Vietnamese army veteran fought against the U.S., now works with Americans and international advisors to clean up debris of war
55-year-old Bùi Trọng Hồng retired in 2002 after 30 years in the People’s Army of Vietnam, Quân đội Nhân dân Việt Nam. He has worked as National Technical Officer for Project RENEW’s EOD teams since 2008. In this...

Project RENEW 10th Anniversary – A decade of making Quang Tri safe
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...

Journal of ERW and Mine Action features the Study of ERW Accidents in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
A study of explosive remnants of war (ERW) accidents in Quang Tri, Vietnam by Phung Tran Kim, M.D., Ph.D. and Nam Hoang was featured in the Journal...

Landmines removed from school playground, ending risk for 310 students
It was the third visit that the RENEW clearance team had made to the Ho Chon Nhon School, where 310 primary students were studying. But this time the team would stay longer, determined to continue working until the school...

Residents call RENEW team twice in one day to come remove ordnance
Village residents of Trieu Long Commune in Trieu Phong District made two separate calls within hours of each other to ask Project RENEW’s EOD Quick Response team to come remove explosive ordnance they had discovered in close proximity.

Project RENEW hands over a site cleared of unexploded ordnance to build a vocational college
A 60,000-square-meter site free of unexploded ordnance was handed over today by Project RENEW and its technical partner - the Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) to the land owner for a vocational college to be built in Dong Luong Ward,...

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.
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