Heather has focused most of her work on the eradication of landmines and survivor assistance for over 15years. No More Landmines is a campaign that raises awareness and funds to clear landmines and rehabilitate landmine survivors. Heather brought the programme to the UK from the United States, and it was because of her experience that the No More Landmines mission was expanded to include survivor assistance.
Landmines kill or injure someone, somewhere, every half hour of every day. No More Landmines gives everyone an opportunity to stop this: it costs only about £1 to clear a square metre of land or £50 to help a child walk
again. Individuals, community groups, company's can adopt a whole minefield or a survivor assistance project. Every little donation helps. Smaller donations are added together to make a whole adoption. Every donation receives updates about 'their adopted' project, which makes the results of your donation very tangible.
Since Heather's involvement in the war in the former Yugoslavia in 1991, her and her teams combined effort have raised over $18.5 million (over £9.8 million) to date and cleared over 21.5 million square metres of land with more being currently cleared. 64 landmine survivor projects have been funded through $2 million of funding to 70 survivor assistance projects run by 25 different organizations.
So go on... join Heather in her cause and make a difference! For more information and to get involved, visit http://www.landmines.org.uk/ or call 020 7471 5580 in the UK and http://www.landmines.org/ in the US..
Other useful links:
Halo Trust (http://www.halotrust.org/)
Mines Advisory Group (http://www.mag.org.uk/)
United Nations Development Programme (http://www.undp.org/)
I would like to share with you some current news regarding my website. Later in May when it's launched you will see many changes and additions to my website. There is going to be a new, fresh structure, leading you to expanded areas within many sections. I'm sorry it has taken so long for us to update our website, but as you can imagine we have had a very busy few years.
Heather was on a panel of 10 judges at this Years 57th Annual Miss USA Beauty Pageant. She agreed to participate as a judge due to the charitable aspects of the event.
This year's winner was a 26-year old Texas business woman, Crystle Stewart who said she wants to dedicate her life to philanthropy. She will have helped, after only one reigning year to raise over $50 million dollars for various Breast and Ovarian cancer charities.
Heather met Martina in 1994 when she bought her first convoy to Croatia. She arranged for Bob Watts an eminent prosthesist from the UK to come to Croatia to make artificial limbs. Martina was one of the many amputee's that Bob and Heather helped.
Martina is now 20 and Heather recently visited Martina in Croatia to help her get employement.
Read more about the Martina story when Heather's website is launched later this month in May.
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