Beyond Bombs with JJ Chalmers

The HALO Trust
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Beyond Bombs, brought to you by The HALO Trust, the global charity that takes action on conflict.Each episode will feature eyewitness accounts and expert analysis from the men and women who work in 30 countries to clear the bullets, grenades and landmines left behind by war. Hosted on Libsyn.

  1. 10/17/2023

    Ukraine: Kharkiv on the Ground Part 2

    The continuation of a special two-part series finds JJ Chalmers on the ground in Ukraine, joined by HALO's Mike Newton, Mohammad "Qaissy" Abufarda, and Sophia Badalian. This episode brings JJ and the team to the resilient village of Hrakove, where they meet de-facto village administrator Anatolii organizing aid for the community. As the team journeys back to the HALO Ukraine HQ in Brovary, JJ speaks to interpreter Ivan Yermilov, who recounts his personal experience living through the siege of Mariupol. JJ concludes the series with reflections on the insights and stories shared by everyone along the way, and what lays ahead for Ukraine.

    51 min

  2. 10/12/2023

    Ukraine: Kharkiv on the Ground Part 1

    Join JJ Chalmers in a special two-part series as he sets foot on the ground in Ukraine. Along with HALO's Mike Newton, Mohammad "Qaissy" Abufarda, and Sophia Badalian, JJ and the team visit demining and survey operations in the eastern region of Kharkiv. In this episode, Senior Supervisor Bohdan Hreshko leads the team to the town of Chkalovkse, where a football pitch now lays ridden with anti-personnel mines, and an agricultural field in Mykolaivka that is sown with anti-personnel mines instead of crops. JJ speaks to farmers Natalia and Vyacheslav, whose fields are contaminated with mines and tripwires, and home was destroyed by an ammunition explosion.

    46 min

  3. 08/17/2023

    Laos 50 Years On

    Exactly 50 years since the bombing stopped in Laos HALO is still clearing up unexploded bombs in the landlocked South East Asian country. JJ Chalmers talks to Sera Koulabdara, CEO of the charity Legacies of War and to William Hunter, who runs HALO's Laos programme.

    34 min

  4. 05/25/2023

    Life at HALO: Earthquakes and Other Emergencies

    JJ Chalmers speaks to HALO's Syria programme manager Damian O'Brien, who was travelling back from Syria when the Turkish-Syria earthquake struck in February. His tale of survival is remarkable. Meanwhile Svitlana, delivers risk education classes for HALO in Ukraine. She was woken up by missiles on the first day of Russia's attack on her country.

    33 min
  5. Somaliland: Hope in the Horn of Africa

    04/27/2023

    Somaliland: Hope in the Horn of Africa

    Somaliland cannot be found on an official map or atlas, yet has all the characteristics of a functioning state. HALO has demined hundreds of miles of roads and has been its second largest employer. We hear from Chris Pym and Aislinn Redbond on how we're now dealing with a new threat to life: the climate emergency.

    26 min
  6. The Princess and the Minefield

    04/13/2023

    The Princess and the Minefield

    In 1997, nobody had heard of the HALO Trust. Few people cared about landmines. Then the most famous woman in the world walked through a minefield being cleared by HALO in Angola. We talk to Paul Heslop, the man charged with escorting Princess Diana and keeping her safe. A walk that highlighted the landmine problem to billions of people around the world.

    37 min
  7. Chris Moon survivor extraordinaire: kidnapped, blown-up and running ultramarathons on one leg

    03/30/2023

    Chris Moon survivor extraordinaire: kidnapped, blown-up and running ultramarathons on one leg

    Chris Moon was clearing landmines for HALO in Cambodia in 1993 when he was taken captive by the Khmer Rouge. He is one of the few westerners who survived - and even became friends with one of his captors. He then went to clear mines in Mozambique - only to inadvertently set off a mine in supposedly safe land. He lost an arm and a leg - but then devoted himself to running ultramarathons.

    43 min
  8. Ukraine: One Year On

    03/09/2023

    Ukraine: One Year On

    We hear from explosive ordnance education instructor Yulia Chykolba and HALO Ukraine's Imogen Churchill on how HALO relocated from the Donbas to clear landmines laid around Kyiv and Kharkiv during the last year and the importance of educating people of the risks of handling unknown shiny objects in fields and forests.

    36 min
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Beyond Bombs, brought to you by The HALO Trust, the global charity that takes action on conflict.Each episode will feature eyewitness accounts and expert analysis from the men and women who work in 30 countries to clear the bullets, grenades and landmines left behind by war. Hosted on Libsyn.

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