Press

December 26, 2003

Land Mine Activism Has Roots In San Rafael, San Francisco Chronicle

December 21, 2003

Miracle On 5th Avenue, Marin Independent Journal

Monday, December 22, 2003

Every Penny Counts in Landmine Battle, Marin Independent Journal

Tad Whitaker

About 150 people participated in an unusual mass yesterday in San Rafael that involved so much pocket change it had to be wheeled inside with wagons.

Roots of Peace, the San Rafael-based organization dedicated to eradicating landmines around the world, ended its month-long “Penny Drive” with one last solicitation at St. Raphael’s Church before the equivalent of 5 million pennies – or $50,000 – was donated to a campaign to de-mine Afghanistan.

Tuesday, December 2, 2003

Nobel Laureate to be Voice for Pennies for Peace, Marin Independent Journal

Jennifer Gollan

Jody Williams, a 1997 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, announced yesterday her plans to become an international ambassador of sorts for Pennies for Peace, a new local nonprofit group that collects donations from schoolchildren to help remove land mines in war-torn countries.

Williams made her announcement before more than 200 diplomats, business people and local residents at an early evening cocktail party at the San Rafael home of the group's 16-year-old co-founder, Kyleigh Kühn.

Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Small Change Makes a Big Difference With Pennies For Peace, The Ark

Judith Wilson

Pennies for Peace made its debut on September 11, brining new meaning and hope to a day marked by national tragedy. The initiative is a program of Roots of Peace, nonprofit organization that is dedicated to removing landmines from countries devastated by war. It is special because American children are leaders, reaching out to children in Afghanistan by collecting pennies to pay for converting minefields in that country into usable land for schools and playing fields.

In Memory: Deora Bodley

As a representative of September 11th Families of Peaceful Tomorrow’s, and as an individual person who knows first-hand the tragedy of losing a loved one to the senseless violence of man's inhumanity to man, I am happy to make a special gift to the Roots of Peace “Making Change Work”’ Penny Drive. How happy I was to find that an organization such as Roots of Peace, dedicated to making a change for the betterment of those suffering from the ravages of war, had chosen to use the concept of change -- coins in everyone's pockets -- to remind people to “make” some “change” in the world...