Helping aajih re: post 32936

Good idea I am also happy to contribute.

See Ya

Brian B (NT) I just realised there is another Brian B in Qld (Sorry)

You are a good man. Good on ya

Count me in. Lets get the ball rolling

Bware you are brilliant!

Count us in! Just for coming up with a brain storm like that, we may well have to drive down to the Tweed for a days driving in celebration!
Jo

GR8 Idea...we're in and to keep the momentum, awareness is the key to the success of this wonderful idea. Should we contact David from Exploroz and see if he will put a lttle blurb on this site.

Also, someone locally in Sydney might be able to contact some suppliers with the story and hopefully get a business interested in supplying the equipment at cost or slightly over...or donating the labour content of installation???

Anyway, We're sure that there is someone local in Sydney that can do the ground work for us....We're currently in Rockhampton....but only for a week and then we're heading into Central OZ for 2 MONTHS HOLIDAZE so we need to get the ball rolling.

Again GR8 stuff BWARE.

Cheers
Rick & Julie

The 4WD and Camping Show starts this weekend at Rosehill, Sydney. I will be there Monday. I could approach people there. Perhaps a fridge and dual battery might be better than solar panels??????
If anybody is going earlier than Mon, perhaps they might be able to look into it and post any response from suppliers.
Cheers
Brad

Just another thought or 2.....awareness could be instant if David were to do a special NEWS BULLETIN to the membership...also, I just checked the trader section of this web site and there is for sale for $1600.00

"60ltr engel E serries, with cover bag and solar panel all in very good condition can email pictures"

Just thoughts for the Think Tank.

Cheers All
RIck & Julie

My missus thought of this idea the other night, I just wasn't sure how it would be received by the masses... Count me in, why should they miss out on a holiday which may well be the highlight of young child in need of some cheering up...???

Hey all,
Great support and ideas. I've noticed that in the original post by aajih, Trevor R (QLD) has very generously offered a loan of his fridge! Great stuff mate. I guess we now need to find out if that offer is accepted and in the meantime keep the 'pass around the hat' idea going incase they need a power supply?

Just a bit of a thought on this idea - especially with referance to the last line in Bware's post "Perhaps aajih doesn't even want our charity?" It can be hard for people in need to accept charity. This is understandable. Maybe a kit (or 2) of fridge/portable solar panel/thumper battery type set up could be provided by explorer oz (funded by member and visitor donations) can be made available for such circumstances.....

I will gladly donate to Bware's suggestion

Cheers Andrew

What ever way you decide to go, post the outcome of how to contribute.
I want in....

how are things looking? Bware remember to jot down my email addy from the follow up post earlier on mate!

The one problem I have seen with the forum board is that important threads like this and members/visitors get to gether threads can all get pushed to pages two and three very quicky, David have you got a way on the forum where you can 'sticky' particular threads to page one and then they can just be removed when all is over and done with?

I'm in.

Hmmmmmmmm David mighten see what we have posted about having some sticky threads on page one.... I will email him and ask him to find this thread.

At this point there hasn't been the response I'd hoped but that could be for reasons stated above. We'll see what this weekend brings! Anyone interested can contact me by MM or email to jenandbri at optusnet dot com dot au.
A couple of other points:
I've re-read aajih's post and couldn't find mention of travel dates so we don't know what time-frame we have to work with.
Trevor R's offer of loaning his fridge still stands and he will let me know if or when it is accepted by Anne.
There are good ideas in this post; if anyone is willing to take them on feel free to do so ie Loco Locums and Brad's posts about approaching suppliers in Sydney or at the Rosehill show. Even though we don't know what we want yet, the seed could be planted and some sort of commitment offered by a supplier.
Bombsquad's idea of an EO 'loan fridge' set -up has real merit as an on-going project and if it killed two birds with one stone and helped Anne out as well, all the better. And to think there's a fridge and solar panel in the trader section...... (thanks for spotting that Loco Locums)
More on the 'loan fridge' idea; since it would be used by different travellers, what sort of set-up would be most easily transferred from one rig to another? I'm sure we could start another thread with that one ;)

OK the way I see it is we don't know how this will pan out. For all I know, Anne posted the day before she hit the road and there's no way to contact her. Unless she responds to either post we can't do much. If we keep the posts alive until the end of the weekend we will know how many others are interested in helping. I'm working tonight and tomorrow night so keeping the posts at the top of the page during the evenings is up to others :) Let's see what happens....