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Landmine Survivors Network
Type: NGO (International)
Headquarters: United States
Countries of Operation: United States
Regions of Operation: North America
 

Landmine Survivors Network (LSN) is an organization created by and for survivors of landmine accidents and other causes of traumatic limb loss. In mine-affected countries around the world, LSN connects survivors with health care and rehabilitation services, economic opportunities and social empowerment and reintegration programs. LSN relies on a survivor recovery model implemented by peer Outreach Worker support who also links and refer survivors to health care providers, vocational training courses, and other services. Economic Opportunity Coordinators train Outreach Workers in basic economic opportunity approaches Outreach Workers can implement. At the same time LSN staff works at the level of organizations and systems to promote organizational and systems change so that barriers affecting survivor employment and community involvement are removed or decline fostering survivor recovery. This recovery model is currently implemented through five Networks based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Jordan, and Vietnam. Partnership programs with similar objectives and strategies are based in Mozambique and Colombia.

Economic opportunity constitutes one of three pillars of LSN

   


Contact:
info@landminesurvivors.org

United States

 
 

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