Tag UXO

13 Nov

Minelab and SafeGround – Intersecting Work to Reduce Legacy Weapons

Minelab is an Adelaide based company that excels in metal detection technology.  The name Minelab does not refer to landmine but rather to gold mine, which was the focus of […]

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13 Nov

Launch of children’s book: One Step at a Time

This first Launch of ‘One Step at a Time’ was by award-winning children’s author Phil Cummings as an Adelaide Fringe Festival free event on 21st February. On a 40° day […]

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13 Nov

Landmine accident in Mozambique

We have heard via the International Campaign to Ban Landmines of a landmine “accident”. On September 26th 2017, four members of the same family died from the explosion of an […]

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13 Nov

Eight humanitarian deminers killed in Afghanistan

SafeGround strongly condemns the attack this week on the Mine Detection Centre, a non-government de-mining organisation working in Afghanistan, which has left eight de-miners dead and another three injured.  The […]

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12 Nov

Crowdfunding for Children’s book “One Step at a Time”

The children’s book ‘One Step at a Time‘ has launched a crowdfunding project to raise funds to print this beautiful and important book. The book is an exquisite picture book […]

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31 Oct

A Path is Made by Walking it. 25 years of the Australian Network to Ban Landmines Revisited.

Around 120 people came together in the Mercedes College Lecture Theatre on the 27th of February 2017 to relive the story of the ANBL. Working with the Jesuit Refugee Service […]

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