Adopt-A-Minefield

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Adopt-A-Minefield is a United Kingdom-based

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Iraq, Laos, Mozambique and Vietnam
.

No More Landmines was a partner organization. However, according to current records of the UK Charity Commission, The No More Landmines Trust Number 1110770 which has the working name of Adopt-A-Minefield was registered with them on 8 August 2008 and was removed on 20 January 2015 and marked as Ceased to Exist. There is no active website for either named organisation although there is information on line of many organisations that remove mines.

In 2006 Heather Mills, the ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney, pledged to give a "large majority" of her £24.3 million divorce payment to the Adopt-A-Minefield organization. No donation had been made as of September 2008.[1]

Adopt-A-Minefield was established by UNA Trust, a body associated with the

United Nations Association UK. Mills and McCartney are its patrons. Other supporters include Twiggy and David Knopfler
.

Gala fund-raising events were produced from 2001 to 2005 at hotels in

.

'Night of A Thousand Dinners' consisted of a variety of popular fund-raising events around the world including dinners in private homes and restaurants in New York City and London and a live music event in a local nightclub in Indianapolis, Indiana that featured a speaker from the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement at the State Department in Washington, D.C., and a performance by a music artist who had once played in a band with guitarist Jimi Hendrix.

References

  1. ^ "Heather Mills - two-faced and too selfish to fulfill her charitable pledge - Green Daily". Archived from the original on 25 October 2008. Retrieved 22 October 2008.

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