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The MAT/CTF Sri Lanka project is now operational after the training phase was completed.
Bekim Shala, MAT training Officer, is currently overseeing the 5 teams who are now deployed in the field conducting Mines Risk Education (MRE) with communities most at risk from the Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance left after the countries long conflict.
The districts where MAT/CTF are operating are: Mannar, Puttalam, Vavuniya, Anuradhapura & Trincomalee.
Many of the recipients of the MAT/CTF MRE project are Internally Displaced People (IDP), who are looking, or have already, returned to their homes.
The MAT and CTF are currently looking to expand the project to support the MRE with Quick Response Teams (QRT) who will conduct Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), which will effectively, in time, return the land to the communities for agriculture.
A main component of the MAT/CTF MRE project is data gathering from each community through a 'community volunteer' initiative, aimed at 'empowering' village heads to help their communtiy by safely collecting information on suspected dangerous areas and items.
The cooperation between MAT & CTF is vital toward our eventual, which is to capacity building an NGO such as CTF to become a national Mines Action asset.
For further information please contact Mr Ben Remfrey:
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