Encourage your school to mark Ottawa Treaty Day with a morning announcement to the school. A Mats Sundin greeting can be found here. Or perhaps something like " December 3rd is the anniversary of the Ottawa Treaty banning the production, use and trade of anti-personnel landmines. Canada played a key role in this treaty, named after our Capital, that makes life better for millions of people around the world."

Inspired by the suggestion of the students at Sir William Mulock Secondary School in Newmarket, Ontario, Put a Cap on Landmines involves bringing a toonie to school to put toward a donation for landmine action, in exchange for the authorization to wear a cap at school for the day. ~ $2 clears approximately 1 square meter of minefield. ~

Bring in news stories, books, movies, food, clothes, history, etc. about and from one of the Adopt-A-Minefield countries: Afghanistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Mozambique, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, thus combining education with entertainment.

Every single dollar donated makes a difference! 100% of ALL donations received are put directly toward landmine action. ~ There are an estimated 5.5 million students in Canada. If each student donated one dollar nearly 2.5 million square meters of minefield could be cleared!! That's 2 ½ times the size of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada's largest city in terms of area!! ~

Host an Art Exhibit in your school or community displaying works of art created by students and local youth in order to raise awareness of the landmine issue. You can also ask for donations to be put toward landmine action.

Encourage your teachers, student council or classmates to organize a pizza lunch day and put the proceeds from the sale of the pizza toward landmine removal efforts. Call a local pizza place and explain what you are attempting to do, maybe they will sponsor the event by donating the pizza!

Offer to dress window displays in stores with posters and sculptures you have created to increase landmine awareness in your community. Perhaps the store would collect money to help support mine action work..

Prepare a landmine production on how landmines affect people's lives. Perform to the class, the entire school, parents or members of the community! Get them to bring a donation or use ticket sales to make a donation while raising awareness of the landmine issue. To view our landmine play And Then Everything Changed click here.

Organize a Dance-a-thon, Swim-a-thon, or any other type of …-a-thon. Run a sponsored walk, swim, silence, dance-a-thon or another type of activity to raise funds for Survivor Assistance programs.

Ask for donations of arts and crafts from students, teachers or throughout your local community and sell them at an event to raise money for landmine action. You might also try a silent auction.

Bake sales are always popular and you could also set up a mock minefield that students must walk through to get to the food tables, thus raising awareness and funds for landmine action.

Get sponsored to participate in any type of marathon across Canada and donate the proceeds toward survivor assistance.

Everyone stands on a piece of paper and draws around one of their feet, cuts it out and colors it or writes anti-landmine messages on it (one third of all mine victims are children - many of them lose a limb in landmine explosions). These feet could be stuck to the walls all around the school or in the community. You can also have your feet sponsored by a local organization or business and put the donations toward mine action projects.

Send emails to your friends and tell them about the landmine issue. Refer them to www.clmf.org.