I need your help! Sincerely, Amber

So – We are nearly ready for The Rescue in 4 days. I have everything we’re going to do planned, and ready to go. Signs and banners are made. All I have left is the translations (see below) and a little bit of shopping to do.

Does anyone have the following items? They’re not essential, but would make things more fun.
- A soundsystem that will play from and Ipod Nano that uses batteries (not plug-in)
- Chalk?
If so, please bring them to the event and let me know ahead of time if you can

I also wrote all of you a letter, because I could really use your help with something that is essential to the success of the event. In order for the event to make any difference, people need to be able to walk away with some idea of how they can help, as I’ve said before. Well, we have fliers that tell them exactly how to do that, but they need to be in Greek to do any good. I have them translated through babelfish (@yahoo), but the translation is very poor. See my plea below:

Dear Everyone,

I am in need of translation editing. Anyone out there who writes in English and Greek, I need a Greek translation edited. I know that the grammar and wording is wrong in the Greek version. I can provide you with a copy of the document in both languages, and I would only need the mistakes in the Greek corrected. Please let me know if you can help me with this, and I will send the files via e-mail.

I think you are the greatest human beings on the planet for coming to rescueinathens.wordpress.com and being interested in this event. Even if you’re hesitant to commit to taking action, you have made an important step in feeding your curiosity, passion and/or interest. Thank you for that.

Yours,

Amber

On another note: Invisible Children is getting ready for the same event back in the U.S. They’ve prepared a new means of getting the word out: Roadtrips across the United States for people unable to go to the Rescue otherwise. Although we can’t participate in this part of the event, what they have to say is inspirational, as always. Here’s what Invisible Children had to say this week, in preparation for the big event:

We at Invisible Children would like to believe we are pretty self-aware. Words like “young”, “idealistic”, “trendy” and “inexperienced” tend to follow us. We don’t mind though, because the one thing they can’t do is ignore us. And when this war is over, history will speak without bias. History will show what a bunch of dedicated, optimistic youth are capable of.

Here’s the gist of it. Since September 2008,

- Joseph Kony’s army has murdered 1,170 civilians.
- The LRA has abducted 476 children.
- The world has yet to respond.
- We’re ready and willing to change that. Now.

Call us what you will, just don’t forget to call us daring. Talk is cheap, and we’re not ones to sleep through a revolution.

We will not return home until every abducted participant in every city across America returns home. We will ride across the nation until we are rescued for the ultimate purpose of raising the banner for the abducted child soldiers. We are the Rescue Riders and you can be one too.

Join us on our most adventurous initiative (EVER).

RESCUE RIDERS. TOGETHER WE’RE FREE.

Click Here to watch the official “Rescue Riders” video the creators of Invisible Children made.