Davide Cassenti

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Archive for August, 2008

Donations for Georgia

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Money I collect throught PayPal will be sent to the fund of Bank of Georgia.
You may donate directly there or using your credit card (see details below). Thank you in advance!

After 5 days of fighting, situation in Georgia seems slowly coming back to normality: everywhere you can find news and photos about the war began on August, 8th 2008, while the Olympic flame was burning in Beijing sky. Georgia, South Ossetia or Russia: we must don’t care who is the guilty here, because the only victims are the people in the towns; the people who lost everything, their houses, their relatives, their friends, just because of someone else who wanted this fights.

A friend of me, georgian, told me: “I don’t care about Ossetia and Abkhazia: I just want my friends to come back safe„ and this is and was the thought of everyone there, who was helplessly watching and hearing news, without knowing exactly what was going on and how the situation would have evolved.

Those people lived in South Ossetia and in other regions of Georgia, mainly in the cities of Tskhinvali and Gori, that have been destroyed and all evacuated: actually more than 21.000 people have lost everything and live in refugee camps; and no one of them is responsible for what is happened: Salvador Dalì said that “Wars have never hurt anybody, except the people who die„.

Georgia is a great country, with a great history, which has always been in fighting to defend its territory and its ancient traditions; it is a place that you must visit once in your life, you will never regret this and you probably, as happened to me, would like much to come back. Those people need help: I decided to write this page hoping I could do something for them; I cannot stop the war, I cannot repair what has been destroyed these days: but I can help people to return to their normal lives, step by step, by donating them something.

Donate

Bank of Georgia (http://www.bog.ge) has a fund for victims in South Ossethia; here are the details to make donations:

For transfers in US$

Beneficiary Bank

Citibank N.A., New York, US
Swift: CITIUS33

Beneficiary

Bank of Georgia, SWIFT: BAGAGE22
3 Pushkin Street, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
Corr.Account: 36204072

Details of Payment

Account: 45118404300400000030
For the Fund to Support the Victims of South Ossetia

For transfers in EUR

Beneficiary Bank

Commerzbank, Frankfurt, Germany
Swift: COBADEFF

Beneficiary

Bank of Georgia, SWIFT: BAGAGE22
3 Pushkin Street, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
Corr. Account: 400 88 81 054 01EUR

Details of Payment

Account: 45119784300400000005
For the Fund to Support the Victims of South Ossetia

For transfers in GBP

Beneficiary Bank

JP Morgan Chase Bank, London, UK
SWIFT: CHASGB2L

Beneficiary

Bank of Georgia, SWIFT: BAGAGE22
3 Pushkin Street, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia

Details of Payment

Account: 45118264300400000006
For the Fund to Support the Victims of South Ossetia

Donate using your credit card

I have prepared an email account for donations through PayPal: you can donate something for those poor georgians and ossetian by clicking the button below. I will update the page day by day, writing the amout of donations I will receive; and I hope they will be many. The money I will collect will be sent to Georgia to give people an hope for their future. Please, donate at least 1 €, as PayPal will charge 0.35 € and 3.4% for each donation: the rest of the money will be entirely sent there.


Donate in €	Donate in $	Donate in £

If you want to help but do not have PayPal, or cannot use it for any reason, please send me an email to donategeorgia@cassenti.net.

Share it!

You may also help by sharing this page: I made an image to link it on your website; just copy the follow code on your site’s <body>!

Also, if you want to share this page, you may use this link that points here: http://tinyurl.com/donategeorgia. You may send it by email, IM or post everywhere you like. Thanks for help! გაუმარჯოს საქართველოს (gaumarjos saqartvelos, long life to Georgia).

Donations

Date	Amount
August, 13th 2008	$ 30,00
August, 14th 2008	€ 50,00
August, 17th 2008	€ 20,00
September, 8th 2008	€ 110,00
September, 8th 2008	€ 100,00

Tags: donations, georgia, help, war
Posted in Trips and events | 20 Comments »

Stop Russia’s Unlawful Military Invasion in Georgia

Sunday, August 10, 2008

As we were in the Middle Age, Russian is doing a mad military invasion in Georgia, bombing outside the conflict zone in South Ossetia; they had thrown bombs near Abkhazia, where the conflict could expand, in Poti, where there is an important port on the Black Sea, near Georgia’s capital Tbilisi (pretty far from the conflict zone), in Gori, where civils have been killed by explosions, and in other towns in all the territory.

My friends from Georgia told me there were bombing also near Qutaisi, one of the biggest cities in the country (it is called mamaqalaqi (მამაქალაქი), the father city, while Tbilisi is the dedaqalaqi (დედაქალაქი), the mother city) and in Zugdidi, another town near the Abkhazia region. The situation there is quite dangerous, especially in those areas near the Ossetia (were the battle begun) and Abkhazia: those regions are part of Georgia’s territory, but declared themselves indipendent after the U.S.S.R. dissolution in 1991.

The fights begun on August, 8th, while in China the Olympic Games were going to begin: everything started in South Ossetia, but Russians moved the conflict outside that zone and Georgia is actually in state of war. Are they mad? I thought we were in 2008 and we could solve such situations without using weapons, and especially without needs to kill civils and move fights outside the conflict areas; maybe not everyone is thinking as me.

U.S.A. president Bush said United States are concerned about what is happening and that Georgia’s territorial integrity must be respected. There is an online petition to help this little, wonderful country: maybe it is not such useful, but by signing it we may show something. Also before it is too late and the war could expand in other areas or in other countries.

Sign for Georgia: http://tinyurl.com/sign4georgia (Actually people have signed the petition)

This photo has been taken in Georgia these days: but are we back in 1945?

Thank you all

Tags: georgia, help, war
Posted in Trips and events | 2 Comments »

Bees invasion

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Morning, about 10am: I went out with my family for some business, not last going to the McDonald’s; we came back at midday and, once entered with the car with our car, my father said: “wait, don’t leave the car!„. That sounded strange, until I looked out the window: the house just in front of ours was full of bees; hundreds, thoudsands of bees. It was really something amazing to watch and to hear, never seen such a huge number of those insects all together: they were so many that it looked like there was a big honeycomb on the wall, but it was just an enormous group of bees. The strangest thing is that after couple of hours they flied away, disappeared as they’ve never been there: simply amazing.

As usual, images and videos talk better; and as usual, you may click on the photo to see it bigger.