July 23, 2009
Clear Path International Provides The Gift of Hands for the Landmine Survivors at Care Villa
Since we began supporting the Care Villa in 2002, we at Clear Path have dreamed of providing prosthetic hands for the amputees we serve there. Many of them have lost one or both arms in a landmine explosion and are wholly dependent on others for their care. Almost every time we visit our Karen friends at the giant sprawling Mae La refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border, we are asked for a device that will allow the men to use their upper limbs.
July 18, 2009
McNamara's Lethal Legacy Lives On After His Death: Wartime Bombs Kill Six in Central Vietnam
As a stark reminder of the Vietnam War's deadly legacy around the day one of its chief American architects dies, six people in central Vietnam were killed in two separate bomb explosions.Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, who has been criticized for escalating the war in Vietnam during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, died on July 6 at the age of 93.
On July 4 and 6, accidents involving ordnance from that war occurred in Quang Tri and Quang Binh provinces on both sides of the former demilitarized zone that once bore his name: the McNamara Line.
July 03, 2009
Article: In a rugged part of the world, help needed now and far beyond
"Since 2007 Clear Path has constructed 25 handicap access ramps at 13 different schools in Kabul, the capital city, and provided training about the rights of the disabled. It has established the Afghan Mine Action Technology Center, which employs disabled Afghans to produce equipment for de-mining efforts. The center also brings state-of-the-art prosthetic devices to those who need them"
