Post on February 16, 2014 by James Hathaway Some good news today out of Cambodia: Landmine accident deaths and injuries are dropping. In 2013, 23 people lost their lives to landmines versus 45 in...
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Karen Woman Counters Violence with Care and Compassion
By Cresa Pugh, CPI Southeast Asia Resident Manager Recently, I traveled with Mr. Murakami of the Karen Department of Health and Welfare (KDHW), south of Mae Sot, Thailand, to a small, rural village...
Clear Path launches large-scale ramp project in Afghanistan
Posted by: Karen Matthee When more than 800,000 Afghans are severely disabled, it's easy to see why there's a drastic need for schools, hospitals, government buildings and places of worship to be...
CPI Afghan Program Featured in Journal of ERW & Mine Action
Posted by: Karen Matthee The following is an excerpt from The Journal of ERW and Mine Action of CPI's AMATC program in Afghanistan. While clearing unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan's Herat province,...
In Afghanistan, goats provide livelihood for landmine survivors and more
Posted by: James Hathaway JALALABAD, Afghanistan - What they say about sheep in New Zealand may not quite be true for goats in Afghanistan. They don't outnumber people here. But the importance of the...
Clear Path International now independent, expanding in Afghanistan
Posted by: James Hathaway KABUL, Afghanistan - After two years as a subcontractor here, Clear Path International is now a full-fledged independent grant recipient of the U.S. Department of State with...
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Myanmar: Clear Path International provides the gift of hands for the landmine survivors at Care Villa
Posted by: James Hathaway By Melody Mociulski Mae Sot, Thailand - Since we began supporting the Care Villa in 2002, we at Clear Path have dreamed of providing prosthetic hands for the amputees we...
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Annual report: Clear Path assists 9,400 landmine survivors & disabled In one year
In a one-year period, Clear Path International assisted more than 9,400 landmine accident survivors, persons with disabilities and members of their families in five countries, according to the...
Clear Path International's Afghanistan partner reaches out and speaks up for survivors
KABUL, Afghanistan - We were in the armored car again driving through the city through a never-ending maze of checkpoints and concrete barriers. But I noticed the scene began to change gradually. I...
Afghanistan: Better access to schools for disabled girls and boys
KABUL, Afghanistan - It's one thing to be disabled and face the kind of discrimination typical for anyone with a disability here. It's another to be disabled girl and go to school in one of the most...
Afghanistan: Better tools, better lives
Posted by: Imbert Matthee KABUL, Afghanistan - A steel landmine probe. A deminer's trowel. A flail hammer. Mine field marking tape. Newly polished safety visors. These tools may not sound familiar to...
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...
Clear Path funds girls' education in Pakistan
To follow up on its relief shipments to Pakistan earlier this year, Clear Path International has funded the education of 55 girls and young women whose school was destroyed by a powerful earthquake...
Eastern Burma is now one of the world's worst health disasters
Clear Path International supports a group of medical technicians from the Karen Handicap Welfare Association who go with members of the Back Pack Health Workers Team to measure, deliver and fit...
Clear Path's Seattle office holds Pakistan earthquake relief drive
Collection Effort Will Take Everything from Sweaters to Hand Tools BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. -- The Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island and Clear Path International, an island-based humanitarian...
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CPI introduces new prosthetics technology on Thai-Burma border
MAE SOT, Thailand -- More Burmese landmine accident survivors will have access to stronger and lighter below-the-knee prostheses thanks to the introduction of two new technologies by Clear Path...
CPI ships supplies to civilian war victims in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan - A shipment of much-needed medical equipment donated by Clear Path has arrived at an emergency surgical center for civilian war and landmine victims in Afghanistan. The shipment...
Clear Path sends medical aid to tsunami victims
First Shipment Going to Bay of Bengal, India BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. - Clear Path International, known for its aid to landmine accident survivors in Southeast Asia, is using its medical equipment...