The Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign, anon-governmental organisation in the United States , has called onAmericans to aid Vietnamese AO victims and to contribute urgently neededfunds for grass roots organising activities in the US in support ofthe victims.
In the call titled "Time to Act Now"released on August 10, the Agent Orange Day launched by the VietnamAssociation for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin to raise fund for AOvictims, the New York-based Vietnam Agent Orange Relief &Responsibility Campaign also called on Americans to go towww.vn-agentorange.org and sign an orange card, which will be deliveredto US congressmen, in support of comprehensive Agent Orange legislation.
Merle E. Ratner, Co-coordinator of the VietnamAgent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign, told US-based VietnamNews Agency's reporter that her organisation was working withcommunities across the US and with their representatives in Congressto develop legislation to comprehensively address the human needs of thevictims in Vietnam and in the US .
She saidthe legislation, if approved, will address the need for health,rehabilitation and urgent care for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange,cleanup of all the toxic hot spots in Vietnam , medical care foraffected children and grandchildren of US veteran Agent Orange victimsand health care for affected Vietnamese Americans.
The NGO's coordinator added that her organisation would continue to takepart in an international corporate campaign to assure that DowChemical, Monsanto and 35 other corporations knowingly made Agent Orangefor soldiers to spray on the Vietnamese people and land under theorders by the US government, pay to take care of the victims they havecreated.
According to the NGO, millions of AOvictims in Vietnam are living with and dying from diseases and birthdefects left behind from the US ’s spraying of Agent Orange and otherchemicals during the Vietnam War. This legacy of the war, more than35 years ago, also sickens and kills US veterans and their children andgrandchildren./.
In the call titled "Time to Act Now"released on August 10, the Agent Orange Day launched by the VietnamAssociation for Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin to raise fund for AOvictims, the New York-based Vietnam Agent Orange Relief &Responsibility Campaign also called on Americans to go towww.vn-agentorange.org and sign an orange card, which will be deliveredto US congressmen, in support of comprehensive Agent Orange legislation.
Merle E. Ratner, Co-coordinator of the VietnamAgent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign, told US-based VietnamNews Agency's reporter that her organisation was working withcommunities across the US and with their representatives in Congressto develop legislation to comprehensively address the human needs of thevictims in Vietnam and in the US .
She saidthe legislation, if approved, will address the need for health,rehabilitation and urgent care for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange,cleanup of all the toxic hot spots in Vietnam , medical care foraffected children and grandchildren of US veteran Agent Orange victimsand health care for affected Vietnamese Americans.
The NGO's coordinator added that her organisation would continue to takepart in an international corporate campaign to assure that DowChemical, Monsanto and 35 other corporations knowingly made Agent Orangefor soldiers to spray on the Vietnamese people and land under theorders by the US government, pay to take care of the victims they havecreated.
According to the NGO, millions of AOvictims in Vietnam are living with and dying from diseases and birthdefects left behind from the US ’s spraying of Agent Orange and otherchemicals during the Vietnam War. This legacy of the war, more than35 years ago, also sickens and kills US veterans and their children andgrandchildren./.
