Social Assistance Program For Vietnam
- Social Assistance Program For Vietnam
"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. [ [http://www.geocities.com/vnwomensforum/nonprofithumprojects.html Vietnam Women's Forum] ] Founded in 1992 and based in Garden Grove, California, USA. [ [http://nguoivienxu.vietnamnet.vn/vongtaynhanai/2006/10/627936/ Vietnam Net, in Vietnamese] ] 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. [ [http://sap-vn.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_bookmarks&Itemid=70 SAP-VN Bookmarks] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.sap-vn.org/joomla/ SAP-VN Home Page]
This article is related to the List of non-governmental organizations in Vietnam.
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