Woman With The World's Most Dangerous Job

*Nancy Sunday

She detonates landmines by driving over them in a tractor in South Sudan

*Wolf tractors that Nancy uses

*Ordinary mine disposal

*Bomb explodes under tracto

NANCY Sunday’s life as a part of a landmine clearance team is a far cry from the cloistered existence depicted in Hollywood film The Hurt Locker.
When this young mother from South Sudan goes to work each day, there is no protective body suit or armoured tank.
Instead, Nancy performs her job while wearing a hard hat and driving a tractor, albeit a Minewolf armoured tractor.
The vehicle has been built to till the land and crush or detonate landmines buried in the soil.                                                                    
Driving a MineWolf is a dangerous job because landmines often detonate beneath the vehicles, as illustrated in a video that the United Nations tweeted today.
Although Nancy’s life is a far cry from the one depicted in the film The Hurt Locker (the Hollywood smash starring Jeremy Renner that followed American bomb disposal experts working during the Iraq War), there is one common thread.
Nancy is the first female operator for MineWolf, quite an achievement in a country where 80 per cent of women are illiterate, the clip explains.
“Nancy is challenging traditional roles by proving that women can do jobs usually reserved for men. Many of these women are not only professionals, they are also young mothers.”
Becoming a driver has been a dream for Nancy, who was born in 1988 and has a young son Jonathan to support.
Her experiences are leading the way for women, just like director Kathryn Bigelow, who won an Academy Award for best director - the first female to do so - for her work on the film.
Nancy’s work through the Norwegian People’s Aid is also providing an important service for her country. The organisation, which is supported by the United Nations, has travelled across South Sudan, clearing landmines and explosives left after the civil war.
“It’s important to take out the mines because when there are mines here, people can’t work, can’t cultivate,” Nancy says.
“When they cultivate, sometimes the mines will detonate and kill the locals.
“South Sudan is now independent, we can do what we want to do in our country.
“I need to make the country clean so that we don’t have accidents. That’s why we’re here working. “

Culled from News.com