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We have compiled a selection of links for your review. The information contained on these pages should help you in your goal of learning more about the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese people, and those responsible for helping rescue orphans during wartime.
Learn more about the war and why the Americans pulled out.
Remembering the Vietnam War CD
http://www.fallofsaigon.org/
They Played “White Christmas” As Helicopters Flew and Saigon Fell
Time Asia: Of Ladders and Letters
Learn more about the Amerasian Homecoming Act and peoples’ flight from Vietnam:
The Refugee Resettlement Section (RRS) of the U.S. Consulate General
Australia Visa: Vietnamese Refugee Resettlement
UCI Southeast Asian Archive: Resettlement
Vietnamese Health: Vietnamese
It says that 23% of adoptees see themselves as Caucasian indicating the culture they grew up in.
http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/proed/vietprelim.html
This is a good site for current flight specials to Asia. It’s also great for hotel recommendations and culture information.
http://www.vietnamadventures.com/language_culture/conversation.html
This link provides a list of all the resettlement offices in North America:
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR): Annual Report to Congress
Learn more about Betty Tisdale, founder of Helping and Loving Orphans (HALO)-an organization dedicated to bettering the lives of orphans and at-risk children around the world. She was instrumental in rescuing numerous Vietnamese orphans in the late 1970s.
Helping and Loving Orphans: Betty Tisdale
Betty Tisdale: The Paradox of Faith
Inspiration Point: A Wonderful Group of Soldiers
http://www.nma1.org/chapters/533/leaders/11-00_leader.pdf
Two Reunions: Betty Tisdale
Amerasian Registry
The
Amerasian Registry
was created to help assist Amerasians, their Fathers, and/or Family Members search for each other around the World. The Amerasian Registry intends to be the main central database for all Amerasians and their Fathers in the future. The Registry will be available to all of those interested including organizations that assist Amerasians.
Amerasian Child Find
Their web site
http://www.amerasian-childfind.org
states: "We dedicated to assisting Amerasians and their Father’s reunite. Our services are free to principals searching for lost family. We are not aligned with any group, governmental agency or cause. Our Only function is the reunification of families.Our primary focus is Vietnamese Amerasians, however, we will assist any child fathered by a member of the United States Armed Services, or a person working for the U.S. Government outside of the United States."
Amerasian Child Find Network, Inc
www.amerasian-childfind.org
(Main Contact: Clint Haines).
Sancta Maria Orphanage
Any Adoptees who believe's or know they are from Sancta Maria Orphanage
in Binh Thanh District Saigon, please e-mail (Reunion Organiser and
Info........) Peter Hill at;
Reunion Organiser
sancta_maria_orphanage@yahoo.com.au
and visit Website at;
http://www.flickr.com/photos
/peter_and_trinh/sets/
where you'll find Photos of The Orphanage and of the 1st Sancta Maria
Orphanage Adoptee Reunion in Feb 2005.
2nd Reunion coming SOON.................
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