Dear Jan,

Thank you very much for your message.

You can send the stove to our address:

Elena Galitsyna,
Kirowa Ulitsa 25 - 54,
Kaluga 248000,
Russia.

If you prefer to help with some money, please let me know and I will write you how you can send it safely.

Elena.



----- Original Message -----
From: ********
To: Elena
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 6:02 PM
Subject: RE: Aw:



hi!

maybe i can send you the stove. otherwise i will give you money. what is your adress if i send the stove. otherwise, how do i send the money to you?

best regards,
jan

From: elenafg@mailrus.ru
To: *********
Subject: Re: Aw:
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:18:23 +0300

Dear Jan,

Thank you very much for your message.

We live in the central region of Russia, what is approxim. 170km to south-west from Moscow.

I think that it can be very expensive to organize transport of the stove to our country. The weight of portable stove is between 50-200kg (they are different).
Besides, the Russian customs can oblige us to pay the customs duties for this stove, which can also be very expensive.

I would be very grateful to you if you can help us to buy the portable stove which gives heat with burning wood. We have a lot of wood in our region and this stove will heat our home during the whole winter
with minimal charges. I will install the stove in our sleeping room, connect it with the smoke tube and put this smoke tube out of the window not to have the smoke inside of the room.
The price of this stove in our local market is 6900.- Russian Roubles (equivalent of 192 Euros) and we cannot afford it.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Elena.

----- Original Message -----
From: ******
To: elenafg@mailrus.ru
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 9:51 PM
Subject: RE: Aw:


hi!

your story touched my heart. i hope i can help you. maybe i can buy you a small stove and let it ship to you.
hope to year from you.

best regards,
jan

From: elenafg@mailrus.ru
To: ******
Subject: Aw:
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:24:31 +0100

Hi,

My name is Elena, I have 30-years and I live in small city in Russian province.

I have a 6-years daughter, her father abandoned us and we live with my mother. Recently my mother lost job due to old age and our situation became very difficult.

The prices for gas and electricity became very high in the last months and we cannot use it to heat our home anymore.

The winter is coming and temperature is very cold here already. The radio say it will be till minus 30 degrees in the near weeks. We do not know what to do and we very afraid.

The only way for us to heat our home is to use portable wood burning stove which gives heat with burning wood or coal. We have a lot of wood in our region, therefore this way is very good for us
and it will heat our home the whole winter with minimal charges.

I work in library and after my job I allowed to use computer. I finded your address in internet and may be you can help us.

We need portable stove, but we cannot buy it because it expensive for us. May be you have any used wood burning stove which you don't use anymore, then we would be very grateful to you if you can donate it to us and organize transport of its to our address. This stoves are different, and they weight between 60-150kg.

The Christmas coming and I would be very grateful to you if you could send some sweets for my daughter. I will then put them under Christmas tree and it will make my daughter very happy.

I hope to hear from you soon.

Elena.