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Prince Harry Says Keeping Princess Diana's "Legacy Alive" Is Something He Takes “Incredibly Seriously” as He Honors a Charity Close to Her Heart

The Duke of Sussex said his late mother "would have been horrified" that landmines still exist in the world.

Marie Claire

Thornhill-based charity's landmine clearance operation visited by Foreign Secretary

James Cleverly was able to see for himself the lifesaving work by trained Ukrainian women and men working for HALO

Daily Record

Demining charity urges UK to get behind its efforts to ‘decontaminate’ Ukraine

The Halo Trust is undertaking a training programme to expand its staff in the country to around 1,200 this summer.

The Independent UK

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Halo Trust to double staff in Ukraine as it faces ‘epochal’ mine clearance

The world’s largest demining charity said landmines are being used by Russia on an ‘extraordinary scale’.

The Independent UK

Thornhill landmine clearing charity receives Scottish Government backing for Ukraine work

The Halo Trust has been handed £300,000 towards its operations to remove explosives left behind by Russia's invasion

Daily Record

Inside the painstaking search for five million decaying bombs in Cambodia

On a steep and slippery hillside beside a quiet village in Battambang province in north-west Cambodia, a small team is hard at work clearing land mines from conflicts decades ago.

ABC News

Dumfriesshire MP witnesses tragedy and horror of war-torn Ukraine

David Mundell was given the insight as a guest of the Thornhill-based charity HALO Trust

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Scottish charity awarded £300,000 to help clear landmines in Ukraine

A SCOTTISH charity has been assigned to clear landmines and other debris of war in Ukraine.

The National (Scotland)

Managing the minefield of unexploded weapons

From Ukraine to the Pacific, mines and failed shells from wars past and present are a serious threat – and one aid worker says NZ can act as a 'force multiplier' for change.

Newsroom.co.nz

Praise for Thornhill-based charity helping remove landmines from Ukraine

The UK's Ambassador to Ukraine, Melinda Simmons, observed the team from The HALO Trust in action

Daily Record

Mine clearance charity marks six months of Ukraine war with special visit

The British ambassador to Ukraine visited an area near Kyiv where the charity the Halo Trust is working to remove landmines.

The Independent UK

Harry meets Rwandan president on wildlife conservation trip

Harry visited as part of his work as president of African Parks.

The Independent UK

Women leading Thornhill-based Halo Trust's Ukraine demining task force gives insight into difficult task

Mairi Cunningham says nothing could have prepared her for life in Ukraine despite working in some of the world's most hazardous trouble spots

Daily Record

Dumfries man returns home from lifesaving work in Ukraine

Kieran McCulloch works for the Halo Trust, whose experts clear minefields and explosive ordnance in areas of conflict

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Scots goalkeeper clearing mines in war-torn Ukraine says junior football is 'more stressful'

Kieran McCulloch missed the end of last season with West of Scotland League side Threave Rovers because his day job as a logistics and procurement officer took him to the Kyiv area.

The Independent UK

Scottish goalkeeper swaps saving shots on the pitch for lives in Ukraine

Kieran McCulloch works for the Halo Trust, a leading humanitarian landmine clearance charity.

Daily Record

Brave Scot clearing landmines in Ukraine tells of near miss amid Russian airstrike

Mairi Cunningham, from Broughty Ferry, is leading the HALO Trust’s demining task force but admits nothing could have prepared her for the reality.

The Independent UK

In Ukraine, mines take lives even after fighting moves on

Russia’s war in Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosives that is disrupting planting and harvesting, complicating efforts to rebuild homes and villages, and leaving behind a legacy that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops

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PHOTOS: Angola's all-female demining teams blow up landmines — and gender stereotypes

Angola's civil war left 1,100 active minefields. The attitude had been that clearing mines is man's work until a nonprofit stepped in. Now nearly 400 women deminers tread carefully — and courageously.

The Independent UK

Harry praises the ‘amazing’ efforts of Ukrainian staff from landmine charity

Founded in Afghanistan in 1988, the Halo Trust employs 10,000 people in 28 countries and territories either at war or recovering from conflict.

Daily Record

Thornhill-based landmine clearing charity expresses concern for Ukraine-based aid workers

The Halo Trust has around 430 staff in the country but the conflict with Russia means it has had to call a halt to its operations

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