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Mini MineWolf Training in Afghanistan: Accreditation Achieved by DDG
06.07.08

Mini Minewolf receives UN accreditation in Afghanistan

Danish Deming Group (DDG) received delivery of a Mini MineWolf with full support package including tiller/flail and mobile workshop in Afghanistan. Shortly after clearing customs in Kabul, operator and mechanical training for DDG personnel was completed, resulting in full accreditation of the DDG team and Mini MineWolf by the United Nations Mine Action Centre in Afghanistan (UNMAC). 

                      DDG Mini MineWolf during demining operations in Afghanistan

The requirements for accreditation included proof of competence of the newly trained operators as well as achieving stringent ground penetration and clearance capacity targets with both tiller and flail working tools.

DDG currently employ 350 people in Afghanistan:  6 Manual Demining Teams, 16 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Teams, 3 Stockpile Destruction Teams, a Mechanical Mine-clearance Unit and 4 Mine Risk 
Education Teams.

During the period 1999-2007 DDG has recovered and disposed of more than 1,000,000 unexploded ordnance and 100,000 landmines.