Dear Magicians,



Many of you on the Café know Vlad (Vlad_77). He is in danger of losing his magic library, which is very important to him and which he has built up over many years. Rachmaninov, another Café member, initiated a process whereby people can contribute money to help ship his library to the U. S. I'm copying below what Rachmaninov wrote on the GoFundMe site. We need a total of 2,000 euros and currently have 800. But an anonymous donor is matching contributions dollar per dollar, so we're actually quite close to our goal. Here's the link to where you can make contributions:


https://www.gofundme.com/save-vlad-library




You can read more details on the thread "Save Vlad's Magic Library" in the Worker's section. Vlad has helped so many of us, and now he needs our help -- please think about contributing.


Best Regards,



Bob




From Rachmaninov:


"Most of you here on the café forum know Vlad. He is a talented and very knowledgeable magician, specialized in card magic.
Unfortunately, he is now in a bad personal situation. He was living in the Netherlands and he had to leave very quickly and return to the US, without any of his magical stuff. He is trying to recover his belongings now. At this time, his resources are very limited, and he is so desperate that he was about to abandon his library, which would be dumped in the garbage.
We, as a community, just can’t let this happen nor take the risk that all his books would be lost !
There are more that 67 000 members on the café. Several thousands are reading the different threads posted there daily. If each of them give one minute of his/her time and a few dollars of his/her money, we could save our fellow member’s life’s collection and do a great service to someone who’s really down on his luck."