AAA TO ARMENIA IN DEMINING WORK
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
May 10 2006
YEREVAN, May 10. /ARKA/. Armenian Assembly of America (AAA) intends
to render assistance in mine-clearance in Armenia. With this end
in view, the AAA initiates an action to raise $100,000 to purchase
sniffer dogs to be involved in US Department of State’s mine-clearance
program in Armenia.
At the organization’s annual meeting in Washington, Annie Totah,
a member of the Board of Directors, “Marshall Legacy Institute”
(MLI) said that everything possible will be done to clear Armenia’s
soil of explosives that kill people and animals every year.
MLI is a non-profit organization training mine-detector dogs and
providing information on mines. The MLI implements programs in two
directions: Children Against Mines Programand 9 Demining Corps.