Global Care Unlimited Youth Ambassadors Tour Cambodia With Clear Path International

In February 2005, Tenafly (New Jersey) Middle School teacher Mark Hyman and a Youth Delegation from Global Care Unlimited joined James and Terri Hathaway of Clear Path International on a tour of Cambodia. This journey was part of Global Care’s Cambodian Humanitarian Initiative, which seeks to educate American communities about the humanitarian needs of Cambodia and to provide support to alleviate these conditions.

The Global Care delegation was particularly excited to visit the rehabilitation site of Clear Path and Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development, which Global Care Unlimited had helped fund in 2004. The students were thrilled to learn firsthand about the excellent rehabilitation programs offered for landmine survivors and their families. They also appreciated the opportunity to visit the Mines Advisory Group training site and learn about the different stages of mine detection and removal. In addition, the Global Care delegation learned about the Khmer Rouge genocide with a visit of Tuol Sleng and the Ek Choueng Killing Fields.

Global Care Unlimited and Clear Path International are members of the U.S. Department of State's Public-Private Partnership Program, administered by the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement. 

For more information about the student trip to Cambodia, contact Mark Hyman at mhyman@globalcareunlimited.org. To read the students' journals, go to www.cpi.org/cpiblog and click on "Tenafly 2005."

[Photo courtesy Global Care Unlimited.]