Home | Shop | Send Us Info | Subscribe | Advertise | Help |

When will Children be allowed to be Children?

Joseph Raglione
April 10, 2009
Gentle readers of the American Chronicle, there is a Nutt out there ready to risk her life in Africa on behalf of children. Dr Samantha Nutt to be exact, a good hearted and gentle lady of courage and conviction. She created the War Child organization and the following is another chapter in Warchild's ongoing rescue efforts...>

A Decade In - Time For Renewed Effort...

War Child is 10 years old this year but this is no reason for celebration.

For a child in sub-Saharan Africa to make it to 10 years old is a major achievement. 1 in 6 die before theyīre half that age. And in the 10 years since we opened in North America, 31 wars have raged and manīs brutality towards children has, if anything, intensified. From rape as a weapon of war – against girls well under 10 years old, to the almost commonplace use of children as front-line īsoldiersī, to the targeting of children and their communities as a matter of course, the threats to childrenīs lives and well-being only increase as we develop more lethal and immoral ways of waging war.

Networked Nutt

War Child founder, Dr Samantha Nutt, has embraced the new connected world of social media in a big way. She recently started a blog that she will be updating at least once a month. Issues discussed so far - the fate of Canadian Guantanamo prisoner, Omar Khadr, and whether increased aid to Africa was just a passing fashion?

Her next foray into the Geek landscape was signing up to Twitter as @NuttsAtWarChild. Follow her now for Tweets on everything from the International Criminal Court to the restaurant at Thunder Bay airport.

In the next few days, Sam will be travelling to one of War Childīs programs, situated in a particularly treacherous war zone. She will be tweeting from the ground while sheīs there (technology permitting) and when she gets back we will be hosting a live chat with her about her trip. We want you to join in the discussion and ask Sam your questions. Keep your eye out for details at www.warchildheroes.net. If you already know what you want to ask, email james at warchild dot ca or tweet @TopsAtWarChild.


In order to raise money for Warchild, there is a contest you can enter:

Win A War Child Heroes Box Set... Copy and paste to find out how you can win a War Child Heroes 7" vinyl box set...> http://www.Warchild.ca...or

Buy a War Child Bracelet for Spring - Help Educate Kids. http://www.Warchild.ca.

War Child partners, 'Spring' has launched a brand new look for its War Child campaign this spring. Buy a stylish leather bracelet for just $5 and help give children in the Congo an education.

Donate Aeroplan Miles

By donating your Aeroplan Miles, you are directly supporting War Childīs international programs and youth empowerment programs in North America. Your miles help us reduce the amount we need to spend on air travel and help us maintain low overhead costs. Already, War Child has used Aeroplan Miles to send staff to visit our School Rehabilitation project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and our Legal Aid Program in northern Uganda in order to fully assess the programsī success and investigate opportunities for expansion.

Thank You for Supporting War Child Canada. For More Information, Please Visit Warchild.ca
Print Email
Bookmark and Share

Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!