 Survivor Assistance Partner Profiles
Since the launch of Adopt-A-Minefield’s Survivor Assistance Program in September of 2002, we have contributed support to 15 partner organizations that are providing vital services to landmine survivors in the following countries:
(Please select a country to view information about its survivor assistance partners)
These grants ensure landmine survivors will have the help they need to become active members of their communities. In some cases, this is a prosthetic limb and help learning how to walk again. For others, it’s training that allows them to earn a living to support themselves and their families.
Abkhazia
Association of Inva Corporation(AIS)
The Association of Inva Corporation is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 in the Republic of Abkhazia. It was founded by disabled people to help the disabled to learn about and assert their rights and make use of services available to them. AIS seeks to make it easier for the disabled to get back their lives and to fight against discrimination.
Afghanistan
Comprehensive Disabled Afghans' Program (CDAP)
The Afghanistan-based Comprehensive Disabled Afghans’ Program runs a community-based rehabilitation program in 45 districts. The program is run and managed by local staff (400 people) with direct support of community volunteers (1000 people) and family trainers (5000). It provides services such as home-based therapy, special education, physiotherapy, orthopedic, disability awareness and advocacy, vocational and small business training. This program reaches almost 20,000 landmine survivors and disabled people per year.
Angola
Jaipur Limb Campaign
The Jaipur Limb Campaign's main aim is to improve the lives of disabled people, particularly those who have lost limbs or the use of limbs, through the promotion of physical, social and economic rehabilitation. This is done through supporting local partner organizations in developing countries to strengthen their capacity to implement projects and carry out advocacy work.
The League for the Reintegration of Disabled People (LARDEF), JLC's partner in Angola, was founded in February 1997 by a group of disabled war veterans. LARDEF aims to create opportunities for the socioeconomic reintegration of disabled people, develop income-generating projects, protect the human rights of disabled people and foster cultural and sports activities to promote disabled people's participation and inclusion.
Bosnia & Herzegovina
STOP Mines
The Bosnia-based mine action organization STOP Mines was founded in 1999 to clear mines, implement mine risk education and assist survivors. STOP Mines is a national NGO, with an excellent track record in monitoring and fostering survivor assistance projects. Their dedicated, professional, and inclusive approach to mine action has been recognized at the national level by the appointment of director Radosav Zivkovic as Chair of the Bosnia Herzegovina Mine Action Center Landmine Victim Assistance Strategy Working Group.
Cambodia
National Center of Disabled Persons
The National Center of Disabled Persons of Cambodia was established in 1995 to address all the needs faced by disabled people. Since 1995, NCDP has developed three complimentary programs that address the physical and professional needs of disabled people.
Operations Enfants de Battambang (OEB)
OEB is a local NGO based in Battambang province, Cambodia, that seeks to help children and disabled people in the province to become self-reliant. Since 1996, OEB has provided emergency support to children who have survived landmine accidents. Battambang is one of the most mine-contaminated regions in Cambodia.
The Cambodia Trust
The Cambodia Trust was founded in 1989 in Oxford, UK, with the aim of providing artificial limbs for Cambodian landmine amputees. They began with opening three prosthetic clinics and then expanded to provide other services such as medical referrals, physiotherapy, community work and outreach. In 1994, they established an internationally accredited training school for prosthetists and othotists in Phnom Penh. To date, they have graduated 60 Cambodian students who carry out 18,000 limb fittings, repairs or consultations per year.
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF)
VVAF is dedicated to achieving global security through programs that reduce the worldwide threats posed by war and promote justice and freedom. Their international humanitarian programs assist civilian victims of war and conflict in 14 war-torn countries through physical and social rehabilitation services as well as identifying l public health priorities, such as landmine clearance. VVAF's Campaign for a Landmine Free World is VVAF's public outreach program on the international landmine tragedy. Since 1991, VVAF has operated humanitarian and landmine assistance programs around the world. Today, it operates programs in Angola, Cambodia, El Salvador, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Vietnam.
World Rehabilitation Fund
Founded in 1955, The World Rehabilitation Fund (WRF) has provided rehabilitative services to more than four million individuals in over 150 countries. WRF is currently managing programs in three severely mine-affected countries: Cambodia, Lebanon and Mozambique. WRF assists war-torn and developing nations with technical and professional training to aid in the physical, socioeconomic, and psychosocial rehabilitation and reintegration of disabled people and their families.
World Vision Cambodia
World Vision started work in Cambodia in 1970 and was among the first international NGOs to re-enter Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. WVC's program is based on a two part strategy. The first is to facilitate 20 community-based area development programs that address the causes of poverty and give priority to helping women and children. Secondly, WVC implements specific projects on strategic national issues, including landmines, health and HIV/AIDS. The Mines Program currently includes five projects: three mine clearance projects, a mine awareness/action team and vocational rehabilitation for the disabled.
Iraq
Handicap International Belgium
Handicap International Belgium has been present in the Sulaymaniyah region of Iraq since 1991, meeting the needs of people suffering amputations in the region, most of them victims of anti-personnel mines laid during the various recent conflicts.
Laos
POWER
POWER for Victims of Conflict was established in 1994 to provide assistive devices to landmine victims. Since then, it has expanded to include a variety of disabilities as well as capacity building activities with local disabled people’s organizations. The Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE), based in Laos, was established by POWER in 1997. Working through five prosthetics and orthotics centers, COPE is the only provider of mobility aids in Laos.
Mozambique
Landmine Survivors Network
Created by landmine survivors for landmine survivors, Landmine Survivors Network is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the hundreds of thousands of existing civilian landmine victims and preventing new ones. LSN works to help mine victims and their families recover through an integrated program of peer counseling, sports, and social and economic integration into their communities.
LSN has peer support networks in: Bosnia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Jordan, Mozambique, and Vietnam.
Vietnam
Clear Path International (CPI)
CPI serves landmine and bomb accident survivors, their families and their communities in former war zones in Southeast Asia. This assistance takes the form of medical and social services to survivors and their families and equipment support to local hospitals. They have projects in Vietnam, Cambodia and on the Thai-Burma border
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF)
VVMF was founded in 1980 to build a national memorial in Washington DC, dedicated to all who served with the US Armed Forces in the Vietnam War. Project RENEW, a program VVMF launched in 2001, is a comprehensive mine action program working in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. Project RENEW provides landmine survivor assistance, mine risk education and mine clearance surveys.
 
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