Donation drive for a friend...

[seawasp]

ETA: The drive is over. Thanks very much to everyone who participated! The funds covered what was absolutely needed.


I have a friend named George Green (kharaku). He's made some... pretty bad life decisions, and he's stuck at the bottom right now; check his LJ entry here if you want details of the problems that make this an acute issue. To a great extent he's gotten himself in this mess, but at heart he's a good guy and some of his current problems are NOT his fault, so I'm going to do this for him once.

Short version: George's stuck in the Ukraine with essentially no money, and his laptop -- the tool he uses to do whatever work he can get as a web designer, writer, etc. -- was stolen from him.

He needs a new laptop; his ideal would be a Mac Powerbook but he's used others; the last one taken was an ASUS P50IJ.

I have set up a Paypal donation button below for people to contribute towards getting him a replacement laptop, probably from craigslist or some similar used location unless people are extraordinarily generous; any excess will go towards helping him have some resources to get the heck off the streets/out of charity places. If someone HAS an appropriate laptop they would like to donate, contact me and I'll arrange to get it to him.

I will leave this up for two weeks; if insufficient funds for a laptop  are given, I'll send whatever I have to George to at least give him something to work with.

Comments

[melchar.livejournal.com]

Like I said, I accepted it from a friend who felt bad about me just giving him money. ^_^ I'll try sending it by USPS [at least in part because I don't know anywhere close that does dhl]. I don't have a webcam, but I will check to see if I have OS X [at this point, I don't remember if I did anything there].

[kharaku.livejournal.com]

sounds great my friend says someone probably has a wevcan on the cheap (no one gives away technology here; it could have a past fresh date and they'd still charge the original price but my friend thinks I can borrow it long term with no worries).

This is truly a life saver! I already have links saved so I can do XCode/native iOS apps on a g4 mac!!!!

This is AMAZING!