May 09, 2003
New Technology To Help Mine Survivors in Burma
SEATTLE – Clear Path International and the Seattle-based nonprofit Prosthetics Research Study want to introduce new technology to bring physical mobility a step closer for landmine accident survivors inside Burma.
During the past several years, Prosthetics Research Study has developed the “Transtibial Alignment System,” a collapsible, portable device allowing medics with little training to measure the stump of a landmine amputee and bring the information back to a prosthetics production site. The system was developed with a grant from Physicians Against Landmines of the Center for International Rehabilitation in Chicago.
May 09, 2003
Adopt-A-Minefield Awards Clear Path
$50,000 Towards Survivor Assistance
in Vietnam
NEW YORK – Clear Path International has received a $50,000 grant from the Adopt-A-Minefield® Campaign of the United Nations Association of the USA for its humanitarian mine action work in the region around the former Demilitarized Zone in central Vietnam.
“We are extremely grateful for Adopt-A-Minefield’s generous endorsement and support of our efforts to help families recover from the trauma of peacetime ordnance explosions,” said Martha Hathaway, executive director of Clear Path International, which is based in Dorset, Vermont.
May 09, 2003
2003 Begins With Tragedy in Vietnam’s Central Region
PHO CUONG, Quang Ngai Province – The first four months of 2003 have claimed the lives of nine bomb accident victims and injured 20 in 14 separate accidents in central Vietnam. Thirteen of the 29 victims were children.
The tragedies, which represent one of the worst spates in recent years, underscores the frequency with which accidents are expected to continue in central Vietnam, a region that has one of the highest per capita number of unexploded bombs anywhere in the world.
