Fund for Reconciliation and Development

Fund for Reconciliation and Development
Formation1985
23-2569447
Websitehttps://www.ffrd.org

Fund for Reconciliation and Development Is a non-profit organization supporting efforts for reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Cuba, as well as the development of these countries. It was established in 1985 as a US-Indochina Reconciliation Project (USIRP), which ensued from the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker program.

The organization aims at reaching fully normal diplomatic, cultural, educational, and economic relations between the United States and the above-mentioned countries.

Latest projects

  • Mobilizing support for ratification of the trade agreement with Laos.
  • Sending observers to the Cambodian national election in July 2003.
  • Educating the American people and officials about the unmet moral responsibility for legacies of war such as Agent Orange.[1][2]
  • Deepening and broadening relations of the US with Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, and forestall efforts to reverse them on human rights and trade protection grounds.
  • Initiating projects to bring to the US for training provincial level international cooperation staff and representatives of domestic NGOs and peoples organizations from Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
  • Mobilizing public and industry opinion to end restrictions on travel to Cuba.

Executive Director of FRD is John McAuliff.[3]

Fund for Reconciliation and Development is financed by foundations, US and European government agencies, international organizations, and private donations.[4]

References

  1. ^ Vietnam-US relations develop positively, Voice of Vietnam Radio, March 2006
  2. ^ American veteran grants US$50,000 to war victims, VietnamNet Bridge, January 2007
  3. ^ "Fund for Reconciliation & Development - GuideStar Profile". www.guidestar.org. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  4. ^ Global Mine Action Registry

This article is related to the List of non-governmental organizations in Vietnam.


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