Lao PDR - Xieng Khouang Province - The Women of UCT6 unexploded ordnance clearance team

Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 4 (UCT4) is one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR. Sidavan Sipaseuth (36) is the team leader for UCT4 and is the first woman employed by MAG to complete the training for Explosive Ordnance Disposal Level (EOD 4). During stand down Sidavone is cooking vegetables for dinner for her family at home in Muang Kham.

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Laos is the most bombed country, per capita, in the world with more than 270 million cluster bomb submunitions dropped on it during the Vietnam War from 1963 to 1974. The Mines Advisory Group (MAG) are a humanitarian organisation clearing the remnants of conflict worldwide and have been working in Lao PDR since 1994. UXO clearance team 4 (UCT4) is one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR. Sidavan Sipaseuth (36) is the team leader for UCT4 and is the first woman employed by MAG to complete the training for Explosive Ordnance Disposal Level (EOD 4). During stand down Sidavone is cooking vegetables for dinner for her family at home in Muang Kham.