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Adopt-A-Minefield is a global partnership for mine action
with campaigns in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom
and Sweden. The global campaign is one of the leading mine action
organisations in the world through the dedication of Board members,
staff in each country campaign, and the help of Goodwill Ambassador
Paul McCartney.
The Adopt-A-Minefield Campaign helps save lives by raising funds
for mine clearance and survivor assistance and by raising awareness
about the landmine issue. Adopt-A-Minefield works primarily through
the United Nations to clear fields in the some of the most heavily
mined countries in the world and with a number of organisations
to provide relief to landmine survivors.
Since its creation in 1999 Adopt-A-Minefield has:
- Raised over $22 million for mine clearance and survivor assistance;
- Cleared some 25 million square metres of land in Afghanistan,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia,
Mozambique, Nepal, and Vietnam. In addition, special appeals were
launched, primarily in the USA, for Iraq and Lebanon.
- Provided over $3 million for survivor assistance projects in
Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia,
Colombia, Ethiopia, Iraq, Laos, Mozambique, Nepal, and Vietnam.
- Developed the annual Night of A Thousand Dinners initiative
to engage people in over 50 countries in raising funds for humanitarian
landmine action.
- Partnered on mine clearance projects with Afghan Technical Consultants,
Bosnia and Herzegovina Mine Action Centre, Cambodian Mine Action
Centre, Canadian International Demining Corps, Croatian Mine Action
Centre, Demining Agency for Afghanistan, Handicap International,
Landmine Survivors Network, Mines Advisory Group, Mine Dog Center,
and the Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation.
- Partnered on survivor assistance projects with AMAR, Association
of Inva Corporation, Cambodia Trust, Cambodian National Volleyball
League, CIREC, Clear Path International, Comprehensive Disabled
Afghans' Program, COPE, Handicap International, Jaipur Limb Campaign,
Landmine Survivors Network, Motivation, Mozambique Red Cross,
National Centre of Disabled Persons, Nepal Campaign to Ban Landmines,
Operations Enfants du Cambodge (formerly OEB), POWER, Reach Out
and Care Wheels, Sandy Gall Afghanistan Appeal, STOP Mines, Veterans
for America (formerly VVAF), Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, World
Rehabilitation Fund, and World Vision Cambodia.
- Partnered on mine risk education projects with Colombian Campaign
to Ban Landmines, Corporacion Paz Y Democracia, Restrepo Barco
Foundation, and Secretos Pas Contar.
Canada
The Canadian Landmine Foundation is the Canadian partner in the
global Adopt-A-Minefield campaign. The Foundation is a registered
Canadian charity formed in 1999 to assist in the elimination of
landmines and the human and economic suffering they cause. The Foundation
is recognised as Canada's foremost awareness and fundraising organisation
for humanitarian mine action.
United States
Operated throught the United Nations Association of the USA, Adopt-A-Minefield
has several key partners including Better World Fund, International
Trust Fund, United for Colombia, United Nations Development Programme,
United Nations Mine Action Center in Afghanistan, and the United
Nations Office for Project Services. In addition to operating outreach
programs throughout the USA, this Campaign also serves as headquarters
for global shared services such as program management.
United Kingdom
The No More Landmines Trust is the UK partner in the global Adopt-A-Minefield
campaign.
Sweden
Adopt-A-Minefield is a program of the United Nations Association
of Sweden.
Goodwill Ambassadors
Paul McCartney joined Adopt-A-Minefield in September 2000 as the
Campaign's international Patron and Goodwill Ambassador. Since then,
he has been actively involved in promoting Adopt-A-Minefield's mission:
to raise awareness of the global landmine crisis and to raise funds
for mine clearance, mine risk education and survivor assistance.
Mats Sundin, Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs, serves as Goodwill
Ambassador for Adopt-A-Minefield in Sweden and Canada.
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