Janet Bloomfield - 10 October 1953 to 2 April 2007

Atomic Mirror Testimony Fund

Janet Bloomfield and Kilali Alailima, Director of the American Friends Service Committee Pacific Programme, worked together to bring Pacific Indigenous Peoples to the United Nations through the Testimony Fund.

Through her work as UK Director of the Atomic Mirror, Janet Bloomfield was committed to ensuring that the powerful stories of people directly affected by the toxic activities of the nuclear age were heard in the halls of power and by ordinary citizens. These stories have the power to transform the listeners and change the direction of public policy.

The Atomic Mirror maintains a special fund, called the Testimony Fund, that brings “Hibakusha” or atomic bomb survivors, atomic veterans, uranium miners, and people living “downwind” of nuclear test sites face-to-face with nuclear decision makers. A disproportionate number of people affected by the activities of the nuclear age live in indigenous communities, subject to manifold injustices.

Since 1995, the Atomic Mirror has raised over £10,000 British pounds and brought one such person each year to the capitols of nuclear weapons countries, United Nations meetings and other diplomatic arenas, and to citizen events at all levels.

Your donation will help to fulfill Janet’s dream that all the world, and especially young people, know these stories by heart. Please make your donation payable to ‘Saffron Walden Friends Meeting,’ c/o Friends Meeting House, High Street, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB10 1AA.