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Meet Anastasiia, a Task Group Commander in our Risk Education Department. She met her future husband, Illia, right on the minefield! "Illia and I worked on adjacent lines. During breaks, he helped me carry out cut plants and heavy findings. We later ended up in different groups but continued to communicate, and it all ended in marriage." Now, Illia holds a managing position in the Non-Technical Survey Department, and they've even brought Illia's brother, Andrii, into the HALO family as a deminer-paramedic. "Now almost all our friends work here. It's fantastic," says Andrii. HALO brings people together through a shared purpose. 💙

Thanks to a grant from the Trimble Inc. Foundation and Trimble Geospatial, our 'Women in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)' project is helping women from communities affected by conflict in Sri Lanka. 🇱🇰 With the Trimble technology and our new GIS Specialist, Vinothiny, we're making a real difference. Vinothiny is vital in supporting our field staff to map explosive ordnance contamination in Sri Lanka.

"If the HALO team had not come to clear mines in this area, we wouldn’t have been able to build the school," said EM In, Deputy School Principal of Thlat Primary School. Watch how HALO has given these children the chance to learn and thrive in Cambodia.🇰🇭 https://bit.ly/3W6Nxhj Thank you to the U.S. Department of State 🇺🇸 for supporting #HALO's life saving work.

HALO is recruiting Field Officers! Ready to lead and make an impact? Join us! Apply here: https://bit.ly/3XRdyT1

“The only hope we have for our children to live a better life is to help us remove the mines from this area,” said João Manuel. In Lusselei village in Bié Province, #Angola a minefield lies right next to the local primary school. Thanks to funding from U.S. Department of State 🇺🇸 , our teams are hard at work making the land safe. #HALO staff have already cleared anti-tank mines found just meters from the school.

Today, on #PrincessDiana’s birthday, we are looking back on her visit to Angola in 1997, and the vital role it played in bringing the issue of landmines to the world’s attention. The minefield where Diana walked with the #HALOTrust in 1997 is now a thriving suburb in the city of Huambo, and a nearby school that was once surrounded by mines has been cleared, so children are able to attend safely. Support the incredible work of The HALO Trust in honor of Princess Diana's birthday so more lives can be saved from the harmful effects of landmines. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ewEPTZXR #RoyalFamily #PrincessOfWales

Today we celebrate having made a total of 500 million square meters of land in Cambodia safe! 💙 Thlat Primary School in Svay Chek, stands on a minefield cleared by #HALO in 1999. Now, 336 students are studying there! A huge thank you to the U.S. Department of State 🇺🇸 for funding this critical work. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/3L1eqNt

Four Malawi Defence Force instructors completed a Train-the-Trainer course and delivered the latest Armourer's training course with #HALO instructors in Lilongwe! Critical support from U.S. Department of State 🇺🇸 enables #HALO to invest in sustainable capacity building for the MDF through long-term training progressions culminating in the handover of a tailored curriculum. MDF instructors can now continue to uphold high standards of weapons maintenance and repair to mitigate against the threat of weapons diversion in #Malawi 🇲🇼 and the region.

Around the world, #HALO deminers are hard at work locating and destroying landmines. A new pilot project, funded by Amazon Web Services (AWS), is helping implement AI and machine learning in #Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Watch how this incredible technology is improving our demining work: