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- From: "Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>
- To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [internetworkers] orphanage project
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:44:23 +0100
As some of you who knew me personally may remember, last
year I resigned my position at UNC to accept an offer to join the Foreign
Service. After my initial training I found myself posted to Before arriving here I was warned that the level of poverty
that I will witness at times can be rather overwhelming and that I would need
to resist the urge to try to personally “fix Now, rather than blindly jumping on the first project that I
would come across, I wanted to make sure that any efforts of mine would make a
tangible and lasting difference. Shortly after I got here I found that I
wasn’t alone in this sentiment and it turns out that a colleague of mine
who arrived here several months before I did has already organized a project
with an orphanage in the town of http://abomeyorphanageproject.org/ Even though this web site is still a work in progress,
please do take a look at it to see the desperate conditions in which these
orphans are living. The word inadequate doesn’t even begin to describe
the condition of the facilities! To move forward with this project we have now reached the
fundraising stage. I’m not going to ask you to personally donate money,
although if you would like to I’m sure you won’t be turned down,
however if you belong to a church, civic or other group that is looking for a
fundraising project or if you have any connections to a business, corporation
or maybe an alumni association that is looking for a charitable cause, I would
very much appreciate it if you could bring our project to their attention. Please note that this is not an official US Government,
State Department or embassy project, but rather embassy employees donating
their spare time, effort and expertise towards this cause. Also, not being a
tax consultant, I cannot make any representations regarding any donations to
this cause being tax-exempt. Thanks for taking a look, Bill |
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[internetworkers] orphanage project,
Bill Geschwind, 06/05/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Thomas Beckett, 06/05/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Bill Geschwind, 06/05/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Greg Brown, 06/05/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Magnus, 06/05/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
geschwin, 06/06/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Jeremy Portzer, 06/06/2007
- Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project, Bill Geschwind, 06/06/2007
- Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project, Andrew C. Oliver, 06/06/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Jeremy Portzer, 06/06/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
geschwin, 06/06/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Magnus, 06/05/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Greg Brown, 06/05/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Bill Geschwind, 06/05/2007
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Re: [internetworkers] orphanage project,
Thomas Beckett, 06/05/2007
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