Rwanda Mine Awareness Campaign
Before January 1995, 866 primary school teachers participated the mine
awareness education campaign. In February 1995, four school teachers from
Butare who did not have the opportunity to participate previous campaign
attended mine awareness training session. This report on the Mine
Information and Prevention Campaign details objectives of the campaign,
its development and the distribution of beneficiaries composed of kits of
land mine information.
Main objective of the Campaign
- To sensitize the population to prevent against the mines.
Content
- To know the misdeed of a mine;
- Identification of suspects and propicious places for laying a mine;
- Condut to adapt when a mine is discovered;
- Signalisation to identify the trapped places.
Conception of the Campaign
With the help of British soldiers from UNAMIR, the identification of the
different kind of mines used in Rwanda was done. Posters have been
produced representing the actual shape and height of the mines and the
form when they are layed down. Then, the program was presented to
UNICEF-Nairobi. After making some revision at UNESCO-PEER, it was
approved and launched. UNESCO-PEER produced detailed pictures of the
mines, texts and posters. UNICEF organized and supported the whole
implementation of the operation financially.
Training
The training was done by a six-UNESCO-PEER-educators-team.
The training was organized in cascade.
Each prifecture was sub-divided in zones.
Each zone was composed with at least two communes.
At the communes' level, the training was for the inspectors and directors
of education centres. After having been trained, they provided the
training to the teachers of their province.
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