Johnson State Trip Slideshow

The Johnson State College pictures can be viewed as a slideshow here. As new photos are sent in they will be added to the presentation....

January Cambodia and Vietnam Trip

I will be taking a small group to Vietnam and Cambodia in January of 2006. We will be visiting Clear Path project sites and doing some sight seeing as well. The pricing is not yet worked out, but if you...

A Free Day

A group of students from Johnson State College (JSC) is spending the next few weeks with Clear Path International in Vietnam. This is possible due to a partnership between Clear Path, the Break Away Program and JSC. The students and...

Another Fine Day

(Written by Celine Riendeau) Today we started off the day three people short. Tess, Angie and Chris were sick with the “thing” (various types of aliments that we all seem to be coming down with). The rest of us ate...

Weekly Update: Good and Bad News

This week's update from the Vietnam office: "CPI receive the info of one new accident by CPFC Duc Pho District of Quang Ngai in this reporting period: One killed and one injured as below:Two men left their home and went...

A Nice Change of Plans

A group of students from Johnson State College (JSC) is spending the next few weeks with Clear Path International in Vietnam. This is possible due to a partnership between Clear Path, the Break Away Program and JSC. The students and...

Vietnam Accident Report

While clearing out some old emails today I found this report from an accident involving ordnance that resulted in a fatality in 2003. Most impressive is the professionalism of the CPI Vietnam staff. Most tragic is that this is not...

Mud Bath!

A group of students from Johnson State College (JSC) is spending the next few weeks with Clear Path International in Vietnam. This is possible due to a partnership between Clear Path, the Break Away Program and JSC. The students and...

Brand New Song and Dance

A group of students from Johnson State College (JSC) is spending the next few weeks with Clear Path International in Vietnam. This is possible due to a partnership between Clear Path, the Break Away Program and JSC. The students and...

Sometimes I Sweat in Vietnam

A group of students from Johnson State College (JSC) is spending the next few weeks with Clear Path International in Vietnam. This is possible due to a partnership between Clear Path, the Break Away Program and JSC. The students and...

Teaching the Alphabet

A group of students from Johnson State College (JSC) is spending the next few weeks with Clear Path International in Vietnam. This is possible due to a partnership between Clear Path, the Break Away Program and JSC. The students and...

Story from the Field

Adopt-a-Minefield has posted a story written by Chi of our Vietnam staff to their website. Read the story here....

Cultural Exchange

A group of students from Johnson State College (JSC) is spending the next few weeks with Clear Path International in Vietnam. This is possible due to a partnership between Clear Path, the Break Away Program and JSC. The students and...

Meeting our Interpreters

A group of students from Johnson State College (JSC) is spending the next few weeks with Clear Path International in Vietnam. This is possible due to a partnership between Clear Path, the Break Away Program and JSC. The students and...

The Vietnam Adventure Begins

A group of students from Johnson State College (JSC) is spending the next few weeks with Clear Path International in Vietnam. This is possible due to a partnership between Clear Path, the Break Away Program and JSC. The students and...

Mae La Refugee Camp:Thai-Burma Border

CPI co-founder Imbert Matthee is leading a group of CPI supporters to CPI project sites across SE Asia. All photos by Erin Fredrichs. The story of the Fox and the Bird Pah Ner tells us a Karen folk tale with...

Erin Fredrichs Posts from Cambodia

Erin Fredrichs is traveling with CPI Co-founder Imbert Matthee through Asia. She sent in this report. She also took the photo. In Cambodia, it won’t be the majesty of the many temples of Angkor Wat that will consume my...

Meet the Johnson State Group

Listed below are the group partipants in the Johnson State College trip to Vietnam with the Break Away program....

Rice Farmer Injured In Vietnam

On April 27th, a 20 year old Rice Farmer in Dakrong district of Quang Tri province was injured by a piece of ordnance left over from the Vietnam War while he was scattering rice seeds. He was using a metal...

Bomb Accident Injures Two Men in Vietnam

Two farmers in their twenties were severely injured by a Vietnam War era bomb in Huong Thuy district of Thua Thien Hue province on May 11th 2005. The two were planting eucalyptus trees in a hilly area less than a...

Battambang Hospital, Cambodia

Clear Path Co-Founder Imbert Matthee is leading a group of CPI supporters across Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. He has filed this report. My Cambodian friend Sary has been telling me for years that I should go visit the hospital in...

Bomb Explosion Kills Two Children in Vietnam

Thanks to Hugh Hosman for forwarding us this report. CPI staff will repsond in the coming days and we will have an update. Source: Agence France Presse -- English May 16, 2005 Monday 5:40 AM GMT LENGTH: 184 words HEADLINE:...

Mine Survivor Phan Thong Kam

Clear Path Co-founder Imbert Matthee is leading a group of CPI supporters across Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Photo by Erin Fredrichs. Phan Thong Kam’s household grows rice to make a living. But the 39-year-old farmer from western Battambang Province who...

The New Road Seemed Like a Good Idea

Clear Path Co-Founder Imbert Matthee is leading a group of CPI supporters across Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. He has filed this report. Photo by Erin Fredrichs. At Clear Path, we say we pride ourselves in reaching out to landmine survivors....

Effie Posts from Cambodia

Effie is a massage therapist travalling with Imbert Matthee, co-founder of CPI, across Vietnam Cambodia and Thailand. She posted this report. Photo by Erin Fredrichs. On this trip, I’ve been searching for opportunities to work with landmine victims. I’ve wanted...

The Group Reaches Cambodia

Clear Path Co-Founder Imbert Matthee is leading a group of CPI supporters across Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. He has filed this report. The short, energetic and somewhat nervous man with the boyish grin points to a field where his uncle...

Le Thuy, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam

Authored by CPI Co-founder Imbert Matthee. When I was here in August, workmen were just starting to dig a foundation. Now, the new Le Thuy community-based physical rehabilitation training center has been completed. With the guidance of the center’s...

MAG Has a New Ad

Our good friends at MAG have just released their new advertisement. Reminds me of the film Pleasantville... very well done and very scary.... a bit too graphic for some, I am sure....

Woman Killed in Vietnam by War-Era Bomb

A piece of explosive ordnance left over from the Vietnam War killed a 24-year-old mother in Gio Son commune, Gio Linh district of Quang Tri province on May 1st, 2005. Tran Thi Tuyet and her husband were clearing vegetation in...

Ken Davis on UXO in Vietnam

Clear Path friend (and neighbor) author Ken Davis recently appeared on Vermont Public Radio to discuss the legacy of War in Vietnam. Public NewsRoom Thank you, Ken, a very powerful piece....

The Group Visits Nghia and the CPI School

Wolfgang Brolley is travelling with CPI co-founder Imbert Matthee and visiting CPI project sites in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand This morning we had the pleasure and pain of visiting brave Nghia ~the young lad that has lost both feet and...

"Vietnam: The Next Generation" PBS Series

From an email sent to us by David Lamb: Americans remember the Vietnam War. But what do we know of those Vietnamese born in its aftermath? That’s what Sandy Northrop sets out to answer in her new documentary for PBS,...

Imbert from Vietnam

Imbert Matthee is currently leading a trip of CPI supporters through Vietnam... he will be posting regularly... or so he promises! I have stopped counting the number of trips I have made to Southeast Asia since we started Clear Path...

Bombhunters Movie Website is Up

WOW! Our friend Skye just emailed to let me know that his new website for his upcoming film BOMBHUNTERS is up... Check it out! Bombhunters - The Film...

Seattle's KMTT to Run CPI Interview this Saturday

Seattle's 103.7 KMTT FM will be running an interview with me regarding the TOO MANY YEARS benefit CD on SATURDAY MAY 7 at 7:30 am Pacific and 10:30 am Eastern. There will be clips from the CD... which you can...