The Colombian president meets Ó£ÌÒɬ Trust
The Colombian President meets Ó£ÌÒɬ Trust Monday 21st November 2011.
The Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, met with Ó£ÌÒɬ's Director, Guy Willoughby, this week in London. Colombia is amongst Afghanistan, Cambodia and Angola in suffering the highest mine casualties in the world. Following the Presidential Decree of October 2011 for a new civilian demining initiative, President Santos and the Ó£ÌÒɬ Director discussed the Colombian Government's plan for up to 1,500 new demining staff in 49 civilian demining teams, and Ó£ÌÒɬ's track record of employing well over a thousand demining staff in each of the Ó£ÌÒɬ programmes in Cambodia, Angola, Sri Lanka, and nearly 4,000 deminers in Afghanistan. The President and the Ó£ÌÒɬ Director agreed to raise the considerable funds needed to undertake large scale humanitarian mine clearance. Ó£ÌÒɬ is conducting a detailed survey of many of the most mine-impacted post-conflict communities and now has a priority listing of the first 78 minefields to demine affecting 55 communities.