Dear friends About 8 o'clock this morning I was trying to do decide what to do: `should I have a shower now or go down the street and fetch some milk first?' I...
Friends, Attached are three pics from the scene of the Kerrada St bombing. I've chosen not to send out graphic pictures which might be disturbing to some...
(Friends, Many of you have asked about Christmas in Baghdad – sorry it's a bit late, but I'll write about it in two parts – Christmas Eve, then Christmas...
The answer to the most commonly asked question from you guys the last two weeks is yes. It happens. In Iraq. Christmas, that is. In fact, as a predominantly...
In a dark, crowded theatre in Baghdad's Al-Wasiriyah district this week a star was born. His name is Leith. Eight weeks ago Leith, then only 12-years-old, was...
Friends, Attached are two pics of Leith. One when he was on stage the other day, the other taken about eight weeks ago when he was still living on the street. ...
Friends, I have many adventures here that I don’t get time to write about, but here’s the story of one which I wanted to share. It’s about our move to...
Donna Mulhearn
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Jan 21, 2004 12:47 pm
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Hi everyone, A friend of mine, Pete, a professional clown who has come to Iraq to help kids laugh, was with us the night we escaped to the new house. He wrote...
Donna Mulhearn
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Jan 21, 2004 12:55 pm
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Dear Friends, remember how I told you that on the night we escaped from the gang and went to the new house, three of the boys were missing including my special...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Jan 30, 2004 1:59 pm
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Dear friends, Little Mohamed loves to draw. His colourful pictures include typical Iraqi scenes: palm trees, a big sun, blue sky, and of course the tanks,...
Donna Mulhearn
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Feb 8, 2004 1:00 pm
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"Can you help us with some very important work for children in Iraq?" Dr Naser asked as he leaned over his big desk and looked at us earnestly. Dr Naser is the...
So with happy hearts we’ve accepted Dr Naser’s invitation to join in this ‘very important work’. The work will help Iraqi children to play - to laugh,...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Feb 16, 2004 4:28 pm
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Dear Friends Attached is a proposal for the Our Home - Iraq children's project which can be used for fundraising purposes. Please feel free to forward and...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Feb 17, 2004 9:40 am
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Dear friends, I'm sending you a story written by a friend of mine who is an American independent journalist working in Baghdad. It describes the work of our...
Dear friends, Here are a couple of pictures that Dahr Jamail took to go with his story on Seasons Art School children's centre, which I sent in the last...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Feb 26, 2004 2:56 pm
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It gets personal When your friends are involved Here’s the story of my friend, a prison cell and our humanity… I met Issam on my first day in Baghdad. And...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Feb 28, 2004 12:41 pm
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Three days of mourning…. I heard the first explosion early, it was at a distance, but loud enough to wake me from my sleep. The sound always makes me sick. I...
Dear friends, I don’t see social/political activism as a diversion from my spiritual journey, but as an integral part of it. I follow a radical teaching. It...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Mar 6, 2004 12:19 pm
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Dear friends In the last message I shared with you the excellent work of the Christian Peacemaker Team in Baghdad as advocates for peace and justice, both on a...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Mar 14, 2004 5:25 pm
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Friends, The problem of achieving peace does not have a political solution. That's what I reckon. Why? Cos I don't believe that world leaders can bring us...
Friends, The problem of achieving peace does not have a political solution. That’s what I reckon. Why? Cos I don’t believe that world leaders can bring us...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Mar 17, 2004 7:55 pm
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Dear Friends, On the wall of our apartment here in Baghdad we have some pieces of paper that have typed on them peace prayers from the world's faith traditions...
Ra’id, my Iraqi friend, shook his head in disbelief as he reflected on the events of the day. “It’s a miracle - what happened here today,” he said....
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Mar 23, 2004 3:06 pm
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Dear friends, Here's a few pics from the peace ceremony we held in Baghdad on Saturday. 5. Check out the diversityof this group of religious leaders who came...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Mar 23, 2004 3:47 pm
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Dear friends, I have a friend here named Naoko. She used to work with the street kids in Baghdad before heading down south. Our boys know her well. She'd bring...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Apr 9, 2004 12:19 pm
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“These are dark and evil days, “ Frodo would say to Sam, or Merry to Gandalf or countless other characters to each other in the Lord of The Rings –...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Apr 12, 2004 3:03 pm
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Friends, We were having a talk in my living room the other night about the chaos in Iraq. The kidnappings, the bloodshed in Fallujah, the darkness across the...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Apr 13, 2004 2:02 pm
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Dear friends, I'm back from Fallujah and it was quite an experience. I was shot at by American soldiers when we tried to accompany an ambulance containing...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Apr 15, 2004 3:36 pm
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The Road to Fallujah Fallujah is a bustling city of 350,000 people. Bigger than Newcastle, smaller than Sydney. Shops, small industries, markets, mosques –...
Donna Mulhearn
humanshield68@...
Apr 18, 2004 1:01 pm
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On arrival in Fallujah we drove through the deserted streets straight to the clinic where our friends had helped out a few days before. It was a small...
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