HALO Trust is a non-political and non-religious registered British charity and American non-profit organization which removes debris left behind by war, in particular land mines.
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27 Facts About HALO Trust
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HALO Trust has offices in Salisbury, UK, Washington, DC and The Hague, Netherlands.
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HALO Trust had been suspended in the wake of an investigation into his pay package, which included reimbursement for the costs of his children's school fees.
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In 2012, HALO Trust was named the Overall Winner in the Charity Awards by Civil Society Media.
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Considerable progress is being made; even so, HALO Trust estimates that there is still in the region of 10 years' work to rid Angola of all landmines.
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In September 2015, when Mozambique declared itself free of all known landmines, HALO Trust announced that it had cleared 171,000 of the country's landmines and employed 1,600 Mozambican men and women over the course of twenty-two years.
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IN 2010 HALO Trust Cambodia had over 1,150 national staff working in the provinces of Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, Otdar Meanchey and Pailin.
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Between 1991 and May 2010, HALO Trust Cambodia cleared over 6,115 hectares of landmine contaminated land whilst destroying over 229,000 landmines, 139,200 items of large calibre ammunition and 1.
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HALO Trust stated that the Taliban actually came to their aid and scared off the assailants.
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In December 2015 The HALO Trust announced that it had cleared 200,000 landmines in Sri Lanka.
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HALO Trust surveyed Abkhazia between 1997 and 2000 in close cooperation with both sides from the conflict.
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HALO Trust is currently working on two of these minefields and hope to clear a further seven by the end of 2011.
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HALO Trust have mechanical mineclearance techniques to clear such sites using adapted civil engineering plant such as armoured excavators and front-loading shovels.
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HALO Trust currently employs over 100 staff in Georgia, the majority of whom come from within the mine-affected communities.
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HALO Trust completed work in this region in December 2009 having cleared 3,402 hectares of land across 22 communities.
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Since 2000 HALO Trust has provided the only large-scale mine clearance capacity in Nagorno Karabakh and over the last 10 years HALO Trust has cleared over 236 square kilometres of contaminated land and returned it to previously impacted communities.
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Representative of the leader of Nagorno-Karabakh on special assignments Boris Avagyan claimed that HALO Trust handed over minefield maps to Turkish special services, which, in his opinion, helped Azerbaijan's successful military operations during the second Karabakh war in the fall of 2020.
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Russia accused HALO Trust of providing rebels with military training, but HALO Trust representatives denied the charge, stating that they only provided their standard training in demining.
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HALO Trust maintained demining and battle area clearance operations between 2004 and 2006 and conducted a country-wide Community Liaison Survey in 2006 and 2007.
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HALO Trust commenced a third phase of clearance operations in May 2008.
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In total since 1999, HALO Trust has cleared over 38 hectares of mine contaminated land and 1,263 hectares of cluster munition contaminated land.
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Cluster munitions have an impact upon infrastructure projects and HALO Trust has found and destroyed cluster munitions to clear the way for road widening projects.
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HALO Trust currently has three teams and a total of 65 demining staff accredited and deployed clearing minefields and cluster munition strikes.
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Since 2016 HALO Trust is involved in clearing landmines laid during the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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HALO Trust is the first civilian organisation to have a formal agreement and registration with the Colombian government and is currently surveying prioritised mined areas in preparation for humanitarian clearance operations.
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