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THE NEW COMMON PROJECTS WITH HELP

 

 August 01.2004. 

As the result of the good cooperation with HELP organization, achieved during the implementation of the project “Hasići” in 2003, we have continued our joint activities in 2004. The joint activities are being undertaken on the territory of Serbia and Montenegro. ...

 

WE STARTED DEMINING IN 2004

 

May 22, 2004 

From the Beginning of 2004, STOP Mines is performing demining activities on the task around Sarajevo. Until now is finished four task in total  of 43.838 sqm . Now STOP Mines working on two smaller tasks. On the finished tasks ...

 

NEW BEE KEEPERS

September 23, 2003

The activities related to the realization of the Project "Life May be Sweet" for 2003 have reached the final stage. After the delivery of the beehives with bees and the equipment the candidates were contacted and we proposed the action to undertake in the coming period....

 

CONTINUATION OF WORKS AT NIS AIRPORT

June 27, 2003

After having successfully completed the first stage of cluster bombs clearance at the Nis Airport, STOP Mines teams resumed the works at the airport on June 27, 2003. The second stage covered the area of 290.163m2 and it was completed on August 12, 2003. ...

 

MAY LIFE BE SWEET

Mart 15, 2003

We have started with implementation of the "May Life be sweet" project of support to mine victims. The idea of the project was given by our administration officer who despite his being a mine victim  has been a beekeeper for a long time. Actually this is a try to apply the most useful rule of support to mine victims "If we want to help them let us give them job" ...

SUPERVISION OF THE TEAMS IN MACEDONIA

Mart 10, 2003

On March 10, 2003 three STOP Mines supervisors continued to work with Macedonian teams within demining operations in the Republic of Macedonia. It was an agreement with ITF ...

BAC IN YUGOSLAVIA

Mart 10, 2003

After two-day training and additional training to work with the cluster bombs, three STOP Mines demining/BAC teams started works on March 10, 2003, the first stage of clearing the Nis Airport. During NATO air raid in 1999 the runway of the Nis airport had been hit with 57 projectiles and there have been more than 400 damages made by the cluster bombs only to the taxiway and the platform ...

TRAINING OF YU DEMINERS

February 10, 2003

From October 14, 2002 to December 08, 2002, 28 trainees completed successfully the basic demining course and BAC course. In cooperation with the Mine action center the courses were organized in Adasevci, municipality Sid ...

AID TO WAR VICTIMS

January 31, 2003

In January STOP Mines provided financial support and supply of humanitarian aid to 35 families of war victims, consisting of gifted packets with food and house necessities ...

FRESH NEWS 

November 1, 2002

During past period our site has not had new information on mine action events, but it does not mean we have not been working all this time. On the contrary. There have been many happenings and we wonder what to start with.

Besides its normal demining activities STOP Mines is currently involved ...

GCU FINANCIED TASK COMPLETED 

September 13, 2002
On Friday, September 13, 2002, STOP Mines completed the demining location Gornja Sopotnica in the Srpsko Gorazde municipality ...

FIRE-WOOD FOR 10 FAMILIES 

August 14, 2002
The winter in this mountain region lasts for 6 months and brings much trouble to everyone, so the priority for the population here is to provide fuel for the winter times. To mine victims the fuel provision makes real problem due to their disability or lack of money to buy it themselves. ...

STATE DEPARTMENT VISIT

The Jun 26th 2002

Today a USA delegation has visited us. The delegation consisted of Mr Robert W.Maggi, Deputy USA State Secretary, Mr Donald F. "Pat" Patierno, the Director of the State Humanitarian Demining Department and Walt McCauley, Technical Advisor to the State Humanitarian Demining Department. ...

MACEDONIAN DEMINERS

The July 17th 2002

The project of deminers training in Macedonia has already given results. Some 28 deminers, both Macedonians and Albanians were trained for demining and the number will rise to 50 by the end of the course. ...

BOB FRENCH DONATED ANOTHER 5 COMPUTERS TO CHILDREN MINE VICTIMS

The May 31st  2002.

On May 31, 5 children mine victims had a reason for joy, for confidence in people, for hope that there are people who understand their troubles caused by mine accidents and who try to make their lives a little bit better. The man who made these children happy is Mr Bob French:...

DEMINING IN MACEDONIA SOON TO BE DONE WITH LOCAL TRAINED DEMINERS

The April 22nd 2002 

Good cooperation with local population and the quality of the work we did on battle areas clearance last year have resulted in continued work this year. The confidence in our non-governmental organisation has also been demonstrated through the new contract to train deminers in Macedonia.

On April 22 this year our organisation, in cooperation with the Ministry of D efence of the Republic Macedonia and under the auspices of the International Trust Fund, has started training of Macedonian deminers ...

DEMINING IN MACEDONIA CONTINUES

The  April 2nd 2002

Demining works in Macedonia continue. The clearance of war affected areas started last year. STOP Mines, as the prime contractor for this contract, has recruited three teams. One team is from BH Demining, one from Pro Vita and one from STOP Mines. ...

TWO MORE COMPUTERS FOR MINE VICTIMS

The  April 1st 2002

The action of computer donation for mine victims continues. The representatives of STOP Mines donated a computer on March 19, 2002. ...

GIFT FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

The January 22nd 2002

 The SUNCE Association for help to children with special needs has been working in Pale for two years now. At this moment they get together around 50 children. They have shown many times that they have no intention to leave over to their destiny, but on the contrary, their engagement substantially influences their very difficult situation. This said we had a reason good enough to make a decision and give them a gift ...

THE NIGHT OF 1000 DINNERS

The November 30th 2001.

The night of November 30, 2001, Bosnia and Herzegovina was a part of the world. The BH demining community gave its contribution in the "1000 Dinners Night". The dinner was jointly organized by the three non-governmental organizations STOP Mines, BH Demining and Pro Vita. They have once again proved that cooperation between organizations belonging to three BH nations is really possible. ...

WORKS IN MACEDONIA

The October 20th 2001.

Three demining teams fropm STOP Mines and two teams from BH Demining, 54 men and 16 EDDs in total, have completed their first working week in the Republic Macedonia...

NEW PROTHESES CONTINUE IN 2001

The September 24th 2001

Today, September 24, 2001, we have a reason to be happy: after check-ups done, in cooperation with the Rehabilitation Institute from the Republic Slovenia, in Trebinje and Pale, we have sent the first group ...

NEW MECHANICAL CLEARANCE SYSTEM 

The August 31st 2001

On Friday 31st August a new remotely controlled mechanical clearance system arrived in Bosnia Herzegovina.  Three national non-governmental organisations (BH Demining, Pro Vita and STOP Mines), in collaboration with Redbus LMDS, will participate in the operational evaluation of this exciting new concept

ANOTHER MEDICAL CHEKUPS, FOR NEW PROSTHESIS 

The July 25 2001

This year again the cooperation with the Institute for Rehabilitation of the Republic Slovenia has resultedin a new check-up of the mine victims. As agreed with Mrs Helena Burger, we were told to organize a new check-up of the mine victims ...

THIRD COMPUTER FOR A MINE VICTIM

The June 22 nd 2001

On January 30, 1995, 12-year old Dragana Pavlovic and her brother and a friend of theirs found an unexploded grenade near their house. Not knowing what they found they threw it away. The blow that followed permanently changed the lives of these children. ...

 

AAM HUMANITARIAN PRIZE

The June 14 th 2001

Adopt-A-Minefield (AAM) organized the First Annual Charity Dinner on June 14, 2001, in the prestigeous hotel "Regenet Beverly Wilshire" in Los Angeles. The dinner was hosted by Sir Paul McCartney and his girl-friend Miss Heather Mills, both AAM ambassadors of good will. The objective of the dinner was funds raising for demining operations in five countries of the world ...

 

SHORT MOVIES 

The May 30 2001

Within mineawareness activity STOP Mines has taken an active role in production of two short movies on issues concerningmine action.

The first movie was shor last year as the firs pioneer project in this domain ...

 

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ADOPT-A-MINEFIELD VISITING STOP MINES

The May 08 th 2001

The Program Adopt-a-minefield is also present in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Program's Executive Director, Mr.Oren Schlein visited the NGO STOP Mines during his stay in Bosnia and Herzegovina ...

 

FULFILLED WISH

The May 04 th 2001

Many tragic things happen in war, there are many sad stories, but in the peace, there are many positive things happening that do not make amends but illustrate the move to help those in need.  In 1992 Kemal Karic a four month old baby was injured by shrapnel, and his leg amputated, his mother sadly killed.  Presently Kemal, who lives with his grandmother, is a children’s ambassador ...

 

THE HELP FROM ENGLAND

The April 14 th 2001

 There is an old Chinese saying: “If you want to help one, give him a job”. When it is about disabled persons this saying makes true sense. The employees in “STOP Mines” are the example which proves it. ...

 

ANOTHER JOINT PROJECT

The March 16th 2001

In the new demining sason the three non-governmental organizations start a new joint project. It is the new peoject in the territory ...

 

PROTHESES MUST BE GOOD

The March 1st 2001

Good relations between STOP Mines and the Institute for rehabilitation in Ljubljana once again proved as such. On March 1st, 2001 there was a check-up organized for those invalids

 

NEW MEDICAL CHEKUPS, NEW PROSTHESIS

The November 21st 2000

On the Tuesday, November 21st, 2000 there was another medical checkup ...

 

THE  OMERBEGOVACA SITE OPENED

The Octobar 17th 2000

A modest "deminer's" celebration took place in the Brcko District on October 17th, 2000. Three local non-governmental organizations including STOP Mines from Pale, BH Demining from Sarajevo and Pro Vita from Mostar ...

 

THE 4th GROUP OF MINE VICTIMS IN LJUBLJANA

The Octobar 02nd 2000

On Monday, October 02, 2000 the new group of the disabled left for Ljubljana to get new prostheses. From the beginning of September this has been the fourth group of the disabled who have gone to the Institute for rehabilitation of the Republic of Slovenia...

 

THE VISIT OF FOREIGN OFFICE MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA

The Septembar 09th 2000

Foreign Office Minister of the Republic Of Slovenia, Mr. Lojze Peterle and the ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Mirosic, accompanied by Mr. Cimpersek, the Director of ITF, paid a visit to the demining site of our organisation on September 09, 2000.

 

EXAMINE OF MINE VICTIMS

The July 26th 2000

A certain number of mine victims was examined in the Health center Pale on the July 26th,2000 by Helena Dr. Burger and Mr. Janez Pertnar, orthopedist engineer, both from Rehabilitation institute of Republic of Slovenia.

A contact with the Institute has been established with ...

 

THE VISITORS FROM US STATE DEPARTMENT

The July 22nd 2000

US State Departments representatives, Mr. H.M. McCloy, senior demining advisor to the Office for humanitiatin demining within Buro for politicaly-military issues, and Mr. McCauley, technical demining advisor to the same office, visited our organization on the July 22nd,2000 and July 23d,2000.

Taking into consideration that the above mentioned persons are very expirienced in humanitarian demining, ...