Environmental protection
FSD remediates sites contaminated with toxic substances inherited from the past: obsolete pesticides and waste from uranium mining and heavy metals.
Toxic pesticides buried in the soil are a constant threat to populations.
Many Tajiks now live on top of old pesticide stocks buried in the ground without knowing the real dangers they pose. As they seep into water and crops, these pesticides contaminate the food chain and affect the health of villagers.
FSD is raising awareness of the risks involved, and working on solutions that will end this contamination for good.
Environmental protection
Obsolete pesticides
At the same time, FSD is working with the United Nations to develop a technique to remediate contaminated soil in order to solve the problem for good.
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Environmental protection
Uranium
This ranged from conducting scientific analysis of water and ground pollution levels and environmental impact analyses to implementing physical construction of walls and fences, repair of top cover soils on waste piles, water testing and design of filtration measures for local communities.
FSD conducted all of this along with the Coordination Group for Uranium Legacy Sites (CGULS) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 2014 to 2020.
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Heavy metals
Notably, FSD participated in activities to survey and analyse the effects of waste soils from heavy metal mining sites in Kyrgyzstan which included water testing for trace metals, health screening in affected communities and the design of remediation measures to limit the leaching of toxic metals into the local environment and to provide safer food and water access.
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Tree Planting and Bioremediation
As an initial pilot project, FSD will be planting 5,000 trees in Tajikistan at the central land waste repository at Vakhsh.
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News from the field
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Every day, they put their courage and expertise to work to make the world a safer place. Read the testimonials and stories from our employees around the world.
Our action in Ukraine – From March 28 to April 10, 2022
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Our latest interventions in Ukraine – 21-27 March
Natalia tells her story to FSD staff. “We are from Sieverodonetsk (Сєвєродоне́цьк). We were forced to leave our hometown as the war started on the 24th of February”. The whole town was under fire. For two weeks we were hiding in a bomb shelter, because our apartment...
Our activities
Our humanitarian programs focus on four main areas.
mine action
FSD locates and clears mines and unexploded ordnance, provides explosive ordnance risk education and assists survivors of accidental explosions.
recovery & stability
Environmental protection
innovation &
technology
FSD collaborates on research & innovation projects aiming to use new technologies, such as drones, in mine action.
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