A group of women risk life and limb to clear Laos of cluster bombs and make their country safe for future generations.
Last updated: 12 Sep 2014 09:36Phou Vong cautiously picks her way through the undergrowth, scanning the ground with a metal detector. The 46-year-old mother remembers the first time she found a "bombie".
"I was excited as well as frightened. I hesitated a bit but I thought I should be glad to see it, because in a sense I was helping my people," says Phou Vong, a de-miner working for the Mines Advisory Group in Laos. The "bombies" she searches for, alongside other local women in the Lao province of Xieng Khouang, are the cluster bombs dropped by US pilots during the Vietnam War. The US dropped 260 million cluster bombs on Laos,