Stefan is planning to journey to Freetown in Sierra Leone this week and she's going to do it by road using a bus. This is not good for someone who has just recovered from malaria and the fault is down to the Sierra Leonian passport office who would not give her a passport in time. Even wors, she will have to travel across Sierra Leone into Liberia to see her father in hospital. The situation in Sierra Leone is not great at the moment, with the elections coming up there. There has been sporadic violence and I am desperately afraid for her having to travel across several potentially dangerous countries.
Then there is her father's condition which is deteriorating and without a rapid injection of funds into the campaign I am afraid that Stefan will be undertaking a very dangerous cross-country journey only to see her father for the last time. If there was anything I could do to ensure that the money necessary would get to Dakar, Senegal then I would do it. I've done what I can with the website and the advertising and publicity, it's just that none of this work is converting into money flowing into the campaign. And the time is getting short, very short.
If you can help in any way then please donate with the button on the left. If you cannot afford even $1 then please circulate the letter below to your friends and family. Remember that by donating to this campaign you will alter and improve the life of someone who has survived so much in the face of adversity. Who has faced civil wars and fleeing across West Africa with nothing. Who had a child on the road, caught malaria and survived both experiences, who has been badly injured and abused yet whose faith ramains unshakeable.
But now that faith is being sorely tested and only through your help can Stefan and Zogo make a clean break with the past and begin putting their lives back together again.
Please note also that the Help Stefan Charity Campaign is not looking for handouts. If you are a webmaster then you can list your site on the One Dollar Links page (currently #2 in Google for 'one dollar links' keyword so your site will be seen). Larger donations get you copies of my eBook of Poetry 'Memories of Myth and Man' as well as my Cooking with Spices eBook 300+ pages detailing 57 spices and recipes showing how to cook with them. This eBook also has a section on Indian Restaurant Recipes so that, at home, you can make the same recipes as found in your local Indian Restaurant/Take-away.
Many recipes from Stefan are also available on my African Recipes main page which also has donation buttons for the 'Help Stefan' Charity campaign.
 Today's Total: $187 A letter from the Webmaster: I would like to introduce to you Stefan and her son Zogo. They are true survivors who escaped the civil wars of Liberia and Sierra Leone in the early 200s to make their way on foot through Guinea (where both developed malaria) to Senegal, The Gambia and now Dakar, Senegal. There they are refugees and have no legal status. As such they cannot earn any money and are eking-out a hand to mouth existence. Though that's not how they would put it. However, Stefan believed her entire family to have been massacred. But now, with my aid she has discovered her father to be alive but in very bad health with a heart condition. He needs $10 000 for hospital bills and for the operation that may save his life. Stefan herself has recently been very ill with malaria and has been hospitalized herself at a cost of $3000. I love this woman very much, but with her hospitalization I have now spent my last penny so I'm turning to the internet in the hope of gaining donations to help Stefan's father Alfred. I am also looking for the airfare to send Stefan to her father's side. I would also be like to take several months off work so that I can travel to Senegal to look after the boy, Zogo. The total cost of all this will come to more than $20 000, so I'm imploring for your help. The home page for the campaign is at http://www.celtnet.org.uk/info/help-stefan.php where you can make your donation securely via PayPal. If you are interested in recipes then, if you donate $10 you will get a copy of my eBook 'Guide to Spices' at http://www.celtnet.org.uk/info/spice-book.php. A $5 donation gets you a copy of my poetry eBook 'Memories of Myth and Man'. If you are a webmaster then your $1 donation will get you a permanent link to your site on http://www.celtnet.org.uk/info/one-dollar-links.php Please help me to re-build the life of a woman who has lost so much. Thank you for your aid. Yours Dyfed Lloyd Evans PS you can help this campaign by copying the email letter above and sending it to all your friends. Thank you for your help. |
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