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 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR. One of two medics for UCT6, Kinally Vangvilaychit waits by the truck used for transporting the team to site in case she is needed. MAG has a 100% safety record therefore most of her work is dealing with minor ailments and injuries.

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Image Size: 4000x3000 / 2.1MB; Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Laos Lao PDR Xieng Khouang Mines Advisory Group MAG Xieng Khouang Ban Namoune Namoune humanitarian agency charity NGO non-government organisation UXO unexploded ordnance Vietnam War Vietnam war conflict Tessa Bunney portrait medic woman work working job uniform development minor ailments ailment injury injuries female employee employed
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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 6 (UCT6) is an all-female team, one of MAG’s seven UXO clearance teams in Xieng Khouang Province, one of the most heavily bombed provinces in Lao PDR. One of two medics for UCT6, Kinally Vangvilaychit waits by the truck used for transporting the team to site in case she is needed. MAG has a 100% safety record therefore most of her work is dealing with minor ailments and injuries.