The mission of the Vietnam Friendship Village Project is to cultivate reconciliation and heal the wounds of the Vietnam War by uniting veterans and caring citizens through international cooperation in the building and support of the Village of Friendship, a living symbol of peace.

Vietnam Friendship Village Project USA Inc., PO Box 599, Arcata, CA 95518-0599, USA
Contact us by email: info@vietnamfriendship.org

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WEBSITES OF OTHER NATIONAL COMMITTEES
FOR THE VIETNAM FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE

Germany: Dorf der Freundschaft in Vietnam

Canada: Vietnam Friendship Village Project Canada

Australia: The Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange Trust

SPECIAL FEATURE

View the Friendship Village through the eyes of photographer Annie O'Neill, whose article Damaged Lives was published in the December 5, 2000 issue of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

INFORMATION ABOUT AGENT ORANGE

The Vietnam Friendship Village is mentioned in "Apocalypse Still," an article about the lingering effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam, written by Robert Dreyfuss and published in the February 2000 issue of Mother Jones.

An article published in the July 29, 2000 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle cites recent studies showing the extensive and long-lasting environmental effects of the defoliant Agent Orange used by US forces during the Vietnam war.

Reporter George Sanchez writes in the June 24, 2002 issue of Mother Jones.com that despite mounting scientific evidence, Washington refuses to accept the deadly legacy of its chemical warfare in Vietnam: A Toxic Burden.

Read the reports and declarations from the Environmental Conference on Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam that took place in Stockholm, July 26-28, 2002.

Shadows of Agent Orange haunting Vietnam by San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Gail Bensinger tells the story of third generation Vietnamese victims affected by Agent Orange, published March 25, 2003.

A recent discovery by Columbia University public health researcher Jeanne Mager Stellman found that the amount of dioxin in herbicides sprayed during the Vietnam war was much higher than the U.S. government's estimates. Reported in April 17, 2003 Nature article by Declan Butler and in Seeing red over Agent Orange by San Francisco Chronicle Science Editor David Perlman, published April 21, 2003.

Spectre Orange by Cathy Scott and Adrian Levy for The Guardian [UK], published March 29, 2003, details the dark history of the use of Agent Orange by the U.S. government during the Vietnam war and its devastating, long-lasting effects.

Agent Orange, The Next Generation, a story about the Vietnamese Agent Orange Victims' Lawsuit by William Glaberson, published in the New York Times on August 3, 2004.

The book, Agent Orange: "Collateral Damage" in Viet Nam, by renowned photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths, is a haunting photographic record of the effects of Agent Orange in Vietnam and Cambodia.

The Vietnam Dioxin Collective includes a number of participating organizations from France and Vietnam who are working to bring awareness to the ongoing problems caused by dioxin in Vietnam.