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Agent Orange in Vietnam Program

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A Request for Commitment: Expanding Hope Through the Da Nang Public-Private Partnership

New York, NY, September 2011 –– The Aspen Institute has established the Agent Orange in Vietnam Fund to gather and deploy resources from public and private donors to address the disability issues that remain as a legacy of the war in Vietnam .

We hereby request your participation in the Da Nang Public-Private Partnership, one of the Fund’s first projects. It will bring training, education and rehabilitation services to 235 Vietnamese children and young people living with disabilities in the Cam Le area of Da Nang, half of those in need there, and will serve as a model for other areas.  The Clinton Global Initiative at its September 2011 meeting recognized these plans as an official “CGI Commitment.” Donors to the Public Private Initiative in Da Nang can display the CGI Seal of Commitment to mark their contribution and showcase their leadership in addressing a humanitarian concern in Vietnam.

**Read more about the Public Private Partnership in Da Nang**

 

 

Hanoi, Vietnam & Washington, DC, July 26, 2011 –– The U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin has been reviewing the progress made in the 12 months since the release of its Declaration & Plan of Action in June 2010. The Dialogue Group's findings and conclusions are contained in the First Year Report. The report features updates on the sources and uses of funds for efforts by governments and nonprofit organizations to address dioxin clean-up and to provide health services in nearby areas. The report details the beginnings of convergence on cleaning up the three worst dioxin “hotspots” along with collaboration on programs offering health, job training and other public and reproductive health and services for people with disabilities living near those hotspots, regardless of the cause of those disabilities.

Read the First Year Report in English or Vietnamese. Read the 2010 Declaration & Plan of Action

The group's June 2010 Declaration and Plan of Action calls for a humanitarian effort to clean contaminated soils in Vietnam, restore damaged ecosystems and expand services to people with disabilities linked to dioxin, and to people with other forms of disability, and to their families. The plan calls for an investment of $30 million per year from many sources over a period of ten years.

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Past Events:

On May 2nd, 2011, the Aspen Institute welcomed Charles Bailey as the new Director of the Agent Orange in Vietnam Program. To mark the occasion, the Aspen Institute held a small reception and roundtable discussion. The conversation covered the recent progress made on this urgent issue both in the United States and Vietnam. Video and photographs from the event can be found here.