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Introduction:
OMAR was established in 1990 with Mr. Fazel Karim Fazel as its director. The purpose of OMAR was helping in making Afghanistan safe from the threat of mines and other unexploded ordnance through threat avoidance education, threat prevention and threat elimination. It is a non-governmental, non-political, non-profit, purely humanitarian Afghan organization working for Afghanistan. The purpose of OMA was to respond to the need for mine awareness education to the people of Afghanistan. The organization was staffed entirely by Afghan nationals, who would be best suited to meet the cultural and religious requirements of such a program. OMAR concentrated on sending specially trained instructors to high priority areas in an effort to gain maximum exposure to those at greatest risk. To this end, mine awareness billboards were erected in prominent positions leading into heavily mined areas, and silk-screens and booklets have been distributed amongst the population. Mine awareness classes have been conducted in local meeting places, such as schools, mosques and bazaars, resulting in exposure to over 9.3 million people so far.
The enormity of the task, of clearing Afghanistan of the astronomical amount of mines and UXO clearly justified the need for another mine clearance technical organization. Subsequently, in August 1992, OMAR expanded its field of operation to mine clearance became known as Organization for Mine clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation (OMAR). It has offices in western Afghanistan, Kandahar, Mazar and Nangarhar provinces of the country, a liaison office in Peshawar Pakistan and the main office being in Kabul capital of Afghanistan. OMAR has 13 manual mine clearance teams, six mechanical mine clearance teams, two EOD teams, 21 male and female mine awareness mobile teams and 3 dog sets which are under training and soon will start de-mining operation.
The enormity of the task, of clearing Afghanistan of the astronomical amount of mines and UXO clearly justified the need for another mine clearance technical organization. Subsequently, in August 1992, OMAR expanded its field of operation to mine clearance became known as Organization for Mine clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation (OMAR). It has offices in western Afghanistan, Kandahar, Mazar and Nangarhar provinces of the country, a liaison office in Peshawar Pakistan and the main office being in Kabul capital of Afghanistan. OMAR has 13 manual mine clearance teams, six mechanical mine clearance teams, two EOD teams, 21 male and female mine awareness mobile teams and 3 dog sets which are under training and soon will start de-mining operation.
The enormity of the task, of clearing Afghanistan of the astronomical amount of mines and UXO clearly justified the need for another mine clearance technical organization. Subsequently, in August 1992, OMAR expanded its field of operation to mine clearance became known as Organization for Mine clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation (OMAR). It has offices in western Afghanistan, Kandahar, Mazar and Nangarhar provinces of the country, a liaison office in Peshawar Pakistan and the main office being in Kabul capital of Afghanistan. OMAR has 13 manual mine clearance teams, six mechanical mine clearance teams, two EOD teams, 21 male and female mine awareness mobile teams and 3 dog sets which are under training and soon will start de-mining operation.
The enormity of the task, of clearing Afghanistan of the astronomical amount of mines and UXO clearly justified the need for another mine clearance technical organization. Subsequently, in August 1992, OMAR expanded its field of operation to mine clearance became known as Organization for Mine clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation (OMAR). It has offices in western Afghanistan, Kandahar, Mazar and Nangarhar provinces of the country, a liaison office in Peshawar Pakistan and the main office being in Kabul capital of Afghanistan. OMAR has 13 manual mine clearance teams, six mechanical mine clearance teams, two EOD teams, 21 male and female mine awareness mobile teams and 3 dog sets which are under training and soon will start de-mining operation. The enormity of the task, of clearing Afghanistan of the astronomical amount of mines and UXO clearly justified the need for another mine clearance technical organization. Subsequently, in August 1992, OMAR expanded its field of operation to mine clearance became known as Organization for Mine clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation (OMAR). It has offices in western Afghanistan, Kandahar, Mazar and Nangarhar provinces of the country, a liaison office in Peshawar Pakistan and the main office being in Kabul capital of Afghanistan. OMAR has 13 manual mine clearance teams, six mechanical mine clearance teams, two EOD teams, 21 male and female mine awareness mobile teams and 3 dog sets which are under training and soon will start de-mining operation.
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