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A woman with short brown hair is bundled up in a sweater and coat.

"Nowadays, anything can be mined, even a pillow!" 05/17/23

Svitlana took part in an explosive ordnance and bombing awareness session organized by HI in Ukraine. This is her story.

Ukraine

An HI deminer during a demining operation. Much of the farmland around Raqqa is contaminated by explosive devices.

Demining in complex and dangerous environments, the example of Syria 05/11/23

In Raqqa, HI has been conducting underwater operations to locate, identify and remove explosive weapons. Thanks to these operations, the inhabitants now have access to drinking water again.

Syria

Justiniano holds a coffee plant in his hand and smiles.

Growing coffee on land free of mines 05/10/23

It took 10 years for Justiniano, a farmer in Colombia, to feel safe when walking on and cultivating his land. Thanks to HI’s demining operations, his coffee plantation is now flourishing.

Colombia

Portrait of a young woman wearing a blue HI polo and blue lanyard, sitting in front of demining posters and smiling at the camera.

Elisabeth, an essential link between HI’s deminers and the population 03/28/23

Élisabeth, an HI community liaison agent, intervenes before, during and after the work of the demining teams. Her role is essential to ensuring the security of operations and the trust of the community.

Senegal

A woman deminer wearing a protective vest and face shield kneels on the ground in a wooded area in Colombia. She is holding a metal detector

Demining brings hope back to communities 03/24/23

Five years after the end of the Colombian armed conflict, tens of thousands of landmines are still threatening people's lives. More and more women are taking on the task of removing them.

Colombia

A mine clearance specialist wearing protective gear kneels on the ground in a Cambodian village placing a warning sign.

New U.S.-funded project will clear mines from contaminated land in Cambodia 03/22/23

Three decades after the end of conflict, landmines and other explosive weapons continue to contaminate parts of Cambodia–making it unsafe for people to live and farm and limiting access to resources in some regions. These weapons remain an obstacle in more than 6,400 of Cambodia’s 14,300 villages.

Cambodia

HI is helping Mahmoud recover from his injuries 03/09/23

Mahmoud was injured in a bomb blast that left his left hand paralyzed. Since the bombing, he has been unable to speak. HI is helping him recover from his injury and trauma.

Lebanon

Man wearing a baseball hat and track suit sits on a bench in a physical therapy suite

Injured by the war in Syria, this is Omar’s story. 03/08/23

Having had his leg amputated by shrapnel, Omar fled Syria with his family and is now living in Jordan where he has received physical rehabilitation treatment and a new prosthesis.

Syria

Q&A: Lasting effects of war-time weapons 03/06/23

Gary Toombs, Humanity & Inclusion's Global Land Release/Armed Violence Reduction Technical Operations Manager, explains the effects of explosive ordnances even decades after conflict subsides.

Ukraine
Laos

Group of four women, all wearing head coverings, sitting on the street / sidewalk. In the middle, a woman holds up an image as part of a risk education session

Safety messages in the wake of the earthquake 03/06/23

HI teaches people in Syria how to protect themselves during an earthquake and its aftershocks as well as from the large quantities of explosive ordnance littering the region.

Syria

Man with a beard, wearing HI hat, and jacket, stands behind a table with different devices.

“Many of the contaminated areas may have migrated" 02/17/23

HI’s global land release technical operations manager Gary Toombs explains how “the February 6th seism has significantly aggravated an already desperate situation.”

Syria

As the official death toll rises by the hour, residents, often with their bare hands, continue to search for survivors in the rubble of thousands building brought down by the powerful earthquake and multiple aftershoks.

Bombs under the rubble 02/15/23

Risk education specialist Musab explains the situation in the Middle East regarding remnants of bombs and improvised explosives after the February earthquake.

Syria

A family of three sitting on a couch. To the left, a father wearing a hat. In the middle, a young woman wearing a headcovering. To the right, a woman wearing a headcovering and eyepatch on her right eye.

After 12 years of war, HI continues to support Syrian refugees 02/06/23

Mariam is among the millions of Syrians, victims of the war, who have fled their country to seek refuge in Jordan or Lebanon.

Syria

Two men wearing protective vests and face face shields carry a bomb amid rubble.

Unprecedented levels of contamination in Raqqa 12/01/22

Humanity & Inclusion has conducted weapons clearance operations in northern Syria since 2018. A team of 25 demining experts face a giant task as the scale of explosive remnants of war contamination in Raqqa is beyond anything witnessed anywhere since WWII.

Syria

A teenage Yemeni boy sits on a ledge with an artificial leg resting beside him.

With new artificial limb, Abdulaleem rediscovers his motivation and ambition 11/28/22

Abdulaleem survived a mine accident in Yemen. Fitted with an artificial limb by Humanity & Inclusion’s team, he is looking forward to the future.

Yemen