DanChurchAid
Humanitarian Mine Action
Mine risk education in Lebanon
11/04/2007:
Life is slowly returning after the traumatic 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict last summer that left Lebanese villages bombed, roads destroyed and thousands injured and dead. DanChurchAid is currently clearing mines and unexploded ammunition in Lebanon and is right now engaged in four mine risk education events in Southern Lebanon.
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| Col. Mohamad Fehmi (NDO), Lt. Col. Youssef Mechref (NDO), and Allan Poston (UNDP) at the first event that took place in Tyre on the 17th February 2007. |
Despite the threat of cluster munitions hidden in the ground, children and adults in mine-contaminated areas still must live their lives. They have to farm land, walk to school, conduct business, visit neighbors and play with friends. And they need to know how to take the proper precautions.
Mine risk education events
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| Download report from the event in Tyre, 17.02.2007: |
The National Demining Office (NDO) is right now in the process of implementing four Mine Risk Education (MRE)/Mine Victim Assistance (MVA) Events in Southern Lebanon.
The main funding agency is the European Commission for Humanitarian Operations (ECHO) funding the four MRE/MVA events through DanChurchAid. Other donors are Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), UNICEF and Balamand University.
Focus on landmine threats and mine victims
The overall objective of the four events is two-fold:
- To raise awareness of and put focus on the threat posed by the presence of landmines and UXO in the communities in Southern Lebanon, thus supporting the ongoing National mine risk education activities
- To put focus on the mine and UXO victims and their situation as disabled persons.
DanChurchAid in Lebanon
Contact details:
Head of Mission
Dr. Christina Bennike,
dca.lebanon@dca.dk
Cell: +961 70159791
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DanChurchAid has a Framework Partnership Agreement with the European Commission (ECHO) enabling DanChurchAid to implement ECHO funded projects worldwide in a broad range of sectors including water and sanitation, food aid, shelter, non-food item to humanitarian mine action.
