29 September 2011 - In the framework of UNAMID risk awareness raising activities throughout Darfur on the dangers of unexploded ordnance (UXOs), the Mission’s Ordnance Disposal Office conducted a two-day workshop on puppetry skills with the local NGO Friends of Peace and Development to help them to deliver messages to children in a more child friendly manner. The final test of the workshop was for the participants to conduct a risk education class on the dangers of the UXOs today at the Umm Aymah basic school in El Fasher, North Darfur.

Children at the Umm Aymah basic school in El Fasher attending the activity. Photo by Sharon Lukunka.

UNAMID and its local partners started these awareness projects in 2008. A number of children have been reportedly injured by UXOs in different locations in Darfur; most recently when three children were killed and five injured while they were playing.