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Привет, родные мои. Это по-прежнему ljpromo, могу показать пруфлинк.
Я завел аккаунт ljfund для сбора средств в пользу пострадавших от наводнения на Кубани.
Пожертвования принимаются только в жетонах живого журнала, которые впоследствии будут сконвертированы в рубли или Яндекс-деньги и переданы достойным доверия фондам (тема обсуждается здесь).
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Всего нам удалось собрать 140458 жетонов (или $1404,58)
На данный момент прием жетонов закончен.
Буду очень благодарен за перепост, а лучше ссылку на эту запись.
Давайте попробуем сделать что-нибудь хорошее.

upd. Координация по сбору помощи для пострадавших.
Большую часть средств уже потратили. Вот отчет о расходах.
Второй отчет о расходах.
Для пользователей некириллического сегмента ЖЖ появилась версия этой записи на английском. Спасибо за помошь med_cat.

From a 1901 article in the Strand by Arthur Conan Doyle, entitled "Strange Studies From Life":

'In the study of criminal psychology, one is forced to the conclusion that the most dangerous of all types of mind is that of the inordinately selfish man. He is a man who has lost all sense of proportion. His own will and his own interest have blotted out for him the duty which he owes to the community...The player who makes the mistake of selfishness may have a terrible forfeit to pay--but the unaccountable thing in the rules is that some, who are only spectators of his game, may have to help him in the paying."

Dear all,

As you may have heard, the Krasnodar region, in southern Russia, got severely flash-flooded on July 7. Over 170 people got killed, with hundreds more injured, and many thousands lost their homes or sustained severe damage to them. You can see the photos and video HERE and read more about it in this article from Reuters and this article from The Washington Post

It is better to do at least something, rather than to do nothing. ljpromo, which promotes top posts in the Russian-language part of LJ, decided to do something about it. They opened a separate LJ account--ljfund--for collecting money to help the people in that region via LJ tokens.

So, if you have some LJ tokens to spare--please consider gifting them to ljfund; every little bit helps!

Why collect money in LJ tokens? Well, first of all,  practically everybody on LJ is familiar with the LJ tokens; and second, several other people are already collecting money via Yandex money and bank transfers.

The separate account ljfund was opened for easier tracking of the tokens and also so that it could easily be checked by others.  After the tokens are collected, they will be changed to actual money and the money will be sent to help those in the area or used to buy supplies for them; details are being actively worked out at this point.

Please donate tokens if you can and repost this if you can; let's spread the word.

P.S. EDIT (7/10, 9 pm): more than 50,000 tokens ($500) have been collected during the first day of this effort and the money has been sent via Yandex money to a group coordinating the volunteer help efforts in Krasnodar.

P.P.S. Update (7/11, 8:20 am: 30,000 more tokens ($300) have been collected and are being used to buy supplies of which there is a shortage: canned food, saws, mosquito repellent, and rubber boots.