Hue, Vietnam- A group of college students from Johnson, Vermont's Johnson State College is spending one month in central Vietnam with landmine action group Clear Path International. The group is engaging in cultural outreach programs with the people of Vietnam, such as teaching English, while learning more about the landmine and bomb issue which, 30 years after the war here ended, continues to impact the Vitnamese.While in Vietnam the group has been posting stories and pictures of their journey to the Clear Path International blog. The blog can be found at www.cpi.org/cpiblog.

"Our experiences here in Vietnam are so much in such a short amount of time that it is hard to sum it all up for this blog," reflected Tara Duffy in a recent entry "but I hope that I have given this day justice."

Although the Vietnam War ended 30 years ago, by some estimates over 350,000 tons of bombs that did not detonate when dropped remain in the ground. This ordnance regularly claims lives and limbs in this still war-ravaged province. Since the conflict ended in 1975, nearly 40,000 Vietnamese have been killed by by these munitions.

Clear Path International serves landmine and bomb accident survivors, their families and their communities in former war zones in Southeast Asia. This assistance takes the form of both direct and indirect medical and social services to survivor families as well as equipment support to hospitals. Current Clear Path projects are in Vietnam, Cambodia and on the Thai-Burma border.

More information about Clear Path International can be found on the web at www.cpi.org.

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