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Building an Environment for Better Life and Sustainable Future

I. Japan Mine Action Service

Japan Mine Action Service (JMAS) is a Japanese non-profit organization engaged in international humanitarian activities by removing landmines and unexploded ordinance (UXO). We are helping create an environment in which people can have better living conditions including: physical safety, livelihood and food security, poverty reduction, and a sustainable environment. Since the establishment of JMAS in 2001, it has implemented several UXO/Mine clearance projects in number of countries, such as Cambodia, Lao PDR, Afghanistan, and Angola.

II. Japan Mine Action Service in Lao PDR

Begun in September 2005, JMAS’s program in Laos has received funding from Japanese government for UXO/Mine clearance.

The main mission of JMAS is to provide financial and technical management, and administrative support to the UXO/Mine clearance Project in Xieng Khuang Province, which is one of the most serious contaminated areas from Unexploded Ordnance, dropped in Lao PDR.

The project of Humanitarian UXO Clearance in Xieng Khuang Province New

includes the following significant activities:

- Community Awareness: to educate people about the risks from UXO in affected areas;

- Clearance: to use detectors to search for below-the-surface UXO and remove them, thereby increasing lands areas those are safe for agricultural and other development;

- Roving Teams: to remove and destroy surface UXO;

-Capacity Building: to bring JMAS’s Japanese technical advisors to conduct training in the Lao PDR.

Recently, the Humanitarian UXO Clearance Project in Xieng Khuang has expanded its area of activity to include eight districts: Phookood, Pek, Kham, Phaxay, Khoune, Nonghet, Thathom, and Morkmay.