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OUR MISSION AND BACKGROUND
Charity Technology Trust Aims Charity Technology Trust
The Opportunity to Make a Difference
This website is
an initiative by the Peace 2000 Institute a non profit organizatin with
associates in more than 40 countries. Peace 2000 has for a number of years
flown humanitarian aid to children in war torn areas. The organization has
produced TV infomercials against violence and is now expanding it's media work
with the launch of a cooperative grassroots television network with a focus on
peace, human rights, reconciliation and community building. Peace 2000 is
developing the concept of the Althing Peace Assembly as an important step
towards democratic development towards peace in the Middle East and other
conflict areas.
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.
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