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<\/a>For those of you who don’t know, I’m the founder and director of a newly formed non-profit organization called Ears To Our World (ETOW). ETOW’s mission is to send self-powered shortwave radios to schools in the developing world–you may have seen us recently featured in the Dec. 2009 edition of Popular Communications. You can check us out at:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/earstoourworld.org<\/a><\/p>\n Many of you have been watching and listening to the reports coming out of Haiti in the aftermath of the recent earthquake. As you can imagine, the need for information in Haiti is urgent and that means, of course, that radios are needed. In light of this crisis, ETOW has decided to temporarily broaden our mission; next week we will send a substantial number of ETOW radios (donated by Eton\/Grundig<\/a>) to Haiti via our partner, Operation USA<\/a>. We are preparing our radios for shipment as rapidly as we can.<\/p>\n Let’s all do what we can to help these folks.<\/p>\n Thank you, Radio Friends: For those of you who don’t know, I’m the founder and director of a newly formed non-profit organization called Ears To Our World (ETOW). ETOW’s mission is to send self-powered shortwave radios to schools in the developing world–you may have seen us recently featured in the Dec. 2009 edition of Popular Communications. 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<\/a>As shortwave listeners, DXers and amateur radio operators, you know well the power of radio. If you’d like to help, please do what you can. Even a few bucks can help with our expedited shipping costs to get our radios to Haiti. Donations can be made via PayPal on ETOW’s\u00a0website http:\/\/earstoourworld.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThomas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"