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limp-free. “It’s not like you can say, ‘OK, land-mine victims to the front of the line; burn victims and the rest of you will have to wait at the back.’ ”

Because people in war-affected areas are suffering in so many different ways and need help on so many different fronts, the organization broadened its original focus, land-mine survivors, to war survivo rs of all kinds. enables them to reclaim their lives.

Jerry White in Ethiopia showing his prosthetic leg to curious children.

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One thing that distinguishes Survivor Wars are still raging, and long-forgotten Corps from other organizations that help war sites laden with active mines are still war-affected areas internationally is that it destroying people’s lives. But White points encourages war victims to overcome devasta- out that suffering is global. “Life can hurt us tion and violence together through its peer- terribly, and our deepest questions are never support services. Survivor Corps believes that answered,” he says. “We will never know why victims who get support can become very we’re allowed to be tortured by fate. But if we effective catalysts for change. The idea is that hang on long enough, we will see there is a survivors help one another overcome trauma, sequel in survivorship: the opportunity to which aids their own healing and eventually grow stronger and thrive.” C

“… people in war-affected
areas are suffering in so many
different ways and need help
on so many different fronts …

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whom are civilians—to not only survive but thrive in their post-trauma lives. For land-mine victims, that means helping them get well-fitting, high-quality prosthetic limbs and jobs. But Survivor Corps endeavors to help all kinds of war victims.

More than 35 million people around the world have suffered devastation similar to what White endured due to armed conflict. Some are victims of the 39 different wars cur-

rently raging over the globe in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Colombia and Sudan, but many have suffered random devastation left over from the 250-plus conflicts

that ravaged the world during the 20th century. The mine White encountered, for instance, was laid by Syrian soldiers in 1967 during the Six-Day War, when White was only 4 years old.

“While we were working with war victims in many different countries through Landmine Survivors Network, we found that there are all kinds of victims of war,” explains White, who now, nearly 25 years after his accident, carries his 6-foot-plus frame with a prosthetic limb,

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