Heute erreichte mich ein email aus Russland mit der Überschrift: Letter to Switzerland.  Als ich das las, dachte ich es sei eine Mail die das aktuelle Thema des Minarettverbot behandelt. Weitgefehlt. Es ist ein Bettelbrief:

Hi,
My name is Elena, I’m 32 years old and I live in a province in Russia. I work in library and I can use computer after my work when possible. I finded your address in internet and I decided to write you this letter.
I have a 8 years daughter Angelina, her father left us and we live with my mother.
Due to financial crisis my mother unexpected lost job and our situation became very difficult.
The prices for gas and electricity is very high in our region and we cannot use it to heat our home anymore.
The winter is coming and weather becoming colder each day. We are very afraid and we don’t know what to do.
The only way for us to heat our home is to use a portable oven which work with burning wood. We have many wood in our region and this oven will heat our home all winter for minimal charges.
Unfortunately, we cannot buy this oven in our local market because it cost equivalent of 191 Euro and very expensive for us.
If you have any old portable wood burning oven and in case you don’t use it anymore, we will be very grateful to you if you can donate it to us and organize transport of this oven to our home.
We are located in central part of Russia, 180km from Moscow.
Please let me know if you can help and I will write you our home address.

From all my heart I wish you a Merry Christmas. I wish that the New 2010 Year will bring you hapiness and all your dreams come true!

Elena and my family.

Danke für die Weihnachtwünsche, aber ich verfüge über keinen transportablen Holzofen. Ich habe eine Zentralheizung auf Heizölbasis.

Ich frage mich wo der Hacken dabei ist…