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Project raises 100,000 USD for mine clearing activities in Vietnam

An event held by the “Restoring the Environment and Neutralising the Effects of the War” (RENEW) project in Washington D.C. on September 22 completed its target of raising 100,000 USD for mine clearing activities in Vietnam's central province of Quang Ngai.
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Washington DC (VNA) – An event held by the“Restoring the Environment and Neutralising the Effects of the War” (RENEW)project in Washington D.C. on September 22 completed itstarget of raising 100,000 USD for mine clearing activities in Vietnam's central province of Quang Ngai.

The event, taking place in both virtual and face-to-faceforms, saw the participation of US officials and people, most of them Vietnam War veterans.

In his speech, Chuck Searcy, co-founder of the project, saidthe fund raised will help expand demining activities to Quang Ngai, where thereare many unexploded ordnances threatening the safety of the people.

Launched in 2001, RENEW aims to help the central Vietnamese provinceof Quang Tri, one of the fiercest battlefields during the war due to its geographic location, settlepost-war bomb and landmine impacts.

In 2001, Quang Tri recorded 80 people dead and injured bywar-left bombs. No bomb-related accidents took place in the province in 2018.

Ngo Xuan Hien, in charge of the project's developmentand communications management, said after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, RENEWwants to resume fund-raising activities in the US to replicate itsoperation in Quang Ngai./.
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