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Deminers answer Jack and Valentine’s questions

01 Feb 2021 | Afghanistan, Colombia, Mine action

Some time ago, FSD was invited to a class at the Florimont Institute in Geneva to talk to students about humanitarian demining. The children, aged between ten to eleven, were very attentive to the presentation of FSD’s director, Hansjörg Eberle. After the presentation, the children asked questions which were recorded and passed on to our deminers in the field. FSD’s deminers were pleased to receive such relevant, and sometimes surprising, questions from the students. The three video clips below are the first round of this Q&A recorded in Iraq, Afghanistan and Colombia.

🙋What about you, do you have any question for our deminers or members of FSD? We look forward to receiving your questions (in writing or by video) at this email: questions@fsd.ch

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