DPDO's Susan Burgess-Lent & Tents of Hope shipping update. The difficulties, tangles, time-line, & Susan's photos. You won't complain about packing for a trip again, ever. Look how pretty everything looks in the first photo (from left: Amal, Katie, Mary Ellen, & GG's editor lurking pinkishly inside the tent); then look at the reality at the shipping facility in NJ.Reading about this massive undertaking & the (well-meaning but not helpful ) ways people donate can enlighten us all about future endeavours. [See December's post on the progress of the tents.]
Current ETA for tent delivery to Libya is 6 February 2009. Delivery to Darfur--we're hoping for late February/early March. With last week's bombings, we'd prefer not to think about it. One day at a time.
A good Monday to all. We'll be at AFI in the a.m. to try for free tickets to watch the Inauguration from the grand Deco theatre.Wish us luck.
ciao,
GG's editor
photographs courtesy of Susan Burgess-Lent/DPDO
(top) DPDO tent staff at Tents of Hope, Washington, DC; (bottom) preparing to pack shipping container, Newark