Monday, July 30, 2007

Welcome to OUR Blog!

Welcome to all!!

To get us started I wanted to tell you a little about what drives us at the Canadian Landmine Foundation. Many years ago, on April 10th, 2000, a 11-year-old girl named Ema Alic and two of her friends were playing in a field north of Sarajevo and they were killed by an antipersonnel landmine. “I remember thinking at the time” said Scott Fairweather, President and CEO, “that my son was Ema’s age. It was tragic that their young lives were cut so short and that they died while they were playing. Just like my son loved to do.”

Sadly, Ema’s story is not unique. A few weeks ago we read a story about 5 Somali children that were killed by a landmine. The children on their way to Friday prayers stopped to play a little soccer. One of the kids found a landmine, didn’t know what it was, picked it up and threw it against the wall. All five kids and 3 passersby were killed.

It is so tragic that children have to live this way. When they want to play, they have to watch what they do, where they go and what they touch. It’s not right!!! They didn’t start the war. They didn’t plant the mines, but they are the ones that felt the pain.

We (at the Foundation) and thousands of Canadians are trying to make this situation right. We are working to make sure that stories like the ones above become less frequent and then in time a thing of the past. We want to give back valuable land and resources to people that have been devastated by war. And we want to help the many landmine survivors that need our much needed assistance.

We want NO MORE LANDMINES! And we are working to eradicate landmines from the earth!

Paul

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Paul

Why am I allowed to post an anonymous message?

Yeah. yeah!
I know this isn't exactly an original thought, but just testing the blog comments

Anonymous