FOUR members of the Rotary Club of Ambleside were invited to join a very hands-on day set up by the Mines Advisory Group.
They experienced a vivid reconstruction of what life is like for millions of innocent people in any of the 60 countries where communities are denied access to their lands, water, homes, schools and roads, because of mines.
The club members were in England where they donned reinforced blast jackets, helmets and visors before entering booby-trapped buildings where de-miners demonstrated the painstaking care needed to make homes and other buildings habitable.
The Rotary Club of Ambleside, with the help of others, has funded the training and equipping of an initial three medic de-miners - who are fully trained and equipped to stabilise the traumatic injuries caused by blast and fragmentation mines - at a cost of £1,250 each.
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