In the context of raising awareness about the dangers of mines among citizens especially for school students, a representative from the Lebanon Mine Action Center delivered an awareness lecture to the secondary students of Hussein Massoud school in Bshamoun on 24/10/2017, where mines, cluster bombs and unexploded ordnance have been identified, their forms, types and how to prevent their dangers and how to behave properly.
In the context of cooperation between the Lebanon Mine Action Center and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in mine action, particularly in the field of mine risk education, launched since November 2016, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) organized an awareness day at Yarin Primary School, which included a lecture on the role of blue-flagged barrels on the Blue Line and a mine risk education lecture conducted by a representative from the Lebanon Mine Action Center explaining the scope of the problem of mines and how to prevent it and how to behave properly.
In the context of increasing awareness of mine risk among civil society and within the framework of the Mine Action Strategic Plan of the Lebanon Mine Action Center (LMAC), the Center participated in the implementation of mine risk awareness activities for approximately 750 members (465 male and 285 female) from local and Arab scout organizations in the Scout camp National under the title “Beirut gathering ", where the awareness activities came as follows:
In the context of raising awareness about the dangers of mines in civil society, LMAC gave an awareness lecture to the scouts of the Lebanese National Scout Association - Mount Lebanon Commission – School of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles - Kindergarten, which organizes its summer camp in Horsh, Bakassine on mines, cluster bombs and unexploded ordnance, their forms and types, and how to prevent and manage their risks.
