RENEW expands mushroom training to help UXO victim families grow sustainable incomes
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...
Vietnamese cluster bomb survivor participates in Vientiane Cluster Munitions Conference
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 States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions hosted by the Lao PDR government...
Wartime big bomb safely removed from a local house’s garden
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.
Project RENEW national EOD staff certified with IMAS Level 2
Four EOD operators of Project RENEW including three team leaders and one national technical officer of Project RENEW EOD teams have been awarded IMAS Level 2 certificates.
Hundreds of unexploded cluster bombs found near a house foundation in Quang Tri Province
Hundreds of unexploded cluster munitions, known as bombies, are being removed this week by a Project RENEW EOD team from near the foundation of a home in Ba Thung Village, Cam Tuyen Commune of Cam Lo District.
Scrap metal collector seriously injured by explosion
An explosion of wartime ordnance caused major injuries to a local resident of Tan Quang Village in Cam Tuyen Commune last Sunday afternoon. Nguyen Duc Nha, born in 1978, hit an unidentified item of unexploded ordnance while searching for...
Training for scrap metal dealers is hoped to reduce UXO accidents
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...
“Peace Flowers” Exhibition raises fund to help children victims of post-war ordnance
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...
Project RENEW children’s bombs and mines paintings show in an international exhibition
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...
Ethnic minority family faces tragic Tet holiday as cluster bomb explosion kills father of six
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...