Donated Mine Detectors Bound for Darfur
A shipment of thirty mine detectors will soon be in the hands of United Nations humanitarian deminers in the Darfur region
of Sudan.
The instruments have been donated by church groups, trade associations, individuals and customers of Schonstedt Instrument
Company, which manufactures the demining tools and coordinates distribution to the world's most mine-infested
countries.
Schonstedt matches each donated unit and ships them, according to UN priorities, to countries where humanitarian demining
is most needed and where it would not otherwise be possible. There, demining teams find and clear explosive
remnants of war such as cluster bombs, grenades, mortar shells, land-mines and other unexploded ordinance.
Over
300 of the donated units, valued at $1041 each, are currently at work in seventeen countries; among them Laos, Tajikistan,
Vietnam, Nepal, Egypt, Croatia, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Chad and now Sudan.
The two-year-old program, in partnership
with the UN and the U.S. Department of State, is part of an ongoing company commitment to humanitarian demining
worldwide. For further information, visit the Schonstedt website or contact
