Donated Mine Detectors Bound for Darfur
In 2011 a shipment of thirty mine detectors was put in the hands of United Nations humanitarian deminers in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Most recently, five units were delivered to the UN to equip its Rapid Response Team, a unit prepared to begin de-mining operations where no on-site structures are already in place.
These instruments have been donated by church groups, trade associations, individuals and customers of Schonstedt Instrument Company.
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 ordnance. Close to 400 of the donated units are currently at work in seventeen countries.
The now five-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.
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