Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/05

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Subject: [Leica] Special Appeal
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 08:16:41 -0500

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/>