Youth Against Landmines - Mission Statement

Youth Against Landmines is an organization of dedicated, passionate students committed to the eradication of the terrible man-made epidemic of landmines. Through the creation of an interactive website, we plan to proactively unify and organize youth landmine groups throughout Canada as "member groups" and establish a platform from which they can directly work towards the removal of minefields via the United Nations program Adopt-a-Minefield®. It is our promise to develop and administer this interactive website, equipped with a wide variety of features aimed at producing an online community of progressive youth for the ultimate purpose of collective, organized action. The action will include periodic, collective fundraising for the removal of minefields through Adopt-a-Minefield® and also awareness campaigns to be carried out in each member group's respective community. Youth Against Landmines will act as an umbrella from which member groups across Canada will operate under.

Justification for the establishment of such an organization is quite simple. There are a great number of grassroots youth/student groups across Canada who are well-intentioned but lack well-defined goals to work towards. Youth Against Landmines will provide not only specific objectives and deadlines, but also guidance towards how these goals can be accomplished. The organization will operate under a "for youth, by youth" basis and emphasize co-operative action, while at the same time serving as center of operations.

Through the collective efforts of youth groups across Canada there is tremendous potential for making fast, effective progress in the international struggle for the eradication of landmines.