Re: [Staffslug] Fw: [lugmaster] Fwd: Linux-refurbished Laptops for Nepal Appeal!
On 22/01/07, Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Katlan Trading Company based at The Souk in Llangollen is
committed to
> helping this school through importing goods from Nepal. A percentage of
> all sales will go direct to the school. We are not a registered charity
> but instead are aiming to help through direct trade."
>
This is the bit that worried me and set the alarm bells ringing. As
you will all know I am a very enthusiastic member of the Freecycle
network. As part of this we deal with many organisations like this
one. Now, I'm not saying that this is dodgy but, I would like some
sort of proper reassurance that they are who they say they are. It's
very easy for a company to tug at the heart strings with this sort of
appeal. Are they for real or are they a con job?
Before the flames and emotional banner waving starts my thoughts are
firmly in the same camp as yours.
I would have thought that such a poor community as described would
have greater needs than Laptops!! and a Hydro electric plant? they
aren't cheap.
So kit is dispatched to an unknown collection point flown to some an
airport chucked on a Yak then hiked for 3 months up a mountain where
there is no electricity and what about repairs?
Its a laudable notion helping the poor by buying the nations goods
(notice the word Nation and not Village) however I notice the
Non-Charity status as well.
--
Dick Turpin
"Stand and deliver!"