When wars end,
landmines and bombs remain.

Long after wars end, landmines and unexploded bombs continue to pose a lethal threat to human life and claim casualties.

Every 30 minutes, someone somewhere in the world is injured or killed by an encounter with this deadly debris. At least one in every four victims is a child.

Clear Path International serves landmine and bomb accident survivors, their families and their communities. This urgent assistance takes the form of direct medical and social services as well as equipment and other support to local medical facilities.

Our current projects are in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Vietnam and on the Thai-Burma border.

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Latest Edition of Mine Action Newsletter "Safe Passage" Released by US Dept of State

From The US Dept of State:

This particular issue of "Safe Passage" includes an article about a Mine Risk Education program in Jordan, a collaboration between JMU's Mine Action Information Center, Jordan's Life Line for Consultancy and Rehabilitation and Jordan's National Committee for Demining and Rehabilitation. It also features clearance projects by DDG in Sri Lanka, enabling children to travel safely to school, and the Department of State's QRF in Bulgaria, helping to clear UXO after an accident at an ammunition storage facility. Survivors assistance is the focus of CALM, which recently raised funds to help child landmine accident survivors in Ethiopia. The Mine Detection Dog Center of South East Europe marked its 5th anniversary, and PM/WRA participated in an event at Texas A&M University.

Read the May 2009 Edition of SAFE PASSAGE here.

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Call to Action: Tell Your Senators to Support Cluster Bomb Legislation!

From our friends at the US Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs:

Tell the Senate to Give Cluster Bombs the Boot! Join the National Call-in Day on Monday, March 30 Toll-Free Number: 1-800-590-6313

Two weeks ago Congress and the president permanently outlawed exports of nearly all U.S. cluster munitions because these weapons always end up harming more civilians than soldiers. Now, USCBL is organizing a national call-in day to help Congress take the next step: making sure the U.S. military never again uses its vast arsenal of nearly 700 million cluster submunitions.

The Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2009 (S. 416/H.R.
981) would block use of cluster munitions that leave behind more than one percent of their submunitions as landmine-like duds, and any use in areas where civilians live. Since only a very tiny fraction of the U.S. arsenal meets this reliability standard, the bill would effectively ban U.S. use. S. 416 was introduced a month ago and has already gathered 24 Senate co-sponsors from both parties. Increasing co-sponsorhip of this legislation will show President Obama that there is widespread support for him to join more than half the world's nations in signing the treaty banning these weapons.

Help save a life or limb by making a free phone call on Monday, March 30.

Together, we can generate hundreds of calls to senators who have not yet cosponsored the legislation. It's as simple as 1,2,3... (click read more)

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Blog and Multimedia Resources

Download a copy of Clear Path International's 2007-2008
Annual Report here.

Article: In a rugged part of the world, help needed now and far beyond

"Since 2007 Clear Path has constructed 25 handicap access ramps at 13 different schools in Kabul, the capital city, and provided training about the rights of the disabled. It has established the Afghan Mine Action Technology Center, which employs disabled Afghans to produce equipment for de-mining efforts. The center also brings state-of-the-art prosthetic devices to those who need them"

Dutch Charity "Stichting Mensenkinderen" Awards $140,000 to Clear Path International

Dutch charity "Stichting Mensenkinderen" (www.mensenkinderen.nl) has given a grant for 100,000 Euro ($140,000) to Clear Path International for its humanitarian mine action work in Vietnam and Cambodia.

US State Department Funds Clear Path International Programs in Vietnam & Cambodia

Destination Cambodia | Clear Path International Sends Its 73rd Overseas Medical Shipment

The 40-foot container shipment destined for Phnom Penh, Cambodia, included 234 items ranging from hospital beds and wheelchairs to surgical supplies and diagnostic equipment with a total value of more than $50,000.

Noted War Photographer Alixandra Fazzina Documents Clear Path International's Work in Afghanistan

The images linger in your mind even hours after you've seen them. Such is the power of Alixandra Fazzina's extraordinary photography and in this case, her subjects are patients at the Kabul Orthopedic Organization. KOO gets a major portion of its funding from Clear Path International under a subcontract with DynCorp International, which in turn is supported by the U.S. State Department's Office of Weapons Removal & Abatement.

Thanks for Everything, Lobke: Dutch Clear Path International Representative in Thailand Moves to Spain

After nearly four years as a volunteer Country Representative for Clear Path International on the Thai-Burma border, Dutch physical therapist Lobke Dijkstra has moved to Spain to start an organization providing recreational opportunities for persons with disabilities.

CPI Starts Year of the Buffalo with Pig-breeding Project For Landmine Accident Survivors in Vietnam's Gio Linh

In the new lunar Year of the Buffalo, Clear Path in Vietnam began its activities supporting landmine and bomb accident with a pig-raising project in the coastal commune of Gio Hai in Quang Tri Province's Gio Linh District.

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.