I’m in Sydney and at present the answer is nothing at present. There are charities such as the Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul and the Red Cross who are actively supplying those worse affected with the essentials. As the crisis extends we do not know how many people will be affected and how many will lose everything. Most of us are staying at home and out of the way. If you want to help now make a donation to those charities. They are also helping to feed the rural fire fighters the vast bulk of whom are volunteers. Yes you read correctly Australia runs on the goodwill of its population. Our rural firefighters have regular jobs and are people like you and me who choose to spend their weekends training to fight bushfires in their areas.
We are all checking with each other. But the fire threat is still very real for so many parts of the South and East coasts. I suspect that Western Australia and South Australia are also being impacted as well. Having said this once the fires are out, perhaps later this month we shall know the impacts and I suspect there will be appeals for very specific things. I know the areas that have been burnt have lacemakers and there are small craft supply shops etc. So please keep us all in your thoughts, And please wait until our Lace Guild starts it’s appeal. Thank you for your concerns Anna in a hot Sydney where we have has smoke in the air for the last month. Sent from my iPad > On 4 Jan 2020, at 5:16 am, sylvie nguyen <sylvieroyngu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Being greatly concerned about people and animals in Australia, can someone > please suggest ways of helping? > Thank you, > Sylvie > norther Illinois, USA > > - > To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: > unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to > arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
