Date:         Sat, 06 Jul 1996 11:56:53 -0400
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         JonR <jonr@empire.net>
Subject:      Rescue (non-VW content)...kinda long....

Sorry Listees... Absolutely no VW content...


	Last night when my wife stopped at a local Chinese place for take-out she 
overheard a young girl trying to communicate with one of the cashiers... neither this 
young lady or the cashier was fluent in English... jist of the matter was this young 
girl was from Russia on her way to work the summer at a local Camp for disabled 
kids... she had gotten off at the wrong stop... and wanted to use the phone to call 
her Camp Director... cashier said Solly no can do Long-distance... the young girl was 
close to tears when my wife stepped in...

	Seems that the outfit who hired her was in CA, she has just traveled 10,000 
miles to land in NY City on July 4th... with the instructions" find your way by the 
cheapest means of transportation to YWCA where we have booked a room for you, then on 
July 5th proceed by Bus to Boston, then to Manchester NH..."
	
	well, at this point my wife found out that the next bus to Manchester was 2 
hours later and the girl was going to have to wait outside as the bus office was 
closing...(this in a not so great part of town)... wife brought her home, we 
introduced her to Chinese food and got her in touch with the Camp.  As it was only 
15-20 minutes away we told the Camp Director we would bring her up in a bit after 
dinner...

	The Camp director told her that they had been very concerned because they had 
been told that the girl would be arriving the day before... when she didn't arrive 
they got kinda frantic...

	What Kind of Outfit here in the States would Hold a competition ( she was one 
of a dozen students selected out of over 1000) then take the best and brightest and 
treat them so shabbily... she wasn't even informed that the particular Camp she was 
going to as a counselor was for Developmentally Disabled adults... when we pulled up 
to the Camp she was shocked to see Retarded Adult men and women campers... told us 
that this was not what she was led to believe...
	My wife and I were Outraged!!  my wife then got the address and phone# of the 
recruiter who got this young lady here, and Blasted Him but good...

	This young lady was lucky, she could as well been mugged or killed ie: The 
german tourists in FL... she has our phone # and address, hopefully things will work 
out for her... I plan on a follow up letter to this recruiters' Employers as well as 
letters to the State Dept protesting this kind of treatment...

	Sorry for ranting, but I had to vent...

		

				JonR

		Father of a 17 year daughter and appalled at the treatment this girl 
recieved...