MUSIC BEATS MINES: Make some noise for peace!, with Guy Garvey

Music Beats Mines – a festival of music, poetry and the arts to save lives and build futures.

Have fun and raise vital funds to help conflict-affected communities around the world.

Elbow singer Guy Garvey explains...

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Did you know...?

More than 70 states are believed to be affected by mines¹

At least 25 states are affected by uncleared submunitions¹

Explosions in poorly managed ammunition storage areas killied and injured many hundreds of people in 2007 and 2008, contaminating previously safe land¹

More than a third of central Vietnam is still contaminated by unexploded ordnance²

Nearly 100,000 households in Burundi are thought to possess small arms and light weapons, increasing the risk of a return to conflict at a time of ongoing political insecurity³

Your money can help MAG to:

Move into current and former conflict zones to clear the remnants of those conflicts

Release safe land back to the local population, helping countries to rebuild and develop their social and economic potential

Employ local people (including former soldiers and amputees) and retrain them to be medics, deminers, awareness trainers and supervisors

Help refugees take a safe path to relief camps in Africa

Undertake emergency action, such as clearing the land of dangerous items in Lebanon and Sri Lanka

Prevent abandoned weapons and small arms getting into the wrong hands

Use Mine Risk Education to minimise the risks for people living, working and travelling through areas contaminated with landmines and/or unexploded ordnance

Clear paths of landmines so broken water-pumping stations or powerlines can be repaired

Cordon off contaminated areas so safe agricultural land can be used by local people

Clear schools and buildings used as ammunition stores so children can get an education in safety

More than 90 per cent of MAG's income is spent directly on worldwide programmes to clear landmines, unexploded ordnance and other remnants of conflict, and educate vulnerable populations.

[Sources: ¹Landmine Monitor; ²Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF) and the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense’s Technology Center for Bomb and Mine Disposal (BOMICEN); ³Small Arms in Burundi, Disarming the Civilian Population in Peacetime, A Study by the Small Arms Survey and the Ligue Iteka with support from the UNDP-Burundi and Oxfam-NOVIB, Stéphanie Pézard and Nicolas Florquin, August 2007. This estimate takes into account all small arms and light weapons, and also grenades.]

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