Toy info

[heidi]

Sorry I fell asleep way too early Tuesday and didn't manage to post this beforehand - so, crossposted from rubydebrazier's lj, re toys:

Toys for Sick Kids
Ali [(ali_wildgoose)] is keeping me company tonight and has graciously offered to have toys sent to her at work where the door guy can sign for them and I can pick them up and take them to the Hospital.

I cannot express how amazingly cool it is that you are sending toys. There are not too many reasons why a child would have to stay in the hospital over Christmas and all of them suck. These are the kids who are just too sick for us to send home and some of them have family situations that (for a variety of sucky reasons) they cannot in good conscience be sent home to endure.

Your toys are really going to make them (and me, and everyone involved at the hospital) very happy.

So, here are the rules:

Toys are for children ages 6 months to 16 years.
Toys should be new, because we don't want them to feel like they got second-hand toys, no matter how cool your vintage toys are, they should be still in the box.
Toys should not be wrapped because we are trying to give each child what they would want and that is hard if we cannot tell what the toy is.
Finally, the deadline for toys is DECEMBER 16!
December 16 or the hospital will not have enough time to get them sorted and wrapped and ready not just for Christmas but also for Channukah, which ends a little bit earlier.

Any questions please let me know [nore from heidi - post a q on her lj at rubydebrazier] and will answer them
in the comments [there].

Here is the address:

Ruby
c/o Curious Pictures
6th floor
440 Lafayette Street
NY, NY 10003

Some of you may remember Ali as the originator of Diagon Alley: the website wayback in 2000 or 2001 - she also coordinated the first fandom-wide letters to jkr project back in 2003.

If you want to send money instead of toys, I need it by the 14th, so I can fedex a check by the 16th. Same PO box, and here's the PayPal info:

I can answer questions about $ donations, but not about toys - those should go to ruby's lj. And I'm still trying to find out if my account can get wires from anywhere but the US or Canada...

Comments

[tobymalfoy.livejournal.com]

Heidi, you rock so much for doing all this.

And I'm still trying to find out if my account can get wires from anywhere but the US or Canada...
German paypal users can fund their payments from their bank account through a wire transfer free of charge. And if you can get your International Bank Account Number (IBAN) from your bank, everyone should be able to send you wires directly from pretty much everywhere. Those would be quite expensive, though. IIRC, it costs at least 10€ from Germany. There even could be another fee on your side of things. -.-
In both cases, it would probably take at least 8 days to reach your accounts, which would be after the deadline :(

Expect another 5er from me when you post the updated paypal button. >:D

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Toby, thanks so much! :blushes:

Come back to the post! I've added the new button!

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if this would work because Im not sure any of the kids would have a playstation 2, but I have a few games that I have beaten and dont play anymore that I was thinking of sending. Would that work?