[Gocamino] Authors' donations

[Rosina]

Shirley McLaine's donations of her Camino profits were reported in a tax publicatio ,  some years ago as a cautionary note to those Americans making donations to non-profit groups abroad. Apparently, (and surprisingly, for an actress), Shirley is a very private person when it comes to her personal life and her gifts to charities. As I remember, the article mentioned the arrangement that the actress had made with her publishers to allocate a specified percentage of her net royalties directly to the various ecclesiastical authorities, to be used for churches' restoration and maintenance. The article was authored by an attorney/cpa.

Pusuant to my statement, in an earlier message about the German book, which stated that I do not know of any donations made by author Coelho, Acacio Paz, a Brasilian pilgrim who sponsors a pilgrims' albergue in the Camino, just informed me that Coelho does help in Camino-related activities as he can; in Acacio's albergue, for instance, he donated many things such as  baths and showers, beds and mattresses, a full kitchen, doors and windows, and other things. And, Acacio informs, this year Coelho donated more than 8,000 tons of cut lumber to Tomas de Majarin so that Tomas, and pilgrims, could withstand the winter. Acacio says that Coelho himself purchased, and paid for, the lumber and arranged for its delivery; and lastly, Acacio mentions that he knows of other places that have received help from Coelho but that he, Acacio, is not at liberty to disclose.

We, in the USA, can only make tax-deductible donations to groups abroad, such as the Camino's, through a properly registered non-profit organization (501-c-3)  that meets the criteria of the IRS. American Pilgrims on the Camino is such an organization. A couple of years ago we donated more than $1,000.00 for the betterment of the Pilgrims' Office computer system through American Pilgrims on the Camino, and were able to tax-deduct our contributions because we made them to APC which, in turn, forwarded them to Santiago.  Right now there is a group of nuns commencing an eminently worthy project in the Camino including, possibly, an albergue, and the genesis of an organization through which we can funnel contributions, etc., is beginning to take shape in Boston. 

Hugs!

Rosina



-----Original Message-----
From: Acacio Paz <acaciopaz at yahoo.com.br>
To: blaroli at aol.com
Sent: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 3:44 pm
Subject: HELP PLEASE


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Querida Rosina

Gostaria que vc pudesse esclarecer estas dúvida em Ingles por favor, mesmo sabendo de que vc náo gosta de Coelho , mas todos devemos ser justos com quem está fazendo coisas no anonimato.

 

Muitos náo sabe e náo tem a informaçáo correta.

Estáo dizendo de que Shirley Maclaine faz doaçáo no Caminho de Santiago ? Sinceramente estes anos todos eu desconheço e sei que em Roncesvalles quem estáo ali sáo os da associaçáo da Alemaha, Pamplona esta sendo gestionado pela propria associaçáo de Navarra, Burgos é com o dinheiro da associaçáo de Burgos e Santiago sei que é dinheiro da Xunta de Galica, da Shirley náo sei e nem tenho esta informaçáo.

O de Coelho posso afirmar de que ele ajuda com o que ele pode fazer, e aqui em Viloria ele contribuiu com muita coisa, banhos e duchas, camas e colchóes, cozinha completa,janelas e portas, e outros detalhes mais. 

Ele este ano foi quem fez a doaçáo de mais de 8.000 toneladas de lenha já cortada para Tomas de Manjarin para ele passar o inverno e os peregrinos, eu mesmo fui o responsável de fazer o pagamento, comprar a lenha contratar o caminháo e providenciar quando poderia ser entregue a lenha.

Sei tambem de outros lugares que ele ajudou mas náo tenho a autorizaçáo dele para dizer.

Acredito que os que fazem sua fama com temas do caminho de santiago tem um compromisso com ele sim, apesar de isso náo ser verdade pois o mesmo passa com inúmeros outros escritores, cineastas, pintores, construtores, gente desconhecida que tbém se faz em volta do caminho de asntiago e certamente tudo fica no esquecimento. Será que o alemáo tbém vai fazer alguma coisa pelo caminho ?

 

Obrigado se vc pode traduzir este desabafo, pois náo me gusta de ser injusto com pessoas que eu sei o que estáo fazendo em troca de no minimo agradecer o que o caminho deu a cada um e ainda está dando.

 

Beijos

Acacio & Orietta

 


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De: Rosina

Fecha: 02/06/2008 21:24:39

Para: saintjames at yahoogroups.com

CC: GOCAMINO at oakapple.net

Asunto: Re: [saintjames] Re: [Gocamino] Another multi-million seller Camino book


 




The German author has, in fact, donated most of the book's profits to several charitable organizations, including Camino facilities.
So, in fact, did Shirley McLaine years ago. Much to her surprise and too late, it seems, she learned that donations to non-USA organizations by American citizens are not tax deductible, but are, in fact, taxable gifts!. Eventually she had to pay gift-taxes on the sizable donations she made to the church groups in Roncesvalles, Pamplona, Leon, Burgos, Santiago and others.
I do not know whether Coelho has donated any of the huge profits from his Camino book to anyone.  In 2004 he did appear, for free, in a video to accompany a de-luxe edition picture-book on the Camino published by the Xunta to raise funds. 
Living in New York City, and in a society imbued in a strained relationship with religion, I was quite taken aback to learn that in Austria the citizens of that country overwhelmingly voted to devote a significant portion of their taxes to the support and maintenance of their churches!
Because of this cultural trait, I suppose, the generosity of the German Camino author has not surprised me. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn <guha2005 at hotmail.com>
To: GOCAMINO at oakapple.net; saintjames at yahoogroups.com; Rosina <blaroli at aol.com>
Cc: acaciopaz at yahoo.com.br
Sent: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 2:45 pm
Subject: [saintjames] Re: [Gocamino] Another multi-million seller Camino book

I visited my relatives in Hamburg in September 2006 and they told me of the 
book. I purchased it there and skimmed through it and did not like it at 
all. I know that there has been this long discussion on who is a pilgrim 
and who is not, but I have to admit that my impression was that Kerkling was 
not like any pilgrim I had met.

The crowds I met on the Camino in 2007 were attributed to that book by 
German pilgrims I got to know along the way. They thought that Kerkling 
should give the profits from that book to the various associations that 
maintain the Camino. It seemed to us that many in the crowds were trying to 
replicate Kerkling's experiences, and they often had support systems, like 
vans or buses, along the way at various points. We noticed the telltale day 
packs and sparkling clean shoes. One problem with this was at the bars that 
were overrun with demanding people. I never saw that in 2005 during the 
same time period.

Kerkling's book seemed like a farce to me of a place and experience that is 
very dear to my heart. The Coelho book, however, led me to the Camino. I 
never heard of it before reading that book. It caused me to do research on 
the Camino and to look into Internet groups for information. I took the 
things that he wrote as metaphors for some of the struggles that I 
identified in my own life.

Glenn

>
> Hello you all,
>
> El Correo Gallego, the Galician newspaper, carries an article today about 
> another multi-million-copies best seller Camino book.
>
> The book is called, in German, “Ich bin dann mal weg” (On my way [to the 
> Camino]), was written by a German humorist, Hape Kerkeling, and it has 
> sold more than three million copies already. Since its publication in May, 
> 2006, the book has been in first or second place in the best-seller 
> nonfiction category lists published by the German newspapers. Its success 
> was totally unexpected since the original issue was only 50,000 copies.
>
> The author of the book is a well-known TV comedian who went to the Camino 
> to try to cope with a serious personal crisis. While he took his 
> pilgrimage seriously he couldn’t help portray his efforts and experiences 
> as a pilgrim, and those of other pilgrims, in caricature form in his book.
>
> The book became an immediate success with its readers, although it was 
> panned by literary critics. The chief editor of the magazine “Literaturen”, 
> Sigrid Loffler, herself a Camino pilgrim, had written a book about the 
> pilgrimage which even although it was published by the prestigious firm 
> Cees Nooteboom received little notice. Freulein Loffler confesses to being 
> perplexed by the exit of Kerkeling’s Camino book adding that: “first 
> Coelho wrote an idiotic book about the Camino and the book was a 
> tremendous success, and now Kerkeling writes an even more idiotic book 
> about the pilgrimage and it is a smash”.
>
> Personally, I disliked Coelho’s book and did not get beyond the first ten 
> pages or so…. Why it has sold more than fifty million copies in umpteen 
> languages is a total mystery to me…. If the German book is in the same 
> vein I doubt very much that I would bother with it….. nevertheless, when I 
> am in Germany next August (for the Bayreuth Wagner Festival……..hurrah!!!) 
> I’ll look around to see whether the book has been translated into English 
> or into a more accessible language. Bayreuth, by the way, is a tiny, 
> beautiful Bavarian town, with the most important opera house in the 
> universe, built by Richard Wagner himself, another lovely rococo 
> theatre…. -so beautiful, in fact. that neither the Nazis nor the Allies 
> had the heart to destroy it in WW II….. although they destroyed almost 
> everything else, including Wahnfried!-, a university, and about twenty 
> bookstores! (I understand that the permanent residents of the town number 
> about 5,000).
>
> I’ll let you know whether there are any translations.
>
> Hugs!
>
> Rosina
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