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Peace 2000 is a non profit organization with associates in
more than 40 countries. Peace 2000 was founded in 1995 at a
town meeting set by the Icelandic Minister for the Environment
with 500 people and speakers from organizations around the
world, including UNESCO, World Court Project and the Chernobyl
Childrens Project.
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The above photograph is of five year old Amal who we
evacuated from a warn torn country in cooperation with CNN
and flew by air ambulance for urgent hospital treatment in
Amsterdam.
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of Peace 2000 working in the field.
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Peace 2000 has been awarded for its Santa aid flights to war
torn areas done under a special permission of the UN Security
Council, by the Gandhi Foundation, UNESCO and the Greek
Orthodox Church who decorated its founder, Icelandic
Presidential Candidate Thor Magnusson with their Holy Gold
Cross for humanitarian work at a ceremony in memory of Mother
Theresa and Princess Diana.
The work of Peace 2000 has been featured by REUTERS, CNN, ABC,
CBS and others. Peace
2000 has worked together with several other charities,
including the Red Cross and the Red Crescent.
The work of Peace 2000 has been made entirely possible by the
support of corporate and government sponsors
including:
Boeing Aeroplane Group, Alitalia, Icelandair, Air Atlanta, Air
Cyprus, Royal Jordanian Airways, Cronus Airways,Parcelpost,
LandRover, British Civil Aviation Authority,
Eurocontrol,Hilton, Sheraton and Intercontinental Hotels, DHL,
Shell, BP, Verisign,
Western Union
and more than 300 other companies around the world.
Visit the Peace 2000 Institute Homepage and
Forum: www.peace2000.org |
