October 22, 2007
YouTube: Thank you, Martha!
This video was shown on the 10th anniversary Celebration of Martha Hathaway's work with landmine and bomb survivors in Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the Thai-Burma border.
August 13, 2006
One Swift, Powerful Kick Through the Uprights
We are savoring the rainy interlude here in Hue that allows for a bit of catch up on email, journaling, and musing. Yesterday, we travelled from Da Nang to Hue via a detour to the old city of Hoi An....
January 05, 2006
Great News from Vietnam
Chi posted yesterday a video of our 14 year old friend Nghia walking. I first wrote about Nghia on this blog in March of 2005. He was injured by a bomb left over from the US-Vietnam War while I was...
January 04, 2006
Boy Who Lost Legs Gets on His Feet
Ho Van Nghia, a 13-year old boy in Hue city, Viet Nam lost his legs and a hand in an UXO accident in March 2005. After going through long term treatments and rehabilitation, he now can get back on his...
August 30, 2005
Nghia's Making a Steady Recovery!
Toan posts this story from the field about the progress of our young friend, Nghia. You can read more about Nghia here. One day in August 2005, I received a phone call from the Medical Liaison in Hue informed that...
May 10, 2005
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...
April 29, 2005
Vietnam War's Painful Legacy
I have written a lot here about the young boy, Nghia, who found a bomb in Vietnam and lost his lower legs and one arm while tampering with it in March. The San Jose Mercury News has written about him...
April 24, 2005
UPDATE: Video of Nghia at Home
When I was in Vietnam a month ago, I wrote of a sweet, young boy who had found a piece of ordnance and tampered with it. The result was that he lost two legs and an arm... Our phenomenal staff...
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 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...
