December 3, 2009 – The Huffington Post

Obama's Opportunity to Lead a Landmine-Free World [pdf]

"For twelve years, the United States has refused to ban a weapon that kills and mutilates innocent women, men and children even in peacetime. The time has come for the world's most powerful high-tech military to give up its low-tech stockpile of ten million antipersonnel landmines." - Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Survivor Corps Patron

December 4, 2009 - El Tiempo

 
Vice President rolls with landmine survivors [pdf]

Colombia's Vice President, Francisco Santos, plays a game of quad rugby alongside landmine survivors. The event, "Rumble in Cartagena," was organized by Survivor Corps and proved to be a capstone to the Cartagena Summit for a Mine-Free World, a week-long conference evaluating the Ottawa Treaty.

December 1, 2009 – San Francisco Chronicle

 
San Francisco masked ball assists war survivors [pdf]

“No mystery, however, about the cause. Joyner and Giuffrida sponsored the fete, Alicia and Daniel Blythewood were the official hosts, and Amanda Paxel and her husband, Gus Araya, organized an Internet campaign to get young patrons to donate to the beneficiary, Survivor Corps, a group that grew out of the Landmine Survivors Network and helps survivors of war to get on with their lives.”

November 11, 2009 – NPR: The Diane Rehm Show

Help for America's Veterans [mp3]

“We’re launching an initiative today, along with dozens of other leading organizations, called the Campaign for Healthy Homecoming…On the President’s desk right now is a plan to win the war in Afghanistan. What we don’t have as a country is a plan to win the war at home…for a healthy homecoming for service members and their families.” Scott Quilty, coordinator of the Campaign for Healthy Homecoming

November 11, 2009 – Change.org

 
America's Veterans Deserve A Healthy Homecoming [pdf]

"Indeed, for all veterans, the homecoming process doesn't last a day, or a week. It's a constant effort that involves peers, entire families, and involved communities. Starting today, Veterans Day, I am asking you to be a part of this effort by joining the Campaign for Healthy Homecoming."

November 8, 2009 – The Washington Post

 
Military Experts Discuss the Attack at Fort Hood [pdf]

“War is violent, of course. In Iraq's "triangle of death" in 2006, I stepped on an improvised explosive device and lost my arm and my leg. That kind of violence is easy for people to grasp. But how do families and our nation comprehend what happened at Fort Hood?” Scott Quilty, coordinator of the Campaign for Healthy Homecoming

November 7, 2009 – WMUR New Hampshire

 
War Has Impact On Counselors [pdf]

“While he never talked with the suspected Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan, [Scott] Quilty said mental health professionals there deal with a lot of problems. Quilty himself now works for Survivor Corps, a nonprofit dedicated to helping survivors of war rebuild their lives and communities."

October 17, 2009 – ElSalvador.com

 
Physical Disability is Increased by Road Barriers [pdf]

“Jesus Martinez, executive director of the Network for Survivors and Persons with Disabilities in El Salvador, argues that the urban environment poses great difficulties for people with physical disabilities, although the Equal Opportunity law entitles people with disabilities to favorable conditions in road infrastructure to enable mobility.”

August 2009 - Ability Magazine

A Step Towards Awareness [pdf]

“We started in Bosnia with Princess Diana and then we expanded to work with Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan… We grew, doing more than 100,000 peer visits to homes and hospitals. We worked with each individual we met through our network to develop what we call, individual recovery action plans.” Jerry White, Survivor Corps Founder and Executive Director.

July 16, 2009 - Philadelphia Inquirer

Coalition aiding military children meets in Philadelphia [pdf]

“Army veteran Scott Quilty led a session called ‘Mom/Dad is Home. Now What?’ Quilty, the U.S. program manager of a nonprofit group called Survivor Corps, told participants of his 2006 service in Iraq…His emotional recovery, he said, has been harder than his physical one.”

May 17, 2009 - Mount Airy News

Authors speak to packed house at dinner [pdf]

“According to [Jerry] White, there are five steps to moving from victim to survivor to leader. First, the victim must face facts, then they must choose life. Third, they should reach out to others and get moving. The final step is to give back by joining an organization such as Survivor Corps or simply visiting others who suffer from similar injuries to show them that they can get through it.”

April 29, 2009 - The New Times

Rwanda: '94 Genocide Survivors to be Honoured in New York [pdf]

“Survivor Corps, a global network of survivors, together with the Niarchos Foundation, will today honour the survivors of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi during a luncheon ceremony to be held in New York…President Paul Kagame sent a delegation of three survivors to the award giving ceremony to receive the award, on his and the country's behalf.”

April 22, 2009 - USA TODAY

Gaza doctor to share US prize with Sderot woman [pdf]

“Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, the Gaza doctor who in January lost three of his daughters when IDF soldiers fired tank shells on his home, thinking there were terrorists inside, will share the Niarchos Prize for Survivorship with Nomika Zion from Sderot.  The prize, sponsored by the group Survivor Corps, will be presented to the two on April 29 in New York City as Palestinian and Israeli survivors of war and violence.”

March 27, 2009 - Yedioth Ahronoth

Oleh Laregel (Pilgrim On Foot) [pdf]

“During his visit to Israel [Jerry] White went to Rambam hospital to meet Vichien, a Thai worker who, just like him, lost his leg in a Golan minefield at the beginning of the month. ‘He was still in the shock phase,’ said White. ‘Everybody goes through this. When we entered the room he didn't smile. He was very curious to see my prosthesis, because apparently he had never seen one before.’”

March 2009 – The Costco Connection

Soul Survivor [pdf]

“‘The people most equipped to make changes that really matter in the world are those who have been most affected by what's wrong with it,’ says Jerry White, a long time Costco member and cofounder of Survivor Corps, an organization committed to helping victims of war around the world. He is specifically talking about the mayhem of armed conflicts, but in a larger sense, he tells The Connection, he's speaking of all human suffering.”

March 2, 2009 - Times Online

Why are limbs still being lost to landmines? [pdf]

“[Ken] Rutherford is a professor of political science at Missouri State University and is writing a book about the drafting of the Ottawa Convention. His original two-man band is now known as Survivor Corps and has offices worldwide and a headquarters in Washington employing 20 people. He was heavily involved in the convention banning cluster munitions that was approved last year.”

February 1, 2009 - The New Times

Rwanda: Survivor Corps Comes to Country [pdf]

“It kicked off its programmes in the country with a three-day training of various organisation representatives that ended Friday at Hotel La Palisse Nyandungu. The organisations were from as far as Uganda and Burundi.”

November 6, 2008 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

 
Landmine Survivor Shares Personal Journey [pdf]

“Jerry White knows how to grab an audience's attention. He takes off his leg and passes it around…After the presentation at Hampton High School, 15-year-old sophomore, Jessica Iwasaki, said, ‘I learned that being a survivor doesn't mean you have to lose your leg or something that big. Being a survivor can mean surviving a little thing.’”

July 4, 2008 - New Hampshire Union Leader 

 
The long road back for a wounded warrior [pdf]

"But the hardest part of rehab is not learning to walk again or ride a bike again…or learning how you have to go about cooking dinner with a prosthetic arm…The hardest part is asking the existential questions: What are the basic strands of what I did before my injury that carry over to what I can do after? What about my job, my career, can I carry with me, and what do I need to lay down? Who am I and how do I define myself as I move forward through this process, which never really ends?" [Scott Quilty] said.

June 20, 2008 - Cohasset Mariner

 
Surviving and Thriving: Cohasset native pens book on overcoming tragedy [pdf]

"'Everyone has an explosive moment,’ said [Jerry] White, a moment where everything changes and it could happen at any time. For some, it’s the day they learn they can’t have children. For others, it is the moment the war begins. Or the hurricane hits. For White, it was the second a landmine ripped through his leg while hiking through Israel with college friends.”

May 12, 2008 – Los Angeles Times

 
Before and after Iraq [pdf]

“Scott [Quilty] -- with injuries more severe, outlook perhaps a bit different -- had started working for the Survivor Corps, formerly the Landmine Survivors Network, a nonprofit organization dedicated to ‘helping each other overcome the effects of war and violence.’ He gave me a book its president, Jerry White -- himself a land-mine survivor -- had just finished writing…The book gives advice on how to handle those "unavoidable moments that divide our lives into 'before' and 'after.'”