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Ex-figure skater Kim Yu-na donates $100,000 for Nepal quake relief
By KH디지털2Published : April 28, 2015 - 14:28
Former Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-na has donated $100,000 for Nepal earthquake relief, officials said Tuesday.
The Korean Committee for UNICEF, a U.N. organization providing aid to children in developing countries, said in a press release that Kim made the donation to help provide food and drinking water to children in the quake-stricken Nepal. Kim has been an international goodwill ambassador for UNICEF since 2010.
Earlier in the week, Kim tweeted a message promoting UNICEF's efforts in trying to help the Nepalese children and called on her followers to join the cause.
Kim, who retired last year with an Olympic gold and two world titles to her credit, previously made donations to help Haiti in January 2010 after the earthquake there and to aid typhoon relief efforts in the Philippines in 2013. Last year, she offered 100 million won ($93,400) to the surviving families of the victims of the Sewol ferry sinking. (Yonhap)
