Fifteen Battle Area Clearance (BAC) searchers of Project RENEW have been awarded certificates recognizing the training and technical proficiency they have achieved during the past two years in removing unexploded ordnance (UXO) from contaminated areas of the province. Chris Matute,...
More than 200 young people on motorbikes, red flags flying, paraded behind a jeep mounted with loudspeakers along main roads of Cam Lo District last week to reinforce the message of safety and injury prevention from bombs, mines, and...
A dredging operation at the Ben Hai River, site of the former DMZ during wartime, resulted in serious injuries to a Quang Tri man when a piece of ordnance exploded in a pump mechanism he was using to suck...
An unexploded and partially intact assembly of cluster munitions, packed in a configuration of tube-type pods dropped from an American aircraft more than three decades ago, has been unearthed in Quang Tri Province near the DMZ.
A 42-year-old married man, the father of two children, has suffered major injuries from a piece of explosive ordnance which detonated as the man was attempting to cut it apart and sell it for scrap metal.
On the morning of 18 Feb 2009, Project RENEW in coordination with Quang Tri Department of Foreign Affairs and Trieu Phong District People’s Committee successfully hosted the ground breaking ceremony of Tuong Van Elementary School in Trieu An commune,...
Located in a close proximity to the Demilitarized Zone, Quang Tri was the most heavily bombed and shelled area of Vietnam during the war. More than 30 years after the war ended, although there have been clearance efforts by...
In June 2008, Project RENEW received an announcement from Tromsoe Mine Victim Resource Center (TMC) that one Norwegian donated a new motorbike for Mrs. Huong, a village health worker in Cam Chinh Commune, Cam Lo District through TMC. After...
American students from the George High School in Newtown, Pennsylvania, joined students of Le Loi High School in Dong Ha town, Quang Tri Province, central Vietnam and took part in some cultural exchanges and events – highlighted by a...