Trieu Phong, Quang Tri (16 August 2018) -- As part of her working trip to Vietnam, Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Andrea L. Thompson visited Quang Tri Province today to review U.S. funded efforts...
Vinh Linh District, Quang Tri (31 July 2018) — Over 450 youngsters and their parents who live in Vinh Trung Commune today enjoyed an eventful day of community football with integrated mine risk education. The activity was co-organized by...
Trieu Phong, Quang Tri (26 July 2018) — NPA-RENEW teams today safely destroyed a U.S. Mk 82 aircraft bomb at our Central Demolition Site (CDS) in Linh An Village of Trieu Trach Commune. This weighty task was successfully conducted...
For the past three weeks, NPA-RENEW teams have surveyed nearly 900,000 square meters of land, found and safely destroyed 145 cluster bombs and other munitions in Khe Cat Village of Vinh Khe Commune, which straddle the Ho Chi Minh...
Local workers who were building a guest house in the Old Citadel unexpectedly uncovered a cache of dangerous wartime munitions and some soldiers remains.
NPA-RENEW's EOD teams on Friday safely destroyed in place a 16-inch naval shell found at an acacia and rubber plantation in the DMZ, the former demilitarized zone during the war. The official weight of the munition, according to...
We at NPA-RENEW are looking for a self-motivated, independent and proactive admin assistant (short-time) to join our project in Quang Tri Province.
Project RENEW today in collaboration with the Quang Tri Provincial Association for Disabled Persons, Agent Orange Victims, Disability Support and Protection of the Children’s Rights (the Association) held a workshop on information campaigns for disabled persons and community.
After two weeks of extensive training, four Team Leaders at RENEW-NPA in Quang Tri Province along with other 14 senior operators from Mines Advisory Group (MAG) and NPA Project in Thua Thien -Hue Province have been certified with Explosive...
The signing of a new cooperation agreement between Norwegian People’s Aid Vietnam (NPA Vietnam) and the government of Quang Tri Province today marked 10 years of NPA’s commitment to clearing the province of cluster munitions and Explosive Remnants of...
The Quang Tri Orthopedic Workshop was re-launched on Thursday, 12 April 2018, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony participated in by representatives of Project RENEW, Department of Health, and Department of Foreign Affairs with Quang Tri Provincial General Hospital.
Part of their visit to Vietnam from 4 to 21 March 2018, a group of 38 Americans, mainly veterans and anti-war activists, member of the Veterans For Peace Chapter 160 (VFP) traveled to Quang Tri on 8 and 9...
It was our pleasure on Wednesday to welcome U.S. Ambassador Tina Kaidanow, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, to our operations in Quang Tri Province, Viet Nam as part of her visit to Viet Nam.
Thanks to donations from Project RENEW's international partners, the John Younger Trust, Unlimited Possibilities, and Veterans For Peace, a new workshop has just been dedicated at the Trieu Phong District Blind Association, giving 25 blind and disabled persons...
Vinh Linh, Quang Tri (Jan 04, 2018) - Responding to an emergency call from the Vinh Thach Commune authority, a mobile EOD team of RENEW-NPA today safely removed a U.S. naval shell and transported it to the demolition site for...
An 8-inch (203mm) U.S. naval shell was safely destroyed by a mobile Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team of Project RENEW-Norwegian People’s Aid on Thursday at the teams’ demolition site in Trieu Trach Commune, Trieu Phong District.
Project RENEW was recipient of the annual “Peace Prize” awarded by the Asia-Pacific Mediation Forum (APMF) at APMF’s annual meeting held this weekend, in conjunction with the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference held in Da Nang.
Washington, DC, USA (31 October 2017) – A delegation from Quang Tri Province led by Governor Nguyen Duc Chinh has had working meetings in Washington, DC with officials of the US Department of State and US Senate staff about...
A mechanic narrowly escaped serious injury from a mortar fragment in an explosion at his workshop on Sunday. The explosion, which occurred around 4:30 p.m., shook the entire coastal village of Trung An in Hai Khe Village, Hai Lang...
"Because of my parents' prejudice that a disabled girl could not get married, “ said Nguyen Thi Khiem, “it took me more than eight years to marry the man I fell in love with." Visually-impaired, Ms. Khiem is a...
RENEW-NPA teams today safely destroyed a U.S. 750-pound bomb found in a rice paddy in Ha Tay Village of Trieu An Commune, about one km from Cua Viet port, formerly a logistics and support base for U.S. Marine units...
One year after a tragic accident took the life of our most experienced team leader, Ngo Thien Khiet, his eldest son, Ngo Thien Hoang, now works as a non-technical surveyor for Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid. Here...
Our teams on Tuesday safely destroyed two U.S. Navy shells, each of them weighed over 200 pounds, in the central demolition site in Trieu Phong District. Earlier, villagers of Thuy Khe in Gio My Commune, near the former demarcation...
Trieu Phong, Quang Tri (04 May 2017) – A U.S.-made air-dropped 750-pound bomb was safely destroyed today by RENEW-NPA teams at the disposal site in Linh An Village of Trieu Trach Commune. Despite working on an extraordinarily hot day –...
Khe Sanh, Quang Tri (21 April 2017) — More than 40 students from the primary school of Tan Long Commune, Huong Hoa District have recently experienced a lively and entertaining extra-curriculum activity at the former Ta Con Airstrip in...
Today, 18 April 2017, as many localities and associations are celebrating the Viet Nam Day of Persons with Disabilities, Project RENEW's Prosthetics & Orthotics Mobile Outreach Program deliver customized limbs and assistive devices to disabled people affected by unexploded...
In response to a UXO call-in from a physical education teacher at a school in Gio My Commune, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team of Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid on Monday safely destroyed a deadly cluster...
Quang Tri Township, Quang Tri Province (07 Feb 2017) – An EOD Team managed by RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid in response to a UXO emergency call-in from an urban dweller near Quang Tri Old Citadel on Tuesday safely...
We met her a month ago. UP walked into her tiny concrete bunker of a house that is clinging to the side of a steep hill in the mountains of North Vietnam near Khe Sanh, the site of some...
Dong Ha & Gio Linh, Quang Tri (9 Nov 2016) – It was a privilege today for Project RENEW and partner organization Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) to receive the President of Ireland, Mr. Michael D. Higgins, and First Lady...
Watchful schoolboys at Hai Phu Secondary School have helped prevent an explosion of cluster bomb in their school yard on Friday. When they were pouring earth into flower beds for planting flowers Friday morning, the boys suddenly found a...
Veteran Nguyen Sanh, who lives in Phuong Lang Village of Hai Ba Commune, never imagined that his experience defending the northern border against Chinese invaders more than thirty years ago might one day help prevent an explosion at his...
Nearly a half century after the Ho Chi Minh Trail was first put into use during wartime, RENEW teams are still destroying unexploded ordnance found along the route. Today 19 items including aerial bombs, projectiles, rocket warheads and...
RENEW's EOD Team No.1 on Thursday safely removed over 30 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) including 60mm mortars and recoilless projectiles from a pine forest in Phu Hung Village of Hai Phu Commune, Hai Lang District.
RENEW teams on Tuesday removed three 500-pound US-made aerial bombs from Gio Linh District Police headquarters after responding to the emergency call from police officers. Escorted by a police convoy, the teams safely transported the three unexploded bombs to...
Following local people’s directions, CST team members found a U.S. Navy shell submerged in the waters about 10 meters from the shore. The shell may have been fired from one of the U.S. destroyers deployed along the coast...
On Monday morning, members of the Cluster Munitions Remnants Survey Team (CMRS) No.9 uncovered some tubes that contained unexploded cluster munitions while conducting technical operations to map out contaminated land for clearance. The tubes were exposed at the depth...
A total of 16 items of unexploded ordnance were safely destroyed today by an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from Project RENEW in a rice paddy at Co Luy Village in Hai Ba Commune, Quang Tri Province. The...
A cluster bomb explosion in Quang Tri Province has killed one deminer and injured another, both technical staff managed by Project RENEW and Norwegian People's Aid (NPA). The accident occurred on Wednesday, 18 May, in Co Luy Village...
Survey and clearance operations will be implemented until 2020 to identify contaminated land that needs clearance in Quang Tri Province. Meanwhile, it is important that EOD capacity also be sustained as a key part of overall risk management...
Once part of the McNamara Line and a corner of what became known as Leatherneck Square where some of the heaviest fighting of the Vietnam War was fought, Gio Linh District has now been included in RENEW’s humanitarian mine...
Cam Lo, Quang Tri (28 April 2016) – A cluster bomb uncovered by local bricklayers who were building a new house in An Hung Village of Cam Lo Townlet was destroyed in place by an EOD team managed by...
An Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team managed by RENEW today safely removed a white phosphorous naval shell from near a beach widely acclaimed as the “Queen of Beaches” in Quang Tri Province – in adjacent An Hoa Quarter of...
Trung Son, Gio Linh (15 March 2016) – When the waters of the Ben Hai River have gone down after heavy rains, Vo Huu Tuong from Kinh Thi Village has taken the opportunity to spend a couple of...
Quang Tri Town, Quang Tri Province (2 March 2016): A group of bricklayers halted their work on Monday when they unearthed wartime ordnance while digging a foundation for a new house in Ward 2 of Quang Tri Town.
Hai Lang, Quang Tri (23 Feb 2016) – A container of unexploded munitions was discovered Thursday by local fishermen in My Thuy Village as they were casting their nets offshore at what used to be known as “the...
Cam Lo, Quang Tri (16 Feb 2016) – RENEW’s EOD Team No.3 today safely removed a 105mm projectile in Cam Lo District after a village woman spotted the dangerous explosive while tending cows, and reported it. Ms. Nguyen Thi...
The 2015 donation from UP is part of the organization’s multiyear commitment to RENEW to provide cattle for ethnic minorities affected by UXO in Quang Tri Province. In 2013, seven UP members stayed in Dong Ha working on a...
Another beneficiary of the P&O Program, Nguyen Thuc Sinh, also fitted for a new prosthetic limb, was born in 1959. Like Hai, Sinh had the misfortune of detonating a landmine while reclaiming land for farming. In...
Hai Lang District, Quang Tri Province – 30 October 2015 The O Lau River flows through Hai Lang District in Quang Tri Province. Along its banks is historic Luong Dien Village, one of the oldest villages in the province....
Hai Lang, Trieu Phong Districts, Quang Tri (22 October 2015) On Tuesday local Quang Tri residents made two urgent phone calls to Project RENEW’s hotline to report their discovery of wartime ordnance, and to ask for assistance. 35-year-old Hoang...
Eight months ago Ms. Nguyen Thi Dieu Linh was promoted to Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Operations Manager at Project RENEW in Quang Tri Province. The 32-year-old is the first woman to be selected for this position in...
Trieu Phong, Quang Tri Province, 10 September 2015 – On the road that leads to Ai Tu Village of Trieu Ai Commune, a man is hurrying home on his three-wheel bike. He has finished tending his cows, and now...
23-year-old Tran Van Du was digging holes to prepare for planting acacia seedlings when his hoe hit an unidentified item of ordnance that detonated, shredding the blade of his hoe and causing a two-centimeter cut to his left leg...
Cam Lo, Quang Tri (18 August 2015): On Monday this week, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, His Excellency Mr. Ted Osius and staff from the Embassy in Hanoi visited Project RENEW’s Cluster Munitions Remnants Survey (CMRS) operations in Quang Tri...
Forty-three years passed, and the thought that the big bomb might detonate as the time went on still weighed heavily on Vu’s mind. Several metal collectors had even asked him to show them the bomb’s location so that they...
This recently introduced RENEW/NPA approach to systematically cleaning up unexploded ordnance is starting to show positive results. The NTS teams conduct desk studies and village meeting and collect valuable information from local residents that lead to exact sites...
This video, originally appeared on the Vietnam Televison (VTV4) on 18 July 2015, features the first deployment of Explosive Detection Dogs (EDD) in Quang Tri Province to support unexploded ordnance clearance. With support from Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) and...
RENEW’s EOD Team No.1 on Monday responded to a UXO callout from a bridge construction group in Luong Dien Village of Hai Son Commune. Builders who were digging the pier foundation for expanding the My Chanh Bridge on Route...
RENEW's 180 national employees, including newly recruited ones, attended an annual staff orientation meeting held in coordination with Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) Vietnam.
An explosion of wartime ordnance on Tuesday afternoon killed a 42-year-old farmer and father of three young children in Trung Son Commune of Gio Linh District, Quang Tri Province. The exact circumstances of the tragedy are unknown. As breadwinner...
A Project RENEW EOD team today safely removed an unexploded U.S. aerial bomb from a new resettlement zone under construction in Ta Rut Commune of Dakrong District, Quang Tri Province. The bomb was discovered at a depth of about...
An inception workshop that was held today at the office of Vinh Linh District People’s Committee marked the official expansion of Project RENEW / Norwegian People’s Aid's (NPA) mine action operations into the district that is located on the...
Cam Lo, Quang Tri (26 May 2015) In response to a report from MAG (Mines Advisory Group)’s Community Liaison Team, a RENEW’s EOD Quick Response Team on Monday safely destroyed 11 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a plantation...
This project demonstrates a new approach to survey and clearance in Vietnam. It is built on strong relationships with local authorities and places an emphasis on the critical role of information management. Combined with strong collaboration between operators, these...
58-year-old Phung Dinh Hao suddendly encountered a deadly cluster bomb while he was clearing weeds to prepapre for a new peanut crop on Tuesday.
A short video by Peter Jaeggi from Swiss Public Radio depicting a Project RENEW's Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team at work, providing quick response to UXO discoveries reported by villagers of Cam Phu near the former U.S. Marine Corps...
A UXO discovery reported by an ethnic Van Kieu hunter on Wednesday resulted in eight artillery shells being safely removed from a hill half a kilometer from Route 9 – a major east-west artery today, and part of the...
The signing of a three-year agreement on Monday between the Quang Tri Province People’s Committee (PPC) and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), in a ceremony in Dong Ha, will officially expand Project RENEW’s survey and clearance of cluster bombs and...
In the first week of the New Year 2015, 160 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) were safely removed by RENEW’s mobile Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams from people’s gardens, rice fields, plantations and roadsides in two districts of Quang...
In July 1968 the battle at Khe Sanh in western Quang Tri Province came to a quiet close when the fighting stopped, the guns fell silent, and the large toll of casualties among American, North Vietnamese, and South Vietnamese...
The following video was broadcast on the Vietnam Television’s Good Deeds show in July 2017. In this video, the VTV crew shadowed NPA-RENEW female operators in their search of unexploded cluster bombs and other explosive remnants of war (ERW). The...