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OAS HELPING RESTORE LOST CHILDHOOD TO
YOUNG NICARAGUAN LANDMINE VICTIMS
July 10, 2006
Three Nicaraguan children will receive medical attention at a Costa Rica-based vision center this week. The Organization of American States (OAS) with the support of the international donor community, will provide the necessary funds for housing and prosthetics.
Jesús Erasmo Gutierrez, Edwin Gonzalez, and Tomás González lost their eyesight in a landmines explosion. “Unlike what happens with other kinds of accidents these children, who are between 11 and 16 years old, are injured in a way that completely marginalizes them,” according to William McDonough, director of the OAS Office of Humanitarian Mine Action.
The United States, Canada, Sweden, Norway and Italy have been supporting humanitarian effort in Nicaragua since 1997. “The individual must learn to develop skills much like a new born does,” continues McDonough. “While the loss of a limb substantially limits a landmine survivor, the loss of eyesight completely disables him for the rest of his life.”
Treating children’s eyesight is much more difficult than treating an arm or a leg. “Pediatrics is a complex matter, because the injury is not only physical but also psychological, especially at this earlier stage of a victim’s life,” stated Carlos Orozco, National Coordinator of the OAS Mine Action Program in Nicaragua.
“Vision treatment is essential to restoring not only victims’ confidence but is also a way to restore their lost childhood,” says McDonough. The OAS Mine Action Program in Nicaragua has supported more than 800 landmine victims in the country. The program has provided prosthetics, food and accommodation to these victims. Of these landmine victims, 200 have received vocational training through the National Technological Institute (INATEC).
National authorities in countries that have been rid of landmines, including Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica, have also approached the OAS about their landmine victims. With more than 500 landmine victims under the age of 16, Colombia also faces a very complex problem dealing with young landmine victims.
“The OAS is seeking to continue expanding its portfolio of victim assistance activities, so as to be able to provide all landmine survivors with the assistance they need,” says McDonough.
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