WHAT CAN I DO?

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• Include material on the land mine issue in your organizational newsletter and other information outlets.

• Write letters to your elected representatives (regional, provincial, national) and other government officials urging them to support a ban on land mine production, use, transfer and stockpiling.

• Write to your local news organizations (print, radio, TV) requesting them to cover the issue of land mines.

• Write to the CEO/CFO of multi-national companies to encourage their company to support the ban on land mine production, use, transfer and stockpiling.

• Boycott products and services of companies and subsidiaries who manufacture land mines and sub-munitions.

• Contact the United Nations, inter-governmental agencies, demining organizations and international NGOs working in the field on the land mine problem to provide a speaker for a major meeting of your organization.

• Assist local schools to organize a "Land Mine Awareness" Week or display.

• Establish essay, poetry or poster contests on the issue of land mines for students (primary, secondary, university).

• Promote the ban on land mines through local initiatives such as exhibits, street fairs, parades, adult education programmes and billboards.

• Dedicate one or more cultural events to the issue of land mines and use the opportunity to communicate the message of demining.

• Donate funds to the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Assistance in Mine Clearance, administered by the Department of Humanitarian Affairs, to support land mine awareness, de-mining training and mine clearance activities.

• Contact a national umbrella group to strategize and share resources geared to promoting a ban on land mines.

• Connect to the UN on-line database on land mines and re-disseminate information through local and national media.

• Communicate to the UN information on land mines that your organization or field offices can provide.

• Provide printed and on-line information concerning the global issue of land mines to your local libraries

• Have your groups sponsor the showing of the United Nations land mine exhibition.

• Start a local petition to ban the use of land mines and link-up with other local groups.

• Sponsor a "10-K" run to end the production of land mines; invite prominent local or national figures and the media to participate.

• Hold a candle light vigil in memory of those killed or maimed by land mines.

• Hold an inter-faith service to make people aware of the indiscriminate destruction land mines produce.

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