Welcome to the Rotarians for Mine Action

RFMA encourages Clubs to identify and support mine action projects. If you have a project your Club or District is promoting please let use know by sending an email to info@rfma.org

Here are some current suggested projects:

Rotary Clubs are encouraged to participate in Night of A Thousand Dinners
The key date for Adopt-A-Minefield's Night of A Thousand Dinners (N1KD) is March 1, 2008, to celebrate the day the Ottawa Treaty became international law. However Rotary Clubs across Canada are encouraged to participate whenever it suits them.

The 'dinner' can be as simple as inviting a few friends, neighbours or business colleagues for a meal and, instead of them bringing flowers or dessert or wine, they bring a donation.

These tax-receiptable donations will be pooled with funds raised in other Rotary Clubs and will be used to fund the training of mine detection dogs and demining activities in Srebrenica and Lopari municipalities, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2008. These communities witnessed some of the most intense fighting during the Balkan wars in the 1990s. These projects, undertaken through the Canadian International Demining Corps, will benefit both Bosniak and Serb families.

Note: Rotary District 7070 will continue their longstanding focus on mine clearance in Mozambique. Over the past five years, District 7070 has cleared over 200,000 square metres of land.

Details and Canadian registration are on www.clmf.org.
Guarantee: every penny raised will be used to fund mine action projects.
For information contact Scott Fairweather (RC Toronto-Forest Hill) scott@clmf.org

For details about Adopt-A-Minefield, the world's largest non-government funder of mine action, visit www.landmines.org (USA) www.landmines.org.uk (UK) or www.roj-en-mina.nu (Sweden).

Returning a village and its families to safety and a secure future!
For the third year in a row, several clubs in District 5030 (greater Seattle area), along with the Arlington Sunrise Club of Texas and the Utica Club in New York state are supporting village demining in Cambodia. The Thai-Cambodian border is 700 kilometers long and home to at least 3 million landmines left there 25 years ago, but still killing and maiming local villagers.

Each village takes about nine months to clear using local people employed by HALO Trust, the largest demining NGO in the world. Just this past year, more than 800 mines were cleared from the village we are supporting.

All contributions from Rotary clubs are being matched by the U.S. Department of State at the 100% level, a wonderful leverage for club funds. If your club would like to join us for 2007, please contact Sally Mackle (Seattle 4 Rotary Club) sjmackle@msn.com or HALO Trust halotrustusa@yahoo.com

District 7620 Club Projects Reach Out for World Understanding
The Basra, Iraq Prosthetics Project
The Rotary Club of Montgomery Village has partnered with other Rotary Clubs as well as with Physicians for Peace, Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc., the Mosaic Foundation, Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, MD, King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan, Amman Cosmopolitan Rotary Club, and the Ministry of Health in Iraq to bring aid to the amputees of war-torn Basra, Iraq.

The numbers of physically amputees in Iraq rise as innocent civilians fall victim to landmines, bombs, and insurgent attacks. It is estimated that there are in excess of 50,000 amputees in Iraq, many of which are women and children. Healthcare in the war-torn nation is barely accessible and of poor quality. Prosthetics are desperately needed to improve the prospects and quality of life for these.

District #7620 partnering Rotary Clubs include: Montgomery Village, Washington, D.C., Pikesville-Owings Mill, Bethesda-Chevy, Waldorf, Annapolis, Kensington-Wheaton, Potomac-Bethesda, College Park, Prince Frederick.

Other partnering Rotary Clubs include: Amman Cosmopolitan Rotary Club, Amman Jordan (Host Club), Rotary Club of Coronado, California.

For information contact:
Linda Smythe: Linda.A.Smythe@kp.org;