We do this by training local people to destroy weapons that kill civilians and hamper economic recovery.1.Clearing landmines and explosives
Imagine living surrounded by landmines. No step is safe. Your children walk to school through a minefield. They are hungry—do you risk farming mined land or see them starve?
It doesn’t need to be this way.
We make land safe by clearing landmines and other explosives, such as IEDs (improvised explosive devices), so families torn apart by conflict can return and rebuild their lives in safety.
Once the mines are gone, confidence is restored. Minefields become fields of crops. Battlefields become playgrounds. Fear turns to hope and life begins again.
A painstaking process
Clearing landmines is a painstaking process. Most of our clearance work is done by hand but sometimes the terrain and nature of the debris makes clearing with machines more practical.
We work in partnership with the communities we serve. By employing local men and women, we create jobs and help families get back on their feet.
2.Teaching People to Stay Safe
For families living surrounding by landmines and explosives, risk education is a matter of life and death.
There have been accidents involving unexploded ammunition with children getting killed. They go collecting the metal from explosives to sell as scrap to earn money for food and toys.
The best way to prevent casualties is to clear the debris left behind after conflict, but it is painstaking work and it takes time. Teaching people how to stay safe until we can remove the explosives for good is vital, to stop more children from getting hurt.
Educating curious young minds
Children are at the highest risk because they are curious. An unexploded bomb can look like a tempting toy to an inquisitive child.
We use a variety of tools to teach children about the dangers and give them easy ways to remember basic rules to stay safe.Our team has devised cartoons and games as part of our (Creating Safe Spaces) campaign. It features animated characters.
Responding to crisis
When families displaced by conflict return home,their areas are littered with landmines after fighting se we sent in a quick response teams to teach families how to stay safe until the mines could be removed.