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UNIFIL supported campaign launched to reduce risk of explosives

UNIFIL launched last week an explosive ordnance risk education (EORE) campaign targeting potentially vulnerable groups, including children and displaced people, in the mission’s area of operation. Working in coordination with the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), the Lebanese Mine Action Centre (LMAC) and non-governmental organizations, UNIFIL peacekeepers will reach, over the next couple of months, hundreds of children, young people and internally displaced people (IDPs) in 17 southern Lebanese towns and villages. The campaign kicked off with the first session organized on 20 January in the Jamil Jaber Bazzi Public School in Bint Jbeil. About 100 children participated in the first session, which also saw a UNIFIL explosive ordnance disposal team from the mission’s Italian contingent perform a mock disposal using robots and other explosive disposal gear. Instructors from Lebanese Army and the “SHEILD Association” NGO offered a classroom educational session. They also explained to them how to identify different types of explosive ordnances based on their shapes.