Survivors' Assistance
Why Survivors' Assistance?
MLI’s Survivors’ Assistance programs help people, particularly children, who have been injured by mines by providing prostheses, rehabilitative treatment, vocational training in areas such as carpet weaving, embroidery and tailoring, and physicians’ training so doctors can become experts in the field of rehabilitation in their native, mine-affected countries.
The destruction caused by landmines doesn’t end when the bomb detonates and the debris settles. For children who are injured by landmines, their physical injuries are often more severe than adults, their emotional trauma greater, and their economic prospects significantly bleaker. The majority of child mine victims have little chance of going to school, receiving the prostheses or medical care they need, learning skills that could help them adapt to their new condition, or growing a family when they become adults.
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For adult mine victims, the challenges can be overwhelming and they typically have great difficulty finding employment and are unable to support themselves or their family members.
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MLI has provided medical assistance, prosthetics, and vocational training for thousands of survivors, especially children, offering renewed hope for their future.
1,357
Landmine survivors have
received medical assistance
844
Landmine survivors have graduated from vocational training courses
266,026
Men, women and children who have received Mine Risk Education
Successes
MLI’s Survivors’ Assistance programs and Children Against Mines Program (CHAMPS) have helped thousands of individuals in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq, and Yemen where more than tens of thousands of individuals received Mine Risk Education (MRE) and hundreds are given medical assistance each year. Recently, more than 75 survivors in Lebanon received medical assistance and vocational training. In Yemen, hundreds of survivors have received medical assistance and prostheses over the past three years, with dozens more participating in English classes and receiving vocational training classes in sewing and job placement support.
Click here to read more about how CHAMPS has helped survivors throughout the world!
