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READ: El Slavador Aid Service Project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paladin@lillith.mit.edu)
Mon Feb 12 01:04:15 2001
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 01:04:02 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
Many of you may have heard of the earthquake in El Salvador. _Bikes Not
Bombs_ of Boston is organizing a relief shipment. They need help doing
this, as well as things to ship. If you're looking for a worthy service
project, this is it.
1. I want someone to PC collecting things from MIT students (have a lobby
10 booth, take out a Tech Ad, e-mail people, set up a srop-off spot, etc.)
** THIS WEEK **. i.e. get on it now. I am willing to co-PC this with
you, but I can't do it all myself. ** Volunteerism amoung the brothers
will determine how much we are able to do. ** If interested in this -
e-mail me and: reserve space in Lobby 10 (tues, wed, thursday, friday?),
make a sign-up sheet, send e-mail to living groups to designate drop-off
location(s), find someone who has a car (or if that fails e-mail
eric_fielder@yahoo.com to scheduele a pick-up).
2. I also want someone to PC getting people to come help these dudes load
the stuff. On THIS SUNDAY the 18th, from about 9:30a-3:30p. You need to:
1) E-mail eric_fielder@yahoo.com saying that we'd like to help. 2)
Organize: transportation to get people to go help load/pack/drive/etc.
Also, cars to help go around and pick up things at other schools in Boston
would be great.
Bikes not Bombs is located at 59 Armory Street in Roxbury near Jackson
Square (orange line)
Here is the list of items needed:
1. Donate a few hours and your vehicle to pick things up.
2. Donations to help cover the shipping costs, food and medicines
3. Clothing, clean and folded, summer items for all ages & sizes, light
sweaters and jackets
4. Shoes, for all ages & sizes (no winter boots please!)
5. Kitchen/cooking equipment (pots & pans, plastic basins, dishes,
utensils, "Tupperware")
6. Sheets, lighter weight blankets and towels
7. Tents, tarpaulins for emergency shelter
8. 1st Aid Supplies, Band-Aids, clean dressings, gauze,
9. Medicines : Anti-biotic, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal , anti-diarrhea
10. Simple, durable toys for children dealing with loss
11. Cots, lightweight mattresses
12. Clean 5 gallon plastic buckets (better with lids)
13. Dried Food products and canned food products, especially: rice, beans,
powdered milk, canned fruits and vegetables etc.,
14. Plastic milk crates
15. Hammers, saws, basic carpentry tools
16. Shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows,
17. Clean empty cardboard boxes & packing tape
Items should be well packed in boxes or bags and labeled clearly with the
contents. (We'll translate labels into Spanish as needed.) You can drop
off aid at the Bikes Not Bombs Bicycle Recycling & Youth Training Center in
Roxbury (near the Jackson Square stop on the Orange Line). Please call for
times when there will be someone here to receive your donations.
Bikes Not Bombs 617-442-0004
Sorry for the short notice, i will see if I can't get El Salvador to
scheduele thier earthquakes in advance from now on. (YES, I'm kidding...)
YiLFS,
Eric
PS. Here's a short blurb about the mission of _Bikes Not Bombs_
>DESCRIPTION:
>Bikes Not Bombs works to achieve peace and social justice through
>grassroots organizing and promoting community-based education and
>development projects involving recycled bicycles and other environmentally
>sustainable modes of transportation. We operate a full-service bike shop,
>where we repair customer bikes and sell refurbished bikes with a warranty.
>Titanium frames and new folding Montagues are also available. We train
>young people to become bicycle mechanics and community leaders. We teach
>adult mechanics classes, organize seasonal rides, and are always in need of
>volunteer help. We receive approximately 1,500 used bicycles and used
>parts per year. We ship about 1,000 of these to community bike projects in
>Nicaragua and El Salvador (we have also sent bikes and technical assistance
>to Haiti and the Dominican Republic). We use about 500 of these at our
>Roxbury Center; some are used in our youth Earn-A-Bike programs, and others
>are repaired by teenage mechanics in our Vocational Education program for
>sale in our bike shop.
