No More Victims - News Archive

Hillsboro High School seniors Yousuf Ahmad and Hailey Simon are spearheading a citywide interfaith initiative to benefit the children of Iraq.

The two are coordinating a concert to benefit No More Victims, a nonprofit organization committed to restoring the health and well being to victims of war and advocating for peace, at 6 p.m., Friday, April 18, at Rocketown.

“We actually were looking for a benefit to raise money for,” Yousuf said. “What we were looking for was a new charity that isn’t professionally staffed and didn’t have millions of dollars so our contributions could really make a difference. We just wanted to try something new.”

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There’s no better way to tell your valentine you love them than by shouting it over some righteous jams.

A benefit concert, “No More Victims,” will be held on Thursday. The event is hosted by Best Heard Blind, in Association with the Mountain View Market Co-op Rocks program.

No More Victims is a nonprofit organization working to restore health and well-being to victims of war, specifically children. No More Victims helps to organize and fund the effort to get medical treatment for Iraqi families in need.

More than 30 American communities have been inspired to develop similar projects under the banner of No More Victims. Founding director and Los Angeles resident Cole Miller will be speaking at the benefit concert. (more…)

The young woman’s voice was hard to hear over the phone, and she spoke in her native tongue.Even so, Monica O’Neil and Mary Younan of Chico were thrilled to actually hear Noora, an injured 19-year-old Iraqi woman they’ve been working to help since October.

Through an interpreter, O’Neil and Younan were able to communicate with Noora directly Wednesday morning, thanks to a conference call arranged by No More Victims, the group they’ve been working with. (more…)

Noor Obaid walked the streets of Iraq with her head down because she’s self-conscious and embarrassed about her lazy left eye, blinded and scarred by shrapnel three-and-a-half years ago.

The U.S. military attacked 19-year-old Obaid and her family as they drove along a Fallujah highway in August 2004, she told a group of Americans — including some from Mariposa and El Portal — dedicated to getting her medical treatment.

Obaid’s uncle died, shrapnel lodged in her mother’s chest and metal shards ripped into her eye.

Fellow Iraqis wouldn’t take them to the hospital because they were intimidated by the U.S. soldiers’ presence at the checkpoint, she recalled. Finally, the troops left and they were taken to the hospital, where she was given pain pills, but no treatment.

After suffering day after day and year after year since then, Obaid will finally be able to lift her head. (more…)

Las Cruces-based funky rock band Finnigan and the No Gooders is no stranger to performing at Mountain View Market’s Co-Op Rocks.

Jesse Medina, the band’s guitarist and vocalist, said the event always brings out a variety of people of all ages.

Finnigan and the No Gooders will perform with other artists for the latest Co-Op Rocks Ð “No More Victims” Valentine’s Day benefit concert — from 6 p.m. to midnight tonight at Mountain View Market, 1300 El Paseo Road, Suite M.

No More Victims raises money to provide medical care to Iraqi children injured by the war, even bringing them to the United States for medical treatment, which Medina said is a cause his band wanted to support. (more…)