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Dorothee

Dorothee

Germany

April 10, 2013

After taking the permission from this fund-raising project called "Reutlinger Bücher Börse" (Book Market of Reutlingen) I was allowed to create some placards as a form of advertisement for this project and to spread them on blackboards all over my universitty, since at "my" university students are allowed to use these blackboards. Anyway I also told them about some friends of mine who live too far away from Reutlingen to get there personally to donate their books and according to the gentleman I spoke to it would also be okay to send them by post.

Well, I think that if I just translate the message I wrote on these placards which I created, that should explain everything, but since Englishbaby is an international website, I should add that they only take books in English, French and German...

The original German text, since I know some users here who just like reading things in German:

Title: Reutlinger Bücher Börse

Text: Das ehrenamtliche Bücher-Börsen-Team fördert mit dem Erlös seines Kaufstandes soziale Caritas-Projekte.

Neue Annahmestelle für Ihre Bücher:

Kolpinghaus Reutlingen

Liststrasse 26

72764

Jeden ersten Freitag im Monat: von 14:30 - 16:30 Uhr.

 

Translation - with information I thought I should add for foreigners:

Title: Book Market of Reutlingen

Text: The voluntary Book Market of Reutlingen-team supports social Caritas-Projects (Caritas is an aid-organisation) with the sales revenue of its sales booth.

New receiving office of your books, ladies and gentlemen:

Kolpinghaus Reutlingen

Liststrasse 26

72764

(If you my friends from Englishbaby send them some books by post, you may add "Stichwort: Bücherspende" which means "Keyword: Book Donation" to the address.)

Every first Friday of the month between: half past 2 PM and half past 4 PM.

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05:39 AM Jun 26 2013

Dorothee

Dorothee
Germany

Also I'm allowed to tell you the following; The ZSE is a German community of doctors from Tübingen /Baden-Wuerttemberg who try to find ways to heal all kinds of more or less unexplored diseases. Today the local newspaper of Tübingen published an article about what this organisation does. The author of this article also stated that the ZSE urgently needs more donations.

If you want to help - and also are able to help -, please donate to:

Volksbank Tübingen eG (BLZ 641 901 10)
Account Number 30 604 001
Verwendungszweck: Anlass (your name, dear Sir or Madam)

Thank you, dear Sir or Madam!

 

02:18 PM Jun 25 2013

Dorothee

Dorothee
Germany

Of course NABU permitted me to post all the information you read in my first comment.

02:05 PM Jun 25 2013

Dorothee

Dorothee
Germany

I'm sorry if my first comment looks kind of uncoordinated. It really isn't my fault. I tried hard, but englishbaby.com doesn't always allow you to leave gaps wherever you want. In the end I gave up and left it at that. My apologies!

01:56 PM Jun 25 2013

Dorothee

Dorothee
Germany

The German animal-aid organization NABU has been cooperating with E-Plus for more than two years now, but as it seems the news just stopped spreading after the first few months. Thus the number of people who even just knew about this project started to decrease rapidly as time passed by. At last NABU decided to advertise their project once more. It wasn't until two or three days ago that I even just read about this in a magazine.

About the project: E-Plus also uses parts from old mobile phones to recycle them and use them for new products. That actually already is a good thing, but the true project actually is that NABU provided some addresses where they would collect these mobile phones and then send them to E-Plus while the latter promised that they would donate three Euro per donated mobile phone to the NABU. My brother used to be a voluntary worker there and he told me that NABU really needs some more money now. Donations are rare and some of the plans they had needed to be dropped, because they couldn't effort them. However they are doing such an amazing job...They inform people about all kinds of plans and animals, treat sick and wounded animals, they have huge cages where they keep animals that were illegally raised and kept as pets by German citizens and thus can't be released into the wild etc. They even build nesting boxes for birds, bats and butterflies while I didn't even know until recently that butterflies sometimes use these boxes. With the ongoing destruction of nature these animals of course loose more and more of their natural habitat and thus depend on this form of aid. Thus I think they deserve more support than they already got.

If you've got an old mobile phone, you want to throw away anyway – and if you have the money to send something abroad - please send it to:

Umweltforum Mannheimer Agenda 21 e.V.

Aufstellungsort: NABU-Gruppe

Käfertalerstr. 162

68167 Mannheim

Baden-Wuerttemberg

Germany

P.S. I apologize for all the errors I made in this e-mail, but here it's getting rather late now. I just wanted to post this today, because you never know what will be tomorrow. Also I already felt kind of lazy for pushing this aside for three whole days.