Following a UK fundraising appeal in 2022, MAG has successfully completed a year-long project in Laos, as a direct result of donations received through the campaign.
The ‘Unlock the Land’ appeal raised close to £450,000, including £211,336 of matched funding from the UK government. The project, running from April 2023 to March 2024, focused on searching for and clearing unexploded bombs from the village of Vangkhom, in southern Khammouane Province, a community hit by over 6,000 bombing missions during the Vietnam War.
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Source: Reliefweb
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