Bird, O'Porter and friend Josie Naughton were inspired after a Facebook friend took donated goods to the Calais refugee camp.
In the 1990s, she helped found the Trenton Materials Exchange, a nonprofit that took donated office furniture, medical supplies and building materials and distributed them to nonprofit organizations.
Mrs. Eyre, 38, is the marketing coordinator at Good News Garage, a nonprofit organization in Burlington, Vt., that takes donated cars and refurbishes them for the needy.
Ambrosia — which takes donated teen blood and pumps it into anyone age 35 or older for $8,000 a pop — seems like just the type of wild startup that would interest Thiel.
She began trips back home, staying longer each time, taking donated money and clothing to neighbors, building a house, room by room, and making plans to settle permanently.
Find an agency or individual doing community computer work for school, recycling computers, taking donated old computers, setting up classroom workstations, etc., & volunteer to help them.
Once a week, vans will then take the donated food to the warehouse in Ashton for volunteers to sort and pack it for distribution.
Hakan, a Turkish resident, who helped take supplies donated by villagers to those out in the fields, said he saw hundreds of civilian cars driving toward the border, where he said there were 10,000 people camping with only minimal supplies.
