Clear Path International
stephanie August 31st, 2010
- A young landmine victim.
Clear Path International was co-founded by long time US Subud member, Imbert Matthee, to serve landmine and bomb accident survivors, their families and their communities in the former war zones of Southeast Asia.
Clear Path (CPI) has been working with ethnic refugee health committees along the Thai/Burma border since 2002 to provide prosthetic and rehabilitation care and vocational training to these refugees and internally displaced landmine accident survivors. CPI has also funded efforts to improve prosthetics fabrication and measurement technology resulting in better and lower-cost limbs for accident survivors.
The prosthetic devices that amputees receive enable them to work and to support their families. Physical mobility reduces the burden of disabled survivors on their families and their community, and turns them into potentially productive contributors. Some landmine victims are trained as prosthetic technicians to help other amputees. Susila Dharma Britain has funded three prosthetics fabrication workshops.
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