March 29, 2005
CPI Benefit CD on Rolling Stone Website
For the past few months we have been putting together a benefit CD featuring some excellent talent. I called Rolling Stone today and asked if they would be interested in running a piece... they posted the story within hours...
March 29, 2005
Mine Survivor To Bike Across Desert For MAG
This just in from CPI friend and Mines Advisory Group patron Stuart Hughes: "I was able to spend some time putting together a proposal to cycle across Death Valley later in the year to raise loads of lovely money for...
March 29, 2005
Update: Injured Boy, Nghia, Returns Home
Just before I left Vietnam on my most recent trip, there was a terrible accident involving a young boy named Nghia (see posts here and here). Nghia had found a piece of ordnance and was tampering with it to get...
March 27, 2005
Three Girls Killed by Vietnam War-era Bomb
The CPI VN staff just received word on this and sent it here... it happened about 2 weeks ago... they are responding today. Source: Agence France Presse -- English Three girls aged between 10 and 12 were killed and two...
March 27, 2005
School is in Session
What has not gotten a lot of coverage, if any, on our site is the CPI-built elementary school which opened for classes in September of 2004. Serving 383 children ages 6-11 in two separate shifts, the "Peace School" as it...
March 25, 2005
Johnson State Breaks Away to Vietnam
Greetings from Johnson State College. My name is Laura and I am here in Dorset, VT with two fellow students, Angie and Tess. We are participants of this year's Break Away trip to Vietnam. Break Away is a student lead...
March 24, 2005
Another Close Call in Central Vietnam
I wrote in an earlier post that over the past few weeks our Vietnam office has been receiving more reports than usual of accidents involving unexploded ordnance (UXO) also known as explosive remnants of war (ERW). Just this morning the...
March 23, 2005
Lucky Kids
Fortunately, not all accidents involving ERW (Explosive Remnants of War) are fatal. Some cause only minor injuries. The children in the excerpt from the Vietnam office's email to me below are extremly lucky. Other children have not been so lucky....
March 22, 2005
Thank you, Hugh Hosman!
This week marked Hugh Hosman's last week with CPI in Vietnam. He has been instrumental in creating the CPI Direct Victim Assistance program. He was so effective, in fact, that we are able to now have an all Vietnamese office...
March 21, 2005
Hello everybody
Hello all of the kids at Tenafly school, How are all of you? Today I am very please and I just came from Vocational Training Center at Kampong Cham province. You What is my supprice when I came back from...
March 20, 2005
Chanthon's Story
CHHORN CHANTHON is the newest member of the CPI team. He is our on the ground representative in Cambodia and works with our partner Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development. He recently sent me his bio for our website. Before reading...
March 19, 2005
Polus Center visits Vermont
POSTED BY: Stephen Meyers, Director of International Programs, The Polus Center What do all the New England-based mine action organizations that work in warm places do during these long winters? They get together at Clear Path's home base in Vermont...
March 18, 2005
Accident Reports
Every week, depending on the accident rate in Vietnam, I get reports from our Vietnam office. These reports are briefs on incidents that have occured and to which we have responded involving accidents with unexploded bombs. I am posting the...
March 14, 2005
Accident in Vietnam Wounds Farmers
I am currently in Taipei and running to catch my flight. I wanted to post this video Chi produced on the last days of my visit. CPI VN STAFF: I miss you already. You do incredible work. See the film...
March 11, 2005
Why I am Here
This entry was originally written for Tom Peters' blog at www.tompeters.com. Here is my post to Tom's blog: As I mentioned in my last post, I am in Quang Tri Province in Central Vietnam. This region received the heaviest sustained...
March 08, 2005
Happy Women's Day!
Read more about Women's Day here....
March 07, 2005
A Young Boy in a Dangerous Job
This weekend all of us at CPI here in Vietnam went on a staff retreat to Ba Na. Ba Na is a beautiful location high in the mountains above Da Nang. I am sure one could see for miles from...
March 04, 2005
A Child's Joy, A Mother's Sorrow
Posted by Terri The time I am spending here seems to be speeding along. Yesterday I spent the day in the office working with Phuong, Nhi, Toan, Chi and Duc. The Clear Path office is located off the beaten path...
March 01, 2005
Quang Tri General Hospital, Vietnam
This morning James and I accompanied CPI staff members, Phuong and Duc, to visit two beneficiaries hospitalized here in the hospital at Dong Ha Town. This was my first time to actually witness CPI's direct contact with patients. Each staff...
March 01, 2005
Goodbye Tenafly, from Terri
All my dear friends, both young and old, I refrained from blogging throughout this adventure of learning about the people and the culture of the small, complex country of Cambodia because I wanted to first absorb your impressions of...
