We are in busy-ness!!!

I had a great summer festival tour, and lately, Mr. Funbags has been selling hammocks on the boardwalk at home in Saint John when cruise ships are in harbor. Yesterday, Queen Mary, one of the largest ships in the world came to visit. I didn't sell any hammocks, but one of the tourists I met, Joe, works for CVS Pharmacy and donates drugs to those in need all over the world. He gave me his contact info to talk more about sending meds to Uganda and Mexico.

Sterling Rope company donated a pallet of webbing for the project, which could be worth as much as $30,000 and tonight I got this email from Grace at Life in Africa in Uganda.... so we are in busy-ness!!!



Hi Cory,

Hope you are still doing well. I am sure now we are ready to go on from there..

We have been discussing with Evvy and Christina the possibility of doing the hammocks here in Kampala since for now it's Kampala who is the custody of everything from Gulu including the sewing machines. We have hope that if you do agree with our idea , then we shall bring Santa down to Kampala to help the ladies here get started. Our main concern though is how to get the hammocks to you when they are ready, because my fear is that we may not get somebody to take them back and we may get stuck with them. I was of the opinion that if we could get some provision for shipping them, then this would be more reliable, this is just an idea, you possibly may be having something different.

Thanks Cory so much for your continuous assistance towards our cause.Hope we shall continue to work together for the betterment of more people's lives.

I am working on the info about the boy you are sponsoring, and I will be in Gulu hopefully next week and get you all the details.

Thanks Cory,
Grace

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from Ben Koot:

Hi Cory,

As to the excess baggage & cargo space idea, if we come up with a clear picture we can contact my friend Thomas Steinmetz.at http://www.eturbonews.com/ and explain your ideas. thomas@etn.travel eTurbonews http://eturbopr.com/about/ has close ties with development initiatives, UN and others and has a readership of over 500.000 travel trade professionals and journalists. All we need to do is draft one good press release and publish it on this network which should basically solve the distribution issue.

Can we work on that together? You know the local conditions and you have a clear picture. I have a vision to set up a distribution platform for more than just hammocks (the VT box Norman told you about. This has the potential to be turned into a real valuable distribution concept


Cheers
Ben Koot