Help Vietnamese Children With Disabilities

The Dream Bridge Project helps to provide care and opportunity for Vietnamese youth suffering from birth defects. Vietnam has a rate of birth defects that is five times greater than that of other Asian nations, almost entirely due to the saturation of the country with the toxic defoliant Agent Orange between 1966 and 1971, during the Vietnam War. In over 3 decades since the end of the war, Vietnam has seen a surge of spina bifida, blindness, deformities, and other physical birth defects, in families whose parents (or grandparents) were exposed to Agent Orange.

Vietnamese youth afflicted by Agent Orange: This child joins 40 others with birth defects at the Cu-Chi Center for Disabled Youth.

Through our work, Americans and Japanese provide grassroots support for a sustainable community center, music restaurant and massage therapy clinic where affected older youth can live and work, and where any surplus profit can go toward medical care for the youngest children suffering from the aftermath of Agent Orange.