Japan assists MAG in Lebanon
Posted: 15th March 2010
The Japanese Government has given MAG a grant of US$78,818 to cover the cost of a mini vegetation cutter, to improve the safety of demining activities in Lebanon.
BURUNDI: More anti-personnel mines and UXO discovered
Posted: 10th March 2010
On 20 January, in Kanyosha Rural on the outskirts of Bujumbura, a joint MAG-Civilian Protection-Police team (MAG-CPP) safely destroyed an extremely dangerous ‘POMZ A2’ anti-personnel mine.
COLOMBIA: Helping communities help themselves
Posted: 5th March 2010
Q&A with female deminers
Posted: 5th March 2010
March 8 is International Women's Day. Employing women – and proving their ability to undertake demanding work in difficult conditions – raises their status amongst the communities they come from, and encourages other employers to do the same.
Successful launch of MAG’s Business Network Group
Posted: 5th March 2010
LAO PDR: MAG technicians await their new legs
Posted: 4th March 2010
The first group of amputees hired by MAG to clear unexploded ordnance in Lao PDR are having special metal-free prosthetic legs fitted.
PHOTO GALLERY: Worldwide scourge of cluster bombs
Posted: 1st March 2010
Photographs from Bosnia, Cambodia, DR Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Sudan and Vietnam, showing the problems caused by cluster bombs and the solutions provided by MAG.
SUDAN: Removing the threat of 'silent soldiers' in Central Equatoria
Posted: 1st March 2010
Landmines had been lying in wait for between 13 and 20 years in the fields of Peremasuk, threatening the limbs and lives of residents until MAG cleared the minefield.
VIETNAM: MAG ends teachers’ unexploded ordnance worries
Posted: 24th February 2010
The teachers at Hai Thai Primary School No.2 in Quang Tri province used to worry about their students. Not that they might fail their exams, but that they might be injured or killed whilst playing in the playground.
LAO PDR: Make spoons, not war
Posted: 24th February 2010
Metalworkers in Ban Naphia, Xieng Khouang province produce about 150,000 spoons a year – made almost entirely from war scrap. Ensuring the safety of the aluminium supply chain is a challenge, as collecting scrap metal collection is a major cause of unexploded ordnance accidents.
