internet money

I am providing internet support to the team in Aceh. In the course of fighting the barrage of emails from people who are donating, want to volunteer and coordinating the P.R. work of the operation, one particular exchange was particularly memorable.

On the website we are only asking for cash as the relief materials like food and water was easily available in Medan, our regional headquarters, which is about a 12 hours truck drive from Banda Aceh. Medan was barely affected by the disaster.

One person wrote to me and asked why we only asked for cash and whether we did this so we could line our pockets! It was late and I was exhausted having gone on few hours of sleep for several days due to the massive workload the relief operation entailed. So I wrote a rather harsh reply stating our strategy but also asking the personto help out or buzz off and let us do our work in peace :-O

When I woke up next morning the person had written again and was OK with my flaming response and had donated $1,100!

Note to self: stick to your guns if you are doing the right thing and don't cry over lost sleep ;-)

Unmantrananda, Manila, Philippines

P.S. spread these URLS as much as possible :-)

Website: www.amurt.net
Newsletter: www.amurt.net/newsletters
Blog: www.amurt.net/blog/aceh.html

This banner you can just copy and paste into your emails: