Wedged in a middle seat on a packed Avianca airliner, high over the Colombian Andes, I received a world-class education in treating landmine survivors.

It was my good fortune that one of the people I was squeezed between (the other being a sugar cane farmer was Pasto) was Diana Roa Castro, who directs the Mercy Corps Colombia Land Mine victims project. Colombia has more land mine survivors than any other country in the world, and Diana is one of the world's leading experts on designing programs to help them recover and reintegrate with society.

Diana Roa Castro is a longtime advocate for the rights of landmine survivors in Colombia. She leads our project that treats the wide range of needs of survivors, from medical care to physical rehabilitation to employment. Photo: Steve Nantz/Mercy[...]

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