Jela is a mother of four and deminer: She has been working for 20 years on mine fields and bravely guards everybody (PHOTO)

Jela Safradin is a mother of four children and a member of the team for the destruction of unexploded shells and bombs of Bosnian Federal Civil Protection.

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Side by side with her colleagues, Jela goes out to the field every day and destroys unexploded devices that remained after the war all over Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Jela is one of the deminers of the Federal Civil Protection service who breaks prejudice. She has been doing this job for 20 years, and she had first training in 1997, when she destroyed large number of unexploded killing devices. 

This brave woman has been through training for demining, rescue in floods, landslides and from the ruins, and she also works as a nurse in the team. 

In the interview for Klix.ba, Jela said that every job has good and bad moments, but this job is very stressful and some images remain carved into your memory for the rest of your life.

Foto: Elmedin Mehić/Klix.ba

- Every job has its good and bad moments. It was hardest when one colleague died on the field, and the accident from 2005 is still fresh when a colleague god injured and remained disabled. This is a stressful job for a woman, but in time you fall in love with it and it crawls under your skin. I did not think about it when i went to school, but someone has got to do it - said Jela.

Foto: Elmedin Mehić/Klix.ba

All female deminers have correct and professional relation with colleagues on the field without discrimination. Every day is a fight for the life of citizens and they can only manage it with helping each other. 

Foto: Elmedin Mehić/Klix.ba

Jela is a mother of four, and her daily trip to the field is extremely hard for everybody. However, everything gets organized and it becomes a part of the life with passing years.

Foto: Elmedin Mehić/Klix.ba

- When we think that we are doing this job today and that tomorrow this ground will be clear and there won't be any casualties, we feel good, but we can never be sure of that won't happen to someone in the woods, in the field or somewhere similar. We have to work on the subject more, teach the children about the dangers, but also grownups to pay attention on the marked mine fields - concluded Jela in the interview for Klix.ba.

Foto: Elmedin Mehić/Klix.ba

The leader of the team Igbal Sefer has been in the team from 1997. He stresses that female deminers, as well as male deminers, do their job professionally, but they are more capable when there are injuries.

Foto: Elmedin Mehić/Klix.ba

- In these kind of work, women are often more capable, especially when there are accident, they are more calm, while we men react faster. Medical deminers have great responsibilities because they have to control the health of deminers, walk around the demining trails and if there is need, to plan the way to save us all in the case of emergency - said Sefer.

The number mines Jela and her female colleagues have removed is no longer counted. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of pieces of weapons have gone through their hands to make the areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina more safer for walking around the woods or mountain hiking.

(Telegraf.co.uk)