Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'll second that from England and say that Oxfam are doing their normal, extraordinary, work for the same catastrophe. If you're in the UK and think Tina's charities are too hard to donate to, then get some money to Oxfam. Jem > -----Original Message----- > From: Tina Manley [SMTP:images@InfoAve.Net] > > Dear LUGers, > > I feel like you are my friends and family so I am appealing to you > for > help. I am working and crying in my darkroom this week printing > photographs for an exhibit in California called "Las Familias." It will > consist of photographs of the families that I have photographed in > Honduras > over the last ten years. All of these families are now homeless. Many > are > still missing. They lived in the marginal areas of Honduras which are now > covered by mud and water. There are no roads, bridges, crops, animals. > Honduras, which was one of the poorest countries in our hemisphere, has > been pushed back to the stone age. They need any help you can give. Give > through the Red Cross or send financial donations to Church World Service. > 475 Riverside Dr. New York NY 10115. Earmark the donation for Hurricane > Mitch (appeal #976309). The most urgent need right now is money which > agencies can use to get food and medical supplies to the hardest hit areas > by helicopter. > My first impulse was to rush to Honduras to help, but I can do > more from > here. We were arranging to send a medical team but our partners in > Honduras have said to wait. There is no way to transport them anywhere. > We are still in e-mail contact with the non-governmental agency that we > support there, but expect to lose that at any time. I will post > photographs on a web page later today if you would like to see the > families. I don't know what else to do. > Thank you for anything you can give and please excuse this > interuption of > the LUG. > > Tina > > > Tina Manley, ASMP > <http://www.photogs.com/manley/index.html> > <http://www.aperture-photo.com/site/reportage/manley/manleyframeset.html> > <http://members.tripod.com/~Tina_Manley/> >