White Helmets

White Helmets

The White Helmets Commission (Spanish: Comisión Cascos Blancos) is a humanitarian aid and peacekeeping agency based on an initiative launched by Argentina in 1993.

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    “I never knowed how clothes could change a body before. Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when he’d take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that you’d say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe was old Leviticus himself.”
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