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p2pnet news | P2P:- The KapKids.com project is rolling nicely, the latest news being local people are organizing a committee to make sure funds raised through KapKids.com and other projects are distributed where they’re most needed, and when they’re most needed
We’ve just learned from Palmo that Rajendra and his wife, who’ve been looking after the children 24 hours a day, seven days a week, sleeping where they sleep and eating when they eat, have been doing so without any form of payment whatsoever.
Nothing. Nada.
But now the committee has been formed, Rajendra and Tora are to be paid a salary partially from the kapkids.com donations and partly from other contributions.
We’ve also just learned the villagers themselves provided the land the building is on, which is huge.
In case you’re new to this, the Net is all about caring and sharing, we posted a while back. which is why the three of us from three different countries - Nisha, myself, Jon Newton, born in England but now a Canadian citizen, and Ernesto from Holland - have adopted the Kapan Kids.
The Net makes it possible for the KapKids.com project to be an international effort.
But this isn’t a one-off project. It has three prongs:
- To provide ongoing support of all kinds
- To create a permanent Kapan Resource Centre for the kids, who have to leave the Child Orphanage when they’re 12 and who then either end up on the streets or working
- To help each of these kids to find a caring, sharing home.
$1 isn’t mean much to you. But it’ll mean a heck of a lot to to the KapKids. And of course, any amount, large or small, will be gratefully received.
KapKids Blog
Thanks to Ernesto at Torrentfreak in Holland, Kapan Kids is now blog, meaning you can post comments, make suggestions, and so on.
So bookmark it 
KapKids.com also has two new editors - Yuri (right) and Giovanni.
They’re looking after the new Italian (Giovani) and Spanish pages, and if you’d like to help out be making a page in your language, please get in touch.
Yuri and Giovanni are researchers at the the University of Pavia’s supramolecular laboratory in Italy.
Giovanni is from Milan and Yuri is from Havana, Cuba.
Smokin’ 
And here’s an idea.
Yuri says in Cuba, barter is a favoured form of exchange and when he was last in Havana, he ’sold’ his no-longer-used PC for one box of 25 Cohibas Siglo VI and one of Cohibas Explendidos —- the real deal, and made this year.
Like everyone else in the world, he’s very conscious of the problems associated with smoking anything, even luxury cigars such as these, and he’s been wondering what to do with them.
So he thought he’d donate them to KapKids.com and in case you’re thinking So What? - these are the kind of cigar-lovers pay an arm and a leg for —- if they can even get hold of them.
On the official Online Havana Cigars site, 25 Cohibas Siglo VIs go for $500, and the Cohibas Explendidos are worth $479 for 25.
“The two boxes are in perfect condition, originally sealed, and with all the warranty seals and document that prove they are authentic Cohibas cigars,” says Yuri.
So we’ve decided to use them to start another money-raising project for KapKids.com.
We’re going to auction them off to the highest bidder, the money to be paid by PayPal directly into the KapKids account, or by cheque to the special snail-mail address set up for non-electronic payments.
Either way, the money goes straight into an account here in Canada, accessed solely by Nisha Demers, herself a former Nepali orphan who, in effect, started this whole thing off
With that in mind, maybe you have something at home you’d like to donate? We’re going to open a KapKids.com eBay account and put the items there. Once again, the proceeds will go straight into the KapKids account.
So have a root around and see if there’s anything you no longer want, but which may raise a few bucks.
Yuri says he’s going to pay for any shipping costs for the cigars and maybe you’d be willing to do the same. If that isn’t possible for any reason but you’d still like to contribute, no worries. We’ll work something out
At this point, people around the world have donated $1,151.38 to the KapKids.com.
And all of it, every cent, is going to the kids!
The donations button is immediately below. You know what to do, and if you’d like to help, think about hosting it on your site.
That’s it for now.
Cheers! And thanks. And all the best …
Nisha, Jon & Ernesto
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