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HALTON. This year's campaign aims to raise $5 million province wide and $160,000.00 locally for p/nograms to combat asthma, emphy- s-Sema, lung cancer. and other forms of lung disease. which together repre- sent the third leading cause of dealth Lung Assoc. hopes to raise $160,000 from Christmas Seals Mercy stages special exhibit (Continued from page 3) who recently came back from an four-month stint in that war-torn country for Mercy International, now headquartered in pakyille: The exhibit, Hope in Hell, open to the public this weekend, Nov. 13th and 14th from 10 am. to 6 p.m., at A05 Iroquois Shore Rd. at Eighth Line, efficially opens Mercy International Canada's headquarters, and kicks off its Hope in Hell Campaign to raise $25 million to pro- vide food, clothing, shelter and medi- cal relief for the more than three mil- lion refugees left with nothing. The official opening, by invitation only, is on Friday. Manney. who gave up a public relations career in New York City's corporate world to work for Mercy International. assembled the exhibit hom museums, churches, photogra- phers, and items bonowed from the refugees. such as pictures and dam- aged keepsakes. After its two-day showing in Oakville, the exhibit moves into Toronto before the items are returned to the people of the for- mer Yugoslavia The aim of this exhibit is two- fold, says Mercy lntemational's pres- ident Michael Campbell. It's to create an understanding of the suffering of these people, and at the same time, raise the necessary funds to continue this relief effort. Mercy International, an international humanitarian relief agency based in Switzerland. has more than 20 people working in the former Yugoslavia, it being the agen- cy's primary mission. "Though we see daily pictures on TV, it is difficult from Canada to truly comprehend the suffering." says Campbell. "The exhibit will help people develop a greater understand- ing of the war's impact. But more importantly. it will also show how each of us can bring hope to the vic- Campbell himself has visited the former Yugoslavia. "I have recently visited this beleaguered land and I witnessed the terrible suffering and anguish being endured there," he writesinpopenutterofappealfor understanding. "People have been left without homes, without food and without medicine. Their schools are destroyed, their fields are burnt and their places of worship are levelled. They number more than two million - and they are the lucky ones. T "Tens of thousands have been killed. Thousands upon thousands of children have been orphaned and thousands upon thousands of women raped. Horrible abuse has been infliced upon a whole population." Manney, who describes himself as a 'quasi-journalist' who wanted to use his public relations skills "to make a difference" has written arti- cles about his experiences in the for- mer Yugoslavia to promote the fundraising and to raise awareness. He writes about a Bosnian Catholic priest who brought I,300 parish- ioners to Croatia, runs a vocational school for 2,000 refugees and man- ages a rehabilitation centre; a Palestinian doctor, since joined by 13 others, who single-handedly built a hospital and treated more than 6,000 Muslims, Croats and Serbs in 14 months, despite dwindling supplies and occasional electricity; a social worker who With 12 colleagues, pro- vided housing, food and financial assistance to 240,000 refugees in the last two years. _ IO, 1993 "We want people, when they look at our exhibit, to understand how war affects their everyday lives, and to not choose sides," said Manney. "We're not here to choose who's right and who's wrong, but to offer help. We want people to see the war through their eyes, their fears, their loss of hope and destruction. Their homes were burnt, they've lost everything. their personal things, all of the things that would be so impor- tant to them." His mission was to distribute aid - medicine, food, and clothing to refugees, to help rebuild hospitals, and to initiate farm projects, "and to also use my public relations skills to show North Americans what real suf- fering is and how we can help. When you just see the pictures on TV and read the newspapers stories, it's easy to distance yourself. - __ "When i was there, I came across some displays the people had set up, and it had a great impagt on me. _iVing in the: middle of a war in Canada. The 1993 Seal was designed by artist. Raymond Boyer. The Seal retlects a continuing fondness for tra- ditional holiday images, It depicts a burning candle against a winter's night sky. The flame is symbolic of hope -hope for those struggling with lung disease. But there's a part of the Christmas Seal tradition The Lung Association would just as soon end. Funds from the first campaign were used to fight tuberculosis (TB), which was then the leading killer in Ontario. That fight which once seemed all but won continues, as outbreaks of drug-tesis- tant TB have raised the spectre of deadly epidemics. “It's hot time to panic about the threat from TB in Canada," says Dr. John Kirby, medical advisor to The Lung Assbciation, "through educa- tion and research supported by decided to collect a few things for an exhibit here. For me, this is so much more personal than videos, because I could touch the war." Manney lived with some of col- leagues in Zagreb, and visited differ- ent villages "dodging the fighting" as he worked. More than one million of the refugees are in 'safe' places "where we can help them." The war, he says, "is being fought all over the former Yugoslavia," and the reasons for this civil unrest are "very, very complicated, too complicated to real- ly understand. "We, at Mercy International, make a point of helping everyone. We look at who's suffering, not at who's guilty and who's innocent," conclud- ed Manney who plans to return to the former Yugoslavia next year. "In the former Yugoslavia we have a very significant presence." said Campbell, "but if you add up all of the work done by agencies such as ourselves, the Red Cross and United Nations, we're meeting only 18% of the the total need." -" IC 842-2821 ";, 238 SPEERS RD., OAKVlLLE 9456601 "tTaGTjGiVadirorvo ma) OPEN: Mon-Fri. 8 ant-5 pm. 5 Sat 8 a.m.-1p.m g; with purchase of your Rx lenses Christmas Seals today, there's less chance they'll have to worry about tuberculosis tomorrow as well as other forms of lung disease." 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