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A Youth Union official, member of RENEW’s community reporting network, provides safety guidance to schoolchildren during a risk education session. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

On Wednesday, 23 June 2021, 38-year-old farmer Phan Van That called the Quang Tri provincial hotline and reported that he had unearthed a wartime munition while constructing a fish pond on his land in Trung Ngan Village of Trung Nam Commune, Vinh Linh District, Quang Tri Province. A quick response team managed by RENEW / Norwegian People’s Aid identified the item as a “bombie” – the local term for a cluster submunition. The item was only ten metres away from local residences. So the team had to evacuate That and his neighbours to a safe distance, and then they destroyed the item in place. Mr. That told the team it was all thanks to his daughter, Phan Ha Giang, who had learned about the provincial hotline number during a risk education session at her school. She was able to teach her father how to report the explosive ordnance for timely and safe removal.

The explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) quick response to the emergency callout by the father of two in Vinh Linh is the 297th follow-up conducted by RENEW/NPA teams under funding of the United States Government in response to discoveries of bombs and mines that Quang Tri residents have reported via the hotline during the past six months.

According to statistics from the Quang Tri Mine Action Center (QTMAC), teams from RENEW / NPA, Mines Advisory Group (MAG), and PeaceTrees Vietnam (PTVN) in 2017- 2021 conducted a total of 5,908 EOD tasks in response to sightings of explosive ordnance called in by Quang Tri residents via the explosive ordnance hotline.

83-year-old Trần Canh’s family has lived in Tan Phuoc village of Hai Lam commune, Hai Lang district, Quang Tri Province for ten years. Like many of the 200 families currently residing in the village, Mr. Canh’s family moved here from a flood-prone area following a local resettlement scheme.

Since their resettlement, the families have tried to make their living by planting acacia and tending cattle. Many families have encountered unexploded cluster munitions and other explosive ordnance while doing so – however, because of economic pressure, they defy the risk and continue farming their land.

Last Tuesday, Mr. Canh was pleased to invite members of a RENEW/NPA technical survey team to sit in his house veranda to shelter from the rain during their lunch break.

Battle Area Clearance (BAC) teams managed by Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid (RENEW/NPA) today found and unearthed a cache of unexploded ordnance while clearing a contaminated area in Thái Lai Village of Vinh Thai Commune.

The cache was found just beneath the surface of a dirt road that runs through the clearance site where the BAC teams have been working since Monday. Hundreds of local people and vehicles travel back and forth on the road every day. Fortunately, bad things haven’t happened.

15 June 2020 marked an important milestone when RENEW/NPA conducted BAC operations for the first time on the northern side of the former Demilitarized Zone in Quang Tri Province. Following the team’s restructuring and clearance training in May, six newly established BAC teams were deployed to clear a large Confirmed Hazardous Area (CHA) near the coastline in Thai Lai Village.

An update of the situation over the past four months related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the key results of Project RENEW’s humanitarian work in Quang Tri Province in 2019.

This report is intended to provide an update of the situation over the past four months related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the key results of Project RENEW’s humanitarian work in Quang Tri Province in 2019.

Vietnam’s first known case of COVID-19 was reported on 23 January 2020. In the subsequent weeks after the Lunar New Year holidays, the country experienced an unprecedented disruption.

In response to the Quang Tri Province authorities’ guidelines to help diminish the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak, in February and March, Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) applied health and safety restrictions to our Explosive Ordnance Survey and Clearance teams. Survey and clearance operators were required to keep a distance from each other while working in the fields, wear face masks and practice hygienic etiquette. The other two components, Victim Assistance/Disability Support and Mine Risk Education, were partly suspended because schools were closed and large gatherings were not allowed.

In response to an emergency call from local authorities of Gio Viet Commune, Gio Linh District, Quang Tri Province, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team of Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid (RENEW-NPA) on Monday safely removed a 750-pound bomb from a forest area of Hoang Ha Village.

According to Gio Viet military officer Hoang Van Don, who made the call, the bomb was discovered by the commune chairman and a land administration officer while they were measuring land for handover to a development project last Friday. Nobody knew why the bomb was there, but local villagers said that strangers had appeared in the village about 10 days ago. The bomb had been partly dismantled from the bottom of the cylinder and some explosives were scattered around.

46-year-old Tran Su, who owns the land where the bomb was found, said he was shocked when he was informed of the situation. He expressed his appreciation to the RENEW-NPA team for their action to remove the bomb right away, noting that children tending water buffalo might encounter it and the result could be a tragic accident.

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