Thanks to the Italian NGO Engineers Without Borders, Snail Aid has been invited to participate to the conference: Rebuilding Kobane hosted by the European Parliament in Brussels on the 1st of July 2015. We hope that Billy Goat Radio tool can facilitate spreading mine risk education messages among returnees.

Silvia and Emanuela took part to the 12th International Symposium and Equipment Exhibition from the 27th to the 30th of April 2015 in Biograd Croatia to present the work on Billy Goat Radio and on Open Source Hardware for Mine Action, such as Disarmadillo. Here are some pictures taken from Silvia, the photographer.

Today we have received a very good news; we have been notified that the proposal for a new Technical Note for Mine Action (TNMA) submitted to the International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) Review Board (RB) and latest presented at the IMAS RB meeting in February 2015 in Geneva, is being supported. Here more details about it.

We have received a very good news: the chapter of the book Humanitarian Demining about the concepts behind Disarmadillo written by Emanuela has been downloaded 4000 times!

This is the message we received from the publisher:

We are pleased to inform you that your paper "Power Tillers for Demining in Sri Lanka: Participatory Design of Low-cost Technology" has achieved impressive readership results. The chapter you have published with InTech in the book "Humanitarian Demining" has so far been accessed 4000 times. Congratulations on the significant impact that your work has achieved to date.

The chapter can be downloaded from here

L’Ordine degli Avvocati di Milano, con il patrocinio del Comune di Milano, dell’Associazione La Memoria del Teatro, della Scuola Superiore dell’Avvocatura organizza uno spettacolo teatrale sui diritti umani nelle serate del 17 e 18 marzo al Teatro Filodrammatici di Milano. Parte degli incassi sarà devoluta all'associazione SMINAMENTO Italia Onlus che promuove la seconda missione in Western Sahara del progetto Billy Goat Radio, per sensibilizzare al problema delle mine antiuomo le popolazioni che vivono dei Territori Liberati del Western Sahara.

Partecipate numerosi!

Repubblica Genova has published another piece on LOCOSTRA!

The Journal of Mine Action has published the paper on the work we did with Billy Goat Radio tool in the refugee camps of Sharawi people in Algeria. Thanks a lot to our partner organization ASAVIM.

 

Snail Aid had the chance to present results from TIRAMISU project at CPexpo in a booth shared with the University of Genova. The tools presented were Billy Goat Radio and Locostrav2.

Snail Aid team is back from the second field-evaluation mission of Billy Goat Radio. This time we went in Pailin, Cambodia and we worked with the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC).

Silvia Aresca, a member of Snail Aid who is a professional photographer, joined the mission. 

Her pictures can be seen this Friday, the 28th of November in Vico San Matteo 10R in the premises of Chiaro Scuro shop, at 21,30. Anyone interested is welcome to join us.