影”來形容。
