Champion and his team are tasked with clearing explosives from all the villages in which CARE is implementing projects. Photo by Antony Robbins. Where mines cannot be removed, minefields are painstakingly mapped and marked so that people do not unknowingly wander into danger. This means working with local communities to run landmine awareness sessions in more than 200 villages throughout Kosovo.
Similar training is provided to international aid workers.
The aid workers traipse behind, hanging on his every word. Shell cases, spent bullets. In Kosovo, as in scores of countries polluted by landmines, the effects of these hidden bombs are felt across communities. Farmland is rendered useless, and livestock, wildlife and people are in constant danger. Traditional industries, like chalk mining in the hills of the southern province of Prizren, are abandoned.