Vietnam Reporting Project

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Hamlin Wade, a junior political science major at Wake Forest University. Hamlin attended a panel discussion to learn about Vietnam and Agent Orange. This opinion piece also appears in the Wake Forest University student newspaper. The Vietnam War is a sore spot in the memories of […]

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Olivia Collins Boyce, a student in Anthropology and Social Entrepreneurship Studies at Wake Forest University. Olivia volunteers with Children of Vietnam and will be leading a COV volunteer service project this summer. Olivia can be reached at oliviacboyce@gmail.com. On the evening of February 17, 2011 – […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Most Americans don’t know Nick by name, but if you lived through the Vietnam War, you know why he matters. On June 8, 1972, he stood in the middle of Route 1 in South Vietnam and aimed his camera at 9-year-old Kim Phuc as she ran toward him, naked and screaming. A napalm bomb had dropped near her home in Trang Bang village.

On Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, the Cleveland Plain Dealer published a major six-part special report by columnist Connie Schultz on the lingering effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam.