eBay provides fundraising opportunity for Tsunami victims

Posted by irishg on March 1st, 2005 at 12:15am

The BBC website reports that in an effort to provide income for local Thais who lost their livelihoods in the Asian Tsunami, a volunteer group has started selling local handicrafts, such as baskets, on eBay.

The baskets are selling for several times more than they might if they were sold by more traditional methods - by hawkers on the beach, for instance.

“These are simple products but there are over 100 million buyers on eBay who want to help in some way,” Robert Holme, one of the American volunteers helping to run the project, said.

Read the full story here.

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