Upon discovering the need for preventative health care information for its citizens, government health officials in DaNang City approached Vets With a Mission and asked them to help establish a comprehensive health education program in the public school system. The project aims to reach every family in the province with potentially lifesaving health care information. The project will be implemented and monitored by Vets With a Mission, a nonprofit humanitarian organization founded by Vietnam Veterans to bring reconciliation and healing to the wounds that remain both in Vietnam and the United States. Vets With a Mission has a proven eleven year track record of humanitarian programs in Vietnam. The organization has completed more than 20 successful projects, two of which have been recognized by the Vietnamese government as model facilities.
All projects are subject to a thorough monitoring and follow-up process.
The effects of the Vietnam war are still felt in both countries. While Americans are plagued with bitter memories from the conflict, the effect on Vietnam is much more tangibly devastating. The people of Vietnam continue to suffer greatly from poverty, a devastated infrastructure, and inadequate medical and dental care. Today a lack of knowledge about important health matters such as pre-natal care, immunization, sanitation, nutrition, family planning and a shortage of acceptable health facilities allow a high incidence of preventable diseases. Each year these illnesses needlessly claim or degrade the lives of thousands of Vietnamese children and adults.