In the context of raising awareness about the dangers of mines among citizens, in particular school students, Colonel Marie Abdel Massih from the Lebanon Mine Action Center delivered an awareness session to the students of Sagesse School - English Section - Ain Saada, on 7/12/2017 about mines, cluster bombs and unexploded ordnance, and their forms, types, how to prevent and react to their dangers, and the warning signs.
In the context of raising awareness about the dangers of mines among citizens, and in order to avoid the risk of remnants of war left by terrorist groups in the area of Arsal and its vicinity, the Lebanon Mine Action Center delivered an awareness lecture for youth and students of schools at the Center for Reading and Cultural Activation in the town of Al Kaa, 24/11/2017, where samples of mines were presented, cluster bombs and unexploded ordnance, and forms, types, how to prevent and react to their dangers were identified, as were the warning signs.
In the context of raising awareness about the dangers of mines among citizens, especially school students, the Lebanon Mine Action Center delivered an awareness session to the students of Kfar Rumman Elementary School in Kfar Rumman, Nabatiyeh, on 20/11/2017, where mines, cluster bombs, explosives, forms, types and how to prevent their risks and proper behavior towards them.
On 12/11/2017, in the Hamra-Beirut, organized by the Beirut Marathon Association, the Lebanon Mine Action Center (LMAC), a UNMAS team working in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and members of the National Steering Committees participated in the activities of the Beirut Marathon in 2017. LMAC held a platform on the course of the 8 km race, showing pictures of mines, cluster bombs, unexploded ordnance, warning signs and a mannequin wearing a PPE and Visor holding a detector. The platform was briefed on the dangers of mines and how to prevent their dangers and distributed flyers, posters and awareness materials from different mine risk to the participants in the race targeting different age groups, in addition to broadcast patriotic songs by the way.
