Hearts and Mines: A documentary on the work of Clear Path International

All of us at Clear Path are thrilled to see the new trailer for HEARTS AND MINES the documentary by Dr. Joan Widdifield, a long-time CPI supporter. Hearts and Mines follows the CPI Vietnam staff as they work with landmine and bomb accident survivors and their families.

Clear Path International Provides The Gift of Hands for the Landmine Survivors at Care Villa

Since we began supporting the Care Villa in 2002, we at Clear Path have dreamed of providing prosthetic hands for the amputees we serve there. Many of them have lost one or both arms in a landmine explosion and are wholly dependent on others for their care. Almost every time we visit our Karen friends at the giant sprawling Mae La refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border, we are asked for a device that will allow the men to use their upper limbs.

Clear Path International Releases Annual Report

In the period covered by the report, the U.S.-based organization with offices in Vermont and on Bainbridge Island, Washington, assisted 6,325 beneficiaries in Afghanistan, 1,679 in Vietnam, 929 in Cambodia and 538 on both sides of the Thai-Burma border.

Young & Rubicam Creates Radio Spot to Support Landmine Victims: Tell us what you think!

All of us at Clear Path International are grateful to Young & Rubicam Malaysia for creating a 35 second radio spot for CPI. Please click "read more" to listen it and let us know what you think.

A Certificate of Merit Awarded to Clear Path in Vietnam

I don’t often write about ceremonies. Most of the time they’re just for looks, photo ops, grip and grins. When you have an all-hands-on-deck agenda to get things done, fluff and puff can be kind of a nuisance. But the recent presentation to CPI of the Certificate of Merit from the Provincial People’s Committee of Quang Tri was different to me. It was a real milestone in our seven-year history as a humanitarian mine action organization.

Good News, Bad News For Mine Clearance In Countries Where Clear Path International Has Assistance Programs

Although increased funding and fewer casualties were reported in 2006, many countries are not on course to meet their Mine Ban Treaty clearance obligations, says a new report from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

Senator Leahy Honors Clear Path | Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion Perform to a Sold Out Crowd

Clear Path International to Assist Afghan Landmine Survivors As Part of U.S. Department of State Contract

KABUL, Afghanistan – Clear Path International (CPI), a U.S.-based humanitarian mine action nonprofit organization, has received a multi-year contract from DynCorp International to start a landmine survivor assistance program in Afghanistan on behalf of the U.S. Department of State.

Two New Volunteers Reach the Thai Burma Border

Duane Nelson is volunteering at the Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot on the Thai-Burma border. Here is the first, of what I am hoping will be many, of his blog posts from the border!

CPI Packs Another Shipping Container of Medical Supplies Bound For Laos

We were introduced to the National Rehabilitation Center in Vientiane through the kind folks at COPE (Cooperative Orthotic & Prosthetic Enterprise), a group of NGOs working together to provide services for the country's many disabled, including landmine and UXO accident survivors. We met them last year on a four-day trip to Vientiane and promised we would help them with equipment and supplies.

Truckin': A Big Donation to the Clear Path Medical Supplies Program

I'll be on the road again, this time I am in the truck I have longed for since we started our program six years ago. Thanks Mike, Kay, Debbie, Steve and everyone at Hill Moving & Storage. You've come through again in a big, big way!

Clear Path Newsletter Available in PDF

The 2007 Winter/Spring CPI Newsletter is now available online. Read about our recent matching campaign with the US Dept of State, how we introduced a hippopotamus to Cambodia, and updates from Chi and Lobke, two of our representatives on the ground in Southeast Asia!

War Torn El Salvador On the Mend

There are reminders of El Salvador’s recent instability. Every office, store, hotel, restaurant and bank in San Miguel has armed guards with pump-action shotguns, revolvers or Uzis.

Salvadoran Sisters Ready For "The Avalanche"

No, the kind and gentle “madre” is not speaking of an earthquake, a hurricane, a tidal wave, a mudslide or some other natural disaster to which her Central American country is prone. The director of the Centro de Salud Josefina Vilaseca in Ciudad Pacifica refers to the day her little hospital’s doors will open and be inundated with patients.

The Beds Fit Sideways | The Clear Path International Medical Supplies Donation Program

The heavy electrical bed frames from the donor in Issaquah had to go sideways on a wheeled furniture dolly to go through the door opening. It was a little extra trouble, but that was nothing new for this crew of volunteers, old hands at the movement of medical equipment and supplies for Clear Path or at least old hands at our whacky resourcefulness.