MRE activities\events

LMAC's EORE team has given MRE sessions for 514 individual working as Police officers from Municipalities, Fire Fighters, woodland wardens, fire brigaders that was held at RSHDL during late July and August 2021 in Collaboration with the University of Balamand. These training sessions where supported by UNICEF and funded by EU.

LMAC held a MRE session in Providence School - Mrayje and distributed gifts for the Art Competition Winners with T-shirts, Caps and flyers to more than 200 students.
This event is funded by UK in Lebanon and supported by UNDP.

LMAC is conducting Risk Education Training Sessions, in collaboration with Balamand University for participants from the National Steering Committee, with the support of UNICEF and UKaid in Lebanon at RSHDL – Hammana.

LMAC has conducted Risk Education Training Sessions in collaboration with Balamand University for participants from the National Steering Committee with the support of UNICEF and UKaid at RSHDL Hammana>

Lebanon Mine Action Center will hold a Competition for Schools' Students about Mine Awareness. The best drawing will be used by LMAC.

Rules of Participation:

- Age: 10-15 years old

- Please send your Name, Tel, Email, School, and your drawing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; 

On the occasion of the International Mine Awareness Day on 4^th of April 2019, Lebanon Mine Action Center launched the National Mine Risk Education (MRE) awareness campaign on mines, cluster munitions and unexploded ordnance under the Slogan of Promoting Safety and Development in cooperation with the National Steering Committee in all Lebanese territories.

The campaign included the following activities:

• Send short SMS messages to citizens via mobile phones, the message was: “For a happy and safe life, do not close to mines and cluster munitions and do not touch them, inform immediately the Lebanon Mine Action Center (05/956143)” in coordination with the Ministry of Communications.

• MRE Awareness Session in LIU to students – Nabatiyeh Branch which includes: awareness messages, show of a fake minefield, a demonstration of manual clearance of mines, description of all clearance equipment and at the end they distribute awareness leaflets to the audience.
• Door to Door MRE Sessions in Al Wazzani which includes: awareness messages and distribution of awareness leaflets residents.

• Rally Paper Martyrs Square – Beirut for the residents of the town which includes: awareness messages, show of a fake minefield, a demonstration of manual clearance of mines, description of all clearance equipment and at the end they distribute awareness leaflets to the audiences.
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• MRE Awareness Session in Sports Camp in Deir Qanun Al Nahr for the students which includes: a session on MRE, show of a fake minefield, hand crafting, a demonstration of manual clearance of mines, description of all clearance equipment and at the end they distribute awareness leaflets to the audience.
• MRE Awareness Session where a Ceremony was held by UNMAS in Naqoura in the occation of the International Mine Awareness Day.
• MRE Awareness Football match between the mine survivors' team of the Lebanese Association for the Care of the Disabled and British Embassy’s football team in Beirut at AUB’S Greenfield.
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• MRE Awarensss Rally Paper in Qornayel High School including Expedition of mines and cluster munition, and demonstrating clearance of mines manually and by MDD followed by distribution of awareness leaflets.
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• MRE Awareness Day at Wadi Khaled for the residents of the town which includes: a session on MRE, show of a fake minefield, a demonstration of manual clearance of mines, description of all clearance equipment and at the end they distribute awareness leaflets to the audience.
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• MRE Awareness Session in Tyre where a ceremony was held under the theme of Promoting Safety and Development in the Fourth Childhood Festival, which included a mine modeling exhibition and distribution of awareness leaflets to participants.
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• MRE Awareness Session in Chouf Area where was held Lighting candles and launching balloons carrying awareness messages.
• MRE Awareness Session in Elissa School – Breikeh and Jibchit School - Nabatieh where puppet show was given to students.
• Distribution of MRE brochures through the army checkpoints in all Lebanese territories.
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• MRE Awareness Football match in Al Hinnieh municipality between the mine survivors' team of the Lebanese Association for the Care of the Disabled and a team from the UNIFIL which includes: fake minefield show, planting trees and distribution of medals and leaftlets.
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• MRE Awareness Day at Al Rasul Al Aazam University– Nabatieh Branch for the students which includes: a session on MRE, show of a fake minefield, a demonstration of manual clearance of mines, description of all clearance equipment, distribution of awareness leaflets to the audience, at the end they planted trees.
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Lebanon Mine Action Center in partnership with BLOM Bank launched the National Mine and Cluster Risk Awareness Campaign under the Slogan of ‘Promoting Safety and Development’ in cooperation with the MRE National steering committee and support of UNDP and UNICEF.

In order to raise mine awareness on the blue line due to many reports of individuals picking up mines, Lebanon Mine Action Center (LMAC) in cooperation with the National Steering Committee, organized a Risk Education event on Friday 8th of March at Kfarkela on the southern border from 9:00 to 11:30. This event is estimated to gather around 500 students from neighboring schools. 

This event is funded by UK and supported by UNDP.

Lebanon Mine Action Center in coopreration with Ministry of Education held a graduation ceremony at the Sa'id Al Khatib Barracks in Hamanah, where teachers and health counselors attended the public schools and the guidance and guidance centers of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The ceremony was attended by Brig. Gen. Ziad Nasr, head of the Lebanon Mine Action Center, representing Army Commander General Joseph Aoun, representatives of humanitarian mine action organizations and associations, and  officers, Mrs. Sonia Najm, representative of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, who thanked the army leadership for cooperating with the ministry, stressing the importance of spreading awareness among the students of public schools in reducing the number of victims of mines and cluster bombs.

Brigadier General Nasr also said: "We are celebrating today the graduation of a training course in the field of mine risk education, the first of its kind between the Regional Demining School for humanitarian purposes and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, The dangers of landmines and cluster bombs in public schools, and awareness-raising among the younger generations in general, an important step at the national level that will undoubtedly help to deliver awareness messages in the best possible way through specialized activists and the adoption of diverse audio and visual media. "

This Project funded by UK in Lebanon and supported by UNDP.

On 15 December 2018, Lebanon Mine Action Center in cooperation with the National Steering Committee organized a rally paper, with around 300 participants, at public high school in Ras Baalbak to raise awareness on the risk of minesm IED and unexploded ordnance. This rally paper included educational games, songs, Christmas parade with Santa Claus and other cartoons personalities followed by distribution of medals at the end. This event is funded by DFID and supported by UNDP.