The Prudential Insurance Group of the United Kingdom recently pledged 10 million U.S. dollars to support charity work in Vietnam. Thirty percent of this funding will be dedicated to helping disabled people still affected by Agent Orange. As you may recall, in June 2010, the US-Vietnam Dialogue Group outlined a Plan of Action calling on […]
Give a Heart: Shop at the SPIRAL Foundation
Valentines Day is over and while the chocolate and candy may be be gone, there’s still plenty of time to give a heart to a disabled child in Vietnam. The Spiral Foundation, a nongovernmental humanitarian organization that raises funds to support the sick and disabled in Vietnam, together with Make Agent Orange History announce a […]
February Events
February is an active month for Make Agent Orange History. We have four exiting events coming up across the United States. If you live in North Carolina, the San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle, please consider attending one of the following: February 16th and 17th: Agent Orange: A Humanitarian Concern We Can Do Something About […]
Life is Beautiful Campaign Gives the Disabled a Happy Tet
1,750 disabled people in Vietnam received a little something extra to celebrate Tết. The Life is Beautiful campaign – an international humanitarian effort to raise funds for the disabled in Vietnam – arranged for a small gift to be given to people in 21 provinces. The gifts were funded by donors in the Ukraine and […]
Celebrate Tet
Chúc Mừng Năm Mới! (Happy New Year) Today is Tết – the Vietnamese New Year. It is a three-day celebration associated with luck and new beginnings – a time to pay debts, mend broken relationships and renew friendships. Given the progress that has been made over the last year to clean up Agent Orange in […]
Kashi wins UNICEF Photo of the Year Contest for AO image
Vietnam Reporting Project fellow Ed Kashi has won first prize in a UNICEF Photo of the Year Contest for his portrait of a young girl from Danang, who is affected by Agent Orange.