FSD (Fondation suisse de déminage)

Avant de profiter du lac et du soleil, faites un détour par la Rotonde du Mont-Blanc et plongez dans une réalité que des millions de personnes vivent chaque jour: celle des zones contaminées par le...

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Retour en images sur le lancement de "The Only Way Out", une installation immersive à Genève. À travers ce projet, la FSD souhaite rendre tangible une réalité souvent oubliée: celle des zones cont...

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Pendant trois jours, la Rotonde du Mont-Blanc se transforme avec l'installation ""The Only Way Out"", une expérience immersive inspirée de la réalité quotidienne de millions de personnes vivant dan...

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Venez découvrir pourquoi le déminage humanitaire est indispensable à travers "The Only Way Out", une expérience immersive inédite au cœur de Genève. 📍 Rotonde du Mont-Blanc, Genève 📅 26–28 juin 202.

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Les mines et les restes explosifs de guerre continuent d'empêcher les familles de rentrer chez elles, les enfants d'aller à l'école en sécurité et les communautés de reconstruire leur avenir. La FS...

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"I monitor the condition of the deminers and am ready to provide assistance at any moment.": safety is at the heart of FSD’s demining operations, and medics play a vital role in ensuring it. Follo...

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Misconceptions about the risks posed by old ammunition and landmines are common. This explosive ordnance risk education session in a Filipino school helped a teacher understand how to react safely ...

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Huge swathes of flat land need to be checked for explosive hazards? Ground preparation machines are particularly suited to this task. Combined with a second pass by deminers to remove any hazards ...

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Maksym, 15, knows the threat of explosive ordnance well. Teenagers like him are surrounded by stories of accidents, as a once familiar landscape is reshaped by war. #demining #ukraine

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When she started the job, Alnisa could not find any information about the origin of this ammunition in the museum’s collection. It had been on display for decades, but she wanted to ensure it was s...

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After several months of intensive training during the winter break, demining teams have returned to work to clear Ukrainian land of explosive ordnance. Over the winter, teams have undergone trainin...

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Our survey teams' kit has one more essential: the compass. Always reliable, it completes GPS coordinates for reference points and landmarks for safe navigating and clear reports 📄 #survey #demini..

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Keeping sustainability and the environment in mind when building our community projects is key to upholding our values. Striving for a safer future also means protecting the planet. #EarthDay2026 #...

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Step by Step began filming a few years ago in Ukraine, and since then, deminers like Serhii who appear in the film have continued their journeys in humanitarian mine action with FSD. Watch the full...

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Personal protective equipment, including a vest and visor, is part of a humanitarian deminer’s daily kit for clearance. It needs to be protective but not restrictive, remain light enough for comfor...

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FSD Director Hansjörg Eberle has a few words to share as we mark the Internation Mine Action Day. Find the joint statement of major mine action actors over on our website: https://fsd.ch/wp-content...

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As today marks International Mine Awareness Day, we invite you to step into the shoes of populations affected by landmines and explosive remnants of war. Not knowing whether your backyard, your way...

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To stay safe, survey teams walk carefully on known paths. As they scan the ground for traces and evidence of remnants of war, binoculars allow them to have a clear view in safety.

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* Click on the icon "subtitles/CC" to activate subtitles. 👉 After countless risk education sessions since 2012, our staff and volunteers reached the number of 500,000 people they taught safety beh..

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👉 As we mark the International Women's Day, we gathered accounts of our female deminers, surveyors and education team members: mine action is still viewed as masculine, and most of them have had to..

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