Category: Peace

Helping out Darfur

Canada’s Prime Minister announced that we’re gonna step in and help the troubled Darfur region of Sudan with $40-million in foreign aid.

“First, working through the United Nations, the lead organization on the ground, we will help to provide urgently needed necessities like food and water, deliver medical care to the afflicted and the suffering and build desperately-needed sanitation services,” Stephen Harper said on May 23, 2006.

Humanitarian needs, such as food, water and sanitation are of the highest importance here, but steps will also be taken to implement the Darfur peace agreement. The suffering people of Darfur will finally get some much needed help! The UN has also decided to step in with a peacekeeping force.

Peace in Darfur??

All over the world, people are celebrating: the road to peace in the Darfur region of the sudan has been paved. The question now is weather or not we shall all walk it together.

Over 400 000 people have lost their lives in the continuing genocide in Darfur. The signing of this peace deal marks the beginning of the process of ending the genocide.

For more information, including things that YOU can do TODAY to help, visit these websites:

www.savedarfur.org
www.darfurgenocide.org
www.projectequity.org

Special Shoes for Landmines

Some scientists have invented a robotic shoe that has six legs. Anyone wearing the shoes can walk safely through a minefield. The shoe is designed to help works in humanitarian missions – particularly land-mine clearers.

“The six-legged shoes protect the wearer by lifting up a leg if it is over a mine so that the device is not triggered. The other five legs continue to support the wearer’s weight.”

Make Love, Not War

Thousands of people showed their love for peace yesterday by protesting the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other conflicts around the world.

Forbes has an article on the peace movement (in their technology section for some odd reason) and the CBC has a much better article that covers the international scale of the peace movement.

For those of you who couldn’t make it out to a rally you can always email your representatives in your government.