Prince Harry: “It’s fantastic to see how HALO is using modern technologies to speed up the process of demining. The improvements and the ability to clear landmines faster is extraordinary.”
The Duke of Sussex today joined HALO for a demonstration of the latest demining innovations in #Ukraine, where we’re using advanced technologies to clear land with greater efficiency and precision.
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We were delighted to join colleagues and partners at the @eudiplomacy open day in Brussels last weekend, highlighting the impact of EU support on communities affected by conflict and explosive hazards.
🇪🇺 EU FPI funding is vital in supporting HALO to clear landmines and explosives across Ukraine, including making key agricultural land safe for growing crops once more.
🇺🇦 Since 2022, with EU support, @halotrustukraine has:
• Released over 1 million sq metres of previously unsafe land.
• Identified more than 4.4 million sq metres of hazardous land for future clearance.
• Delivered life-saving risk education to more than 30,900 people, teaching families how to identify deadly explosives and stay safe.
This work supports farmers and local communities, saving lives, restoring livelihoods, and strengthening food security both in Ukraine and further afield through exports.
Thank you to everyone who joined us to hear more about our work and see some of our demining equipment in action.
“By allowing communities to use their land after we remove landmines, we directly contribute to productive economies.”
🇿🇼 HALO was delighted to attend the recent Zimbabwe International Trade Fair as partners of @UNDP Zimbabwe.
We highlighted the impact of mine clearance and how this supports safe development across the country, making agricultural land and key infrastructure safe to allow farming and other industries to recover and grow.
#ZITF2026 #MineAction
Honoured and deeply humbled to have recently been invited by James Cowan CBE, CEO of The HALO Trust, to become one of their Ambassadors.
I was still a child when I first heard about HALO, watching the now-famous images of Princess Diana walking through minefields in Angola in 1997 — a moment that helped awaken the world to the devastating reality of landmines and unexploded ordnance. I never imagined that years later I would personally visit several of HALO’s mine clearance and weapons disposal programmes across different countries, meeting some of the most courageous and dedicated people I have ever encountered.
For more than 35 years, HALO has been clearing landmines, making communities safe again, protecting children, restoring farmland, and giving families the chance to rebuild their lives after conflict. It is difficult to put into words the impact this work has on ordinary people. Entire villages are transformed when fear is removed from the ground beneath their feet.
To now support this mission as an Ambassador is both surreal and profoundly meaningful to me. A real privilege to be associated with an organisation carrying out such important humanitarian work around the world.
What does it take to move an entire global operation away from paper?
By 2028 we aim to deliver fully paperless field operations across all programmes.
This is more than a shift away from paper. It is a transformation in how mine clearance is planned, delivered and measured.
At its core, this ambition is about strengthening impact. Ensuring that the right decisions are made, at the right time, in the right place.
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Fascinating end to April 26, with the brilliant @jeromestarkey joining Prince Harry on his visit to Ukraine to witness the incredible work of @thehalotrust Inspiring to witness such dedication, resilience, and impact on the ground in Kyiv. The Prince also marked 10 years since Invictus, his charity for wounded veterans, came to the Ukraine. #princeharry #royal #halotrust #ukraine #invictus
Demining the path to food security. 🌽
Landmines and explosives block access to farmland and grazing routes, water, food markets, healthcare and child nutrition services.
Two-thirds of people facing acute food insecurity live in just ten countries where conflict is a key driver of food shortages, according to the 2026 Global Report on Food Crises.
HALO operates in several of these war-torn states – including Afghanistan, Nigeria, Syria, and Yemen – clearing lethal unexploded ordnance that litters vital agricultural land, grazing pastures and trade routes.
“By integrating demining with food security and nutrition programmes, the UK can foster long-term stability, help reduce hunger and food shortages, and enable communities to recover and rebuild,” said James Denselow, Director of Strategy at HALO.
#FoodSecurity #MineAction #Nutrition
Conflict and malnutrition are not separate challenges. They are deeply interconnected, and together, they are driving some of the most urgent global crises of our time.
This report from @thehalotrust and the Eleanor Crook Foundation, explores how modern conflict disrupts food systems, limits access to lifesaving treatment, and fuels cycles of instability and hunger.
With conflict now the leading driver of acute food insecurity, and millions of children still at risk, the need for a more integrated, joined-up response has never been clearer.
The report sets out practical recommendations, from scaling access to nutrition treatment to integrating approaches across humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding efforts.
If we are serious about tackling malnutrition, we must also address the conditions that drive it.
Read the full report on our website.
#GlobalHealth #Nutrition #Malnutrition #FoodSecurity #InternationalDevelopment
Mine clearance unlocks economic potential. 📈
From the transnational Lobito Corridor railway in #Angola, to power stations in Mozambique and power lines in #Cambodia, HALO has decades of experience in clearing the path for the recovery and reconstruction of vital infrastructure.
This work is key to multimillion dollar plans for investment, drives economic growth, boosts employment in local communities, and makes land safe for business and tourism.
Our landmine clearance has enabled the transformation of Jaffna in #SriLanka – cut off to visitors and littered with explosives following the civil war, it is now thriving and is one of @LonelyPlanet ’s must-visit destinations of 2026.
Rowing the Atlantic to help HALO save lives. 🚣
Team @rogue_wave2026 are taking on the world’s toughest row – a 3,000-mile, unsupported Atlantic crossing from the Canary Islands to Antigua in support of HALO’s life-saving work.
Training is underway and the journey starts in December 2026, taking around a month to complete – pushing the team’s mental and physical endurance to the limit.
🔗 You can support the team via the link in our bio – every donation helps us make land safe so families can return home, and communities can rebuild and recover from conflict.
@worlds.toughest.row #worldstoughestrow2026 #atlanticocean #rowinglife
When Prince Harry visited HALO in #Ukraine he saw first-hand how our use of innovative technology is transforming our life-saving work.
The scale of the challenge is immense but a new era of innovation in mine clearance is making our work faster, smarter and safer.
In a country facing vast contamination, this shift is essential.
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#PrinceHarry #TechForGood #MineAction
Prince Harry joined 🇺🇦 @halotrustukraine today to witness first-hand how technology is changing mine clearance on the frontlines.
He piloted an AI-powered drone that detects and maps explosives, and operated an R-BOT, a remotely controlled vehicle used to safely remove them – innovations that enable us to return land to communities sooner.
“Nearly 30 years ago, when my mother visited Angola, deminers carried out painstaking work on their hands and knees. Today they are using drones, AI and robots,” said Prince Harry.
In 2022, the Ukrainian government estimated that an area twice the size of Austria was potentially littered with mines and explosives. Since then, HALO has made real progress, with an area roughly the size of Belgium, confirmed safe, allowing families to return home and farmers to safely work their land.
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