Press

December 12, 2006 

From Mines to Vines: Two Mothers in Afghanistan, The Embassy of Afghanistan

November 26, 2006

Saving the World, One Mine at a Time, San Francisco Chronicle

April 10, 2006

Croatian president visits Rutherford, promotes Roots of Peace program, Napa Valley Register

March 16, 2006

Roots of Peace Awarded $765,000, Marin Independent Journal

January 29, 2006

From mines to vines - Group that turns killing fields to farmland honors late Napan Erika Hills,

September 14 , 2006

Penny Campaign to Turn Afghan Minefields Into Playgrounds, Diplomatic Pouch

By GAIL SCOTT, The Washington Diplomat

On the five-year anniversary of 9/11, more than 1,000 Fremont, Calif., teenagers—many of Afghan, Iranian and Iraqi descent—participated in a special junior high school assembly honoring those lost and recognizing the everyday heroic efforts of local police and fire departments. The event also kicked off the annual Roots of Peace Penny Campaign to give children in war-torn Afghanistan safe schools and soccer fields.

September 12 , 2006

Children Show the Way to Helping Mine Victims, The Mercury News

At an assembly Monday, the students of Thornton Junior High in Fremont honored the memory of those who died on Sept. 11 by launching a penny drive to protect children living in the dark shadow of the Taliban and three decades of war.

Over the next few weeks, they will be participating in Roots of Peace, a campaign in schools across the nation to raise money to rid Afghanistan of land mines. Perhaps nowhere will that humanitarian effort resonate more than at Thornton. Fremont has the largest concentration of Afghan-Americans in the nation -- as many as 15,000 -- and Thornton is close to the city's small-business district known as Little Kabul.