On Wednesday, the Directorate for Mine Action  activated a guidance and awareness cooperation with the various religious endowments institutions in order to deliver educational messages for the people of affected communities about the risks of mines and other explosive remnants of war through mosque preachers and religious leaders.

From his part, the Director General of DMA, Eng. Dhafir Mahmood Khallaf, said that this educational cooperation conducted by Awareness and Media Department with Shiite, Sunni and Christian religious endowments in order to educate the people of affected communities by mosque preachers and religious leaders about the dangers of mines and ERW to adopt safe and secure means of dealing with the suspected objects, in addition to the necessity of urgent informing via free numbers, for DMA: 182 Asia cell and Zain Iraq, and 115 for civil defense directorate to take the necessary measures in this regard.

It is noteworthy that DMA conducts intensive awareness campaigns periodically that targeting all areas which military operations had taken place there for the purpose of educating the population about the dangers of such objects.