Hey guys, hope all of you are doing well. I know for a fact that poker players like to donate for charity and what would be a better period for that, if not the Christmas holidays? So I thought we should be raising some funds and do something cool with it.
Yea, as you guess I already have in my mind something. I have a somewhat close relative (his father and my grandma were siblings), whose wife had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in early June. For a couple of weeks the husband moved to my place in Bucharest, while his wife was treated in the most performant hospital in Romania. The good news is, she is still alive, the bad is that she had a brain seizure a day after the 6 hour operation. Ever since she was operated once more with an aggravated pneumonia and spent the last 4 and a half months in the hospital, like 60 km away from the village they are from. Her husband was beside her almost every day (no extra beds in the hospital, so he was making the round trip every other day), sleeping on chairs or not sleeping at all. Finally 2 weeks ago, they would let her go home, but as a consequence of the seizure, her right side is immobile. And chances are she will never ever get back on feet. Needless to say, the husband quit his job and they have a low income. My parents are helping a lot, by cooking, driving them around, buying food, etc., and just the other day my dad told me, that their well, from which they are getting the water (living in rural area, makes you not having tap-water, dunno how's that in your country, but thats the case for the majority of the small villages of < 1000 inhabitants, here in Romania), will most probably shrink very soon. Currently they are bathing at my parents house. They have 2 sweet girls - one just started college in the nearest town, where a respected national university has a subsidiary(?) and the other one is in 9th grade, I think. So I thought about trying to help this family out by reaching out to you guys and perhaps try to raise the money necessary to fund this action. Also, I will try to buy them a wheelchair, something like this:
http://www.okazii.ro/articole-persoane-cu-dizabilitati/scaune-rotile/carucior-transport-pacienti-moretti-mcb230-a122728230
(the site is the Romanian ebay, you can click on it without fear, I use it almost everyday to search for different things).
So the chair would be something like 280$ and the well is around 200$. They have that pump thingy, that helps to get the water into the house from the well.
I would of course make photos (before, after) and present a receipt of anything that I would use the money (if I get one). I'm putting up 100$ for this. I can accept money on FullTilt, Pokerstars or Paypal.
Depending on the succes of this, we're planning some shoebox action with my wife, near Christmas. Were thinking about the local orphanage and some kids from the school we went to and know about their hard situation.
tldr.
close relative having serious health issues
want to raise ~600$ for a wheelchair and a new well
putting up 100$ myself
further charity near X-mas
Thanks for reading and for consideration,
Take care guys!
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