The Friends of Salee are 12, 13, and 14 year-old girls who attend Culver City Middle School. They had the chance to meet and visit Salee at the Ronald McDonald House in Los Angeles in fall 2009. They individually have a jar to put coins in for Salee. One of the mothers has knitted holiday items that were sold at a holiday boutique. They also invited family and friends for a fundraiser dinner that they personally planned and prepared.

Salee Allawe will be coming to Los Angeles for follow up prosthetics treatment at Shriners Hospital.

She has outgrown her first pair of prosthetic legs, which she received at Shriners Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina.  We are grateful to Shriners for providing her continuing treatment in Los Angeles.

Salee and her father are presently in Amman, Jordan.  Please check back for updates and events during Salee’s visit to Los Angeles.

Please join us for a musical and cultural celebration of Iraq

Saturday, May 9th, from 3:00 to 6:00 pm

UC-Irvine’s Crystal Cove Auditorium
A311 Student Center
Irvine, CA  92697

Check out the Irvine post for all the details and ticket info!

On Sunday, June 8^th, 2008, Cole Miller, Founder of No More Victims, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters were recipients of the Office of the Americas’ Peace and Justice Award at a brunch held in their honor at the home of director Paul Haggis and his wife, Deborah. The Office of the Americas is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the cause of justice and peace through broad-based educational programs.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, as a member of the Out of Iraq Caucus, has challenged the President on his claim that there is a credible government in Iraq and introduced legislation that she says would require  “that war funding only be spent to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq”.

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In recognition of Father’s Day, Brave New Films made a brief video about Ismaeel Hussein and his nine-year-old son, Abdul Hakeem Khalaf. You can see it here.

Abdul was disfigured when US mortar rounds struck his home during the April 2004 attack on Fallujah. Doctors at a small clinic were able to save the boy’s life, but his father, Ismaeel Hussein, could find no one to repair the damage to Abdul’s face. Such services are not available in occupied Iraq.

No More Victims, an American organization, learned about Abdul Hakeem in 2005, and helped Ismaeel bring his son to the United States for treatment last year. The boy and his father will be returning this summer for follow-up care. (more…)