Twenty-Five Years On, the Work Continues
Twenty-five years after Project RENEW began in Quảng Trị, more than half the province's hazardous land has been cleared. As the anniversary is marked, the work continues.
Twenty-five years after Project RENEW began in Quảng Trị, more than half the province's hazardous land has been cleared. As the anniversary is marked, the work continues.
Project RENEW co-founder Chuck Searcy reflects on more than 30 years with Quảng Trị, and shares his message on peace for the next generation.
The hundredth battle area clearance task begins in Cồn Tiên, on ground once crossed by the McNamara Line. Ninety-nine tasks stand behind it: 24,692 explosive items destroyed and nearly 58 square kilometers of Quảng Trị returned to the families...
Two months after his land was cleared and handed back, Mr. Tâm has replanted rubber, peanut and cassava. A first look at what happens after clearance in Thuỷ Trung.
Two urgent calls, one morning. NPA/RENEW's EOD team safely clears two explosive items in Gio Linh and Cồn Tiên, Quảng Trị.
Sixty students from Cam Lộ and Đông Hà came face to face with two people who grew up on Quảng Trị's red soil and went far: the province's first female pilot and a saxophonist who came home to tell...
In late May, a delegation from the Embassy of Ireland in Viet Nam, led by Ms. Edel Cribbin, came to Quảng Trị to meet the families behind a decade-long partnership. From a stilt house in Khe Sanh to a...
HOI YEN VILLAGE (12 May 2026) – On the morning of 12 May, a five-member delegation from the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (PM/WRA) of the U.S. Department of State, together with the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi, arrived...
Five meters from Vietnam's main North–South railway, just five kilometers north of the old 17th parallel, a U.S. M117 bomb had waited in the soil for over half a century. A phone call from a commune military officer set...
In 1994, a bomb left over from the war took Nang's sight forever. But it could not take his will. With support from RENEW Center — funded by the Government of Ireland — he and his wife Hien built...