OAS RECEIVES DONATION ON BEHALF OF NICARAGUAN LANDMINE VICTIM

OAS/weekly report of March 11.

A group of high school students on March 7 presented the OAS with a donation to help with job training for a young Nicaraguan woman who as a child lost both legs to landmines. William McDonough, Director of the OAS Mine Action Program Area of the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, accepted the $1,500 gift from Global Care Unlimited, a non-profit group engaged in humanitarian efforts. Global Care, which operates out of Tenafly Intermediate School in New Jersey, brought together 800 students from 25 schools in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area to launch their Mine Action Coalition. The donation was the first towards a new job training program for Nicaraguan landmine victims. Under its broader mine action program in Nicaragua, the OAS has helped some 400 survivors get medical treatment, prostheses, counseling and other forms of assistance. The Global Care donation is earmarked for Meylín Elisa Estrada, who lives in Juigalpa, Nicaragua