Dr. Cynthia Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

MAE SOT, Thailand – Dr. Cynthia Maung, the ethnic Karen physician who founded the Mae Tao clinic for refugees on the Thai-Burma border, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Maung’s clinic, which serves mostly Karen refugees, has received funding from Clear Path International for its prosthetics department since 2001. The prosthetics shop forms a hub for the production of prostheses along the Thai-Burma border, where thousands of refugees have been maimed by landmine or anti-personnel device explosions.

Clear Path Approved As Charity In Government Employees Fund Drives

SEATTLE – Clear Path International has been approved as a charity in this fall’s Combined Federal Campaign of King County and in the Washington State Combined Fund Drive (CFD) in which thousands of government employees participate. Each fall, city, state and federal employees are encouraged to donate or make pledges to domestic and international charities. The CFC of King County and the state’s CFD are among the largest in the Pacific Northwest.