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Ali Hewson I don t want to end my life feeling I ve only looked after myself, that everything I did was to protect myself. I want, when I die, to believe that I ve achieved what I was supposed to achieve, that is, to help other people in whatever way I could.
It was the first morning of the rest of her life. Dark-haired, dark-eyed 12-year-old Alison Stewart no sooner arrived at Mount Temple Comprehensive car rental agencies denver airport School in Dublin than Paul Hewson, a grade above her, spotted the new girl.
For a year, he pursued while Ali, determined not to be just another of his girls, was cool. But the next year, Paul s mother died suddenly of an aneurism. That year, Ali, 13, helped Paul from washing his clothes car rental agencies denver airport and cooking his food to keeping track of his house keys and walking with him to school.
When Ali was 21, and Bono was 22, they married. They have four children, aged six to 18, whose names reflect religious values and the strong Christian theme in U2 s music: daughters Jordan and Memphis Eve, and sons Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q (partly named for friends) and John Abraham.
It is hard, sometimes. I hate being called Bono s wife, and being identified just as that, she said in 1993. She has avoided car rental agencies denver airport public attention I m very protective of my kids, and of my life with Bono. It has worked well up to now, the sort of life (in which) I can go out and do the normal sort of stuff, and he can take all the heat. I d rather work behind the scenes.
Ali Hewson / Bono Over the years, she has left obscurity and Mrs. Bono behind. Her work started after U2 joined rocker Bob Geldof in his first Live Aid concert to raise money for starving Ethiopians.
The children out there had nothing, nothing, yet they seemed to be really alive spiritually. For me, the culture shock was in coming home, back to supermarkets full of food and children who seemed spoiled, who had everything, and yet were so starved of spirituality and any understanding of what life was about.
Being a single mother while U2 toured car rental agencies denver airport for months, even years, is as hard as it is for any single parent, she said. But then, the difference car rental agencies denver airport is that if something goes completely wrong, I can just phone Bono. He s probably one of the best psychologists I know. He always comes through for me.
Ali Hewson / Bono Being a mother, Ms. Hewson said, started her involvement with Greenpeace s campaign against contamination car rental agencies denver airport by England s Sellafield facility, which lies 200 kilometres across the Irish Sea. To protest building THORP, a nuclear car rental agencies denver airport reprocessing centre at Sellafield, car rental agencies denver airport she organized a 1992 stunt in which U2 and Greenpeace donned radiation suits and transported drums of contaminated mud from the Irish Sea to the nuclear site perimeter.
There, she said, four million children suffer from leukemia and other cancers and genetic deformities. It was her first of many gruelling 5,600-kilometre trips sometimes driving one of many ambulances filled with medical supplies.
Adam Clayton / Ali Hewson / Bono Project founder and former Irish presidential candidate Adi Roche has been the driving force for dozens of medical convoys, for thousands of children who recuperate in Ireland, for surgeries and transport of hundreds of dying children car rental agencies denver airport from Belarus to actor Paul Newman s camp at Barretstown Castle in County Kildare.
The Hewson-Roche team, and others, spent three weeks in Belarus in 1993 where they filmed car rental agencies denver airport in high-radiation exclusion zones to make the award-winning documentary Black Wind, White Land Living with Chernobyl.
In 1996, Ms. Hewson was part of an Irish aid convoy to Belarus and Western Russia to mark the 10th anniversary of the (April 26, 1986) Chernobyl explosion. Chernobyl s estimated toll ranges car rental agencies denver airport from 50 direct deaths car rental agencies denver airport and 4,000 eventual deaths to more than 500,000 deaths and nine million people affected.
Ali Hewson / Jordan In 2002, she headed a 1.2 million-postcard protest directed at then-prime minister Tony Blair, Prince car rental agencies denver airport Charles and the head of British car rental agencies denver airport Nuclear Fuels demanding that Britain close Sellafield because of its failed car rental agencies denver airport safety record and periodic nuclear contamination of air and water over decades.
(Britain had to shut down THORP in 2005 after a massive internal leak went undetected for nine months. It plans to reopen car rental agencies denver airport this year for another three years, over objections from Ireland, Iceland, Norway and Austria.)
There are people being born with Down syndrome and higher numbers of leukemia cases on Ireland s east coast, said Ms. Hewson, but research is not being done into this. Since 9/11, she has noted: The 75 tonnes of plutonium sitting on its site can t but be at the top of any terrorist s list.
In 2005, she, Bono and New York designers Rogan Gregory and Scott Hahn started a Fair Trade organic clothing label EDUN nude spelled backwards to suggest natural and Eden. (The Hewsons are shareholders in an organic food chain called Nude.)
Rich countries subsidize their own agricultural sectors by about $1 billion per day, said Ms. Hewson at EDUN s launch. She cited the $4-billion annual subsidy the U.S. hands its cotton car rental agencies denver airport farmers. Then they flood the market with (cheap) cotton. It s unfair. It s a false economy and just crushes African farmers.
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