June 28, 2005
Man Injured By Explosive in Vietnam
(Vo The Vinh, aged 46) An accident happened to a 46 year-old man in Gio Linh district of Quang Tri province at 10h a.m on Saturday, June 25^th . A piece of ordnance detonated while he was gardening outside his...
June 24, 2005
JSC Students Reach Vermont
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...
June 24, 2005
June Proves Dangerous in Vietnam
This report comes from our Vietnam office: Pls find below the info of new accidents that we responded in June: 1. (Nguyen Si Phu-aged 12; Phan Thanh Hieu-born in 1993) An accident happened to a boy in Bo Trach district,...
June 20, 2005
Medical Donations Program Hits Milestone
Imbert Matthee, co-founder of Clear Path, heads up our medical donations program. He has authored this report Sary Math crouches down between two pallets of shrink-wrapped boxes of surgical supplies. He sets his feet against one and presses his back...
June 16, 2005
Falklands: Leave our Landmines There
The people of the Falkland Islands have voted to turn down government assistance in clearing landmines from their territories and instead for the money to help those in more grave danger... Read more here....
June 15, 2005
A Morning with MAG
(Written by Jill Piacitelli) Day two in Dong Ha. This rural setting has changed some of our morning habits: Dave can’t get up at 5 to hit the badminton scene, people aren’t running back from quick communiqué via the internet,...
June 13, 2005
In some ways an ending, in some a beginning
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...
June 10, 2005
There are Many Types of Landmines
Many people think of landmines as round, platelike objects. In reality, mines come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, depending on their application and the technology available. Here is a great resource for learning more about all the...
June 09, 2005
Sweat Labor and a Flash Flood
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...
June 09, 2005
The Rehabilitation Center
(Written by Celine Riendeau) Today we traveled to a Rehabilitation Center for Disabled Children. The disabilities ranged from children who had down syndrome and mental retardation to children who were born with a debilitating disease like cerebral palsy. The center...
June 09, 2005
Sunday - A Day of Rest
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...
June 09, 2005
Landmine Kills Father and Injures Daughter in Vietnam
Due to economic hardhip, many people in former war zones in SE Asia tamper with unexploded ordnance (UXO) tampering to sell the metal and the TNT. Below is the most recent story involving tampering that resulted in death and injury...
June 08, 2005
Video: Mother of two is lost to Bomb
This accident was reported here last month, but Chi from the Vietnam ofice just put together a video of the visit with the family. Click the button below to see the video. He has also sent in a report which...
June 06, 2005
Video: JSC Crew Visits CPI Families
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...
June 06, 2005
Orange Dust
(Written by Trista Reigert) Well, another eventful day. We awoke early to meet for breakfast at 6:30 for 7 am departure to the work site of a teen center being built in Hue. Upon arrival we load and unload heavy...
June 05, 2005
Johnson State Photo Update
The Johnson State Crew has uploaded more photos! See a slide show of the pictures with the newest pictures first here....
June 05, 2005
Addendum to the Poem
(Written by Jill Piacitelli) The accompanying poem below was written at the urging of Galen Dickstein, as we wondered what to do to capture the sweet anguish of being lost on our way to the work project of the June...
June 05, 2005
Poetry While Lost
A poem, written while utterly lost, by Jill Piacitelli. This work of art was accompanied by a sketch by Galen Dickstein, the other lost participant....
June 04, 2005
Celebrating Children's Day with Photos
As our friends from Johnson State College are celebrating Children's Day in Vietnam... we thought we would celebrate the gift of children as well by posting a link to our photo archive of children we have met on our travels...
June 04, 2005
Children’s Day in Hue, Viet Nam
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...
June 03, 2005
The Landmine's More Deadly Cousin
The landmine's more deadly cousin, the cluster bomb kills and injures people with regularity in Vietnam. In present-day Vietnam, a cluster bomb's "bomblet" or "bombie" resembles a muddy baseball. Children are naturally drawn to them out of curiosity, often to...
June 02, 2005
Wounded Iraqis left Broken and Burdened
With medical facilities strained, assistance is hard to come by A sad story on civilian war victims in Iraq....
June 02, 2005
Clear Path Photo Archive
We have begun to post our very large archive of photos to the web using flickr.com. To view the pictures, go here The size of the font on the link page is relative to the number of photos in each...
June 01, 2005
Boy, 12, Killed by Cluster Bomb in Vietnam
Quang Binh Province, Vietnam- A boy has lost his life after discovering a piece of unexploded ordnance in Central Vietnam. Nguyen Si Phu, 12, had found a cluster bomb while playing near his aunt's home on May 29, 2005....
June 01, 2005
Still Sweating....
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...
