Lend your leg

Lend Your Leg won in Cannes 2012 two awards for our awareness campaign against landmines. Your support is key on our goal of banning landmines around the world, today and forever.

An initiative created by The Arcangeles Foundation to commemorate the International Day of Mine Awareness (April 4th) Lend Your Leg 2012 is officially partnered by the ICBL (International Campaign To Ban Landmines) with support from the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement and the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)

Colombia is one of the most landmine affected countries. Last year thousands of Colombians rolled up their pant leg on the Day of Action, in solidarity with more than 9,000 people injured or killed by landmine in the country since 1990. The president Juan Manuel Santos also rolled up his pant leg.

On 2012 more than 70 countries joined the initiative and4,000 people participatedof aMarathon in Bogota, Colombia, honoring the victims and their families.

The 59^th Version of the Cannes Lions has awarded Arcangeles with Silver and Bronze in the category of Best Integrated Campaign for ‘Remangate’ (Lend Your Leg)

For the campaign on 2012, the video featured public figures, celebrities, world leaders and landmine survivors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOpo9A0Jfk&feature=plcp

Kasia Derlicka, ICBL Director, said: “With this simple action of rolling-up our pant leg we want to remind the world that landmines are still present and devastating lives. We want global decision makers to take real actions to ban the weapon, to clear all land and to assist all victims. We want a world free of mines and we know this can be achieved within years and not decades.”

Yesterday we all sent a strong message. All over the world people rolled up their pant’s and said NO to #landmines. We must remain united and keep the momentum going. This does not stop here, we gotta persevere until we see a world where everyone, everywhere, can walk freely and peacefully, without any fear of landmines.

Today is the day when we all join humanity and say NO to landmines. It is not too late to express how we feel about these weapons. Roll up you pant leg, join victims, survivors and the whole world on a symbolic act. Enough is enough: Landmines have to stop.

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We Lent Our Legs, Did You?

April 4 is International Mine Awareness Day. Here in America, we are lucky that we do not have to worry about our children playing on a playground contaminated with mines or our families tilling a field sown with cluster munitions, but those dangers are daily realities for many people worldwide. CISR is just one of many organizations working to help eliminate this threat globally, but we need help to accomplish our mission. So please, learn what is going on, and take a moment to think about the people who are affected—people who had no choice when war came to their doorsteps and have no where to go now. 

For more information, visit http://lendyourleg.org

 

El 1 de abril de 2012, 4 mil corredores y miles de espectadores se sumaron a la Carrera 11K, en solidaridad con las víctimas de las minas antipersonales. 

Only 3 days more to enter our challenge and send a powerful message. Roll up your leg pant, send us your picture and say NO to landmines.

Mine removal is a lenghty an expensive business. Weapons that cost as little as 3 dollars to make can cost up 1,000 dollars to remove. ‘Countries and companies that have profited for the sale of mines should be especially required to contribute to funds designated for humanitarian mine clearance and mine awareness programmes’ -UNICEF-

#Iker #Casillas #soccer #megastar and Goodwill Ambassador has joined the campaign #igers #futbol #sports - @lendyourleg | Webstagram

My new sounds:

Mario Galla, Top Model with a prosthesis:

”All over the world we are showing our legs leg for mine victims - will you too? Let us work together to ensure that 500,000 people who have survived accidents with landmines, get help! ”