SubscribeThe U.S. Department of State is pleased to recognize Schonstedt Instrument Company's donation of $75K worth of magnetic detectors.
To help humanitarian deminers locate and clear persistent landmines and explosive remnants of war Schonstedt Instrument Company will continue to support programmes such as these all around the world.
GA-72Cd Magnetic Detectors
Schonstedt Instrument Company an employee-owned company in Kearneysville, West Virginia, is one of the 61 Public-Private Partners of the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. Since May 2007, the company, which manufactures specialized detectors used by survey, demining, utility, telecommunications, and energy firms around the world, has donated 74 of its GA-72Cd Magnetic Detectors for demining in Laos, Somalia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam, in coordination with the United Nations Mine Action Service (http://www.mineaction.org/). The International Mine Action Training Centre has also used some of the 20 detectors donated to Somalia. In Kenya, See related photos at http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/b/101187.htm.
Tajik children in one of the villages whose surrounding
fields are impacted by explosive remnants of war.
Humanitarian Demining - Buy a Schonstedt, Save a Life
Schonstedt Humanitarian Demining Initiative (SHDI) donations can come about in two ways. First, organizations and individuals that buy one of Schonstedt's TraceMaster II or XTpc pipe and cable locators can have a magnetic detector donated in their name to a United Nations Mine Action Team for use in a conflict-affected country.
Second, companies can make direct donations; Buy a Schonstedt, Save a Life. Quakers in Woodstown, New Jersey, recently raised money to purchase 12 Schonstedt Magnetic Detectors for donation, which were matched with another 12 detectors from Schonstedt. All 24 detectors have been sent to Vietnam where they will be used by MAG (http://www.mag.org.uk/) and Norwegian Peoples Aid, both of which are also Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement Public-Private Partners.
Weapons Removal and Abatement's
To learn about the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement's bilateral and multilateral humanitarian mine action programs, and its Public-Private Partnerships, which together have contributed to dramatically reducing the rate of reported casualties from landmines and explosive remnants of war around the world to 5,759 in 2006, visit following web-site and read its Safe Passage newsletters http://www.state.gov/t/pm/wra/partners/c14838.htm.
