DanChurchAid: Albania

Long summer helps productivity

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:27:49 GMT

It has been busy times for the mine action programme in Albania with perfect weather for demining and evacuation exercise.

Albania Humanitarian Mine Action

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:01:45 GMT

By the end of this year, the land mine and cluster munition clearance programme in Albania will be completed with all known contaminated areas cleared of mines and cluster munitions.

From Battlefield to Cornfield

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:49:13 GMT

DanChurchAid's HMA staff in Albania have conducted a Post-Clearance Impact Assessment to determine the effect clearance has had on the local population. The Albanian staff returned to a site, where 53 unexploded cluster munitions were removed, to interview beneficiaries and discovered that, one year after the clearance, the community is using the area as a cornfield, pasture, and football pitch, and cross it daily to access nearby water.

Cooperation between DanChurchAid Albania and the Danish Army

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:23:42 GMT

Since January 2006 the Albanian DCA HMA programme has been cooperating with the Danish Demining and EOD Centre (DANDEC), on Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and development of key operational staff in Albania.

DCA assistance in cleaning up Gerdec explosion site

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:39:47 GMT

On Saturday the 15th of March 2008, a large explosion happened on the outskirts of the Albanian capital, Tirana.
A civilian company was working with dismantling of several tons of old ammunition – a remnant for the communist era in Albania, and by mistake set of a large explosion.

Humanitarian Mine Action in Albania

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:35:06 GMT

During the Kosovo conflict in 1998/1999, landmines were used extensively, and border areas of Albania as a result became heavily contaminated as a “spill over” effect. While Kosovo received vast international assistance, Albania was almost completely ignored. DanChurchAid's (DCA) operations in Albania started in 2002 as a logical continuation of the DCA Kosovo demining operations (1999-2001). Demining in Albania will continue until the beginning of 2010 under supervision of an international DCA Programme Manager.

Humanitarian demining

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:48:18 GMT

Perparim started to work with humanitarian demining in 2001 as Team Leader, and has been working for DanChurchAid since the spring of 2005. At present time Perparim is working as one of the two National Supervisors in charge of the daily demining activities, in addition he is trained as EOD operator with the responsibility of destroying unexploded bombs along the Albanian/Kosovo border.

Last landmine destroyed

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:46:08 GMT

With the explosion of the last landmine in the remote mountainous area in north eastern Albania, DanChurchAid marked the exit of Albania with a blast after working with humanitarian mine action in the country since 2002.