AREA has been established in December 1993 as the continuation of the GTZ DESP Project, AREA is a non-governmental, non-political, not-profitable,
and developmental organization. Mine Action Program is an integral part of AREA’s initiatives. Based on the need assessment of clearing explosive
contaminated areas for conducting development projects, AREA’s mine action program has the duty of ensuring cleared and safe lands for
implementation of development projects which will be executed by other functional departments of the AREA. The variety of the “Integrated
Community Development Programs” gives AREA another value and good chance to conduct Community Based Mine Action Program and integrate CB
demining into the developmental programs. Based on this concept, AREA always assists and responds to the communities’ requests on “what they
want to have on their cleared lands”. AREA demining program was established in 1995 and is sufficiently experienced in mobilizing communities to
handle clearance operations of explosive ordnance by themselves. AREA is the founder and initiator of the Community Based Mine Clearance Program
in Afghanistan. AREA has a highly organized management system consisting of Operations, QM & Training, Program, Admin/HR, Finance, Logistics, IT,
and Transport sections.