Click on the image below to access our November newsletter.  Learn about the contributions of four brave women to our UXO clearance team.  Read about the on going struggle to get food giant Nestle to stop marketing coffee creamer in a way that causes it to be confused with infant formula.  And…find easy access to new videos that show our team at work destroying cluster munitions that threaten the lives of innocent civilians.  That, and much, much more.

January 2011: Back to Phongsali Province!

In January we’ll again take a nine- person team into Phongsali Province, and will offer villagers “Response Team” services to rid villages and surrounding countryside of old ordnance.

Last year, our team focused our efforts on Ban Sop Houn: a village of 500 people, 96 houses, and 58 bomb craters. During our stay in that village, we removed 105 pieces of deadly ordnance ranging in size from a hand grenade to a 750-pound bomb.

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PROJECT PHONGSALI 2010
For the past three months, WHWV has labored in
Phongsali Province, Laos, helping villagers rid their fields
and gardens of unexploded ordnance left over from the
Indochina War. Thanks to the generosity of our
supporters, we were able to improve the lives of hundreds
of villagers. We probably saved some lives, as well.

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Last spring as the rainy season began in northern Laos, we left Phongsali Province but promised villagers that we would return during the dry season to help them clear their land of bombs and other old ordnance left from the Vietnam War.

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