Our Aussie brothers and sisters need help~~~
Muscular Teeth posted this and I thought I’d repost in case anyone I know didn’t see his post. This is really rough.
Bushfire Appeal: Hello one and all.
Victoria (one of australia’s states) has had a terrible fire rage through in the last few days, and has had terrible consequences with so far 108 confirmed dead.
Anne Van Alkemade has set up a paypal bushfire appeal which you can learn more about HERE
this is truly a devastating fire, probably the worst in Australian history – certainly worse than the Ash Wednesday fire in 1983.
Australians are known for their genoristy and charity- we as a nation had given so much to the tsunami appeal, the nonsense in burma, even with hurrican katrina – in this time of trouble, it would be nice to see some of that charitable feeling return back this way.
RED CROSS DONATION APPEAL HERE
(I HOPE these links work on a copied post…if not I’ll try to post other links. GC)
ok….. My linking is still awful. Copy / paste this into your browser for the Australian red cross site http://www.redcross.org.au/vic/services_emergencyservices_victorian-bushfires-appeal-2009.htm
Cheers!
(Blogged about it here: http://gypsysstuff.blogspot.com/ )
dimsim
it’s worth also noting that north queensland (that pointy bit at the top) at the same time has been riven by floods … ... not leading to loss of life, as far as i’m aware, but destroying agriculture and homes .. there is an appeal where people can donate for this too!
gypsycaster
Holy cow!!!
You guys are having a rough summer!
I’ll add that to my blog as well as the 3 Etsy forums that have sprung up since this morning.
We’re tryin!
Karin Taylor
thanx so much for helping to broadcast this byron, much appreciated by us :)