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Children walking home from school past a site where a MAG SALW (small arms and light weapons) team is excavating a partially buried insecure cache of weapons
SUMMARY OF OCTOBER'S ACTIVITIES AND OUTPUTS
The programme continued to reduce risk to vulnerable communities and support conflict recovery and rehabilitation by implementing humanitarian mine action and SALW projects in Dahuk, Diyala, Erbil, Kirkuk, Ninewah, and Sulimaniyah governorates.
18 mine action teams (MATs), supported by 9 Community Liaison/Mine Risk Education (CL/MRE) teams.
Teams searched and cleared 356,783sq/m of land using hand, electronic, and visual techniques removing 362 hazardous items.
Teams demarcated 360,550sq/m of contaminated land making safe 6 previously unmarked minefields.
111 explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) tasks were undertaken and 2,657 hazardous items removed and destroyed.
Mine Risk Education teams delivered MRE sessions in 14 villages reaching 144 children.
Community Liaison teams conducted 15 impact assessments and visited a further 124 villages completing 17 minefield reports and 176 dangerous area reports.
For more information on MAG's work in Iraq, or any of its programmes across the world please visit www.magclearsmines.org or contact:
Chris Loughran, Country Programme Manager, MAG Iraq, Ainkawa Compound, Erbil, Iraq. Korek: +964-750-445-3271; e-mail: Chris.Loughran@magiraq.org.uk
Nicky Asfaw, Regional Desk Officer MAG, 47 Newton Street, Manchester, M1 1FT, UK Tel: +44 161 236 4311; fax: +44 161 236 6244; e-mail: nicky.asfaw@mag.org.uk
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