Two petite women in protective gear walk slowly down an empty field in Vietnam, carrying a large metal detector that clicks and whirrs, searching for unexploded ordnance.
Landmine ladies: Members of the all-female landmine clearance team searching for unexploded ordnances on a field in Quang Tri province. — Reuters
Medic and safety officer Nguyen Thi Ha Lan supervises her teammates, the “landmine girls” as they are known, preparing to detonate a cluster bomb left behind from the war with the United States that ended in 1975. It is one of many underneath the soil in Quang Tri province, north-central Vietnam. Lan is part of an all-woman explosive disposal team working under project Renew – to help rehabilitate more than 60,000ha of agricultural land.
She has spent most of her life in a wheelchair, but still raised two children. Lan’s younger brother works as a deminer in another Renew team.
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