Donation drive for a friend...
Jun. 21st, 2012 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seawaspETA: 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 (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
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Date: 2012-06-25 09:12 pm (UTC)customs form = CW092326350US
for $56.15 [sent insured]
However there is bad news. As of May 16th, US Homeland [in]Security no longer allows laptops batteries to be mailed internationally. [The Postal worker agreed with me that this is stupid.] I had to open, remove the battery, rebox the laptop. So you will need to get a = 15 inch powerbook G4 rechargeable battery. Sorry. I also checked and was not given the OSX software.
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Date: 2012-06-27 02:24 pm (UTC)at least if the tracker is correct
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Date: 2012-07-02 12:07 pm (UTC)thanks!!!!
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