Dear all,
some of you may be interested in the latest use of the www by an
ngo to show what it is doing; others may be interested in the
content per se. See below.
Bill Cooke
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'LIVE FROM THE KILLING FIELDS’
See mine clearance as it happens –
Leading war photographer to follow MAG
mine action teams
Photojournalist Sean Sutton will be sending
photographs and stories daily from minefields in
Pursat Province, Cambodia. One of the most mine-
affected provinces in this beautiful but stricken
country, Sean will be working with support from
the US based New Media for Non Profits (NMNP)
to upload news stories daily on to the internet that
will provoke and inspire.
In December last, Sean completed a highly
successful visit to Angola, beaming pictures and
stories from the hard-hit community of Luena in the
east of the country.
Sean will do it again this March: daily reports from
villages in the heart of Cambodia will follow the
progress of MAG’s multi-disciplinary Mine Action
Teams and its accompanying bomb disposal team
as they work to clear landmines, and unexploded
ordnance - such as rockets, grenades and mortars.
Since 1997, villagers have been returning from
refugee camps where they had fled the fighting.
After decades of war they found their homeland
seeded with land mines and littered with unexploded
ordnance (UXO). They have been living in
minefields ever since and have learnt to avoid
suspect areas and stick to a small area of well-
trodden ground. The threat of death or devastating
injury has rendered large amounts of fertile farmland
inaccessible, and so the villagers, and their
neighbours in the area are relegated to a position of
extreme poverty where they have no choices. MAG
wants to help give them back their lives and
livelihoods.
From Monday 25th February through to Friday 1st
March, this unique multi-media project will show
both the day-to-day life of a landmine-affected
community and the invaluable work of MAG's
teams. Simply log on to { HYPERLINK http://www.magclearsmines.org }www.magclearsmines.org
to follow this extraordinary venture and view MAG
staff undertaking their essential work as it happens;
be it the clearance of deadly landmines from a
pathway, the demarcation of suspected mine
affected land with warning signs or the assembly
and delivery of mines awareness activities to village
children.
‘Live from the Killing Fields’ will move you as
never before. Another reportage feature brought to
you by MAG, the world’s leading mine action
charity. Learn how rural communities live with the
deadly legacy of war; view stunning imagery that
conveys the realities of Cambodian life and witness
the dedicated efforts to rebuild this beautiful
country.
MAG works to respond to the needs of people
affected by conflict and in particular, to clear the
deadly legacy that so often remains. Namely;
landmines, unexploded ordnance and booby-traps.
Projects are currently underway in Angola,
Cambodia, northern Iraq, Laos, Lebanon, southern
Sudan, Somaliland, Sri Lanka and Vietnam with
others planned for 2002.
This project is made possible through the generous
support of New Media for Non Profits, Open
Society Development Foundation and Polden
Puckham Charitable Foundation. We are grateful to
all our donors and in-kind supporters for enabling
MAG to continue helping people to live and grow in
safety after conflict, and for enabling us to provide
information and educational material about the work
of Mine Action.
www.magclearsmines.org
Bill Cooke
Director MSc Organizational Change and Development
Lecturer in Change Management/HRD
IDPM, University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9GH UK
tel: (44) 161 275 2820 fax: (44) 161 273 8829
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for details of IDPM and its programmes see
http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm/
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