Senay Ocakci Gunisik restaurant

[paulmandy]

SMALL PRINT:
Please note that JustGiving will take money pledged from your account on/around 7th December.

The total is transferred to me in £s (how much will that be in another 2 weeks?)

I transfer all the money to Senay (to a Western Union, Fethiye, office). 

Senay picks up the cash YTL (lira).

(I think we might even have enough for a "go faster stripe" for their car!)

Any questions - please ask.  Thank you again.

[Jacqui Harvey]

If anyone has any money left to donate, they might like to go over to Higlander's Advent Calendar on this Forum, which is to help local underpriveleged children, who really need help   He has a few numbers left so please help....

[CleopatrasAsp]

Go with your conscience.....so many good causes needing help at this time. 3C's. Embrace, Fig, Animal Aid.........all these charities, need help from all who can afford to donate

[paulmandy]

Thank you all for your patience. With just two days to go - Kev/Lesley take the total to £1,792.00.

Do you remember the mashed-up car and driver? Here is picture - attached, I hope - of what has been happening

So ... The 30 day fundraising ends on Tuesday ... Then  a week this Friday, JustGiving release the money ... And - assuming that each pledge is successfully collected - Senay, Nuran and their family pick-up YTL 7,755 (at todays Western Union rate) from the Western Union Fethiye office on Friday 20th December.

Is that a "Christmas present" or is that a "Christmas present"?  Thank you all so much - confirmation and further updates as the "process" ticks through the closing stages.

http://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/senay-nuran

[Highlander]

Go with your conscience.....so many good causes needing help at this time. 3C's. Embrace, Fig, Animal Aid.........all these charities, need help from all who can afford to donate

I agree - if there was any money left over from the money raised, could it be distributed amongst local charities.   

[Toky]

Paulmandy, well done for achieving the total you had hoped for.  Hope Senay's head injury is getting better by the day and that he will be back to full health very soon. He and Nuran will be overjoyed at everyone's generosity. Mutlu Noeller to them from Rosemary & Robin

[paulmandy]

Well – how did the story end?

You raised £1802.00 in under 30 days.  All of the £1,802.00 was collected by JustGiving.  Thank you.  And all of the £1,802.00 was transferred to Senay and Nuran (via Western Union).

Yesterday they collected YTL 8,068 from Western Union, Fethiye.

That clears the cost of rebuilding their car, also covers some hospital bills along the way, and sounds like (from talking to him this morning) he is spending anything left over on his mobile phone calling as many of us as he can get hold of.

Then – the icing on the cake – he was really excited about fishing again.  Which means family bbqs.  Which means life is returning to normal. And that is just perfect!

And each of you helped make this happen so wonderfully.

Thank you!

Paul (with a lot of help from so many - including being allowed to hog this thread on the forum!)   

[spo6666]

very well done