Humanitarian aid by Rotary
MINE-EX
and the ICRC
Collaboration with the ICRC
MINE-EX
and you
How can you help
Account for donations
MINE-EX
Working Group
Useful addresses
MINE-EX
wants to:
Support the worldwide ban of anti personnel mines.
Train
prosthetic technicians
Help mine victims in Cambodia by supplying prostheses.
In this respect MINE-EX donates CHF 500’000 each year to the ICRC.
Some information about Cambodia
A country of 180'000 km2, of which a third has been acknowledged as infested by antipersonnel mines.
A population of approximately 10 million inhabitants with30,000 mines and UXO victims, suffering from amputations.
6,000 of them,
need a prosthesis replacement each year and almost 500 new mine
victims require new prosthesis each year.
11 orthopedic centers are helping the country’s mine victims. These
centers are supplied with free prosthetic components from the Bangtrabek
factory.
Approximately 18 km2 are cleared of mines and UXO (unexploded ordnance)
every year.
Many more years will therefore be needed until all the mines and UXO are removed.
The
MINE-EX Foundation Rotary
Districts 1980, 1990 and 2000 CH/FL
Organization
The
three Rotary districts of Switzerland have set up the MINE-EX Foundation of Rotary CH/FL, which is run by
volunteers Rotarians. To
ensure that MINE-EX can achieve its objectives in Cambodia, they collaborate with the International
Committee of the Red Cross.(ICRC)
The ICRC makes sure that the total amount of all the funds reaches the
mine victims in Cambodia.
To ensure perennial help to the mine victims in Cambodia, MINE-EX needs the support of all the Rotary
Clubs in Switzerland
and Liechtenstein . Each Club is informed
and updated periodically by their MINE-EX delegate.
The activities that numerous clubs are engaged in extend beyond
the Rotary organization to the entire population.
This allows MINE-EX to obtain the welcome help of growing
public.