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Hugs for Healing

Matthew Reed Smith, age 24, was killed in Iraq while serving as a Marine with the U.S. military forces. His mother, Colleen Parkin, spoke to him on the phone the day before he died.

Through a chance meeting in May 2006, Colleen was able to meet a visiting group of Women for Future - Iraq delegates at the store where she works. When the Iraqi women learned of Colleen's loss, they immediately wrapped their arms around her, kissed her, cried with her, and thanked her for her son's service in Iraq.

From this experience, Families United Toward Universal Respect / FUTURE along with Women for Future - Iraq is creating the Hugs for Healing program. In the future, the program is designed to bring American women together with Iraqi women to provide a safe and healing environment to comfort mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters who have suffered the loss of a loved one. This program will be created around a future symposium. If you are interested in being a part of this program, click on How Can I Help?.



Communicate - Hug - Heal.