roles of civilian communities on the humanitarian
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Roles of Civilian Communities on the Humanitarian Demining: “Left over Landmines, Humanitarian Quest Everyone Concerning.” By Vasu Chanarat Weera Polwadana, Suphakrit Sopikul, and Vicha Wanadurongkawan. Background Landmines remain near borders of Thailand. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Roles of Civilian Communities on the Humanitarian
Demining: “Left over Landmines, Humanitarian
Quest Everyone Concerning.”
By
Vasu Chanarat
Weera Polwadana, Suphakrit Sopikul, and Vicha
Wanadurongkawan
Background
• Landmines remain near borders of Thailand.
• Preventing further injuries is needed attention.
• The Thailand Mine Action Center (TMAC) recorded in
2001:
• 27 Provinces 934 Locations
• 2,556.7 sq.km. 3,469 Human Casualties
Mine Action
1.Mine Awareness
• Warning materials reminding the children and the
people who live or work on such areas are required to
distribute.
• The leaflets suggesting not to pick up odd items found
on the ground are no less important.
2.Personal Protective Equipment (PPE.)
• Risk management involves the identification, analysis,
assessment and removal (or reduction) of risk.
• The term implies dominance and control of risk, and
the application of agreed processes to achieve
consistent results.
3.Mine Victims and Disabilities Support
• The number of Thai mine Victims is approaching more
than 3,468 casualties.
• The treatment for an individual casualty is well taking
care of.
• Unfortunately, there are many disabilities support
programs that need to be continued.
What have been done
• TMAC found that one approaching alternatives is to
open the coming help form NGO humanitarian
contributions.
• In Thailand such involvements by civilian communities
are MOM, PRO, and General chatichai Choonhavan
Foundations.
• In Chanatburee province, there are 30 sites, 8,801,476
sq. meters of the left over landmines.
• More communities are getting involed by R&D.
Objectives
• To follow up the routine tasks of TMAC’s mine action
activities.
• To establish the workable organization and the strategic
planning for the community volment in mine action
programs.
• To perform mine action programs under the limitation
of civilian abilities.
PPE ; Much of works on the Personal Protective Equipment have been researched;
# Personal Protective Cloth, Helmet and Face Shield
Personal Protected shoes (Pan Blast Boots)
• A pair of the pan Blast Boot is the shoes capable of
reducing the blast reaction produced by M14 Personal
mine.
• To preserve the foot and leg from the damage under a
condition of pressure-heat-gas and the fragmentations
• A pair of the Pan Blast Boot weighs only 1.1 kilogram.
M14-(29g of Tetryl)
Blast results on the simulation leg comparing between Blat Boot and the combat boot under M14 trials
Mine detector system; research and develope by Mahanakorn University
A The set of mine detector system and view of operation
Encountered Problems
* The budget funding.
* The local area community basic mine awareness
background knowledge.
Conclusion
* Mine action programs for all of the remaining mined
areas need to be urgently concerned by all communities.
* The proceeding steps may initialize with the primary
task, that is, to form the prototype of the community mine
action team arming with the project plan, the operating
tools, equipments, and trained personnel.
Suggestions
1.Calculating and requesting for approval from TMAC the cost to establish humanitarian mine action projects
and the operating cost.
2.Raising and/or requesting fund for the needed operating tools and equipments.
3.Initiating the basic mine awareness propagation program and the mine victims and disabilities program to
the selected communities.
4.Recruiting and training the community mine action team personnel.