Need help to distribute food to Beirut
A neighbour of ours started collecting food from the local villagers in Pissouri a week ago. She has gathered food worth about €200 so far. To help her out, I pleaded on my YouTube channel yesterday to have my viewers donate, such that we could buy more food down here in Cyprus.
So far (in less than 12 hours) I've had €130 of donations, and I'm expecting the numbers to rise probably to €500-€1.000 during the week. The idea was to buy stuff such as canned food, lentils, rise, etc - Anything that can handle a "rough shipping" to Beirut. However, now the company that promised to ship the food to Beirut has backed out, and are not willing to help out anymore, which gives me a dilemma, which is that I've got food for roughly €200 sitting in Pissouri, in addition to (probably) an additional €500 coming in for food efforts, but no means to bring it to Beirut.
Realizing I'm in Cyprus, and that probably "somebody here knows somebody who knows somebody", who owns a shipping company (or something), I figured I'd ask here to hear if somebody knows how to help me. Basically I need to ship food worth €500-€1.000 down to Beirut within some 3-5 days, and my "shipping budget" is basically zero. I'm anticipating having to ship food for €500-€1.000 in total.
The food will be divided into "family packs", and distributed on the streets of Beirut to the needy. We have people on the streets of Beirut, and I have been given promises of photos of the food actually being handed over down there. I will provide receipts for all food I buy for the donations given by my Norwegian YouTube viewers, and we'll buy it and pack it ourselves in our spare time. The idea was to write a little notice on each package specifically saying the name of the person who donated, such as e.g. "From John/Norway with love", etc.
Can anybody here help ...?
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