Freedom Fields USA

03/22/2012

Please come to celebrate our journey at Tehama on Saturday, March 21!

02/02/2012

Check out this great article about a State Department employee's visit to a HALO minefield in Sri Lanka. The U.S. State Department is a longtime supporter of mineclearance and has generously funded Freedom Fields USA and The HALO Trust over the years. Like the author, many of Freedom Fields' members have spent time observing the work of HALO deminers in minefields.

I admit I was slightly relieved when our armored car got stuck in a thick pool of mud about a quarter of a mile down the jungle road that led to the minefield. I had arrived in Sri Lanka just two days earlier, and everyone told me that a visit to the former conflict area of Kilinochchi was essentia...

12/20/2011

http://www.c-span.org/Events/C-SPAN-Event/10737426421/

The State Department released its report focusing on landmine clearance and convention weapons destruction. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs, Andrew Shapiro, made remarks to reporters.

12/03/2011

http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/nz-fund-landmine-clearance-cambodia/5/109461

The New Zealand Campaign Against Landmines (CALM) welcomes the New Zealand government�s decision to provide US $1.05 million (NZD $1.3 million) to clear landmines in north-west Cambodia.

11/22/2011

http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20111121/BUSINESS/111210311

Realtor Marta Karpiel, a sales associate with Alain Pinel Realtors in Carmel, is one of five winners chosen by the National Association of Realtors as REALTOR Magazine's 2011 Good Neighbor Award winners.

11/14/2011

10/26/2011

Please join us at our next exciting fundraising event on Saturday, November 12, 2011. As Honorary Chair, Cindy McCain plans to attend!

10/14/2011

Landmine clearance not only saves lives, it creates jobs for some of Cambodia's poorest people.

Mineclearance not only saves lives and returns land to productive use, it also creates jobs. In Cambodia, HALO employs 1,100 local staff. Ms. Kann Sophorn (age 24), who is a HALO Section Commander, told HALO "I am happy and proud of my work, because I can earn money to support my whole family and I can help the villagers in my village and others from mine accidents. I can help my country.” Read the rest of the interview on GlobalGiving.org - http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/clear-cambodia-of-landmines/updates/

10/12/2011

Please join us this weekend at the Carmel Art and Film Festival!

09/15/2011

Freedom Fields is extremely proud to be HALO Trust's second largest active private donor. To date, thanks to FFUSA, 6,104 landmines and unexploded ordnance have been found and destroyed and $791,000 has been donated to mineclearance.

09/15/2011