Pointing to a nearby field in Farza district, the principle of Bostan secondary school recalls, “Last year a number of our students were grazing animals and playing in that field. They found an object that intrigued them-without knowing what it was started playing with it. sadly it exploded-killing one and injuring two others. Fortunately, a few days ago a number of our other students saw something similar, but remembering the mine risk education classes they informed the school child protection officers and the object was safely destroyed. We are witnesses of a major change in students’ behaviors now they are receiving mine risk education.”

As part of transitioning mine action responsibility to national ownership, mine risk education was integrated into Ministry of Education in June 2007. 8 MACCA professional trainers have trained more than 130 child protection officers of MoE in Mine Risk Education and Victim Assistance since November 2007. These child protection officers then trained more than 16,000 teachers who arenow training students in 9,000 schools all over the county..... Read More