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In 1998, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia founded the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF) as a non-profit, humanitarian organisation, with the initial mission of raising donor funds and organising demining activities, as well as the rehabilitation of mine victims in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Later, other mine-affected countries in South-Eastern Europe (Albania, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Macedonia) were included, and the Fund began to widen its activities to include Cyprus, Afghanistan and the Trans-Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia).
The ITF`s vision is to free the countries of South-Eastern Europe from the impact of mines by the end of 2009 and to actively contribute to resolving this problem in other mine-affected regions.
The ITF has carried out over 1,550 action projects and cleared over 73 million square metres of mine-polluted areas in South-Eastern Europe. The Fund has also contributed to the physical rehabilitation of over 921 mine victims, which is roughly 15 per cent of all surviving victims in South-Eastern Europe. Over 82 thousand children and adults from mine-affected communities directly participated in programmes to raise awareness of the mine problem.
The ITF has educated over 700 experts in the field of humanitarian demining, rehabilitation and mine action management, and supported the activities of national mine action centres in all the mine-affected countries of South-Eastern Europe.
The Slovenian government is therefore justifiably proud of this endeavour, and grateful to over 100 donors, including 27 states, the European Commission and the UNDP, numerous local communities, organisations, companies, and individuals who have entrusted over $215.3 million to the ITF since 1998 and made its work possible.