Mine Blast in Israel
Feb 11, 2010
On February 6, 11-year-old Daniel Yuval from Tel Aviv was playing in the fresh snow in the Golan Heights when he stepped on landmine and lost his leg. His 12 year-old sister also sustained shrapnel injuries.

The incident has prompted many in Israel and around the world to ask not only whether the minefield was properly fenced, but why hundreds of thousands of mines are buried there in the first place.

Survivor Corps founder Jerry White also lost his ...
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How to Help Survivors in Haiti
Jan 15, 2010
Please help survivors in Haiti by donating to International Medical Corps.

IMC’s work delivering primary care to earthquake survivors is especially important because they invest in capacity building of local doctors and medical personnel. As IMC puts it, “This approach of helping people help themselves is critical to returning devastated communities to self-reliance.”

In 2008 Survivor Corps honored IMC doctors in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Niarchos Prize for Survivorship. ...
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Caroline Rose Adong
Africa – Uganda

 

"When I was ten years old the war began here in Uganda. During that time I was living at a boarding school for people with disabilities. When I six months old I survived polio which did not allow me to walk normally on my own. I was using a type of braces to learn to walk. One day, while I was in school strange men dressed in rags and bombed our school. There was chaos, I couldn’t run and had to leave everything behind, including the braces that helped me to walk. When people are running in war, ...

              

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