MOTHERS on a Camden Town estate raised £55 for maimed Iraqi children at a jumble sale on Saturday.
It may only be a small sum of money but it demonstrates that ordinary people care – far more, perhaps, than the government which is failing in its responsibility to provide proper medical care for hundreds of little children seriously wounded in the Iraq war.
The sale was organised by Amber Wilson and Connie Durban on the St Pancras Way estate in Agar Grove after hearing about the plight of Iraqi children.
“It’s terrible what has happened to those kids,” Connie Durban told the New Journal. “We know we cannot do much for them but we thought every little bit counts.”
Also at the sale was Nawal Karim of the Iraqi Women’s League who turned up to help after reading about it about in the New Journal. In the past week she has been frantically trying to ring members of her family in Baghdad. She said: “My family can’t visit my mother because it is so dangerous. They all voted in the election but it hasn’t made any difference.”
The New Journal has decided to back the campaign to raise funds for the disabled children in Iraq after a former reporter Lee Gordon, who was covering the war for the Sunday Telegraph, brought back an 11-year-old girl, Zeynab, who had lost a leg in a bombing raid. After she had been fitted with an artificial leg Lee Gordon took her back to her father – the only remaining member of her family wiped out by a cluster bomb.
Generous readers have so far sent more than £1,400 to the New Journal which is raising money for the forgotten children of Iraq along with the Fitzrovia based Islam TV channel.
Please send cheques payable to Our Home Iraq, posted to Our Home Iraq Appeal, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London NW1 9DR.
Pictured: fundraisers Amber Wilson, Robert Durban,
Connie Durban.