Local Hunter Reports Unexploded Shells While Hunting Bamboo Rats
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...
Bomb Removal Will Speed Up As Quang Tri Government And NPA Expand Renew’s Survey And Clearance Efforts Province-Wide
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...
Quang Tri Residents Called 24 Times Last Week To Report UXO Discoveries
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...
Unique Venture Tourism Brings Awareness Of Unexploded Ordnance
In Quang Tri, the most unexploded ordnance-impacted province of the country, there is a tour for visitors to get close to these deadly weapons. Not everybody knows about this new and exotic kind of tourism. Project RENEW, with the...
New Shoes And UXO Safety Messages Keep Hill-Tribe Children Healthy And Safe
Hundreds of primary students in Huong Linh Commune, one of the poorest communes of the mountainous district of Huong Hoa, were provided with brand new canvas TOMS shoes from Project RENEW and its partner, the Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI)....
Acclaimed folk singer Van Khanh performed for disadvantaged children and disabled people on International Day of People with Disabilities
Elite artist, Vietnamese folk singer Van Khanh performed for hundreds of disadvantaged children and people with disabilities in an exchange program of which she was the special guest held today at the Mine Action Visitor Center in Quang Tri...
Mine Action ALERT: 17-Year-Old Boy In Critical Condition After Ordnance Explosion
An ordnance explosion last Friday morning critically injured a 17-year-old boy, Tran Van Hoan, in Hoan Cat Village, Cam Nghia Commune of Cam Lo District.
Artillery Shell Safely Removed From Kindergarten Grounds
One of Project RENEW’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams yesterday took action to safely remove a piece of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from a kindergarten attended by 150 toddlers in Cam Lo Ha Village of Cam Thanh Commune. RENEW’s quick...
Mine Action ALERT: Srap Yard Explosion Injures Five
Five adults were seriously injured when a piece of wartime ordnance accidentally exploded at 10 o’clock on Saturday morning at a scrap yard in Village 9, Trieu Van Commune. The explosion occurred as workers were loading scrap materials onto...
Vietnam vet Chuck Searcy works to clean up U.S. bomb legacy in Vietnam
Chuck Searcy might one day return to Athens to stay. But as he nears 70, Searcy says he still has unfinished business after 19 years in Vietnam...