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Coughing the Distance - the book and the documentary





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Curing Cystic Fibrosis through The Great COFE



Here is the grand plan as it stands. Remember the big picture is really to cure Cystic Fibrosis, and this can only be done through continuing research. Research requires money. Money can only be generated by bringing it to peoples attention. To cure people from CF you need to keep the people with CF alive till there is a cure, and that requires education and inspiration. These factors are all addressed in my great plan:



The grand plan for the documentary Coughing the Distance is now taking shape!

Lucas is sweating on the editing and cutting it all together into an inspiring and entertaining documentary. I am busy writing the book to go along with it ('my pamphlet'), and when we have a product ready - April 1 is our aim - we get into gear:



I want to print 1000 documentary DVDs and 1000 books and sent them to 1000 CF clinics/associations around the world complete with an organ donation brochure (most people with CF will end up on the lung transplant register). I imagine the RRP of the book would be somwewhere around the $24.95 mark and say $25 for the DVD. Mailing would be approximately $10, so I figured if I included a VOLUNTARY invoice for $59.95. The proceeds would go to printing more packs and mailing them off to the next 1000 addresses, till we have covered the CF world. You got to think big!



Given that the DVD might cost $5 to produce and the book $20, postage $10, that would mean the first mailing would cost us $35000. If half the recipients pay the invoice we could afford the next 1000 copies... You sow the seeds...



This self-sufficiency thing really is amazing. We sow the seed, right. Nature grows the seed, and then, we eat the seed. And then, after that, we sow the seed, nature grows the seed, and then, we eat the seed. And then, after that again, we sow the seed, nature grows the seed....

The Young Ones - BBC 1984



In the mean time we would have sold the documentary to a TV network in Australia and paid back the creditors and monies owing (I know, business is business) and the documentary Coughing the Distance can then be passed on to an international agent who can sell the rights to networks abroad, CNN Health, BBC,... All profits generated from these sales can then go to Cystic Fibrosis Research, and in 2011, when I come back coughing from Coughing in the Sails, I can be cured!





The ride was proudly supported by the following organisations.


The Mad Bomber



Batavus


Batavus is our bike!


The Deck Cafe is donating a Fundraising dinner and auction for The Great COFE for CF on July 8 in Devonport, Tasmania, Australia!


The Deck Cafe



ROCHE PHARMACEUTICALS


Roche


VEOLIA


Veolia


More sponsors of recent fundraisers can be found <here>


If you like to help us on our way we would love to accept any donation. You can donate using paypal with the email address: cofe@cotu.biz or just click on one of the buttons below. To choose your own amount click the big donate button. If you rather do a direct deposit please email me for the bank information of our Westpac Community Solution Account.


Why not use the CONTACT FORM to contact me? Alternatively you can mail me pledges, offers, letters of encouragement (yes we need them too!) or plainly cheques written out to 'The Great COFE for CF' to the following address:


The Great COFE for CF,

2 Rose Court,

Devonport,

Tasmania 7310,

AUSTRALIA.


 


The main objective is to create positive press about Cystic Fibrosis, increase International community awareness and encouragement to people who live with Cystic Fibrosis or are closely associated to them. If you have comments or questions, please contact cofe@vanpraag.info.


Coughing the Distance, Walter's slogan!










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