Lifeline Canberra has raised approximately 500K from donations this past week - ABC interview
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abc.net.auPosted Feb 14, 2022, 12:03 AM UTC
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abc.net.auI‘d like them to hold the book fair asap as well,
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Over $700K according the the Cbr Times…
Donations to Lifeline Canberra have now exceeded $700,000 after support began pouring in on Friday in the wake of the decision to cancel the annual book fair fundraiser on the weekend.
The chief executive officer of Lifeline ACT, Carrie-Ann Leeson, said she
was overwhelmed by the public response, which began spontaneously after
the fundraiser had to be cancelled due to the possibility of potentially unsafe conditions for volunteers and visitors.Late last week the books, CDs and other goods had been trucked into two
pavilions in readiness for the fair . But as the number of anti-vax and
"freedom" protesters inside Exhibition Park grew into the thousands and
protective fences meant to separate the campers from the bookfair
patrons were torn down, a decision was made to call a halt.On the weekend, all the bookfair materials were put back in boxes, placed
on pallets and trucked out again, then re-distributed around the
Lifeline distribution locations, including Book Lovers Lane at the
Fyshwick markets. Ms Leeson described the cash donations as "an incredible outpouring of community support"."The books are safe and in their various locations today [Monday] and the
volunteers are not on site because that's when Exhibition Park is being
emptied in readiness for the [Royal Canberra] Show," she said."We're going to pay it [the community support] forward and we are now going to
send them [the donated books] out to other charities and organisations."For instance, we have just organised with Rotary to get a whole pallet of
picture books across to school children in Papua New Guinea."As we hear from other charities, communities and schools that missed out
on books because the bookfair was closed but need them [the books] for
educational purposes, we are arranging to get books out to them, too."She said that it was not Lifeline's intention to raise this much money
through an online appeal "but the community had different plans for us"."We were devastated but now we're just so grateful," she said."We are now so close to exceeding what we might have otherwise have raised [from the bookfair]."
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Warms ya bloody heart, I’m pretty proud to have been a part of it here and on Twitter, and all of us here who did our bit. Really glad to hear how much of a positive Lifeline are turning this into.
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Over 1.6 million according to the cookers
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I've never been to a book fair but I'm now compelled to go and check it out when it's next on.
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You won't be disappointed. I moved here from Sydney, and didn't get the hype until I went. If you get in early, it truly is mind blowing what they have on hand and the pure scale of the fair.
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Recently got into vinyl so excited for that
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Yes, likewise. Good stuff goes quick, and that's particularly true of vinyl (records not pants for clarity).
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Just donated what I could afford. Really glad this is happening.
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not to bring this mood down but want to drive home how bad the protesters were.
without the protesting they were expecting to raise close to 1 million this weekend!
so the magic claim that the protests attracted more donations is hogswash and they still sadly taken a loss thanks to it.
Hopefully they'll run the fair after the show (or during).
i really hope so. book faire is awesome even without the charity side.
Ooh someone should propose this to the show organisers. My kids are too old for showbags but a book pavilion might be just the thing!
If your mental health can handle it, please try to report or stomp out any bs comments on social media. They're still going..
Biggest help would be to flag or correct any 'independent' fundraising efforts via gofundme etc. There's reports of different fundraisers, so point them back to the official channel rather than falling for a grift.
if only 1% of vax injuries are ever reported how do they know the 99% even occured?
i love anti vax logic rofl.
It's based off some cooker cherry picking of studies from 10 years ago relating to VAERS.
Example: https://imgur.com/7bZev3V.jpg
Meanwhile, they completely ignore other efforts to mitigate under-reporting, or more 'organic' ways to capture reports. Like this: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/pdfs/v-safe-information-sheet-508c.pdf
We have similar efforts in Australia (through vaxtracker). I was sent surveys at 72hrs and a follow up at 7 days.
They also refuse to apply the same logic of under-reporting when comparing to the 'much safer traditional vaccines' (never thought I'd hear that statement in relation to MMR jabs!). Or accept the possibility that greater awareness of adverse event reporting means more reports made compared to those in the past.
Given that some registers accept reports from the general public, there's no guarantee they're legit or even related.
exactly. but they don't care about stats and context if it doesn't fit their narrative. big gub man bad!
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