October 27, 2006
Cabot Orton: Eyes Open
Bob, Sarah and I have been here three days and can't remember arriving; the level of constant emotional and sensory impact we're experiencing tends to capture awareness, trapping sense of time like a bug in amber.
October 27, 2006
Bob Allen: I Cried Today for the First Time
I have been in Vietnam for five days and felt like crying every day. The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City heightened my sense of guilt and shame for a 30 year-old war. The pictures of death and...
October 26, 2006
CPI Group Trip: The First Days are the Hottest Days
The group on our trip through the jungle on day 3. Hello from Dong Ha Town, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam! This region is one of the most heavily bombed areas in the history of the world. More bombs were...
October 23, 2006
Clear Path Group Arrives in Ho Chi Minh City
Greetings from Ho Chi Minh City! Our group arrived safely this morning at around 11:30am local time.... our trajectory Vermont> Albany,NY>Newark, NJ> Seattle, WA> Taipei> Ho Chi MInh City... all tolled over 30 HOURS! Chi from the Vietnam office met...
October 19, 2006
Release: Eastern Burma is now one of the world’s worst health disasters
The Burmese military junta is the source of the problem, not only through its abuses and neglect of the welfare of the people, but also through increasing restrictions on humanitarian aid efforts, particularly to ethnic minorities living in rural Burma.
October 16, 2006
A New Addition to the Clear Path Family
The Clear Path International family just got a little bigger... CPI beneficiary Ho Thi Ha has had a baby boy!
October 15, 2006
Demining in Cambodia at risk as funding dries up
Cambodia is among more than a dozen countries which will likely fail to meet their mine clearance targets as donor money dries up.The government's demining agency, the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC), has lost a fifth of its funding this year.
October 14, 2006
AP: Nations to form land-mine removal center
MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Defense ministers from across the Americas agreed Wednesday to create an international land-mine removal center and many called for joint military missions for disaster relief and peacekeeping worldwide.
October 13, 2006
Landmine Frisbee Campaign in Singapore Raises Awareness of Clear Path International
To help raise awareness of the landmine crisis worldwide, and the work of Clear Path International, Rapp Collins of Singapore created frisbees that look like landmines and are tossing them around the city.
October 13, 2006
Father of Micro Lending, Muhammad Yunus, Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their pioneering programs in micro-lending. Clear Path has been micro lending for the past few years... with a twist.
October 12, 2006
Mines to Vines Founder Blogs from Afghanistan
"As he courageously greets his Afghan 'friends' each day, he constantly reminds them that they are not landmine victims, but rather landmine survivors! His medicine is effective in healing the human spirit, as the Afghan smiles greet him as he energetically glides around the facility exuding his Italian charisma."
October 04, 2006
Muppets teach children a land mine lesson
In Afghanistan the creators of Muppet stars Miss Piggy and Fozzy Bear have teamed up with two charities to teach children a lesson in survival: how not to get killed or maimed by the millions of land mines still buried in the Afghan soil.
October 04, 2006
United States Helps to Clear Lebanon of Explosive Remnants of War
From a press release from the US Department of State: The United States is committed to reducing the risk to Lebanese civilians posed by explosive remnants of war. From 1998 to the recent conflict, the inter-agency U.S. Humanitarian Mine Action Program invested more than $17 million dollars to rid Lebanon of persistent landmines and explosive remnants.
October 02, 2006
Thailand - Myanmar Border: Every dead end street has a side street leading somewhere
Lobke blogs from the Care Villa on the Thailand - Myanmar border: Clear Path doesn’t turn its back on (what seems to be) a dead end street. We cannot fix eyes, hands or legs. We cannot turn back time or solve the issues in Burma. But we can look for possibilities, a side street, a change of direction; just small things that can make a big difference.
