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Dear Friend,

My name is Valentin. I'm student and I live with my mother in city Kaluga, Russia, that is 200km from Moscow. My mother is invalid. She cannot see and shereceive a very small pension from goverment which is not enought even formedications and food.

I work very hard every day to be able to buy the necessities for my mother, but my salary is very small, because my studies still not finished.

Due to the deep crisis authorities stoped gas supply in our district and now we cannot heat our home, because our home-heater works with gas. I don't know what to do, because the weather will be very cold in the next months and the temperature outside can be lower than minus 45 degrees Celsius, as it was in thelast winter.

I am afraid that the temperature inside our home can be very cold and we willnot be able to survive.

I'm very worry and I don't know what I can do in this situation. I collected several e-mail addresses and thanks to the free internet possibility in our local library I decided to appeal to you with a prayer in my heart for a smallhelp. If you have any old sleeping bag, warm blanket, portable stove, warmclothes and shoes, electric water-boiler, canned and dried food, vitamins,medicines from cold (aspirin, paracetamol), any hygiene-products, I will be very grateful to you if you could urgently send it to our postal address which is:

Valentin Mikhailine,
Ryleewa Ulitsa, 6-45.
Kaluga. 248030,
Russia.

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