are you talking about the one, where they ( The group ) wany YOU to give them $100. They get the machine, restore it and shipping to africa,,
They then teach the woman to sew, get her a job, Charge her $500, once paid off she's on her own.. and they show a room full of women, all sitting with treadle machines.. all wearing late 50's style long dress.. all using the very same style machine. whick look like 15's . every machine had the same dark cabinet, all the heads where shinny ..
we hear singer still made 15's in south africa untill mid 90's, the we hear there still made ??... Then even on this site we see photo's of treadle's said to have been sold by wal mart @299. bathroom type cabinet, plastic machine head.
why would any large Group bother which buingy any machine here in this country, restore it and ship,, when shipping is said to be the largest overhead involed.
The numbers don't add up. ,, These's are the sweat shops this country had, now there globle and get moved from small country to another ... This started in the 70's,, with very well sewn shirt's shirts from countrys, That we never hear of... rememeber the plaid shirts with the ploy linning.
My questions are
why isn't goodwill Donating machines .
what about st vinny's
Why does none on C'L taking of selling these to that group..
Why are they not asking for Donations of old machines from us ?
or people to locate those ?
call them up. tell them you have a few machines to give them,, you'll ship those to there location and see what there reply is > ??
better yet say you have a quilting group, that will buy and pay for goodwill auctions, but they have to pay the shipping to there place of restoring and shipping.. no out of pocket cash involed, LOL
I really do have a bridge , it's NOT for sale.