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Annual Report 2005 1 Stand by Me We are survivors helping survivors 2100 M Street • Suite 302 • Washington, DC 20037 tel 202.464.0007 • fax 202.464.0011 Annual Report 2005 When the night has come And the land is dark And the moon is the only light we’ll see No I won’t be afraid Oh I won’t be afraid Just as long as you stand Stand by me Excerpted from Stand By Me by Ben E. King Dear Friends, When you detonate a mine, you are suddenly very alone. When I laid in a mass of dirt and At LSN, we believe that with help, rock and pain, I was cut off from the life I everyone can recover and thrive. And had known the moment before I stepped on because we’re survivors ourselves, we know that mine. what it takes to end the isolation and With that one fateful step, I became hopelessness. It takes a wide circle of people someone in need. willing to connect, and stay connected, to I needed the doctors and nurses who took each person trying to reclaim his or her life. care of me. I needed the social workers who It takes partnerships between and among told me I could do whatever I set my mind to. health workers, job trainers, small business I needed my family and friends to support loan providers, educators, and human rights me like never before. And, I needed the advocates. LSN staff make it their business to example of other survivors. Luckily, I had all walk alongside each victim until that person Landmines blow up innocent people every day. of that. I had people who stood by me and is strong enough to walk for him or herself. with me, and I found my life again. Until that victim is a survivor. In one violent instant, victims lose limbs, livelihood and hope. Sadly, most landmine victims have no one It’s not enough to watch from afar as to help them recover. Their physical wounds these people struggle to recover. We must Landmine Survivors Network helps the injured in war-torn countries pick up may heal, but the vast majority of them are step into their lives, into their hospital rooms, the pieces and rebuild their lives. simply left to their isolation and grief. into their homes, and into their work. We We are survivors and friends whose Nobel Prize-winning work is getting mines must stand with and by each victim until they out of the ground, and helping victims get legs, get jobs, and get on with their lives. can, like me, walk into a future rich with possibilities. We are proving that with the right support everyone can recover and thrive. Jerry White Executive Director Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2005 3 Peer Support Stand by Me In one violent instant, landmines take away legs, arms, sight, and hope. Shattered lives become defined by pain, hardship, and discrimination. These victims not only need prosthetic limbs and job training, they need compassion, empathy, and support from others who have been through the same experiences. They need someone who can help them face the challenges ahead. Landmine Survivors Network works on This is why we employ survivors as LSN the ground in mine-affected countries Outreach Workers. Their job? To educate, around the world to help mine victims. inspire, and counsel other victims who have We believe in the power of peer support. yet to escape the hopelessness and despair We connect landmine survivors to others that often accompany traumatic limb loss. needing help and guidance. By linking survivors to survivors, LSN helps victims recover and thrive. Every day, LSN Outreach Workers In truth, most landmine victims die— improve the lives of survivors and their particularly children. Their bodies simply families. Outreach Workers know where cannot withstand the explosive impact. For to find the right doctors and the right those who live, LSN can be the difference job opportunities. But more importantly, between finding life and wanting death. they are survivors who know firsthand what it takes to rebuild lives. Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2005 5 In 2005, LSN Outreach Alayu would be alright, just as I was.” Fekadu Workers connected with connected Alayu to other children with nearly 3,600 survivors. disabilities, and encouraged him throughout Some needed prosthetic his recovery and rehabilitation. “Today, Alayu limbs. Some needed has a prosthetic arm and is a very active, jobs. Some needed happy young boy.” companionship or Following his amputation, Omar counseling. Others were Mohammed of Jordan had far more isolated and did not know how to reconnect with questions than answers. “How could I live on their families and communities. In every case, one leg? Or feed my kids? I was LSN worked with survivors individually to find overwhelmed by despair. I felt ashamed.” out what they needed to help rebuild their lives. Mohammed was referred to LSN. “I told them of my accident,” he said. “My voice was low, my hands were shaking, and tears filled “Children are brought up my eyes. But they welcomed me. They asked me what I needed.” to feel ashamed because they Mohammed needed a new leg and a job. have lost a limb. This is not right.” “One of them told me, ‘You have lost one leg. I have lost two legs! Yet, my life is — ENQUAYEHU ASRES, LSN-Ethiopia Outreach Worker beautiful.’ His support was a gift to my soul.” Omar got his prosthetic leg and, thanks to Standing Tall for Others the Outreach Worker’s example, a renewed Because they are amputees themselves, LSN outlook on life as well. Outreach Workers offer living proof of just how promising the future can be. In the spring of 2005, LSN- Ethiopia Outreach Worker Yonas Fekadu met 10-year-old Alayu in a local hospital. Alayu had recently lost his arm to a landmine. His family had lost all hope for his YOUTH MOVEMENT future. Fekadu sat on Alayu’s bed, Over 30% of all landmine survivors are women and children. LSN-Ethiopia removed his prosthetic arm, and operates several clubs for children injured by landmines. “It was great to handed it to the boy. learn that there were more kids like me,” said one young participant. “No “They stopped crying and one was staring or pointing. We were just laughing and playing like we listened to me. I showed them did before our accidents.” As part of connecting U.S. youth with survivors abroad, LSN runs “That Landmine Thing,” a curriculum of service projects that high school students can organize to raise money for demining and survivor assistance. See www.landminesurvivors.org for more information. Landmine Survivors Network Annual Report 2005 7 Standing Together LSN Patron, Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, presented the awards. The individual In May 2005, LSN sponsored a ground- who received the award was Prasanna Rajiv breaking conference, Approaches to Recovery Kuruppu, a double amputee who works as a and Reintegration of Survivors of War-Related counselor and advocates for disability rights in Injuries. Sri Lanka. CIREC, a Bogotá-based rehabilitation center that helps victims of war-related For the first time, over 250 people from 38 countries, including violence, received the organization survivors and experts in trauma recovery, came together to discuss award. The special artist prize went how best to help individuals overcoming war-related injuries. to the Grammy Award-winning Blind It was a chance for a survivor from a small Ethiopian village Boys of Alabama, whose music and to share his story with an amputee from Vietnam. U.S. soldiers performances embody the resilience recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center could make a of the human spirit. connection with wounded soldiers from El Salvador and Bosnia. During the awards ceremony, LSN co-founder and Executive The conference demonstrated what LSN Director Jerry White, urged all landmine and has learned through experience: that the war-injured survivors to stand and share their journey from trauma to recovery transcends name along with the date and location of their culture, race, social class and ideology. accident. Over 70 survivors from more than Practitioners and survivors shared their 30 countries, including many U.S. soldiers challenges and experiences. They confirmed injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, participated LSN’s core belief: The formula for recovery in this “Celebration of Survival.” The Blind must include a supportive social network, and Boys ended the evening with a moving a peer-to-peer relationship. rendition of “Deep River.” During the conference, LSN introduced the first annual Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation REHABILITATION PARTNER STANDS TALL FOR SURVIVORS Prize for Survivorship, created through the generosity of one In 2005, LSN marked the third year of its partnership with CIREC, the leading of LSN’s donor families. Each rehabilitation center in Colombia that facilitates peer support to help victims year, the ceremony and prize recover. This partnership has provided assistance to nearly 400 people. will honor individuals, “I lost my right leg and the use of my left arm to a landmine in 2003,” said organizations and artists that José Alberto Rondón of Colombia. “Each day in rehab I saw people missing demonstrate courage and an arm, an eye…and yet they were happy. This inspired me.” contribute to the recovery of Rondón learned to walk with his prosthesis, and recovered mobility in others. his left arm. The center also connected Rondón to the LSN-sponsored “Seeds of Hope” program, which stands by landmine survivors and their families as they rebuild their lives. “It opened a new door to my future,” said Rondón.
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