However difficult, accept the harsh reality about suffering and loss. "A terrible thing happened. It cannot be changed. So now what?"

I Will Not Be Broken

Jerry White, Survivor Corps Founder

Jerry is a recognized leader of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and co-founder of Survivor Corps (formerly Landmine Survivors Network). In 1984, Jerry lost his leg—and almost his life—in a landmine accident. He has endured the pain of loss and the challenge of rebuilding. As co-founder of Survivor Corps, Jerry has interviewed thousands of victims of tragedy. With this book, he shares what he—and they—have learned.

Survivor Corps Remembers the Queen of Peoples’ Hearts

7/1/2009 1:22:00 PM

“I just want to make a difference in peoples’ lives, to be a force for good.”

Today, on her birthday, Survivor Corps remembers Princess Diana for her outspoken support for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, the movement out of which Survivor Corps was born.

In 1997, Survivor Corps was founded as Landmine Survivors Network. Our co-founders, Jerry White and Ken Rutherford, escorted Princess Diana on her last humanitarian mission to Bosnia & Herzegovina to meet landmine survivors. The global media attention she brought to the issue helped generate worldwide support for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, resulting in the Mine Ban Treaty, which entered into force in 1999.

“When she said she wanted to be the ‘Queen of Peoples’ Hearts,’ she meant it,” Jerry recalls. “Her gifts were real, remarkable, and deeply intuitive.”

Princess Diana understood survivorship and what it meant to support others through crisis. As she so simply put it, its starts with “caring enough to show up.”

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