Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: Bed Net campaign - AmaniDRC

[patty (pattypax]

Dear Salon People,
Last week i watched 60 Minutes and was so saddened by the situation of 
rape in the Congo.  I went to the 60Min web site to see what i could 
do.  I found this address (see below)  for someone that i could 
contact.  If, after reading the letter from her, you want to do 
something, too, like donate  money for the mosquito bed netting which 
saves many lives, you can let me know soon. If you want to send me a 
check made out to her, i can send the money directly to her.  I always 
have trouble using Pay Pay, so for me, i want to just send her the 
money directly.  But, you can go to that Pay Pay site and do it on your 
own.  Let me know if you want to send her money through me.   patty

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> From: "WESTERN, DIANE" <dwestern [at] umflint.edu>
> Date: Tue Jan 15, 2008  2:05:51  PM US/Central
> To: <pattypax [at] earthlink.net>
> Subject: Bed Net campaign - AmaniDRC
>
> Dear Patty,
>
> Thank you for your email. (It's very encouraging.)  As you might have
> seen on the site, I built the site as a student with Univ. Of Michigan
> (which is how I met Dr. Cissa Wa Numbe and partnered with him to help
> UNA-DRC).  It was late November when he asked me to help with the bed
> net campaign as the U.S. contact.  (After all that I've learned about
> D.R. Congo, I was motivated to help.)
>
> You can use the PayPal link for a checking account or credit card
> donation (on the web site
> http://www.amanidrc.org/one-net-one-life.htm#support  )
> <http://www.amanidrc.org/one-net-one-life.htm>
>
> If you'd rather mail a check, you can mail it to me in the U.S. it
> would be:
>
> D. Western, P.O. Box 4313, Troy, MI  48099
>
> If you'd rather make the check out directly to UNA-DRC, then I would
> have to mail it to the Congo.  (I'm not sure how good the mail system
> would be in Africa.  I would probably send the check to the U.K.
> partners and ask them to hold it or see if any one is going to the
> Congo.)  Or if you would rather, I can give you an address in the U.K.
>
>
> I decided last week to go ahead and apply for a 501c3 tax emempt
> status as I really want to make a huge effort to raise funds for the
> bed nets campaign.  I will be filing for a corporate status; then the
> IRS tax exempt status takes from 3 to 9 months.  At this point, I'm
> collecting funds with the understanding that I will hand all the
> monies over to UNA-DRC.  Unfortunately, setting up all of this takes
> time, and we just started this part of the program for the U.S.
> (UNA-DRC has existed in the Congo for many years.)
>
> All of this began when I started working on this project for graduate
> school.  I'm just a regular citizen who became totally captured by the
> whole project when I started learning about how dreadful things are in
> the Congo.
>
> At any rate, could you please let me know if you mail something to the
> PO Box; then I would be sure to check the box  more often than I
> usually do.  If you use PayPal, I would receive an email notice.
>
> Anyway, sorry for the long-winded email.  I really appreciate you
> supporting this effort.  It's been very difficult as I'm doing all of
> this along with my regular homework.  Like you probably feel, I'm very
> motivated to help.
>
> Thank you again,
>
> Best regards,
>
> Diane Western
> for
> AmaniDRC.org
> U of M student
>
>
> -------------- Forwarded Message: --------------
> From: patty <pattypax [at] earthlink.net>
> To: nets [at] amanidrc.org
> Subject: 60 minutes show
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:58:00 +0000
>
> Hello,
> I would like to give money for bed nets for the campaign to help the
> people of the Congo. Could you send me an address to send the money?
> The show on 60 Minutes made me want to do something, and when i looked
>
> at the site, amaniderc.org i see that money for this could be of help.
>
> Thank you, patty guerrero