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Seamus McCannaidh


Seamus had a life changing experience during the summer of 1999

Seamus McCannaidh

"We now had 250 children to take care of. This disaster had happened to them and to their country. I would have to stand by them and to be there for them."

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Seamus was working as an English teacher in summer camp, in Turkey. It was like a holiday. Seamus didn't know, however, that a disaster would strike, an earthquake affecting the 12 million inhabitants of Istanbul. Seamus was never the same.

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