Children are paying the highest price of today’s wars.
Today, explosive weapons account for 60% of all child deaths and injuries in war zones. Your support can help make their homes and schools safe again.
Today, nothing kills or injures more children in war zones than explosive weapons. Wars are becoming more violent, more urban and more indiscriminate. Explosive weapons are being used to target populated areas at unprecedented levels. Unexploded bombs and landmines litter streets, fields and playgrounds, not only in Syria where I work, but in communities across the world.
Bombs are falling where children sleep, play and learn, turning homes and schools into death traps. Childhood itself is under attack. Actions once met with global outrage are dismissed as the “cost of war.”
And the devastation does not end when the bombing stops.
Beneath the rubble lie unexploded bombs and landmines, contaminating cities, schools and hospitals. A quarter of children killed or injured by bombs and landmines in recent years were harmed by explosive weapons left behind after the fighting stops. Long after headlines fade, the danger remains, hidden, waiting.
On April 4th, International Mine Awareness Day reminds us that the impact of conflict lasts for years, even decades. Explosive remnants of war rob children not only of limbs or lives, but of safety, freedom and hope.
Right now, villages around the world are still silent ghost towns. Their playgrounds and schools are empty. The children are trapped and told, “Don’t go there. It’s too dangerous.”
A child who cannot walk to school loses more than education. They lose confidence. They lose opportunity. They lose the chance to imagine a future beyond survival.
A gift today could help make deadly ground safe, so classrooms can reopen, families can plant their crops, and children can play without fear.
In conflicts from Syria to Gaza, from Ukraine to Sudan, children are being killed, maimed and traumatised by bombs, rockets, landmines and unexploded ordnance at unprecedented levels.
Because of their small bodies and developing organs, children are seven times more likely than adults to die from blast injuries.
And even when the bombing stops, the danger remains. A football pitch becomes a minefield. A classroom becomes a death trap.
This is where MAG steps in
MAG teams around the world clear landmines and unexploded bombs from communities devastated by war.
Right now, thousands of communities remain trapped by hidden explosives. Children are told not to play because it's too dangerous and are forced to miss school. With your support, we can change that.
Your gift today could help remove deadly explosives, reopen schools, and give children back something every child deserves, the freedom to learn, to play, and to grow up without fear.
