Best charity for...

cormie

Hi,
My friend has a full set of encyclopaedias he wants to donate to a charity, but he'd prefer to give to one where they would send them off to another country where they'd be needed most as he feels with the internet and everything being so widely available here, they could be put to better use elsewhere, so the likes of a charity shop wouldn't be the best option he thinks.

Can anyone recommend where he could give them that they'd be put to good use by people who would need them most?

Any feedback appreciated, sorry, couldn't think of the best place to ask this

Genghiz Cohen

Food > The definition of food.

Give em to a charty shop so they can send supplies to starving kids.

Daftendirekt

Maybe he could give them to an old folks' home or something? I'm sure there're plenty of older people who don't know how to use the web to search for info.

Best I can come up with at the moment anyway :pac:

Karoma

I doubt any charity will send a full set of encyclopedias overseas - too heavy and too big.
Donate to Oxfam? They sell quite a few books (In particular, the shop in Temple Bar) and would send money over.

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Akinoe

(African Kids In Need Of Encyclopaedias)

Sherifu

Ebay them, donate the proceeds.

Run_to_da_hills

Daftendirekt wrote: »

Maybe he could give them to an old folks' home or something? I'm sure there're plenty of older people who don't know how to use the web to search for info.

Best I can come up with at the moment anyway :pac:

Agree drop them down to an old folks home. Encyclopedias are now useless, old fashioned and an out dated form of reference since the development of on line browsing and Wikipedia. Most old folks homes do not have broadband and if they did they would not know how to use it.

Caoimhín

I'll take them.
Im a starving African, lesbian, one legged, Roma mongo. Im in need of charity.

mikemac

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Agree give drop them down to an old folks home.

+1
They will get great use out of them.

Caoimhín

Daftendirekt wrote: »

Maybe he could give them to an old folks' home or something? I'm sure there're plenty of older people who don't know how to use the web to search for info.

Best I can come up with at the moment anyway :pac:

Then you would be left with Encyclopedias that smell of pee and turnips.

Run_to_da_hills

caoibhin wrote: »

Then you would be left with Encyclopedias that smell of pee and turnips.

They can be donated on to the Roma Gypsies after this.

Voodu Child

Organise a sponsored book-eat-athon. People will pay big money to see a guy eat a full set of encyclopedias. You'll raise WAY more money than by just selling them.

Run_to_da_hills

Alternatively encyclopedias make good fire material with the soaring costs of heating fuel some blind elderly folk would be glad of them.

Caoimhín

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

They can be donated on to the Roma Gypsies after this.

Dont get me f*ckin started on them c*nts again.

Bob the Builder

I'm with Sherifu on this one. Ebay and donate the proceedings. Not many African countried or south american countries are english speaking. But they all need money, and money doesn't speak langauges - it buys food.

Capt'n Midnight

I saw a set of encyclopedia briticania 1983 IIRC for sale in a charity shop.

it was €20

The Army took over schoolbooks and stuff to Liberia a while back , maybe they will do so again.

If they are pristine and recent give Oxfam a call as they tend to charge more. Or check with a local school if they want them.

cormie

Thanks for the suggestions folks, will show him the thread!

flanum

i wonder how heavy they are? have you honestly given any thought to how much air-fuel it would cost to transport these out-dated mis-informed tomes abroad?

its people like you make me sick!

Capt'n Midnight

Air transport of food is a complete waste except in some rare circumstances. Like when Cambodia was a no go area. Even our government recognised Democratic Kampuchea instead of the Vietnamese puppet state, showing like Iraq has more recently that you can do whatever you want within your own boarders as long as you don't upset the international status quo.

As a very rough rule of thumb the payload and fuel in an aircraft weigh the same.

Fuel capacity (older model)
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-130.htm
Maximum Useable Fuel: 60,000 Pounds
Maximum Allowable Cabin Load: 36,000 Pounds

this is even worse
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2006/08/airlift-basics.html

Additionally, when carrying payloads greater than 36,500 pounds, a C-130 must land with at least 6,000 pounds of fuel in the wing tanks in order to reduce stress on the wing attachment points. The heavier the payload, the greater the amount of reserved wing fuel, resulting in a corresponding decrease in aircraft range. When carrying a payload of 40,000 pounds, the C-130 must retain 19,400 pounds in the wing tanks for stress relief. This fuel must remain in the wing tanks until the cargo has been offloaded.

an armoured E/H Hercules carrying a 42,000 pound payload can travel only 60 nautical miles.

Ruel consumption is 667 gallons per hour, even if Canadians use US gallons it's a lot of fuel

max cargo weight in a C130 is 21 tons and that will shorten it's life a lot due to the extra stress. It's one truck load.

I don't think there is any problem buying a truck load of ordinary food ( rice / wheat / potatoes ) in any country that isn't in the middle of a civil war for less than the cost of flying it in.