 Two logistic things, we looked at the legacy of landmines. We looked at what it means when landmines are planted and then left behind. And what it means to leave landmines amongst a civilian population once a conflict ends. Every conflict that I've ever covered, landmines are an issue. It's just the menace that never goes away. You know, Paul Pottaway said that a landmine was the perfect soldier. You know, you don't have to feed it, you don't have to pay it. It just lies in wait. There was one thing I didn't realize until then, is that landmines is like, intoxicate all your daily life. And these people, like, they are surrounded by landmine fields. But they have no choice because they live there, to go through them. I traveled to Laos in early March of 2014 to learn the amount of cluster bombs that were dropped. It was approximately 270 million, and a lot of them never got exploded because there might be a hundred in one casing that's being dropped. So a certain percentage of those has exploded. The rest are unexploded, or it's still found today. Sajad was probably the strongest images of my rack trip, as was the saddest and most miserable face of a human being I've ever seen in my entire career. Sajad was in the field attending his family ship with his three brothers. They stepped on an exploded cluster munition. Sajad lost both of his leg. Two of his brother got killed. His younger brother suffered from stomatial aceratization. He couldn't play with his fellow kids. I mean, he couldn't go to school. He couldn't go anywhere. He couldn't do anything. And that is the face that I've seen for most of the nights that I wasn't able to sleep after the assignments. And I think that ECRC will be able to give him back that dignity with prosthetics. And this is one of the reasons why projects in Iraq are very important to those people. It was interesting to see how important the processes are for them and how they can transform their lives. What's impressive most, they're working in everything. You know, they are suit repairs. They are working in the field, you know, agricultural stuff, coffee plantations. The last big thing I met was Hon Ramon Lopez. And he was a combatant during the Nicaraguan Revolution. He started a new business looking for gold in the rivers, near the mountains. He was making a living for the last seven years and supporting all the world family, a big family. And this is what amazed me. Keep working and keep developing ideas to survive, you know. When you have that level of poverty, landmines aren't your most pressing issue. AIDS is your most pressing issue. Education, agriculture, there's so many other things that are higher up on the totem pole than landmines. Yet they remain an ever-present issue that has to be addressed at some point. You know, it comes back to the fact that landmine, you know, detection and the removal of landmines is incredibly labor intensive. And one thing that I really respected amongst these people who work in this profession is the incredible patience. They move one meter by one meter on their knees. It does that for about 10 hours a day every day with incredible dedication and incredible efforts. I couldn't do that job. I'd have too much attention deficit disorder and I'd get blown up. So I think it takes a very specific person to work in this profession. What I learned from this experience in Iraq is that education is key. Mine awareness education programs spread around the country that will definitely prevent at least children playing around with cluster ammunition and explosive ordinance and landmines. Your average child who's just playing a cluster ammunition is the size of a golf ball in most cases. A little bit bigger than a golf ball, but it's rusted. It blends in with the dead leaves and comes more to the soil, especially during rainy season. Three mothers all agreed to be photographed. I had to say, you know, is it okay? It's so important that I photograph you because we have to tell the story. You lost your son and I wanted to take them back to where it happened. I think considering that they never had anybody that showed this amount of attention after their sons were killed, I think it was it made them quite emotional. I think they realized that someone actually really cares. One of the landmine victims we met, Zoran, told us that he founded a volleyball league for landmine victims. Once they get their outfit and they go into the court, you feel like they are just themselves again, I guess. Like everybody is equal. Having things and playing is a big message of hope for the country because during the time lapse of the match, they all play together. Doesn't matter which faction they're from. How can you go back to your house and complain about an headache or something like that once you see that? It's a lifeless and, yeah. All these things, like maybe, you know, reflect about your own life, like, okay, you are always complaining about these things or these things. And but when you meet these people, you say, you have two legs, you have two hands, stop complaining and just do it, you know. The people who got injured in the last decade, they need rehabilitation, they need social support constantly until, you know, for the rest of their lives. Having covered so many other war zones and conflict areas to me, it's like you keep on seeing the same things over and over again. What happens after the fact? You know, how many generations? If you laid them, you should be responsible for unlaying them once the conflict is over. The fact that they can lay in the ground for another 30 to 40 years, maiming, you know, children, innocent individuals, simply trying to grow food or walk home or get to their cattle or goats, that's a dramatic irresponsibility.