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Contacts:
Susan Hammond
Director
144 Lower Bartonsville Rd
Chester, VT 05143
Tel: 917-991-4850 Fax:
917-591-2207
email:
shammond@warlegacies.org
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The War Legacies Project is a new autonomous
initiative of the Fund for
Reconciliation and Development, a not-for-profit
organization based in New York that for the past 22 years
been advocating for the normalization of relations
with Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
WLP builds upon the work of FRD to
encourage humanitarian assistance to address the aftermath
of the war in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
By focusing on the long-term
environmental, health, and socio-economic impacts of war,
WLP seeks to: develop a fuller accounting of the
costs of war, increase public understanding of these costs,
encourage policy makers to weigh these costs carefully in
any decision to go to war, and connect people suffering the
effects of war with people who can mitigate that suffering.
At the moment our main focus of
work is addressing the long term health and environmental
consequences of the use of Agent
Orange and other herbicides during the Vietnam war. Much
of our work focuses on the impacts of these herbicides in
Vietnam. However, we also address their impacts on US
veterans and veterans of the other ally forces and on
communities where the herbicides were manufactured, stored
and tested.
WLP also collaborates with the
Legacies of War
and other organizations working to raise awareness and
encourage more humanitarian assistance for the on-going
impacts of cluster munitions and other explosive remnants
of the war.
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