$100,000 for Vietnam Campaign
Posted: 26th January 2012
Help MAG raise $100,000 by May 31st in order to help 1.5 million people in a neglected province of Vietnam, Quang Nam, rid themselves of a plague that has haunted them for over 40 years, landmines.
2011 Accomplishments Thanks to You!
Posted: 19th December 2011
As we look back over 2011, MAG has been had a huge year clearing over 63,846,882 square meters of land to date. It would not have been possible without you. By clearing this land, MAG (and you) are giving future generations a fighting chance, by giving them access to:...
Sudan: Protecting children in Kassala
Posted: 16th December 2011
Students at Omer Haj Musa Secondary School learn how to identify landmines and unexploded ordnance. What happens when pupils carry a live grenade they've found on their way to school into the classroom? Or when their classroom is on the other side of a minefield? These aren't the sort...
Angola: Improving Access to Education in Moxico
Posted: 16th December 2011
A deminer in Luzi, where MAG is clearing 248,000m2 of land. The school in Luzi, a landmine-contaminated community of 1,700 people in Moxico Province, has been closed since early 2010 when a mine accident was reported nearby. One of the teachers has been giving classes outside his home in...
Cambodia: Agricultural Workers Under Threat From Cluster Bomblets
Posted: 7th December 2011
Nineteen-year-old Sareoun lost an eye when her hoe struck a cluster bomblet. Around the size of a small tangerine, and designed to explosively propel 260 lacerating shards of metal into a person, BLU series cluster bomb submunitions litter the countryside of eastern Cambodia. Between 1960 and 1970 approximately 26...
Burundi: Country Declared Landmine Free
Posted: 7th December 2011
Burundi was contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance during the civil war, which started in 1993. Burundi, one of the world's poorest countries, has officially cleared its territory of landmines. Funded by the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, MAG has helped Burundi declare itself landmine free three years ahead...
Reducing Armed Violence in the DRC
Posted: 8th November 2011
"There will be no development without security and no security without development." Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary General MAG's new film, Reducing Armed Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, highlights how MAG is destroying small arms and light weapons that undermine lives and threaten development in that country.Conflict...
Surviving the Peace Launch
Posted: 14th October 2011
MAG America is proud to announce the launch of its new film produced in collaboration with MediaStorm - Surviving the Peace. Surviving the Peace takes an intimate look at the impact of unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam war in Laos and profiles the dangerous, yet life saving...
MAG Photo Exhibit at FotoDC
Posted: 11th October 2011
We invite you to come to FotoDC for the opening of the Photo Exhibit, Surviving the Peace, featuring the work of war photojournalist Sean Sutton. Surviving the Peace is a photographic journey from conflict to recovery from countries across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa where MAG works to...
MAG Team in Libya: Working on the Ground to Secure the Skies
Posted: 23rd September 2011
Last week, CBS Evening News followed a MAG team funded by the U.S. State Department's Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in Al Khums, Libya as it searched for missiles and rockets left behind by Qaddafi's fleeing forces. The team, led by Wayne Lomax, Technical Field Manager, had expected to...