Social Assistance Program For Vietnam

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Social Assistance Program For Vietnam (SAP-VN) - a non-profit humanitarian organization. It declares its objective in providing direct relief to needy and poor people, orphans and handicapped children, mainly in health care, education and social welfare of Vietnam.[1] Founded in 1992 and based in Garden Grove, California, USA.[2] The institution is headed and run mainly by the US citizens of Vietnamese origin.

At present (as of 2007) the organization implements humanitarian projects in the following spheres: orthopedic surgery, cataract surgery, cleft-palate/lip surgery, wheelchair, free healthcare, education, disaster relief.

SAP-VN publishes quarterly newsletter Green Cross. It spent about 200 thousand USD in 2006 on all the projects.

On its web-site the directory of non-governmental organization in Vietnam is created.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Vietnam Women's Forum
  2. ^ Vietnam Net, in Vietnamese
  3. ^ SAP-VN Bookmarks

[edit] External links

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