Friday’s Marin Independent Journal gave very nice coverage to No More Victims and the work by local groups, Ruth Group and Iraq Action Group, to bring an Iraqi child to the Bay Area for medical treatment.

AN IRAQI TODDLER NAMED MUSTAFA, injured last year by American bombs, will be brought to the Bay Area for treatment in early July because of the efforts of anti-war activists in Marin and a national organization called No More Victims.

Mustafa Ghazwan, 2, will receive cochlear implants to restore his hearing, destroyed by percussion in the American bombing raid.

Marin’s Ruth Group, founded in February 2003, is helping organize Mustafa’s treatment - raising funds and seeking support services for the boy while he is here.

“This project recognizes the true costs of the war, of the thousands of children and families that have been killed or injured,” says Ruth Friend of Mill Valley, organizer of the group that bears her name. “It is doing something that will actually help somebody.”

“We hope it will spur interest from other communities to do the same thing,” says Amy Skewes-Cox of Ross, who is organizing the project. “We want it to be contagious.”

Good Samaritans