Here is a brief reverse chronology highlighting some of LSN's activities and honors. Click on any date below to see our chronology for that year.
2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995
December 2004LSN Co-founder Ken Rutherford and all six Network Directors attended the Nairobi Summit for a Mine Free World, the five year review conference for the Mine Ban Treaty, in Nairobi Kenya from Nov. 30- Dec. 3, 2004. At the conference, LSN hosted the Survivor Summit, where the largest ever gathering of landmine survivors (40) met with government officials to discuss ways to better improve victim assistance in mine affected countries.
November 2004Executive Director Jerry White spoke at the World Bank's Disability and Inclusive Development Conference in Washington DC on November 29, 2004.
October 2004LSN Co-founder and Executive Director Jerry White visited soldiers affected by landmines and UXO at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Jerry observed amputees--recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan-- during the occupational therapy clinic, and offered peer support to many soldiers.
September 2004Exceutive Director and co-founder Jerry White and Board Chair Jane Olsen travel to Athens, Greece to the 2004 Paralympic Games. Olsen was a key speaker at the IPC Symposium, “Right to Participation, Rights to Win: International Paralympic Symposium on Disability Rights”. White worked to advance international support for the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
September 2004LSN Bosnia-Herzegovina hosted the 3rd Annual Princess Diana Memorial Sitting Volleyball tournament in Tuzla, Bosnia.
August 2004LSN-Jordan Network Director Adnan Al-Aboudi, Middle East Regional Coordinator Mona Abdeljawad, and European Regional Coordinator Kirsten Young led the delegation from LSN to the UN Ad Hoc Committee on the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, from August 23 through September 2 at UN Headquarters in New York.
July 2004Board member Rick White spoke to The Chautauqua Peace Society on July 27 at the Chautauqua Institute in New York about his experiences with landmine survivors and victims of war in Ethiopia.
June 2004Executive Director Jerry White gave the Commencment Address at Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School in Irvine, California.
June 2004Executive Director Jerry White accompanied four classmates from the University of Michigan's Executive MBA Exec MAP Program to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to visit the LSN-BiH Network office and further study LSN's work with survivors around the world.
May 2004LSN-Bosnia and Herzegovina Network Director Plamenko Priganica spoke to over 120 New York City middle and high school students during the Common Cents New York Global Relief Conference. The students presented LSN with a check for $16,178.
May 2004On May 3, cast members of NBC's The West Wing performed "Raising Our Voices", a play written by Alyson Feltes and Tessa Barlow based on the stories of landmine survivors, in Los Angeles. LSN Executive Director Jerry White ended the performance by telling his story of landmine survival. Musical performances by Sam Phillips and the New Philadelphia AME Adult Choir opened and closed the performance.
May 2004LSN hosted a historic concert at the U.N. General Assembly for the three-time Grammy award winning Blind Boys of Alabama, in celebration of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. LSN staff also attended the Ad Hoc meeting on the Convention, in which draft treaty text was debated.
April 2004Executive Director Jerry White spoke at the Opening Ceremony of the conference on the Egyption Perspective on the Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities on April 26, 2004 in Cairo, Egypt.
March 2004Executive Director Jerry White, Board members Jane Olsen, John Taylor, and Dick Barker, and twenty other friends of LSN visited the newest Network office in Vietnam. They met with Network staff and local survivors.
March 2004On March 10, co-founder and Board Member Ken Rutherford spoke to 2,000 high school students on the opening night of the Model Presidential Nominating Convention in Portland, Oregon.
February 2004Raising the Voices was presented by LSN Training Coordinator Kathleen Gaines, who trained 15 landmine survivors from Eastern Europe and the Caucuses.
January 2004In January 2004, LSN staff and Network Directors attended the Working Group of the UN Ad Hoc committee to elaborate on the Convention on the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
