A week ago I published a crowdfunding post to try and assist one of our very valued @steemitbloggers members to get himself a camera. You can read the original post HERE but just as a little bit of "background"...

@wales is an amazingly talented photographer - WITHOUT A CAMERA! As I, and the members of my community have gotten to know @wales - we have realised just how much it saddens him that he can no longer participate in something which he TRULY loves - PHOTOGRAPHY!

The UK government recently implemented "universal credit" which has essentially left @wales without an income - because they have removed all disabled people from their support line. At this point, he is essentially "bunking" with other people and has nothing more to his name than one suitcase and the "about to croak" laptop with which he makes his beautifully thought provoking daily posts here on Steemit.

He did NOT ask me to do this post - but as the founder of our community... I feel like I should at least TRY to change this situation for him! If there was EVER a deserving candidate - he is it! This amazing individual is a WELL established blogger and photographer outside of Steemit and has been for years! In fact - there is a high chance that many of you have actually used his images in your posts as he has an extensive GALLERY on Pixabay.

Firstly, I would like to say a MASSIVE

THANK YOU

to each and every one of you that has supported this effort,
whether it was with an upvote, a resteem, a direct contribution
or all three!

TOGETHER, WE HAVE POOLED THE EQUIVALENT OF

75 USD!

JUST LOOK AT THIS WAVE OF SUPPORT!!! - NO WORDS!!!

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Steemit is a big place, and I still believe that we can get @wales a lot closer to making this dream a reality - WITHOUT having to diminish his SP! If you are reading this and would like to contribute you can send SBD / STEEM contributions directly to @wales. Alternatively, you can go and show some support on one of his latest posts.

Last but definitely not least, you can resteem this post so that we can try and get it to reach as many people as possible - no matter how big or small the effort or contribution... it ALL adds up!

THANKS BEAUTIFUL STEEM PEEPS!!!

MWAH!!!!

Until next time...
Much Love from Cape Town, South Africa xxx

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