CONFERENCE PROGRAM - THURSDAY MARCH 7, 2002

PURPOSE OF CONFERENCE:

• To share our student-led global landmine service initiative
• To create a New Jersey Youth Coalition for promoting landmine removal and victim assistance projects
• To encourage and support the development of your own landmine service campaign

YOUR SCHOOL SERVICE ORGANIZATION WILL BENEFIT BY:

• Learning about a model for global service learning based on student leadership
• Meeting and learning from key landmine activists
• Receiving outstanding curricular materials on the global landmine crisis
• Receiving tools, guidance and support for initiating your own landmine awareness campaign
• Meeting other youth student leaders in northern New Jersey and working with them toward a common humanitarian goal

STRUCTURE OF CONFERENCE:

• Keynote speaker
• Workshop sessions with landmine activists
• Opportunities to meet other student leaders and begin planning a landmine awareness campaign
• Invitation to join the students of Tenafly and Global Care Unlimited, Inc. in a global service campaign to save lives and assist in the rehabilitation of landmine survivors

SPEAKERS/PRESENTERS:

Dr. Ken Rutherford, Keynote Speaker

	Credentials:	Landmine survivor, Co-founder of Landmine Survivor Network
	Topics:	Rehabilitation of a landmine survivor

Martin Donoghue

	Credentials:	Program Officer, United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS)
	Topics:	Types of antipersonnel landmines and the demining process

Paul Heslop

	Credentials:	Vice-president, HALO Trust USA Over ten years of demining experience worldwide
	Topics:	The daily work of deminers The demining principles and philosophy of HALO Trust

Mark Hyman

	Credentials:	Tenafly teacher and advisor for the Tenafly Middle School Landmine Awareness Club Founder and Chairman of Global Care Unlimited, Inc. (GCU)
	Topics:	Initiating school-based landmine education and fundraising campaigns

Colonel William McDonough

	Credentials:	Coordinator, Organization of American States Mine Action Program
	Topics:	A detailed description of the socio-economic training offered by the OAS to Nicaraguan landmine survivors

Ed Miles

	Credentials:	Landmine survivor and Associate Director (VVAF)
	Topics:	Rehabilitating from a landmine accident VVAF rehabilitation programs worldwide

Dave Rabadan

	Credentials:	Director, Multilateral Programs U.S. State Department Office of Mine Action Initiatives & Programs (MAIP)
	Topics:	Role of U.S. State Department in humanitarian demining programs

Dr. Raquel Willerman

	Credentials:	Senior Officer, Institutional Giving and Program Development, Landmine Survivors Network (LSN)
	Topics:	Advocacy programs for landmine survivors worldwide

Ashley Woolsey

	Credentials:	Tenafly high school student leader for the Landmine Awareness Club Co-coordinator, Landmine Removal Initiative of Global Care Unlimited, Inc. (GCU)
	Topics:	Roles and responsibilities of student service leader Developing a student -led landmine presentation