Safe Steps
"The children know the sounds—the whistle, the click, the silence that means danger. Now they're learning what the ground can hide."
Myanmar now holds a grim distinction: the highest rate of landmine casualties in the world. In 2023 alone, over 1,000 people were killed or maimed—many of them children who stepped off a familiar path, or farmers returning to fields they'd worked for decades.
In Kachin State, where conflict has raged for over a decade, the hidden dangers are everywhere. Explosive remnants of war lie beneath schoolyards, along riverbanks, beside the trails children walk each morning. Families live with constant fear—not of the fighting they can see, but of the silent threat buried just below the surface.
This project brings safety education directly into schools and homes. Local teachers will become trained safety educators. Children will learn to recognize the signs of danger and know what to do. Families will finally have the knowledge that could save a limb—or a life.
