[Jewelry making - Article 00998] - [Orchid] A Fellow Orchidian needs urgent support

[Barbara O'Neill]

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    Dear Hanuman et al, 

    My mother, Barbara O'Neill, email:  bon AT bongems.com has been a
    member of Ganoksin for some time and has always talked about how
    helpful the website, newsletter and you have been to her. 

    Well, now something terrible has happened to her.  Her husband of
    seven years, not my father, beat her so badly that she lost all the
    sight in one eye and the other is not very good.  He also broke her
    hands.   She was a jeweler and gemstone maker; so you can easily
    imagine what this has done to her ability to work. 

    The reason I'm writing to you is to ask you, if you think it would
    be  appropriate, to mention this in your newsletter and that a
    relief fund has been setup for her at paypal.  She ran away from her
    husband and is hiding from him, but she has a lot of healing to do
    and no income whatsoever.  I'm still a student at college, I have no
    way of helping her and I am dying from the sadness and cruelty of
    what happened to my mother. 

    If anyone would want to contribute even a dollar or two it would
    help; she has nothing.  She brought her jewelry tools with her when
    she ran  away, but it will be at least a month before she can even
    try to work  again; and with her eyes and her hands the way they
    are, who knows?  I do know my mother, however, and if there is any
    way at all that she can keep on with her work; she will do it. 

    She needs help badly.  Do you think you could put this in your
    newsletter?  And if anyone wanted to contribute, they could send it
    to paypal, to the email address:  alejandra AT bongems.com.  This is an 
    account of my mother's, she would be so amazed to see that somebody
    cares.  She is spunky, but it is so hard for her I can't stand it. 

    Thank you very much for considering this. 

Sincerely,  
Rebecca Ladd
Barbara O'Neill's daughter

 
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