Chilean Earthquake disaster

[OZCUBAN]

Hi all

Just a little thought if any of you have any spare cash ,whatever you feel you can spare ,we should donate to a chilean relief fund i.e The Red Cross in your area ,these people are really suffering and need our help

Thanks for listening

Cheers

OZ

[MIKA27]

Great stuff OZ and I am sure any Chilean would appreciate it.

Having just returned from Chile myself only 3 weeks ago, it is such a beautiful country with so many wonderful, warm, friendly and very giving people. It would be great to give back.

Whilst my wife, children and I were there, we stayed in Santiago, La Serena (Great beaches!), Val Paraiso and Concepcion. Luckily, all of my wifes family and indeed my extended family (Mainly living in La Serena) are well and accounted for, all except one, an uncle who lives in Concepcion. We just can not get through to his mobile, landline and no one who knows him can locate him.

My mother in-law who resides in Australia generally travels that way every few years and she was due to return two days ago but has been stranded in Santiago Airport. Hopefully she gets to catch a plane at 11pm our time tonight. (For my wifes sake )

I PM'd Taino as I do not know if he is still in Chile. I do hope he is well?

This is a worthwhile cause so if anyone can spare some change, would be a worthy cause to contribute to.

Great post OZ, thanks mate.

Michael.

[Buch0]

Great idea mate. I am going to donate in cash what I would smoke a day in cigars. If we all did this it would be a considerable amount one would imagine. Best wishes go out to all that were affected by this freak turn of nature.

[OZCUBAN]

Thanks guys

I am sure if we were in the same position we would hope other people would be as generous

Cheers Oz

[Aficionado]

How do I find, to be able to deposit money?

[Ken Gargett]

How do I find, to be able to deposit money?

red cross, medicins sans frontiers (or thereabouts) etc. certainly worthwhile.

my aunt and uncle still stuck close to the zone. they were travelling there (if i didn't have the hernia op, then every chance i'd have been around there as well as supposed to do some stuff for the wine mag. aunt and uncle very lucky - they were headed to the real dangerzone the following day. luck of the draw. if they stay with what is being organised, they'll be there another two to three weeks. so they have arranged to join a bus for an 8 hour trip over the andes, small plane flight to BA and then eventually a flight out of BA).

donations for this, haiti any natural disaster always a good thing but i know a lot of us in australia were soured over the indonesia tsunami, to find that so much of what was given never went near the people who needed it (and i know of other relief efforts that have been looted by those later lauded for alleged good works - now there would be a good use for guns). it also caused many other charities huge problems because everyone jumped in there and the other charities - from kids' cancer appeals to anything you can think of simply had their donations slashed for a year or two. partly because we gave a lot of money and there are limits imposed by reality and partly because of the bad name that so many worthwhile organisations copped because of the poor effort of a few.

understandable, people only can give so much. there is no simple answer but surely the key is in as many govts as possible doing what they can. again, not that easy but i wish everyone in chile the very best.

i suspect chile will suffer because of donations to haiti - again, there are limits posed by reality - and that donations to haiti will be cut right back as some goes to chile. if anyone has any idea how to sort all this, they deserve a nobel prize.

[Ken Gargett]

apols for that convoluted mess. think i was trying to understand it all myself. still don't. it really should be very simple, then humans get involved.

[Aficionado]

red cross, medicins sans frontiers (or thereabouts) etc. certainly worthwhile.

my aunt and uncle still stuck close to the zone. they were travelling there (if i didn't have the hernia op, then every chance i'd have been around there as well as supposed to do some stuff for the wine mag. aunt and uncle very lucky - they were headed to the real dangerzone the following day. luck of the draw. if they stay with what is being organised, they'll be there another two to three weeks. so they have arranged to join a bus for an 8 hour trip over the andes, small plane flight to BA and then eventually a flight out of BA).

donations for this, haiti any natural disaster always a good thing but i know a lot of us in australia were soured over the indonesia tsunami, to find that so much of what was given never went near the people who needed it (and i know of other relief efforts that have been looted by those later lauded for alleged good works - now there would be a good use for guns). it also caused many other charities huge problems because everyone jumped in there and the other charities - from kids' cancer appeals to anything you can think of simply had their donations slashed for a year or two. partly because we gave a lot of money and there are limits imposed by reality and partly because of the bad name that so many worthwhile organisations copped because of the poor effort of a few.

understandable, people only can give so much. there is no simple answer but surely the key is in as many govts as possible doing what they can. again, not that easy but i wish everyone in chile the very best.

i suspect chile will suffer because of donations to haiti - again, there are limits posed by reality - and that donations to haiti will be cut right back as some goes to chile. if anyone has any idea how to sort all this, they deserve a nobel prize.

Very wisely and truly written.

[OZCUBAN]

Thanks for the input Ken

Cheers Oz

[OZCUBAN]

Great idea mate. I am going to donate in cash what I would smoke a day in cigars. If we all did this it would be a considerable amount one would imagine. Best wishes go out to all that were affected by this freak turn of nature.

Thanks Buch0

Really good idea

cheers mate

Oz

[Ken Gargett]

Very wisely and truly written.

perhaps i should do all my posts after a night on the 16% rutherglen reds!

[stargazer14]

perhaps i should do all my posts after a night on the 16% rutherglen reds!

..as opposed to what? a 17% Turley zinfandel?....

[Ken Gargett]

..as opposed to what? a 17% Turley zinfandel?....

all things in moderation!

one of the winemakers was telling me that he had a client (he does contract making) who had grown some zin and wanted them made into a sparkling red. no idea what it was like but my impression was that the winemaker was not expecting it to become the next hot style.

and apols for taking this thread off ina completely irrelevant direction.

ps - we just almost never she her wines out here.

[Ken Gargett]

a 'different' take on charity and very poor timing. received this from a mate the day before the chilean earthquake.

I just had a call from a Charity asking me to donate some of my clothes to the starving people throughout the world.

I told them to F*** off!! Anybody who fits into my clothes isn't starving!!