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From: "E.C.Gonsalves -Eddie Gonsalves" <E.C.Gonsalves@open.ac.uk>
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Subject: Discs for Bosnia
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 98 14:26:00 GMT
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Hi folks

I'm not sure of the extent to which the list allows such requests, but it 
seems to me that this can only serve the sport favorably so hear goes:

There is a small, self-organised, Milton Keynes-based, Bosnian aid group 
that is looking for clothes and toys for a small non-aided village in 
Bosnia, Olovo.

The group's next convoy leaves Milton Keynes (MK) in April, and a couple of 
the drivers are from here at the Open University (the Mad Kows home base). I 
thought that discs would make a perfect item to send for the following 
reasons:

1. Functional- they are light, and easy to pack.
2. Egalitarian and gender free: as gifts the children can't fight over the 
difference between one disc and another, so making it easy for the teachers 
to distribute between all ages and sexes.
3. Simple: I cannot think of a sporting item, or toy, which is more 
uplifting and liberating in character, apart from possibly balls....

If you'd like to donate a disc/s (in new condition, so that the kids don't 
have to fight over newness) then please let me know by e-mail. 
Alternatively, give your disc to a Mad Kow at any of the tournaments we 
shall be at before April. So far these are:

Bristol Indoors (24th-25th Jan) and with Alien Nation at the Student Finals.

If you are going to do this as a team, and contribute a number of discs, 
including a team photo would be great so that we can send it along with the 
discs to the kids for their school archive....

I apologise for taking up your time....hope you can contribute....

ta

eddie (Mad Kow)
e.c.gonsalves@open.ac.uk