Hello AFL fans!
I volunteer with the Melbourne Esperanto Association, and we’ve won the right to host the World Esperanto Congress in Melbourne in July 2027, which means about 1,500 people coming from all over the world. We’re heading to this year's congress in Graz, Austria, in August and I want to take a bunch of old AFL scarves to hand out to attendees to give them a bit of Aussie culture and encourage them to come to Melbourne in the winter!
So if you've got old scarves sitting in a drawer that you're never going to wear again - from any AFL team - I’d love to take them off your hands and use them to “adopt” an Esperantist into your team. There's a pledge form at https://www.melburno.org.au/adopt-an-esperantist/ (no personal details required) where you can let us know what you’ve got, and it has details there on how to get them to us (drop offs in the Melbourne CBD, or post before 31st May).
Our goal is 400 scarves. The website has a tracker showing which clubs are in the lead if anyone wants to start a rivalry (at the time of posting, Essendon is in the lead… maybe some Collingwood fans need to help us out?).