ベトナムの不発弾処理NGOであるPROJECT RENEWより、次のような電子メールが入っておりましたので、皆様と共有いたします。
Dear Masaru Yamamoto,
With this second quarterly newsletter, we’re pleased to update you about the continuing successes of Project RENEW in helping to keep the people of Quang Tri Province safe from unexploded ordnance. The danger of unexploded ordnance contamination around the former DMZ area still exists. But the threat is being reduced.
In the past 12 months, there have been five accidents compared to seven during the same period in 2010 and 2011, and far less than the 29 accidents in 2001 when Project RENEW began operations.
Thank you for all of your support and contributions to making this effort a reality.
Project RENEW
Vietnam
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So far twice as many UXO – 1,880 items – found and safely destroyed this yearIt was a typical Tuesday morning in early June. Project RENEW’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team started their work at 7:00 am to try and beat Quang Tri’s summer heat. The mission today was to remove three items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) that had been reported by local residents in Ai Tu Commune, Trieu Phong District.
Identification and removal of dangerous ordnance is also a family and a community responsibility On a summer day in early July 2012, 13-year-old Le Phuoc Hai from Ta Kien Village, Trieu Giang Commune of Trieu Phong District spotted UXO while playing with his friends in his family’s garden. He marked the site, ran to RENEW’s Community Support Team (CST) who were conducting their daily survey in the same village. Fifteen minutes later, in response to the information passed on by CST, RENEW’s EOD team arrived at the scene and safely removed 23 items of UXO buried under rotten leaves just 15 meters from Hai’s house.
Micro-credit loans continue to be a durable way for UXO survivor women and their families to climb out of povertyMs Hoang Thi Thuy was content living a simple life with her husband and four children until October 2010 when a mortar stole away much that she loved. Two years later
that day still haunts her. While routinely clearing weeds from around their acacia trees, Thuy’s husband hit a UXO. Thuy was working some distance away, and she was injured, but not seriously, by mortar fragments that penetrated her forehead and nose. Not as lucky, her husband was severely injured, and
in the hospital five hours later, he died.
Top international donors visit Mine Action Visitor Center, discuss UXO problem at the Consultative Group meeting for the first time. More than 100 delegates from the United Nations, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, foreign embassies and Vietnamese ministries and central government agencies visited the Mine Action Visitor Center on June 4th as part of the Mid-Year Consultative Group (CG) Meeting for Vietnam. This annual international conference, from June 4th to 6th, was held this year for the first time in Quang Tri Province.
Toronto intern turns to RENEWAbigail Miller, a young professional selected by Mine Action Canada (MAC) for a summer internship, chose Project RENEW as her destination. She has been living and working in Dong Ha since March 2012. In this interview, Abigail talks about her experience at Project RENEW with mine action work.
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