Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: If you have space for your old shoes, you'll find someone with your shoe size!
Toiletries & Medical Supplies: Take some extra shampoo and leave it with the people, it's an expensive product for them. Their are such a stylish people that they love to look sharp.
Photo Equipment: Leave your old camera, someone will appreciate it. Remember you must have once thought it pretty cool yourself.
Camping/Beach/Outdoor Gear: If you can afford it leave some sports equipment, a new football would mean a lot to a community.
Miscellaneous: What you can pack are all those music cassettes that you've grown out of, original tapes are like gold as most music consists of pirate copies. They are easy to carry around, make a great tip to your taxi driver, and keep the bumsters happy too. Paper is in critical shortage so children's books and comics make an excellent gift. We took some paints and brushes, our daughter Esme bartered two paint sets for a rather fine drum with Peter a rasta painter. Fine sable brushes are much prized but all those clothes your children have grown out of are guaranteed a new, happy owner. There is an amazing shortage of toys, we came across one little boy whose prize possession was a discarded teddy bear's head on a stick, it was very poignant.
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