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Hi all, [ Nancy Spies wrote: ] > > We are hearing about the terrible flooding that is occurring in > Europe, and I want to send my sympathy to anyone on this list who has > been affected. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to > help. > well, here is a small report from Germany, which - in economical terms - seems to be the most affected country (but never forget flooding in Austria and Czechia as well). Happily I have no personal damage as Aachen is about 600 km away from the floodings, but I have a flat acquired a few years ago in the region of Dresden. I did not hear anything from there but as far as I know it is unaffected by the flooding. At my work, people to help the victims of the flooding are currently searched. I work at Bayer and we have a factory in Bitterfeld (producing Aspirin, a pharmaceutical which most of you might know), one of the cities which was totally evacuated. I thought of helping there as well but as my boss is on holiday, no one can give be "permission" to leave work for manual help in the affected regions. I am very happy that even outside Europe the flooding and its consequences is mentioned - I would not have proposed that. Nevertheless, "practical" help is very hard to organize from outside Europe. There are a lot of initiatives here, e.g. a county near Dortmund (Witten) is organizing a summer camp for children so their parents can concentrate on re-building and cleaning their homes. A lot of things are needed: furniture, clothes, toys (for the summer camp i.e.) etc. But the only real "practical" thing I can image (as others might be hard to organize) are contributions to the victims. If anyone here really wants to help, I can find out and send the information as private mail on organizations here in Germany that really help, the organizations where every cent is really given to the victims (not spent for any administration costs or sth similar). Many regards to all Guido Send private reply to Guido Gehlhaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop receiving tabletweaving (not tabletweaving-digest), send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: unsubscribe tabletweaving. To stop receiving tabletweaving-digest, see the end of a digest.
