FOR A GOOD CAUSE: Daniella Ng (in blue) and her fellow sailors help to wash cars as part of the fundraising events. Photo --: Tan Yo-Hinn

SINGAPORE'S sailors have raised $23,000 for their counterparts in Myanmar affected by Cyclone Nargis.

About 50 members of the various national age group sailing squads — including 11 who are vying for four spots to represent Singapore at the Olympic Games sailing competition in Qingdao in August — took time off from their training schedules to organise a fundraiser at the National Sailing Centre last Saturday, in aid of their counterparts in Myanmar.

Donations also poured in from individual donors.

Cyclone Nargis, one of the most lethal recorded storms, struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta on May 2, has so far left over 130,000 dead or missing and caused over US$10 billion ($13.6 billion) in damage.

It also left the Yangon Sailing Club severely damaged and houses of many of the sailors swept away.

Organised by national men’s 470 sailor Chung Pei Ming (and Roy Tay, Koh Seng Leong & Xu Yuan Zhen), SingaporeSailing’s three-hour fundraising event included table tennis matches, an auction and a carwash.