On May 9 2013 Prince Harry, Patron of HALO’s 25th Anniversary Appeal, greeted more than 200 guests at a reception held at the residence of British Ambassador, Sir Peter Westmacott. Following the reception, he joined the Ambassador and Lady Westmacott, Senator McCain, Senator Leahy, Teresa Heinz...
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Prince Harry began a seven-day visit to the US on May 9 2013 with a tour of HALO’s photographic exhibition on Capitol Hill. He was escorted by US Senator, John McCain (whose wife Cindy is a HALO Trustee), Guy Willoughby, CEO of HALO and Fiona...
The exhibition runs May 6th to May 10th 2013 at the Russell Building Rotunda and is open to the public, except briefly when Prince Harry visits on the afternoon of 9th May. The exhibition is educational in content and covers the global landmine issue. It has been curated by Aidan Sullivan, Vice...
HALO’s team in the Ivory Coast recently played a leading role in the destruction of the country’s last remaining stocks of cluster munitions. HALO worked with elements of the Force Republicain de Cote d’Ivoire (FRCI), the Ivorian Army, to destroy...
Afghanistan – DFID announce major funding commitment on International Mine Awareness Day 2013
Today UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) announces a new five year grant to HALO of over £9 million. This funding allows...
HALO Angola – Winning a Battle but still Fighting a War
Benguela Province - Biópio town, mined during the civil conflict that ended in 2002, was made safe by HALO with funding provided by the United States Department of State. In...
Prince Harry, as Patron of HALO’s 25th Anniversary Appeal, will be in Washington DC in early May 2013. Among other engagements, he will be at the Senate touring HALO’s photographic exhibition and meeting senators. He will be...
On 14th March 2013 a construction company working for the Ministry of Interior uncovered a thousand pound (five hundred kilogram) blast bomb in the heart of Kabul City. The bomb, a Russian made...
On March 18, 2013, The HALO Trust received a grant of $864,153 from the Embassy of Japan in Harare. The grant will allow HALO to equip, train and deploy seven manual demining sections and provides running costs for a minefield survey capacity. Ninety two Zimbabwean staff will be employed by the...
Prince Harry has today, March 7, 2013, become patron of the HALO Trust’s 25th Anniversary Appeal in support of the pioneering charity’s commitment to getting mines out of the ground, for good.
The HALO Trust clears landmines and unexploded ordnance from war-torn countries so that some of...
The HALO Trust’s Director, Guy Willoughby, met with the Ivory Coast’s Prime Minister, Mr. Daniel Duncan, as part of the country’s Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) program on Monday 25th February 2013. The Prime Minister started the destruction process of weapons collected from...
HALO now has over 8,000 full-time staff in ten countries.
This is the first time in HALO's 22 year history that we have surpassed 8,000 employees. This milestone is a testament to the generosity of our donors who understand that our work saves...
Mrs McCain visits Somaliland to ascertain the impact of mines on the civilian population.
Mrs McCain visited HALO program in Somaliland from 3rd to 6th of June. Previously Mrs McCain has visited HALO programs in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Angola, Kosovo and Georgia.
During the trip Mrs...
On 16th and 17th April 2010, HALO Angola staff participated in the Second Anniversary celebrations of the Angolan Disarmament Campaign.
The celebrations culminated in a public rally led by Roberto Leal Monteiro Ngongo, the Angolan Minister of the Interior, who was accompanied by around 2,...
Svalbard Expedition - Skiing for landmine awareness.
Dave Leaning successfully led a team attempting an unsupported ski crossing of the Arctic Island of Svalbard. Read about the expedition at ampair-aquair.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/cold-shores-skiing-for-...
On the 5th December 2009 HALO completed the clearance of cluster munitions and other items of unexploded ordnance left behind from the August 2008 conflict in Georgia.
The program was launched within days of the cessation of fighting and it resulted in a total of 3,402 hectares of land...
The HALO Trust has completed legal registration in Colombia making it the first civilian humanitarian mineclearance organization currently registered in Colombia.
HALO Survey Teams have been assessing and prioritizing mineclearance tasking in Colombia since 2008. HALO plans to start...
Robert Burns Humanitarian Award.
Now in its eighth year, the Robert Burns Humanitarian Award is presented annually to a group or individual who has saved, improved or enriched the lives of others or society as a whole, through personal self-sacrifice, selfless service, 'hands on'...
Following the August 2008 conflict between Russia and Georgia, the US Department of State prepared a large-scale humanitarian response.
HALO's longstanding presence in Georgia and the Caucasus region made it the natural partner of choice for the US government in addressing the...
The Handheld Stand-off Mine Detection System, known as HSTAMIDS, is a dual-sensor mine detector developed specifically for the U.S. military by L-3 Communications Cyterra Corporation.
HSTAMIDS combines advanced metal detector and ground-penetrating radar technologies, allowing a trained...
Mrs McCain took 4 days out from her husband, Senator John McCain’s, Presidential campaign tour to visit HALO in Kosovo during March.
She has previously visited HALO’s humanitarian clearance operations in Angola, Sri Lanka, Mozambique and Cambodia.
During the visit to Kosovo she...
In mid-2008 HALO Cambodia’s deminers achieved an extraordinary clearance milestone by surpassing 200,000 mines found and destroyed since our program started in 1991.
A staggering 168,586 of these mines (84% of the total) were cleared from the northwest border districts where HALO has been...
HALO has operated in Somaliland since 1999 and currently employs 440 local staff.
During a routine minefield visit, a senior manager was approached by a group of women seeking jobs with HALO. After first briefing and receiving approval from local authorities, HALO decided to invite the...
After 13 years of work in northern Mozambique, HALO has closed its doors there.
In an area approximately the size of California, there are simply no more known minefields requiring clearance. The region will officially be declared ‘Mine Impact Free’ in early 2008. An estimated 170,000...
On 21 January 2004, Alex Blyth, then a Trustee of The HALO Trust, and Ray Middleton, a senior pilot with Cathay Pacific, reached the South Pole after a 730 mile trek from the coast of Antarctica. They raised over $200,000 for The HALO Trust.
On the 7th December at a ceremony attended by the Japanese Ambassador - His Excellency Mr. Masayoshi Kamohara - the HALO Trust formally handed over to the local community three cleared minefields in the town of Mtskheta, Georgia.
Clearance of these minefields around a former Soviet base...
On the 15th December the British Ambassador for Armenia – His Excellency Mr. Charles Lonsdale – hosted a reception in Yerevan to mark the end of DFID funding for The HALO Trust’s mineclearance program in Nagorno Karabakh.
Speaking at the reception Roly Clark, The HALO Trust Program...
Sad news - where “Development linked” demining with fewer deminers outbid HALO’s far larger demining capability.
Areas that have the “most casualties” will continue to keep that tag, until tackled by large scale clearance. Very, very frustrating! See links to The Times story and HALO'...
Fiona Willoughby visited Sri Lanka this month to photograph the returning IDPs in the Vanni district where HALO deminers are clearing the ground for them to rebuild their homes and livelihoods.
The HALO Trust joined forces with the Regional Mine Action Office and other demining agencies in Jaffna to organize a two-day exhibition to raise awareness about landmines on 20th-21st April. The event was sponsored by the European Commission, which has been...
The HALO Trust marked International Mine Awareness Day in Somaliland by taking part in an event organised by the Somaliland Mine Action Centre (SMAC) on 4th April 2011 in Hargeisa.
The event started with a rally through Hargeisa in which 100 HALO deminers participated. HALO also set up a...
In April and May of 2011 the HALO Trust rehabilitated two armories of the Somaliland Police in Hargeisa. The first was the armory at the Special Police Unit (SPU), and the second was at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
HALO carried out this armory rehabilitation project...
The Department for International Development has chosen The HALO Trust and partner agencies to assist with the demining and support development work in war torn northern Sri Lanka.
UKAid will enable HALO to expand its demining operations to over 1,000 Sri Lankan staff working to clear...
In May 2011, The HALO Trust was contracted by the United Nations Mine Action Service to conduct a one month...
Small businesses and public services flourish on ground cleared by HALO Skandapruram...
Deminers working for the HALO Trust in Sri Lanka found their 100,000th anti-personnel mine on 20th August as efforts continue to ensure the safe resettlement and reconstruction of the...
HALO Sri Lanka has expanded its demining operations to over 1,000 Sri Lankan staff working to clear minefields and support follow-on development in the three worst...
During a trip to Somaliland this week to work with the Somaliland Parliament, as part of a project run by The Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA...
Abkhazia announces that all known mined areas have been cleared, after 14 years of sustained humanitarian demining operations by the HALO Trust.
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The Colombian President meets HALO Trust Monday 21st November 2011.
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In the summer of 2011 The HALO Trust cleared a large minefield in Georgia’s Tusheti Protected Areas close to Georgia’s Caucasus Mountain border with the Russian Federation. The work...
Women in the front line clearing Sri Lanka of land mines.
The Norwegian Embassy in Sri Lanka have published the following News article on their website, please read full article from link below:
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Race to clear landmines The HALO Trust is again an official charity partner of the San Francisco Marathon (July 29, 2012...
On 4 April 2012 The HALO Trust and the Government of Zimbabwe signed a Memorandum of Understanding which authorises HALO to survey and clear the country’s longest belts of barrier minefield.
These belts of landmines are located on Zimbabwe’s northeast border with Mozambique and extend...
Australian ABC news story about HALO in Sri Lanka.
Click link to Australian ABC news story which summarizes what HALO does in Sri Lanka.
Angelina Jolie, Google Earth Outreach and The HALO Trust announce the launch of "Explore a Minefield", which brings added transparency to humanitarian landmine clearance.
Tours of mine-affected areas are created for viewing in Google Earth software and narrated by Angelina Jolie, a...
Angelina Jolie and her family visited HALO’s global headquarters in Scotland this weekend.
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On 4th October, The HALO Trust and the National Regulatory Authorities for Mines / UXO Sector in Lao PDR start a new UXO Clearance project in Laos. The NRA’s Director General, Mr Phoukhieo Chanthasomboune issued the MOU.
HALO’s Program Manager, Armen Harutyunyan, highlighted plans in Laos...
Prince Harry has paid a two day visit to Mozambique to visit minefields being cleared by The HALO Trust, a British Charity and the World’s largest demining agency.
Prince Harry’s visit, which was privately organized by HALO, has focused on the impact of mines on the civilian population. ...
