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  • What we do

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      • Clearing landmines and explosives

      • Teaching people to stay safe

      • Managing weapons and ammunition

      • Responding to disaster and crisis

    • Our impact

      • Our impact

      • Protecting lives

      • Making land safe

      • Creating jobs

    Our work

    • Clearing landmines and explosives
    • Teaching people to stay safe
    • Managing weapons and ammunition
    • Responding to disaster and crisis

    Our impact

    • Protecting lives
    • Making land safe
    • Creating jobs
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    • Africa

      • Africa

      • Angola

      • Guinea Bissau

      • Malawi

      • Mozambique

      • Somalia and Somaliland

      • Zimbabwe

      • Ethiopia

      • Nigeria

      • Ghana

      • Cote D’Ivoire

      • Mauritania

      • Togo

      • Kenya

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      • Nagorno Karabakh

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      • Moldova

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      • Laos

      • Myanmar

      • Solomon Islands

      • Sri Lanka

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    • Angola
    • Guinea Bissau
    • Malawi
    • Mozambique
    • Somalia and Somaliland
    • Zimbabwe
    • Ethiopia
    • Nigeria
    • Ghana
    • Cote D’Ivoire
    • Mauritania
    • Togo
    • Kenya

    Europe & Caucasus

    • Kosovo
    • Nagorno Karabakh
    • Ukraine
    • Moldova

    South Asia

    • Cambodia
    • Laos
    • Myanmar
    • Solomon Islands
    • Sri Lanka

    Central Asia

    • Afghanistan

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    • El Salvador
    • Guatemala
    • Honduras

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    • Iraq
    • Libya
    • Syria
    • West Bank
    • Yemen
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What we do

The HALO Trust  helps countries recover after conflict. Clearing landmines to save lives is at the heart of what we do. We work with communities that are too often forgotten once the fighting has ended, a point reinforced by Princess Diana after her visit to Angola in 1997.

"The mine is a stealthy killer. Long after conflict is ended, its innocent victims die or are wounded singly, in countries of which we hear little. Their lonely fate is never reported."
Princess Diana

The nature of conflict has evolved, as has the dangerous debris left behind when the fighting is over. As well as clearing landmines, we  deal with unexploded ordnance – from bullets to aircraft bombs – and we educate communities to keep them safe. We also build safe arms stores and systems for securing guns.

Our house was heavily damaged with all the windows blown out and cracks running down the walls. We were lucky that the children were not hurt but my five-year-old grandson, Agop, has not spoken since the explosion—he has been silent for two years.
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Elena’s family are still living with the trauma of the explosion that ripped through a weapon store close to their home in Primorsky, Abkhazia. Three people were killed and 64 injured. HALO has been working to make the area safe and the village is beginning to rebuild, but the trauma of that day has had a lasting impact on the community, and little Agop.

Over the years, HALO has built a reputation for responding to humanitarian crisis through our work in Kosovo, Eritrea, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and Syria.  

 Wherever we work, our mission is to protect lives and restore livelihoods. By employing and training local people, we empower communities and transform futures. 

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The HALO Trust is a company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No. 2228587. Registered Charity No. 1001813 and (in Scotland) SC037870. Registered Office: One Bartholomew Close, Barts Square, London EC1A 7BL

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