What is the Dream Bridge Project?

The Dream Bridge Project is a community center, music restaurant, and massage therapy center, run with the help and for the benefit of disabled Vietnamese youth, in Cu-Chi district, Vietnam. It is sustainable, both economically and environmentally, through the contributions of participants and supporters, and the income derived from the center's activities.

It is a pioneering example of sustainable international development and international grassroots cooperation, initiated by the Japanese non-profit organization Dream of the Earth, joined in the USA by the Washington Peace Center through the DC Hiroshima-Nagasaki Committee, and operated by the YMCA of Vietnam.

And we are an opportunity for Americans to recognize and help remedy—at a practical and personal level— the ongoing consequences of our government’s military aggression in Vietnam, still manifest 3 and 4 generations later in the exceptionally high rate of birth defects in Vietnam, many linked to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange.

In this respect, the Dream Bridge Project mission aligns with the ongoing work of the DC Hiroshima- Nagasaki Peace Committee, which commemorates annually the massive destruction and enduring consequences of the atomic bombings of Japan in early August of 1945, at the end of World War II. The common goal is to help Americans consider the results of our nuclear and chemical weapon attacks on foreign peoples. Future work of the project hopes to extend the Dream Bridge into Iraq where, today, US military forces are using radioactive (Depleted Uranium) weapons that will, again, have cascading consequences after active hostilities have ceased, still wreaking US sponsored misery on innocent populations long into the unknown future.