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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, mortars, shells, land-mines and other unexploded ordinance.
The shipment brings to over 250 the number of units, valued at $1041 each, 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 Bob Ebberson at bebberson@schonstedt.com or 304-724-4754.
A Worthy Cause
Frank Lenik was the right man in the right place
last fall when he spotted the Schonstedt Instrument Company booth ...
Woodstown, New Jersey Members of the Woodstown
Quakers continue to make a difference in the international UXO and cluster munition problem. UXOInfo.com posted an article
back in December about the Woodstown Quakers raising money to purchase three magnetic locators for use in Tajikistan. Since
then ...
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