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2019-01-31 Raffle of the Year (compliments of BsRabbit)

 


RAFFLE OF THE YEAR!

Thanks to Song Eun Sun CEO of BsRabbit for donating many snowboarding and winter sportswear items for TNKR's 9th English speech contest.

And our volunteers and fans have also been dropping off items, and several more have contacted me to let me know they will be bringing items for the raffle!

Our contest is on February 23 from 2 pm at the Shin and Kim Law Office.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-ted-talk-about-north-korea-tickets-55152225792

Their clothing is a combination of snowboarding and hip-hop street style fashion. Not only will you leave TNKR's English speech contest learning many things from original English speeches by North Korean refugees, but you could also be leaving the contest wearing some sporty snowboarding wear.

Here's an article about BsRabbit.
http\://english.etnews.com/20170724200003

RSVP for the speech contest here: https\://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-ted-talk-about-north-korea-tickets-55152225792


Thank you so much to @Edward Kyungjun Mun for making this happen! We visited Ms. Song's shop on Tuesday, and today we received two boxes of donations for TNKR!

Here's the BsRabbit Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/bsrabbit






On February 9, we will be having a planning meeting for TNKR's 9th English speech contest, please join that meeting if you would like to help us get prepared for the speech contest. We will be giving away two items in a mini-raffle on February 9. :-)

TNKR Raffle Manager Rebekah Grella Moon will have many items to hand out at the speech contest of 2/23! We have more items that have been donated by TNKR volunteers and fans, we will be posting them over the next few weeks. And more donations are welcome to make this the Raffle of the Year! :-)








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