I got this in my inbox recently and I thought it will be helpful to those in Jordan. I do not have contact info so try the website in the poster or go to the event on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=54389778063
Souq Gaza on Sat 17th from 10am – 3pm.
Souq for Gaza: People have been calling and asking
How they can help and what they can donate?
So here’s an initial response
First, it’s easiest to start with what will NOT sell
Please do NOT donate clothes / shoes / blankets etc we cannot handle it at the souq
What will sell, what should you donate?
The best GUIDELINE is: Would YOU buy it? Would someone you know buy it?
After discussions here’s a list of things we think might sell and that YOU might donate We will group them to sell:
· Unwanted gifts / Handcrafts (JD5 upwards)
· Books: recent, interesting (JD2 upwards)
· Movies / Music CDs DVDs ¡V but NOT pirated please
· Food: Bottles / tins /jars / packets (eg local olive oil) (JD3 upwards )
· Cakes, cookies ¡V homemade for our coffee shop
· Household goods / used but still desirable: pots, dishes, pans, vases, framed pictures, lamps
We will try to get the most money possible for your item. So give us a guideline price. At the end of the day, whatever is not sold, we will sort and decide: what to keep for the next sale (there will be a re-launch of souq soon we hope) and what to hand over to Entity Green Training for recycling.
Tasks you can take on
- Walking round the souq collecting money in buckets
- Running the raffle / tombola
- Helping us pack up the souq at the end of the day (3:00- 4.30)
- Organizing your friends and YOU run a stall
Institutions
If you work for an institution, then please mobilize ¡V you have huge networks of influence. Get you staff to run a stall: treat it as a team-building, management training exercise.
“How you spend your money is how you vote on what exists in the world.”
January 15, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Sally ya batta,is the actual souq running on saterday 10 to 3 , willa the donations being gathered and selling process will be at another day? I aint got facebook..deactivated a long time ago “what do you mean you’re not surprised! its facebook fault I can’t select who sees what on my wall thing.”
Just 5 min ago I saw on tv a big yard filled with blankets,big bags of similar items etc, and I thought..yeah thats what we’re good at, then I contradict myself and think doing something is better than doing nothing at all.
If there is any program on how to deal with our mental head,complying all events,views and numbers that we see daily,and that would reduce the fire coming out of our noses with every breathe we take, plz count me in on 1st row.
January 16, 2009 at 8:33 am
Hey … the souq is from 10 -3:00 come and buy and participate. The performances start at 12:00.
The best way for me to deal with all this has been to go out to the Aramex warehouse and help pack stuff up for GAZA. Did you know that they need on a daily basis 420 containers yet only 50 containers a day are going?… so come help pack… its evry day until the stuff runs out. More info on the 7iber.com blog.