Dear Friends,

Please take a moment to watch this video and pass it along to everyone you know.

Our goal is no small feat. We need to get the attention of every technology company purchasing conflict minerals and urge them to stop funding the deadliest conflict in the world and ensure their profits are not being built on the blood of women and girls of Congo.

What takes a few minutes out of your day today, can change the course of history tomorrow.

We are pleased to announce that Apple and Intel will soon boast “conflict-free” gadgets and laptops. The two tech companies joined the Conflict-Free Smelter Program, a voluntary project by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative and Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition requiring third-party verification that the processing plants where the companies purchase their materials don’t source minerals from the DRC. This is great news but there is still much more that has to be done. As consumers, we must demand conflict-free electronics by pressuring electronics companies to remove conflict minerals from their production line so we can help end this injustice in Congo.

Thank you,

Mary Fanaro
Founder/CEO

What are Conflict Minerals?

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the deadliest conflict in the world since World War II.

Approximately six million people have died and hundreds of thousands of women and children have been raped while the violence worsens every day.

The war is fuled by a multi-million dollar trade in minerals (tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold) which are referred to as “conflict minerals” used in high demand electronic products such as cell phones, lap tops, computers, mp3 players, etc. the technology companies buying these minerals are funding this war.

Once consumers realize their purchases are funding the worst sexual violence on the planet against women and children, they will be motivated to purchase the only “conflict free” electronic systems on the market.

Inside cell phones, laptops, computers, mp3 players, video games, etc. are “conflict minerals” which are purchased by electronic companies who are the largest users of these minerals.

Conflict Minerals are:

  1. Tin: used as a solder to keep parts together on circuit
    boards.
  2. Tantalum: Used as a mini-battery inside electronics.
  3.  Tungsten: Helps a phone vibrate.
  4. Gold: Most valuable metal in a cell phone.

Conflict Minerals fuel the war in Eastern Congo:

  1. The war is now a fight over which rebel group is
    controlling the mines and     trading routes     which earn
    approx $180 million dollars per year.
  2. This has created the deadliest war in the world since
    World War II with over six million dead.
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Above are images drawn by “child victims of violence” from Lalela Project which were incorporated on OmniPeace t-shirts. Courtesy of Lalela Project

Creation of OmniPeace/Lalela Project Congo T-Shirts.
Please click the image to view the video.

OmniPeace Founder/CEO, Mary Fanaro along with Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston and Sheryl Crow at the launch of “Stamp Out Violence Against Women and Girls of Congo” t-shirt campaign. Please click the image to view the video.

Eve Ensler (Founder V-Day Foundation), Dr Mukwege (winner United Nations Humanitarian Prize and doctor at Panzi Hospital) and actress Rosario Dawson.


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President Obama “Call-to-Action” Postcard/Hangtag on Campaign T-Shirts.