War Legacies Project

What you can do to help

Contact WLP for more information on how to do the following:

Share

• Tell your friends and family about the issue.

• Tell us about organizations we can contact to host a talk or video screening, and introduce us if you can. Places of worship, community groups, environmental groups, groups with an interest in public affairs, schools….

•  Let us know about public events where we might put a poster or a table with information, and let us know if you could staff such a table

Write a letter

•  to your congressman supporting dioxin remediation and health care efforts in Vietnam

• to the chemical companies

• to the people of Vietnam (send it to us—we’ll see that they get it)

• sign up to be notified when there is congressional action to support

Work

• Host a conversation, talk, or video screening in your home, community or religious group, school  (potluck? a bowl of soup? dessert and coffee?). In appropriate situations, make it a goal to help at least one family as a result of that gathering (see possibilities below).

• Help organize a constituent group to meet with your congress people on this issue

• Help organize a group to meet with local businesses doing business in Vietnam

• Find gallery space for an exhibit on Agent Orange and the legacies of war

• Raise funds for a family, or a village, or to support a doctor

Donate

• To War Legacies Project to help us continue our work or through WLP make a tax-deductible contribution to any of the Vietnamese organizations working to help those impacted by Agent Orange in Vietnam including:

• Vietnam Agent Orange Victims Association

• Agent Orange Victims Fund of the Vietnamese Red Cross

• The Chris Jenkins Fund, which supports the work of Dr. Nguyen Viet Nhan (see www.ogcdc.org), and families in a village near Hue

• The Thien Phuoc Charity House in Ho Chi Minh City, run by the Catholic church

• Or visit the website of one of the other American organizations that also have programs and donate to their work that supports

           American Veterans

                  Vietnamese Citizens

Consider

• The possibility of joining a “voluntourism” trip to Vietnam that would engage with Agent Orange victims in conversation and service

• Going on a youth group trip to learn and work in Vietnam