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The children are this planet’s most precious resource. The statement is often repeated and sounds cliche: the children are our future. The fact is they are.

Over the past one hundred years the deadly legacy of armed conflict throughout the world is the insidious anti-personnel mine…also known as the land mine. Unexploded land-mines remain lethal as a war-torn country begins its reconstruction and development. Frequently the widespread practice of mining agricultural land has led to malnutrition, even to famine and starvation. This heinous military practice is harmful to adults and children alike.

Placing minefields without marking and recording them for later removal is considered a war crime under Protocol II of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons,  an attached condition to the Geneva Conventions.

Using his childhood experience, making toys from whatever materials were available while growing up in war distressed Afghanistan, designer Massoud Hassani has created a wind-powered sphere made from bamboo and biodegradable plastic that can be used to clear landmines. The Mine Kafon.

It is the inexpensive the solution to this dilemma. Watch the video made by artist/film maker Callum Cooper, of the United Kingdom, to see the prototype of this unique lifesaving device in action.
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According to the web site for the project One Billion Rising,

“ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME.
ONE BILLION WOMEN VIOLATED IS AN ATROCITY.”