nt charity...
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- spaniard
Ok, so I just got back from Tanzania, where I stayed in a small village, Mto Wa Mbu (in the north near Kilimanjaro). While I was there I got to know the teacher of the local school and spent some time with the kids which was as you can imagine was very emotional. Anyway, to cut a long story short I've got the address of the school and I'm sending packages of pens, books, games etc. and thought that it might be something the folk on nt would be interested in. There are 60 kids in the school, 5-10 years old, it's a poor area and they generally need anything you can send. It's christmas and all that and there's no middlemen so anything you send gets straight to them. Anyone interested send me a mail and I'll forward on the address....
- welded0
Sounds interesting, but I can barely afford rent... :|
- DutchBoy0
that's an awesome idea!!
i am a bit low on cash still but i can see what i can do!
check yer inbox!!
- welded0
Sure, go and make me look like Scrooge. :(
- DutchBoy0
welded, that's BS.
i wonder who is poorer, you or me?
but hey, we both must have some little things lying around that you think could be very useful to them?
or buy a few blocknotes at the K_Mart for only a few bucks.
anything helps i assume!
- unfittoprint0
spaniard, that's a beautiful thing.
do you have a list of stuff they need?
- spaniard0
That's the thing, this is lo-fi charity, if you want to send 60 notebooks, or 2 pens, it doesn't matter. Anything helps. As for a list of things, anything you think could be good for a school with kids in that age group; a box of coloured pencils, crayons, a block of paper, blank notebooks, cheap musical instruments (flutes, kazoos, whatever) calculators, jigsaw puzzles, paint sets, toys, etc. etc.
- welded0
DutchBoy, I'm just pulling your chain. Seriously, though, I would love to help this or other causes (such as the two charities I've stopped giving to) but I've been a full-time student for the last year and have tapped out my credit to survive. What little cash I have is for rent at the end of the month. I've never been as broke.
Anyway, I'll make room for everybody else.
- DutchBoy0
sux welded. keep yer chin up tho, man!
even i am positive i'll be out of this mess next year.
- Mal0
See random acts thread!
- Mal0
email me and it shall be done.
- GreedoLives0
i just emailed you...it'd be nice for a change to send some goods directly to the needy rather than throw money at a faceless charity.
Out of curiosity, how reliable is their postal service? Any tips or tricks?
- DutchBoy0
"Out of curiosity, how reliable is their postal service? Any tips or tricks?"
very good question, Greedo!!
- ants0
hey guys, also if you're in the idea of this kind of thing. Check out http://www.tear.org.au/giftcatal… where you can buy something useful directly for someone.
We do it at work for every client who has a job with us, they don't know it until we give part of their project's payment away. Then we tell them they've supported someone. It's a good way to institutionalise giving. :D
- spaniard0
good response so far, nice work people...
- k0na_an0k0
are you kidding me?!? i work in a gigantuous office building that deals with books and what not.
alls i have to do is wait til after hours and raid the stock room.
haha. santa did that too right?!? or was it that robin in the hood guy?
- tuig0
low on cash.wish i could help..
dutch government want 3000 euro's of me...
- mr_snuggles0
I'm down, sent you an email already. wrd.
- sherman0
im in but the post worries me?
- ********0
Alright, I did the same thing for three years in Namibia. It's nice, and that's real charity, not donating your money to some so-called 'non-profit' organization and having them take 90% for some administrative purposes bs.
I would have to agree with you it's sad on many levels, but once you live in it, you become numb to it. Obviously, there are poverty-stricken people all over. Hence, the *Stop Complaining thread.
Personally, I cannot as I already send to my old neighbors in this squatter block house where I lived:
- ********0
sherman, the post should worry you, there are sticky fingers along the way as soon as your goods hit terra-firma.