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Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey
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Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:53:37 GMT
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John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> wrote in message
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> "Selçuk " wrote:
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> > Hi friends,
> >
> > I'm sure most of you have already heard about the disastrous earthquake
> > which caused thousands of death as well as up to half a million people • lost
> > everything they owned.
> >
> > I'm participating to the aids and help programs from the beginning • somehow,
> > In first 10 days, all the focus was on rescue missions and supplying the
> > very urgent needs of survived victims (like water, food, and medical • care),
> > but as the time goes, direction of the help started to change by changing
> > needs.
> >
> > One of the biggest problem is now the children who lost his/her parents in
> > the disaster. According to the press there are thousands of them, and
> > according to medics, they need urgent psychological care, because of the
> > traumatic effects of the disaster. Now, as I observed, there are efforts • of
> > founding some "child cities", of course by using tents as for now, where
> > they will be cared by voluntary "mothers" and experts.
> >
> > There are already some examples built during last week, and as you • guessed,
> > one of the urgent needs are toys. Me and my friends are still trying to
> > collect toys as much as we can, and already sent the amount we collected
> > last weekend to those centers (It was more than 1 ton, by the way)
> >
> > Apart from those centers, virtually all of the child victims, living in • tent
> > cities with or without their parents need toys too, since they lost
> > everything under the collapsed buildings, whether or not their loving ones
> > are alive.
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> > In short, Lego is one of the most suitable tools for the purpose and we • need
> > your help. It doesn't matter how they are used, how they are completed or
> > how they are old. If we could arrange a help campaign, it would be very
> > nice. I don't know if it s practical to send toys to another continent as • a
> > help but I've guessed many of you would want to contribute.
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> I was thinking. A while back many of us participated in an auction (Gary • Louie
> Memorial Auction) to raise money for expressly that reason-- to provide Lego
> for children in need. I think the plan was to give the money to a Ronald
> McDonald house in CA, USA. Why not use the money to buy Lego for these kids
> instead? (if it hasn't already been dispersed) Perhaps others who didn't
> participate in the auction would consider a donation to the fund, and the • sum
> could be used to buy sets and then sent to Selçuk. Perhaps Target, Zany, or
> another retailer would be willing to mark down the sets as a donation to • make
> the money stretch further. Just a thought.
Better yet, I wonder if TLG would go for a deal where we buy half-price sets
and have them shipped directly to Turkey. Shipping (esp. from U.S.) to Turkey
would probably cost us about as much as the Lego, so it's probably better if
we send $ and let Selcuk buy the Lego. Though I imagine prices are
considerably higher there...
-John Van
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