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<SPAN class=whiteText>Adopt-A-Minefield has launched The Farah Appeal, a campaign to raise mine action funds in honor of newly-named AAM Youth Ambassador Farah Ahmedi. Farah, who lost her leg to a landmine ten years ago, recently won ‘The Story of My Life’ competition, sponsored by ABC’s Good Morning America and Simon & Schuster. After winning the competition, Farah met with First Lady Laura Bush at the White House on

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Adopt-A-Minefield has launched The Farah Appeal, a campaign to raise mine action funds in honor of newly-named AAM Youth Ambassador Farah Ahmedi. Farah, who lost her leg to a landmine ten years ago, recently won ‘The Story of My Life’ competition, sponsored by ABC’s Good Morning America and Simon & Schuster. After winning the competition, Farah met with First Lady Laura Bush at the White House on May 5, 2005 to discuss her experiences as a landmine survivor.
Read the entire story @ http://www.landmines.org/news/index.cfm

Farah Ahmedi, AAM's new Youth Ambassador with the AAM team

Following Farah’s appearance on Good Morning America in late April, where she learned that her autobiography was to be published, she visited the UNA-USA New York office and met with the AAM staff before beginning her busy book tour. She spoke with us about her personal story, from stepping on a landmine at the age of seven to the present excitement surrounding the contest she has just won. Farah expressed a desire to use the opportunity she is now being given to help rid the world of landmines. She will be speaking about her experiences in several cities across America, and she will encourage people to join AAM’s efforts. In honor of Farah’s new role, Adopt-A-Minefield is launching a special appeal to raise funds to clear a minefield in Afghanistan in her name.
Farah’s journey began in Afghanistan when she was seven years old. She stepped on a landmine while walking to school, and the local hospital could offer nothing in terms of aid. By the time a humanitarian group transported her to Germany, her legs were beyond repair: one was amputated below the knee, and the other remains rigid to this day. After two years in Germany, Farah returned to Afghanistan, where she found a changed nation. Her brothers fled the country to escape conscription by the Taliban and were never heard from again. A bomb landed on her family’s home, killing her father and sisters. Without the protection of a male family member, Farah and her sick mother escaped to Pakistan, where they lived alternately in refugee camps and slave-like conditions for four years. After gaining passage to America, Farah and her increasingly ill mother met their volunteer “mentor” Alyce Litz, who rallied her church and home community of Wheaton, Illinois. She helped Farah and her mother make a home, and has been instrumental in helping build a future for a remarkable young girl who is now being recruited by universities such as Harvard and Yale.
In her role as AAM Youth Ambassador, Farah will act as a spokesperson for That Landmine Thing—AAM’s and Landmine Survivors Network (LSN)’s joint student fundraising campaign. A 17-year-old high school student herself, Farah brings home to students living in the United States the reality of landmines for youth around the world. We are very excited that Farah has joined the team as our Youth Ambassador and we’ll be sending you more info about her in the autumn editions of the Deminer and the That Landmine Thing 2005/2006 newsletter.
For more information on Farah’s autobiography, please visit www.simonsays.com (http://www.simonsays.com)
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With all due respect, I have one philosophical issue with this.

People have been there to clear landmines, landmines from an old war. Some of them were killed for it by locals.

I have a hard time supporting people who choose to help those who would kill them.

[Stan_is_back]

I have a hard time supporting people who choose to help those who would kill them.

Is it not through this type of effort that we may win their hearts over ?


A drunken degenerate was attacking a slave girl on the public highway. When Jesus saw the plight of the girl, he rushed forward and drew the maiden away from the assault of the madman. While the frightened child clung to him, he held the infuriated man at a safe distance by his powerful extended right arm until the poor fellow had exhausted himself beating the air with his angry blows. Ganid felt a strong impulse to help Jesus handle the affair, but his father forbade him. Though they could not speak the girl's language, she could understand their act of mercy and gave token of her heartfelt appreciation as they all three escorted her home. This was probably as near a personal encounter with his fellows as Jesus ever had throughout his entire life in the flesh. But he had a difficult task that evening trying to explain to Ganid why he did not smite the drunken man.
Ganid thought this man should have been struck at least as many times as he had struck the girl.
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[Te'oma]

In my town we have an engineering militia group that specializes in mine removal. The Canadian government routinely deploy these men to Afghanistan to remove mines and the Canadian taxpayer pays for the cost of this. However many of these men leave their regular jobs and families to go do this work. At the same time they are subject to attack by Taliban forces. They also teach the locals how to do this for themselves if they come across a minefield and the specialists are not available.
Their families here are faced with the loss of income as well as the person who takes care of things at home. I belong to a group of men and women who offer our services to the families, free of charge. Their homes are maintained, the local stores give them vouchers for goods etc... so that these men don't have to worry about the hardships their families will face while they are deployed
So I guess that what I am saying is that I already donate to this cause in a way through my taxes and the support of these men that are volunteering to put themselves in harms way to make life a little safer for the afghannis.
I challenge those of you here that have the means to do better then this kaffir to donate too.

[Bellow-BoB]

In my town we have an engineering militia group that specializes in mine removal. The Canadian government routinely deploy these men to Afghanistan to remove mines and the Canadian taxpayer pays for the cost of this. However many of these men leave their regular jobs and families to go do this work. At the same time they are subject to attack by Taliban forces. They also teach the locals how to do this for themselves if they come across a minefield and the specialists are not available.
Their families here are faced with the loss of income as well as the person who takes care of things at home. I belong to a group of men and women who offer our services to the families, free of charge. Their homes are maintained, the local stores give them vouchers for goods etc... so that these men don't have to worry about the hardships their families will face while they are deployed
So I guess that what I am saying is that I already donate to this cause in a way through my taxes and the support of these men that are volunteering to put themselves in harms way to make life a little safer for the afghannis.
I challenge those of you here that have the means to do better then this kaffir to donate too.
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