Manitoba Campaign to Ban Landmines

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The Manitoba Campaign to Ban Landmines (MBCBL) is Canada's first provincial campaign to ban landmines.

The MBCBL is a member of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), Mines Action Canada, and the Cluster Munition Coalition.

The MBCBL was launched on 1 March 2002 at a ceremony at the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg. Premier Gary Doer and Deputy Premier Jean Friesen attended the ceremony and were joined by students from a number of Winnipeg schools.

The main goals of the MBCBL are to raise awareness in Manitoba of the global landmine crisis and to encourage Manitobans to take action to help solve that problem. Much of the MBCBL's outreach work is focused on schools throughout Manitoba.

In the spring of 2005, the MBCBL launched a fundraising campaign for the One Love Project in Rwanda. The One Love Project builds and repairs prosethetics and orthotics for landmine survivors and other disabled people. Its orthopedic workshop is based in Kigali and its mobile clinic travels to all of Rwanda's twelve provinces.

The MBCBL travelled to Rwanda in July 2005 to deliver the funds raised and to see in person the work done by the One Love Project. A second fundraising campaign for the One Love Project was launched in September 2005.

[edit] External links

• Manitoba Campaign to Ban Landmines (official website)