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.

Seattle Man to Run 300K for Landmine Victims

A Seattle physical therapist will compete in one of the toughest footraces on the planet while raising funds to help landmine accident survivors.

UN says that in Vietnam Life-threatening landmine scavenging on the increase

"Scrap metal provides a decent and immediate income without needing any qualifications or investment," notes Tran Hong Chi from Clear Path International (CPI), an UXO victim assistance charity in Dong Ha, the provincial capital of Quang Tri. "It's not just farmers or the jobless who need the money. In July, a teacher was killed while digging up a bomb during his summer vacation. He had a good job and should have known about the risks."

"I'm not under any pressure, like I was before."

In a country where deminers almost outnumber teachers, Haroon Hamdard had a risky but steady job clearing landmines and unexploded ordnance in Herat Province, on the border with Iran. That is until he made a bad call and lost his right hand.

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.

In Afghanistan, Goats Provide Livelihood for Landmine Survivors and More

In Clear Path's first survivor assistance project outside Kabul, 18 beneficiaries in the eastern city of Jalalabad received goats and animal husbandry training from CPI's local Afghan partner, Afghan Disabled & Vulnerable Society.

Clear Path International now Independent, Expanding in Afghanistan

After two years as a subcontractor in Kabul, Clear Path International is now a full-fledged independent grant recipient of the U.S. Department of State with a growing vision for aid to landmine accident survivors and people with disabilities in Afghanistan.

Clear Path Mourns Loss of Jay Hathaway

Jay Hathaway, 61, who suddenly passed away from a massive heart attack, was an exceptional man, always supportive, always full of encouragement. After we founded Clear Path on Bainbridge Island and James, Jay's son, and his former wife Martha, moved to Dorset to set up an office for us in Vermont, Jay and, his wife Terri, were of monumental support to our two co-founders.

Landmine Surivivor Farmers' Co-op in Cambodia Doubles in Size

Life was a struggle for Ream Luong before he joined the farmer's cooperative set up by Clear Path International and its partner in one of Cambodia's most heavily mined regions. This spring, the partners doubled the co-op to 150 households from 75, expanding an enterprise that's helping many landmine accident survivors succeed as rice farmers.