• About CIVIC

    CIVIC is a Washington-based non-profit organization that believes the civilians injured and the families of those killed should be recognized and helped by the warring parties involved.

    On this blog, you will find stories from our travels around the world as we meet with civilians and military, aid organizations and government in our quest to get war victims the help they need.

  • Countries

    Afghanistan

    Israel

    Lebanon

    Sudan

    United States

  • Contributors

    Sarah, Executive Director.

    Marla B, Associate Director.

    Erica, CIVIC's fellow based in Afghanistan

    Jon, CIVIC's US military consultant.

  • Guest Bloggers

    Michael

    More coming soon!

  • Media Content

    Videos

    Photos

Provincial Reconstruction Teams, Pt. 3

Posted on March 20, 2008 by warvictims

Posted By: Erica

As I mentioned in the last two posts, PRTs (the military outposts across Afghanistan) often have discretionary funds to help them do projects in their surrounding communities. This is particularly true for American PRTs, who tend to be better funded than other NATO countries. Sometimes money isn’t enough though, particularly when it comes [...]

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Greetings from Bint J’Bail…

Posted on March 20, 2008 by warvictims

Posted By: Sarah and Marla B.

We are traveling throughout southern Lebanon right now. This photo was taken by our ‘fixer’ Salim in Bint J’Bail. This area was hit particularly hard in the 2006 war.

We have had limited access to internet here but keep reading because we will send more photos and video blogs soon! [...]

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