From: eab@msc.edu (Edward Bertsch)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: HELP !!!
Date: 2 Sep 92 23:36:29 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Minneapolis, MN

I wouldn't recommend spending your hard currency on shipping goods to this
woman.  If you are going to help out, sending hard currency (dollars,
D-marks, British pounds, Swiss or French Francs...) is probably the
best way (as shipping items could well cost more than she could purchase
the items for, or substitute items).

I'd imagine there are a lot of people in the xUSSR that are in bad
shape right now.

In article <ABspyegmy3@sph.spb.su>, avsht@sph.spb.su (Alexander Shturm) writes:
|>     Dear netters,
|> 
|>     Probably, you are very busy people, but, please, pay attention to
|> this message.
|> 
|>     Please, help alone russian 25-years-old woman with the one-month
|> baby! They need your help very much!
|> 
|>     Believe me, she is very nice, kind and sweetheart person.
|> Unfortunately, the living obstacles doesn't allow her to get if only a
|> bit of happiness. She is really worthy of compassion.
|> You know, this is wild Russia, where every natural human wish is still
|> impossible to realize... And she with baby suffer a lot from that.
|> 
|>     We (her friends) are trying to help her. Unfortunately we are able
|> to provide only spiritual support, but we cannot resolve completely her
|> financial needs.
|> 
|>     She gets only 60% of the minimal level of poverty (this is allowance
|> for the baby). More precisely, she will get them in the future (how
|> soon - only russian bureaucracy knows that). And this money will be for
|> both of them! You can not believe me, but this is the truth: being
|> converted to dollars, this amount of money is $3 (three!!!) per month.
|> It isn't a mistake, the level of poverty in Russia is 900 rubles/month,
|> the rate of exchange now is about 170 r/$, you can calculate yourself...
|> 
|>     I understand that it's impossible to help everybody in former Soviet
|> Union. But this is real chance to help if only one. She needs any help,
|> and you will do it better than we are doing. Any clothes (for her and for
|> baby), any food (the same), essentials of life, everything you want you
|> can send her in usual parcel.
|> 
|>     Since she doesn't correspond to any category of the people getting
|> Western help, she didn't get any humanitarian aid.
|> 
|> Her address:
|>     Priemysheva Elena Viacheslavovna
|>     Budapeshtskaya st., 89-1-13
|>     St.Petersburg, Russia 192283
|> Phone number: 7-812-177-0335  (she doesn't speak English, though)
|> 
|> Thank you for your attention!
|> Any your help will be appreciated very much!
|> 
|> Sincerely yours,
|> Alexander Shturm
|> 
|> 
|> P.S. Please don't answer me to this newsgroup, because I don't read it.
|> 
|> 
|> 

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