Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/08

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Subject: [Leica] News from ZIM
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Tue Jul 8 12:08:00 2008
References: <1be504db0807080846h1a37712boab2816179056ced8@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Phil Swango <pswango@att.net> wrote:
> D. Ridings wrote:
>
>>I do have a paypal. I might very well take you up on this Didier. We
>>can never send much ... inflation just eats it up, we have to send
>>often instead.
>
> Daniel, tell us where/how to make a donation.  Sure beats sitting around
> scanning old negs of Nancy.

I'll put people on a list.

This particular time is taken care of. It defeats its purpose to send
too much money. They have to change it and the minute they change it
to local currency, inflation eats it up.

Inflation is, by various reports, 165,000% or 9 million per cent.

You can't talk about inflation. You have to be able to compare, for
instance, the price of bread last week with the price of bread this
week. The price of meat, the price of cooking oil.

There is no bread, no cooking oil, no meat. You can't make the
comparison. But we know it is higher than ever in history.

So this time is ok. But there will be other times. I can only send
money to last a week or two at a time. These weeks are taken care of.

But those who would like to help, I can explain how off list. Either
through me or directly through Western Union.

The critical time will come in 3 or 4 weeks when the school fees have
to be topped up. That is a real burden for me.

Thanks!
Daniel

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