Cambodian children game their way to life-saving skills

Children near landmine field (Photo: Robert Carmichael, VOA)

Wed, 23 Jun 2010
By Robert Carmichael
DPA

Phnom Penh - It is a familiar scene in many countries: Children huddled around a computer game, chipping in with instructions, competing and encouraging each other.But this is no ordinary game.

In a Phnom Penh orphanage, a dozen children are testing a unique US-designed program its inventors hope would reduce deaths and injuries by landmines and unexploded ordnance.

Four decades of conflict have left Cambodia with an unenviable legacy of millions of such explosives. Last year, 47 Cambodians were killed and 196 injured by them. Around a third were children, most of them boys.

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