POSTED BY: Stephen Meyers, Director of International Programs, The Polus Center

What do all the New England-based mine action organizations that work in warm places do during these long winters? They get together at Clear Path's home base in Vermont to lament the fact that they aren't working out in the field.

Like CPI, the Polus Center works in warm places. For eight years we have been working in Central America and now two years in Africa designing and supporting community based programs for persons with disabilities. To date, Polus has partnered with local communities and grassroots organizations to begin three prosthetic outreach programs, a leadership development center, an access project, a small business micro-grant initiative, and the local manufacture of wheelchairs. To learn more, see www.poluscenter.org.