The Manitoba Campaign to Ban Landmines (MBCBL) was Canada's only provincial campaign to ban landmines. It was a registered non-profit organization in the province of

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. The MBCBL was a member of the 1997

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co-laureate

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(ICBL), Mines Action Canada, and the

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. The MBCBL was launched on 1 March 2002 at a ceremony at the

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. Premier

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and Deputy Premier

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attended the ceremony and were joined by students from a number of Winnipeg area schools. The main goals of the MBCBL were to raise awareness in

of the global landmine crisis and to encourage Manitobans to take action to help solve that problem. Much of the MBCBL's outreach work was focused on engaging with schools throughout Manitoba. In early 2005, the MBCBL launched a fundraising campaign for the One Love Project in

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which raised nearly $40,000. The One Love Project builds and repairs

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and

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for landmine survivors and other disabled people. Its orthopedic workshop is based in

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, and its mobile clinic travels to all of Rwanda's twelve provinces. In 2007, the One Love Project began to expand its operations into neighbouring

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. In 2008, the MBCBL added the National Committee for Demining and Rehabilitation (NCDR) in Jordan to its fundraising efforts. In 2014, the MBCBL underwent a change in focus and was rebranded as Manitobans Against Indiscriminate Weapons (MBAIW). The new non-profit organization continues to focus on the landmine issue but has added cluster munitions and other indiscriminate weapons to its mandate.

References

{{reflist Non-profit organizations based in Manitoba Mine action organizations 2002 in Manitoba