Clear Path International

Type:	Charitable_organization
Founded:	2000
Headquarters:	Dorset,_Vermont
Key people:	Martha Hathaway, Executive Director
Area served:	Clear Path International serves civilian victims of war in Vietnam, Cambodia and the Thailand - Burma Border
Website:	www.cpi.org

Clear Path International (CPI) is a non-profit organization based in the United States. The organization assists civilian victims of war in post-conflict zones. This assistance takes the form of direct medical and social services to survivors and their families as well as equipment support to hospitals. Clear Path International's projects are in Vietnam, Cambodia and on the border of Myanmar and Thailand. Image File history File links Clearpath_logo. ... // Legal definitions A charity is a trust, company or unincorporated association established for charitable purposes only. ... Dorset, Vermont Dorset is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. ... Website - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

In the year 2000 Clear Path began working to remove unexploded ordnance in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam with was at, at the time, the largest unexploded ordnance removal effort by an NGO in Vietnam's history.^{[citation needed]} Unexploded ordnance (or UXOs) are explosive weapons (bombs, shells, grenades, etc. ... Quang Tri Province is a region and province in central Vietnam near (north) the ancient capital of Huế. ... NGO is an abbreviation or code for: Non-governmental organization Nagoya Airport (IATA code) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In 2001 CPI established a vocational skills training program for landmine survivors in Kampong Cham, Cambodia. Kampong Cham is a province in the east of Cambodia. ...

Specializing in victim assistance

In 2002, CPI dropped ordnance removal from its mission and narrowed its scope of work to assisting civilian victims of landmines and other explosive remnants of war.

In the same year, CPI began supporting clinics on the Thai-Myanmar border that serve ethnic minority refugees escaping Myanmar's oppressive regime. CPI supports prosthetic clinics that serve landmine victims that have been injured in their escape. To further enhance border-area prostheses production and delivery, Clear Path is introducing a new portable device that will make it easier for landmine amputees in the remote jungles to get prostheses without traveling to a clinic or production site.

Clear Path International has received support from Adopt-a-Minefield, The McKnight Foundation, The Freeman Foundation, The United States Department of State Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, The Open Society Institute, Johnson & Widdifield Charitable Trust, Susila Dharma USA, and a wide range of grass roots support. The McKnight Foundation is a philanthropic organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... The Open Society Institute (OSI) is a coordinating body, started in early 1994, of the national Soros Foundations, especially in Eastern Europe, which spends money donated by billionaire philanthropist George Soros. ... Grassroots democracy is the political processes which are driven by groups of ordinary citizens, as opposed to larger organisations or wealthy individuals with concentrated vested interests in particular policies. ...

External links

• Clear Path's website
• Clear Path's Flickr images
• Clear Path videos on YouTube
• Clear Path blog