{"id":5005,"date":"2023-11-10T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawai.li\/fsd\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:31:42","slug":"yesterday-a-schoolteacher-today-a-deminer-for-fsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/yesterday-a-schoolteacher-today-a-deminer-for-fsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday a school teacher, today a deminer for FSD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iskandarova is a deminer in the team deployed last month by FSD to a remote and mountainous area of Tajikistan. Her colleagues include four men and three women. The latter, Majidova, Sharapova and Nabotova, are also mothers, and worked respectively as farmer, shop assistant and intensive care nurse. They have all completed FSD training in humanitarian demining, and are now helping to clear their country of dangerous remnants of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Before being deployed in the field, people recruited by FSD undergo a thorough training course in humanitarian demining.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Iskandarova is a deminer in the team deployed last month by FSD to a remote and mountainous area of Tajikistan. Her colleagues include four men and three women. The latter, Majidova, Sharapova and Nabotova, are also mothers, and worked respectively as farmer, shop assistant and intensive care nurse. They have all completed FSD training in humanitarian demining, and are now helping to clear their country of dangerous remnants of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Empowering women is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic necessity on the path to fulfilling the Country\u2019s commitment to the Antipersonal Landmine Ban Convention. Their strength, resilience and determination are the driving forces that will help us move towards a mine-free world, where every step forward is a step towards peace and security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Tajikistan\u2019s contamination by mines and explosive remnants of war is the result of the civil war that followed the country\u2019s independence between 1992 and 1997. Russian military forces also heavily mined the border with Afghanistan to prevent passage between the two countries. These explosive devices, laid or dropped some thirty years ago, still pose a daily threat to the civilian population and hamper agriculture.

FSD\u2019s involvement in Tajikistan dates back to 2003. In 15 years, our teams have cleared and returned to the population 11 km2 of land and destroyed 820 tonnes of weapons and ammunition. After five years focusing on weapons and ammunition destruction activities, our demining operations resumed last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A deminer prepares marking sticks before operations. These are used to indicate the presence of mines and explosive remnants of war found by the deminers.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With \u201conly\u201d 12 km2 of contaminated land and several demining teams in action, including FSD\u2019s team, the prospect of a mine-free future could finally become a reality for the people of Tajikistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The mixed demining team practises the use of the metal detector during a mine clearance simulation.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Iskandarova is a deminer in the team deployed last month by FSD to a remote and mountainous area of Tajikistan. Her colleagues include four men and three women. The latter, Majidova, Sharapova and Nabotova, are also mothers, and worked respectively as farmer, shop assistant and intensive care nurse. They have all completed FSD training in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"news_country_category":[90],"custom_post_format":[145],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanitarian-demining","news_country_category-tadjikistan","custom_post_format-news-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6042,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/6042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"news_country_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_country_category?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"custom_post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsd.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_post_format?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}