Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] luggers i need your help
From: "Olivier T. Nguyen" <onguyen@optonline.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 21:14:16 -0400
References: <003b01c15d08$82e12800$6b38fea9@thunderbelly>

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
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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
>
>
>
>
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>
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