Landmines removed from school playground, ending risk for 310 students (01-06-2011) Cam Lo, Quang Tri (30 May 2011) – It was the third visit that the RENEW clearance team had made to the Ho Chon Nhon School, where 310 primary students were studying. But this time the team would stay longer, determined to continue working until the school was made totally safe from cluster bombs, landmines, and other unexploded ordnance....[read more]
Residents call RENEW team twice in one day to come remove ordnance (22-02-2011) Trieu Long, Trieu Phong (22 Feb 2011): Village residents of Trieu Long Commune in Trieu Phong District made two separate calls within hours of each other to ask Project RENEW’s EOD Quick Response team to come remove explosive ordnance they had discovered in close proximity...[read more]
Project RENEW hands over a site cleared of unexploded ordnance to build a vocational colleges (19-01-2010) Dong Ha, Quang Tri (19 Jan 2011): A 60,000-square-meter site free of unexploded ordnance was handed over today by Project RENEW and its technical partner - the Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) to the land owner for a vocational college to be built in Dong Luong Ward, Dong Ha City... [read more]
RENEW expands mushroom training to help UXO victim families grow sustainable incomes (25-11-2010) Cam Lo, Quang Tri (25 Nov 2010): Hoang Kim Phuong was 20 years old in 1986 when he hit an American landmine while collecting concrete scrap from a former U.S military base in Cam Tuyen Commune. Phuong intended to build a pig shed to house his family’s livestock... [read more]
Vietnamese cluster bomb survivor participates in the Vientiane Cluster Munitions Conference (24-11-2010) Quang Tri, Vietnam; Vientiane, Lao PDR (24 November 2010): Pham Quy Thi, a farmer from central Vietnam who lost his right hand in a cluster bomb accident in 1977, attended the First Meeting of State Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions hosted by the Lao PDR government in Vientiane from 9 to 12 November. ... [read more]
Wartime big bomb safely removed from a local house's garden (25-08-2010) Cam Lo, Quang Tri (25 August 2010): A 250-pound bomb was safely removed from the garden of a local man's house in Cam Lo District, Quang Tri Province this Wednesday morning by a Project RENEW team after a couple days of excavation work... [read more]
