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Protecting lives

Landmines, cluster bombs and other explosives inflict appalling injuries that have a devastating impact on people’s futures. Over 5,700 people were killed or injured by landmines and other explosives in 2023. Within six months of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024, HALO recorded almost 1,000 civilian casualties from mines and unexploded bombs including around 350 fatalities.

HALO protects lives by destroying landmines and teaching people, particularly children, how to stay safe until our work is done.

We also work with local partners in countries like Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Colombia and Laos to ensure that landmine victims like Ing receive the support they need to regain their independence and live with dignity.

PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR LANDMINE VICTIMS

"It means so much to me that I am now able to be independent and carry out basic daily activities. It relieves the burden on my family, and I do not feel helpless anymore."
Mr Ing, Laos

Ing is one of 25,000 people in Laos who have been killed or injured by unexploded cluster bombs. He lost both his arms and the sight in one eye when he hit a cluster bomb whilst cutting his grass. Before his accident, he grew food for his family on their land but after he was injured, the family struggled. His son Sone and daughter Chillid dropped out of school to help care for Ing and the family had to sell their land to make ends meet.

When HALO’s team met Ing, they realised the family needed urgent help and took him to a rehabilitation facility. With the support of COPE (Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise), he was fitted with two prosthetic arms. Having regained his independence Ing hopes to be able to begin farming again soon.

EDUCATING PEOPLE TO STAY SAFE

"Children and young people make up 95 per cent of the victims of these accidents. Because they were not born until long after the conflict ended, they have no sense of danger from the objects that have been left behind. It's why it is so important to go right across the community in schools and other gathering places to raise awareness."
Felicia Pandassala, Programme Officer HALO Angola

Angola's long civil war ended in 2002 and HALO has cleared Huambo Province of all 290 of its minefields – destroying over 13,500 antipersonnel mines in the process. However as recently as Spring 2025 there have been civilian accidents with discarded unexploded devices such as grenades and shells found by children. 

A key driver of the accidents is thought by the local authorities to be the scrap metal trade, where rising prices are encouraging children to hunt for metal and is bringing them into contact with grenades, mortars, shells and other explosives. HALO’s risk education team in Huambo has been visiting schools to ensure children know the risks and how to stay safe and we retain a unexploded ordnance emergency call-out team to deal with devices.

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