The Directorate for Mine Action carried out intensive awareness campaigns in Wassit province /Kut and Al-No’maniya districts.

The Director General of DMA, Eng.Dhafir Mahmood Khalaf, said that an awareness team, from his directorate, carried out an intensive awareness campaign in wassit province (Al-Amal, Ghirnata, Ishbilya, Said Malik, Al-Balha, Bassim Jassim Al-Filfil) villages, which are residential communities close to the contaminated sites with various types of explosive remnants of war, indicating that the number of  beneficiaries from this campaign reached about (746) including children, man and woman, pointing out at the same time the campaign included presenting the lectures and distributing the posters, publications, school brochures, drawing brochures and crayons which included awareness-raising and educational guidelines that urge the necessity of proper dealing with the suspected items in addition to the need to contact the free hotlines numbers (115) Civil Defense Directorate and (182) Directorate for Mine Action for the purpose of taking the necessary procedures by the concerned authorities and protect the innocent lives from any potential risks which may result from such UXO and ERW in case of unsafe dealing with i