Girl Scouts Do A World Of Good
Friday was a night of celebration and fundraising for Girl Scout troop 125 from Essex Junction and troop 820 from Williston. The two troops are trying to raise $6,000 to buy a prosthetic leg for a girl they've never even met.
"Anita in Bosnia and when she was eleven she stepped on a landmine and lost her leg," explains 12-year-old Maria Mignano...< read more >
Local Girl Scout Troops Sponsor Mine-Sniffing Dog and Sarajevo Landmine Victim
Not all Vermont’s Girl Scouts are out selling Thin Mints. The 11- and 12-year-olds in troops 820 and 125 — in Williston and Essex Junction, respectively — wanted to know what life would be like for someone hurt by a landmine. Troop leaders Jennifer Mignano and Chandelle Trahan came up with a fitting assignment: Have them make fleece blankets for local emergency.....< read more >
Local school may sponsor
mine-sniffing dog
STAMFORD — Perry Baltimore III, president of the Marshall Legacy Institute, knelt before a room of 60 elementary school students at Grace Christian School in Stamford, holding up a small, flat canister about the size of a coaster. The top of it resembled a big, flat button....< read more >
Sanborn schools keep up Bosnian connections
What started as a fourth-grade project to adopt a mine-sniffing dog has grown to encompass the entire Sanborn school district community and students in Bosnia.....< read more >
DG Marie and Exeter Rotarians welcomes the
Marshall Legacy Institute...
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Berkner students tackle explosive issue Richardson: Group hopes to raise $40,000 for mine-detecting dogs
The faceless, silent enemy sits in a strange land thousands of miles away. But students in Richardson's Berkner High School CHAMPS program are doing their part to eliminate the deadly adversary. They're raising money to train and deploy land mine-detecting dogs to Bosnia and other countries ravaged by war....< read more >
Washington Tecnology Magazine,
Picture This:
Good Girl
The Marshall Legacy Institute and Qwest Communications announced Feb. 1 their expanded partnership to provide landmine-detection dogs in war-torn countries, with plans to involve Arizona...< read more >
Pritzker Military Library, live webcast, 
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
Today at the Pritzker Military Library:
MARSHALL LEGACY INSTITUTE Mine Detection Dog Partnership Program (MDDPP) Children Against Mines Program (CHAMPS)
The Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI) was founded in 1997, the 50th Anniversary year of the Marshall Plan, to celebrate the work of General George C. Marshall, and to extend his vision and legacy to address 21 st Century problems. The charter of the organization is to build local capacity to help alleviate human suffering, restore hope and nurture stability in post-conflict societies. Since landmines...< read more >
US Department of State, Safe Passage newsletter, Spring 2006, Vol. 1, Issue 8
Marshall Legacy Institute Promotes CHAMPS in Arizona and California
The Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI) took its CHildren Against Mines Program (CHAMPS) to Phoenix, Arizona, in February to promote the landmine issue and foster a spirit of global citizenship among local schoolchildren. The CHAMPS Team ...< read more >
Dogs sniff out threatening landmines
Innocent people in more than 60 nations around the world face a major barrier to economic recovery, because of landmines buried by insurgent military forces, and thousands of people have been killed or maimed by these hidden menaces. Now, however, a U.S.-formed corps of more than 700 highly trained dogs holds out hope that these landmines will be....< read more >
In the News: Dog Rescue Workers
Did you know that dogs can be much more than family pets? Rescue dogs are working all over the country and around the world to sniff out danger! A dog's nose is at least one thousand times more sensitive than a human's, so dogs can detect smells....< read more >
Man and dog provide land-mine education
SOUTH HADLEY - An effort by a local high school girl to raise $20,000 to train a land-mine sniffing dog to be named "South Hadley" and to work with the Children Against Mines Program overseas got an assist from former Clinton Administration National Security Advisor Anthony Lake during a recent assembly at Mosier Elementary School. "We're going to introduce you to a hero who has saved more lives ....< read more >
Dog Defenders
Across the country and around the world, pooches are on patrol to keep people safe A dog named Wyoming spends many mornings walking in fields with her nose to the ground. She may look like she's searching for a toy, but she's working to save lives. Wyoming works with CHAMPS (Children Against Mines Program), an organization that teaches kids about the dangers of land mines in countries ....< read more >
Norwich Leaders Join Campaign to Sniff Out Landmines
On April 29, 2005, Vermont Governor
Jim Douglas, former National Security
Advisor Anthony Lake, and Marcelle
Leahy joined Norwich University
Chairman of the Board General Gordon
R. Sullivan ’59 and President Richard
Schneider to launch a statewide landmine
awareness campaign that will
provide Vermont schoolchildren with
an opportunity to help children in
nations where deadly landmines
remain buried. The star of the kick-off
was Rosa, an 11-year-old Belgian ....< read more >
Exhibit puts landmines in Loop
Demonstration in Block 37 kicks off conference raising awareness of problem
.An empty water bottle stuck on a tree branch in Block 37 Thursday was the only marker to show Kristen Neria that she was within 2 feet of a deactivated land mine. "Whoa," said Neria, 33, after searching the ground in the vacant Loop lot and spotting the buried dummy, a tiny piece of...< read more >
The Town reminder (South Hadley, MA) Oct 28 - Nov 3, 2005
Teen on a mission : Chelsea Fernandes is on her way to raising $20K for the purchase of a mine sniffing dog
SOUTH HADLEY -
South Hadley High School student Chelsea Fernandes is on a mission to save lives.
She'll utilize the help of man's best friend to accomplish that goal. The SHHS junior is a quarter of the way through her campaign to raise $20,000 to fund the adoption and training of a mine-detecting dog. Fernandes is working with the Marshall Legacy Institute, which sponsors the Children Against Mines Program (CHAMPS). CHAMPS educates children about the threat of land mines and helps them raise money to adopt a dog....< read more >
Effort started for landmine dog
The mine detection dogs are trained to sniff out 11 different odors.
NORTHAMPTON - A statewide effort to raise $20,000 to sponsor a landmine detection dog began in City Hall here today with living proof a canine's nose is a vital part of ridding the world of those explosive devices. ....< read more >
Eagle
Tribune (New
Hampshire) May
3, 2005 On the road to 'America'
Their backpacks jingling with spare change found between sofa cushions,
saved in piggy banks, and given to them by their parents, students at
DJ Bakie Elementary School lined up to empty their donations into a fund
that might someday improve life for people living thousands of miles
away from this small New Hampshire community.....
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Daily
Hampshire Gazette (New Hampshire) May 5, 2005 Students learn of work dismantling tool of war
SOUTH HADLEY - The dog named Rosa has talents far beyond those of the
average pooch. She can detect the odors of 11 distinct types of explosives.
South Hadley elementary students, who watched Rosa in action this week,
also learned she has another talent.
The dog understands Dutch. ....< read more >