Rising Voices director David Sasaki wrote about the project on the 80+1 website,
where he interviewed Gabriela on camera, and got authors and editors for Global Voices involved by inspiring many to record themselves singing the lullabies they remembered from their childhood.
Tohru Sasaki, head of Japan market research at JPMorgan, said that
while the SARS outbreak caused a massive economic downturn in Hong Kong and Singapore for about eight weeks through a drop in tourism, the pandemic had limited impact on supply chains in Asia.