El Salvador has one of the most violent societies in the world, its homicide rate second only to Honduras. In an average year between 2004 and 2009, more people per capita were killed in El Salvador than in Iraq; in fact, Salvadorans were more at risk of violent death than any other population in the world.
Michael Fryer, MAG International’s Information and Production Officer, wrote an article for the Thomson Reuters Foundation recently about MAG’s work in Luzi, a village in eastern Angola. Luzi was one of many towns in this area of the country suffering terribly from the aftereffects of the Angolan civil war – a war that, though it had ended several years previously, was still wreaking havoc on its citizens. Landmines and UXO were rife in the village, and Luzi’s population had dwindled to less than 100 by 2005.
I have been involved in humanitarian mine action for nearly 18 years, almost exclusively in a policy or program management capacity. While it is not what defines me, it has become a passion.
Have you seen this latest article on MAG’s female teams in Laos in The Financial Times? We are always excited when influential publications like The Financial Times spread awareness of the amazing jobs our teams are doing in Laos and the other countries where we operate. Currently there is a lot of talk in the international non-profit community about gender equality – but to MAG the practice of incorporating the contributions and voices of women into our work is not
In MAG’s Cambodia program, an important aspect of the work is something called Non-Technical Survey. This activity involves collecting and analyzing new and existing information about a hazardous area. Its purpose is to confirm whether there is evidence of a hazard or not, to identify the type and extent of hazards within any hazardous area and to define, as far as is possible, the perimeter of the actual hazardous areas without physical intervention.
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