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Polybags For Refugees In Germany
We are all sadly aware of the humanitarian crisis sweeping through Europe at the moment. I've been thinking for the past week if there was something we can do with Fairy Bricks to help. A large concern about anything we could send would it be reaching the correct people. We wouldn't want a situation where 80% of anything we sent was to go "missing"
Thankfully one of the members of 1000steine.de a German LEGO User Group has agreed to hand deliver any polybags we can send from here so they end up being played with by children. These people have far more pressing concerns than LEGO, we all know that but surely the children having a wee polybag to play with can only help.
So if you have any spare ones from promotions laid there doing nothing then please consider donating them to this effort. They can be mailed to Fairy Bricks HQ before being bundled together and sent to their final destination. If you're outside of the UK and would prefer to mail them directly to our German contact then that can also be arranged. Our UK mailing address is
Fairy Bricks
26 Ravens Avenue
Huddersfield
HD5 8BD
Thanks for reading :-)
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Excellent cause and like you say it won't solve the crisis but those poor kiddies deserve to still be children and have some toys to play with.
I will be in Hamburg in October so could deliver some if the contact is near there.
im sure I have a few spare too
dave
Maybe someone from Hamburg could deliver the ones MeganL takes over in October from the US. That way there would be little spent on postage.
I hadn't thought of mailing them when I was in Germany, though that's a great idea. @legogal I live in the Bay Area. Plans are in flux but I'll be leaving either October 6 or 13. Actually if I leave on the earlier date I'll be in England first, and I can mail them to the Fairy Bricks address.
@Greendude as a Charity, Fairy Bricks never distributes cash, always LEGO. Our core work of hospital deliveries is based around £800rrp of sets per hospital. We aim to spend no more than £400 in achieving that. With the other things hospital staff have to do there is no way they could achieve such discounts if we gave them the cash.
With this particular appeal we felt there was a need to move quickly and polys are an ideal small portable plaything. 500 are already on their way to Germany with hopefully more to follow later this week.
In principle though I like your idea about a months allowance. I wonder how many members have a budget like that? A month with no buying could be an interesting discussion topic!
Bob
Also, these are being delivered to refugees in hospitals?
Over 600 polys have been dispatched to Germany. 100 or so have arrived and I added 400 from Fairy Bricks stock. In addition @caperberry threw in 100 and collected more from the London AFOL meet up. Thanks to everyone who has contributed.
They have all arrived safely and are now being given out to children in refugee camps. When the pictures arrive I'll post them up.
(Obviously, this post has momentarily bumped it... but had the appeal ended is the key question).
And much props and kudos to Fairy Bricks in helping to brighten the day for these refugee kids. Their appreciation and gratitude for this warm welcome will stay and grow with them over the coming years. Great job FB team!
Maybe buy some small creative boxes, as they are low priced in Amazon.de right now. Is there a German AFOL who could coordinate this? Jorg?
i have about 20-25 from my collection ready to go. Let me know if anyone wants to get involved. :)