The Directorate for Mine Action attended a technical meeting with the General Directorate of Curricula in the Ministry of Education in Baghdad to update the awareness topics in curricula.

The Director General of DMA, Eng. Dhafir Mahmood, said that the meeting which was attended by the heads of Awareness and Media and Victim Assistance Departments as well as the awareness officer in UNMAS, discussed the updating of awareness topics in curricula and broadcasting the awareness films in educational TV channel.

Mahmood added that the meeting included a speech presented by the representative of UNMAS , during which it demonstrated the organization’s continued support to all efforts made in order to raise the level of   awareness of mines, IEDs ERW risks, in a way that protecting the lives of students within the activities of the educational curricula of the Ministry of Education in cooperation with the departments and agencies that supported the national mine action program in Iraq.