Landmine Survivors

Healing is Happening

Landmine survivor Isaac Wetewabo shares his hopes as he struggles to provide for his family. The Coffeelands trust, a fund created in 2005, provides support for coffee farmers, like Isaac, and their families impacted by landmines in conflict and post-conflict regions of the world through rehabilitation, training, coffee farm improvements, housing, and small business development.
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Field Report DRC

West Virginian, Dave Evans is renowned for his expertise in making prosthetic limbs, and for helping amputees in war-torn countries throughout the world. Himself an amputee as a result of wounds received in Vietnam, Dave has worked with the Polus Center since 1997 establishing prosthetic rehabilitation programs and training technicians. In this months field report, Dave writes about his latest trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Landmine Survivor Speaks Out

September 15th, 2002 was Adelmo Uni Jimenez’s 27th birthday. Walking along a bridle path In the Yanacona Indigenous community of Cauca, Colombia, Adelmo was rounding up his animals and thinking about a special birthday lunch, when a blast knocked him down to the ground and he lost consciousness. Although he could not immediately focus when he woke up, he felt he was alive. Searing pain in his right leg drew his attention, and he saw that it was torn open.

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