THE HALO TRUST has begun operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) marking and registering weapons under a project financially supported by the government of Germany. The project aims to improve the...
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Clearing IEDs with the help of New Zealand
CLEARING A PATH TO STABILITY Ambassador Bradley Sawden from New Zealand visited The HALO Trust programme in Fallujah on 29 September to see the work being done to make the city safe from improvised...
Dutch support benefits 3 million people in Afghanistan
3rd July 2018 | Afghanistan The Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stef Blok, has paid tribute to the work of deminers working for The HALO Trust during a visit to one of Afghanistan’s minefields in...
Revolutionising mine clearance in Zimbabwe with MMD sizer technology
27th June 2018 | Zimbabwe “As long as the mines are in the ground, I will still feel that my wounds are open.” Nicholas Gauti lives in the remote village of Chapuka in Zimbabwe. He lost his sight as...
Cazengo Coffee to help clear Angolan landmines
The HALO Trust is to partner with Cazengo Coffee, who will be offering Angolan coffee to the US market for the first time in 40 years and contributing a share of sales to landmine clearance in...
Azerbaijan + 1 more
Statement from the HALO Trust
It is with profound sadness that we report that three of our staff were killed and two injured, by the accidental detonation of an anti-tank landmine in the Ghazanchi area of Nagorno Karabakh on the...
Thirty years on, the landmines of Cuito Cuanavale still kill and maim
Cuito Cuanavale, Angola—site of the largest battle on African soil since World War II and a potent symbol of Angola’s brutal civil war. Thirty years ago, as the South African backed troops of the...
Making land safe for the people of Putumayo, Colombia
Putumayo is a region in the south-west of Colombia, bordering Ecuador and Peru. Located on the margins of the Amazon rainforest, it’s a place of fertile land, cascading waterfalls and rivers. But...
Georgia + 1 more
Ending the legacy of conflict
Japanese government grant supports halo’s transformational work in Georgia The HALO Trust has been awarded a grant of $400,000 USD from the Government of Japan to support the clearance of unexploded...
Ruth Davidson visits Afghanistan as HALO completes milestone Herat project
Following 10 years of mine clearance operations funded by the UK Government, The HALO Trust has handed over the Province of Herat in western Afghanistan to the local government. Meanwhile, this week...
António Guterres visits the HALO Trust’s peace-building work in Colombia
Secretary-General meets former combatants now clearing their own communities 14th January 2018 | Colombia On a visit to Los Tanques, in the Municipality of Mesetas in Meta Department, Colombia, the...