Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]let me know how do i buy these prints. I would like to help. I saw so many of these in my life (27 years old) while i was back in my country and also while i am revisit my country. I'm from asia. Olivier - ----- Original Message ----- From: kyle cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:52 PM Subject: [Leica] luggers i need your help > My dear photo friends, > > You may remember that last year when Tina Manly posted about a group of > impoverished children living in the Guatemala city dump and Nancy McGirr's > work to teach them photography, the Leica Users Group collectively raised > $1111 help out. It was a shining moment in our life as an Internet > community. I don't want that spirit to dissipear, so this year Tina and I > will again be holding a print sale, this time with the goal of raising $1000 > to help some of the homeless orphans I met in Romania in March. > (http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/travel/bucharest-2001/) They're > incredible people living in incredible circumstances; Among them, a nine > year old girl working as a prostitute who I'd like to see have the chance to > be a little girl before she's an old women. Child abuse, child prostitution > and drug addiction are absolutely rampant there. The world shouldn't be like > this; it can't be like this. > > So let me announce "Christmas in Bucharest", a challenge to the LUG in 2001. > Just like we did it last year, Tina Manly and I will be holding a print > sale -- just in time for you to buy a lovely holiday gift and in time for us > to send a lovely holiday gift to Bucharest which can literally change the > course of lives. > > I've put all the details together on a web page located here: > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/leicaslacker/bucharest/. Participation > this year is very easy, you never even have to address an envelope. > > At $16 a piece you will never ever ever again in your life get a better deal > on an origional photographic print. You can get TWO prints for less than the > price of a single Leica lens cap or replacement camera strap. That $16 will > go an awfuly long way in Romania. > > That web site again: > http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/leicaslacker/bucharest/ > > Thank you all for your time and your good hearts, > > Kyle > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html