Anti-Mines Training Will Be Launched Saving Azeri Lives

Baku Today
May 12 2004

About 40,000 secondary school students will be trained in anti-mine
precautions in Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijan Education Ministry, Azerbaijani Anti-mines agency and
UNICEF have agreed to launch an educative project for schoolchildren
of bordering with the Armenian occupied territories of Azerbaijan.

The project has been allocated for the students from Agdam, Fizuli
and Khanlar regions.

The project would aim at raising mines awareness among youngsters to
preventing their lives from becoming mine targeted.

Anti-mines agency’s direcor Nazim Ismayilov said, the statistics of
the past years has shown that 16 per cent of those killed in mine
explosions were children aged 14.

Roughly 500 specialists will train the students

The project is worth $ 70,000.