Grants for Conventional Weapons Destruction and to Assist Injured Conflict Survivors

• $467,339 to the Iraqi Health and Social Care Organization (http://www.ihsco.org) to conduct mine risk education and collect data on victims of mine and explosive remnants of war accidents in central and southern Iraq.
• $345,227 to DanChurchAid (http://www.danchurchaid.org) to clear anti-vehicle mines from roads in the Nuba mountains of Sudan.
• $288,233 to Information Management and Mine Action Programs (www.immap.org/joomla) for its OASIS Fusion system to work with the Colombian Anti-Personnel Mine Observatory and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Colombia to integrate mine action data with other types of international assistance to increase collaboration in conflict and post-conflict environments.
• $271,853 to Mines Advisory Group (www.mag.org.uk) to provide small arms/light weapons destruction technical support in the Great Lakes region of Africa and the Horn of Africa.
• $264,098 to the Mine Action Information Center (http://maic.jmu.edu) at James Madison University to raise safety awareness of explosive remnants of war among affected populations in northwest Jordan, and $155,430 to study the effects of aging on persistent landmines around the world in order to help focus clearance priorities on those mines and regions where they pose the greatest danger years after conflict has ceased. 
• $243,995 to Cleared Ground Demining (www.clearedground.org) to destroy stockpiled munitions that are excess to Guinea-Bissau’s security needs.
• $194,252 to the Survey Action Center (www.sac-na.org) to undertake a study of certified land release of areas that have been cleared of landmines and explosive remnants of war, and $189, 347 to draft operational guidelines to integrate development priorities with mine action planning in three mine-affected countries. 
• $194,089 to the Demining Agency for Afghanistan (DAFA) for a program to reintegrate and provide alternate professional job training for Afghan humanitarian deminers who are being layed off due to the progress that has been made in clearing landmines and explosive remnants of war in Afghanistan.
• $149,993 to Texas Engineering Extension Service (www.teex.com) to provide vocational training for humanitarian deminers in Latin America to obtain future jobs as they are being laid off due to the great progress that has been made in clearing landmines in the Americas.
• $146,034 to Catholic Relief Services (http://crs.org/vietnam/projects.cfm) to continue supporting its mine risk education programs in Quang Tri and Quang Binh provinces in Vietnam.
• $118,987 to the International Documentary Association (www.documentary.org) for a film about the problems caused by illicit small arms/light weapons and indiscriminately- used landmines in the Democratic Republic  of the Congo.
• $117,865 to the Iraq Mine/UXO Clearance Organization (IMCO) to destroy at-risk stocks of small arms/light weapons, the majority of which are stored in Baghdad.
• $107,776 to PeaceTrees Vietnam (www.peacetreesvietnam.org) to operate a mobile mine risk education program that would reach ethnic minorities in remote areas of Vietnam’s Quang Tri province, and $102,338 to operate a second mobile explosive ordnance disposal team in Quang Tri Province.
• $100,000 to the Mine Clearance Planning Agency (www.mineaction.org/org.asp?o=63) to provide professional vocational training and socially reintegrate Afghan humanitarian deminers who are being layed off due to the progress that has been made in clearing landmines and explosive remnants of war in Afghanistan.
• $99,967 to Norwegian People’s Aid (www.npaid.org/www/English/World/Land_mines) to develop and ensure the sustainability of information management processes by the Cambodian Mine Action Authority, and $35,000 to provide an ambulance for emergency evacuation and trauma care capability for Project RENEW humanitarian deminers in Quang Tri Province.
• $96,534 to World Education/Consortium (www.directoryofngos.org/ngo.cfm?id=24) to provide assistance to survivors of explosive remnants of war accidents in Laos.
• $75,000 to the Spirit of Soccer (www.spiritofsoccer.net/) to continue its mine risk education efforts in Cambodia.
• $63,800 to the Humpty Dumpty Institute (www.thehdi.org/index.shtml) to further its efforts to monetize surplus U.S. agricultural commodities in order to provide more funds for humanitarian mine action, and $32,000 to help establish an International Finance Facility for Mine Action.
• $59,049 to the Marshall Legacy Institute (www.marshall-legacy.org) to provide more mine detecting dogs to Lebanon, $52,762 to support the CHAMPS program that encourages school children to raise money to donate mine detecting dogs, and $49,587 to further mine survivors assistance in Azerbaijan.
• $49,869 to the Polus Center for Social and Economic Development (http://www.poluscenter.org) to provide mine survivors assistance in Colombia.
• $45,000 to The HALO Trust (www.halousa.org) to match Rotary International funds for a demining project in Banteay Meanchey Province, Cambodia, and to purchase one HSTAMIDS mine detector to use there. 
• $42,500 to the Julia Burke Foundation (www.juliaburkefoundation.org) for weapons and ammunition disposal (WAD) support in Angola, and $40,880 for WAD in Afghanistan.
• $18,550 to Freedom Fields USA (www.ffusa.org/index.html) to produce a documentary film about its role and the role of The HALO Trust in landmine clearance in Cambodia in order to help raise funds in the U.S. and via public television, and film festivals for more mine clearance in Cambodia.

Visit www.state.gov/t/pm/wra to learn more about the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement’s conventional weapons destruction programs, including its humanitarian mine action projects.

2008/358