Amerasian Network
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Amerasian Network - non-profit organization
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 supporting Amerasians through education, health and culture both in Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

 and USA. Founded by California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 schoolteacher Mary Payne Nguyen (also called "a one-woman international relief agency"), who works at present (2007) the resident director of the network in Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...

.

Amerasian Network provides proper healthcare and education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 for disadvantaged children, helps in rebuilding elementary schools in low income parts of Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, operates a program for Amerasians who wish to emigrate to the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, including help with documentation and paperwork and advocacy in the Orderly Departure Program
Orderly Departure Program
The Orderly Departure Program ' was a program to permit immigration of Vietnamese refugees to the United States of America, instituted in 1979 under the auspices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...

, raises funds to construct a Vocational Training Center.

Main declared fields of the Organization activities are: Education, Health, Orphans, and Amerasian Migration and Culture.
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