New Grants to Reinforce U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action

Twelve grants were awarded to these ten organizations: 

 • $494,600 to the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining (www.gichd.ch) to develop a landmine Impact Assessment Module for the new version of the International Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA).
 • $354,330 to UNICEF (www.unicef.org) to establish safe playing fields for Afghan children and youth who live in areas affected by persistent landmines and other explosive remnants of war; $213,360 to conduct mine risk education in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Afar regions and develop mine risk education programs that can be managed effectively by Ethiopian national and regional authorities; and $129,100 for a Childhood Injury Prevention Program for children living in Central Vietnam and the Central Vietnam Highlands, where there are great infestations of unexploded ordnance and persistent landmines.
 • $256,173 to DanChurchAid (www.dca.dk) to disseminate mine risk education in Burundi through the "National Council of Churches in Burundi’s" community-based programs.
 • $108,316 to the Marshall Legacy Institute (www.marshall-legacy.org) for its outreach program to provide 12 mine detecting dogs to mine affected countries that are in the U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Program; and $52,601 to develop a concept to create a traveling landmine exhibit in the United States in order to raise more awareness of and support for mine action.
 • $95,880 to Handicap International France (www.handicap-international.org) to conduct an emergency survey of persistent landmines and unexploded ordnance in the Casamance region of Senegal.
 • $74,498 to the Polus Center for Social and Economic Development (www.poluscenter.org) for its Coffee Lands Mine Action Program to encourage the global coffee industry - producers, importers, and distributors – to support mine action, with a particular emphasis on aiding mine survivors.
 • $69,540 to the International Eurasia Press Fund (www.azerweb.com/en/ngo/php?id=325) to enable landmine survivors in Azerbaijan’s Terter region to establish a local association for survivors peer support, and to learn management, computer and lobbying skills, and encourage their entrepreneurship.
 • $60,000 to Freedom Fields USA (www.freedomfieldsusa.org) to support mine clearance in the K-5 landmine belt in the Kouk Romeit District in Cambodia and to raise U.S. public awareness about Cambodia’s landmine and unexploded ordnance problem.
 • $42,500 to The HALO Trust (USA) (www.halousa.org) to clear persistent landmines in the K-5 mine belt in Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province, build a consortium of philanthropists who would continue to support mine action, and raise public awareness about the global landmine problem.
 • $32,919 to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation (www.vvmf.org) to provide first aid training and medical equipment to Vietnamese health workers in Quang Binh province relevant to landmine and unexploded ordnance incidents, and to teach mine risk education to at-risk adults who recycle scrap metal from unexploded ordnance.

To learn about the U.S. Department of State's humanitarian mine action and small arms/light weapons abatement programs around the world, visit www.state.gov/t/pm/wra.