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NGOs fund tropical disease, oncology wings at hospital
Original Source DA NANG – Contruction on a new, state-of-the-art building to house Da Nang’s Hospital’s departments of oncology and tropical diseases began on Thursday. Funded by the Bermuda-headquartered NGO Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) and implemented by the East Meets West (EMW) Foundation, the US$3.5 million…
Author: Vietnam News Agency
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Viet Nam Journal: Over 11 Years, Atlantic Grants Help Spur a Country’s Transformation in Health
Several of the staff of the Hue Central Hospital were kind enough to come to work last Sunday morning to give my Atlantic colleagues and me a tour of what has become a world-class facility in the ten years since our Founding Chairman, Chuck Feeney,…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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US NGOs Fund Nearly $1.5Mln for Health Sector in Central Vietnam
Health: US NGOs Fund Nearly $1.5Mln for Health Sector in Central Vietnam Vietnam News Brief Service (c) 2006 Toan Viet Limited Company. All rights reserved. The US non-governmental organizations of East Meets West and Atlantic Philanthropies have recently funded nearly $1.5 million for eye care…
Author: Vietnam News Brief Service
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An elusive billionaire gives away his good fortune
Chuck Feeney, who nudges others to give while living, plans to donate $8 billion by 2016. Just don’t put his name on anything. By Margot Roosevelt One by one, speakers rose to toast the elderly gent with baggy pants and a shy, gaptoothed smile. “Of…
Author: Los Angeles Times
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Agent Orange: Congenital deformities plague Vietnam; U.S. slow to help
By Jason Grotto. DONG NAI PROVINCE, Vietnam. U.S., Vietnam split over whether defoliants used in war are to blame Part 3 of a Tribune investigation finds that the role of defoliants in Vietnam’s high rate of birth defects remains a contentious question decades after U.S.…
Author: Chicago Tribune
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