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Re: Giving AKA away (was Re: Aphyosemion sjoestedti)



Jill makes a good point. Personally, I don't have any problem paying the
dues, 
but 15 years ago I sure would have. Does the AKA have any kind of
"scholarship" 
program ?  I would he happy to add some money to my dues to sponsor a 
membership for someone who truly needed it. Maybe there could be a student
rate
or a sponsored discount for people like Jill.

Yes, I know this could be a pain to administer and could result in lower
income for
the AKA, but it might be worth it in the long run.

I'm a very new member to AKA, so I'll shut up and go back to quietly
lurking in the 
killietalk shadows.

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> From: phoenix kiss <hotkiss_7 at hotmail_com>
> To: killietalk at aka_org
> Subject: Re: Giving AKA away (was Re: Aphyosemion sjoestedti)
> Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 12:42 PM
> 
>      I am not a member of the AKA, yet, not because I don't want to be,
but 
> because scraping together $24 US isn't a simple as some might think. 
Being 
> a student and living on my own many other thing come up. I work, but any 
> extra money goes to my fish.  I have been putting a couple of buck away 
> every month to join and hopefully can borrow my grandmother's credit card

> soon.
>      I appreciate the info I get on this list, I don't know where I would
be 
> without it.  I am a member of my local aquarium society, but I do want to

> join the AKA.  Some of us non members are not member simply because we
can't 
> afford it, not because we don't want to be.  I joined this list because I

> wanted to know more about the fish I love and the wealth of knowledge I
am 
> encountering is phenomenal.
>      So please give us a break here, we want to learn just as much as the

> people who join.  Should knowledge only be reserved for those who can pay

> for it?
> 
> Jill

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