In English and Vietnamese, Dad is a shared word and a remembered loss.
Why donate to the 2 Sides Project?
Your tax deductible donation to our nonprofit organization helps people come together to heal from the wounds of war. Your support fuels these important connections in many ways, including:
In-country outreach to Vietnamese sons and daughters. While the U.S. participants pay their own way to Vietnam, it’s a financial challenge for Vietnamese sons and daughters to take time from work to travel to meetings in city centers. Your contribution helps them make that day trip.
Reciprocal trips to the United States. We believe reciprocal trips are a great way to bring the healing from war full circle. We’ve sponsored one trip to date, hosting three Vietnamese sons and daughters on a week-long visit to Washington D.C., where they met U.S. government officials, toured the Capitol Building, and took in the sights and sounds of an all-American baseball game. We hope to sponsor other trips in the future.
Vietnamese sons and daughters visit the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington
D.C. as part of a reciprocal trip to the U.S.
Peace Homes. We started a pilot project in 2020 with our partner, the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO), to build Peace Homes in the areas where our fathers died. The homes are given to needy families and help us extend the peace and healing to future generations. We have completed 15 Peace Homes to date and hope to build more throughout the country. One was built by sisters Kim Benner and Margot Carlson Delogne in Ben Cát for Nguyen Thi My Le. She lives near the site where the sisters’ father, Captain John W. Carlson, was shot down on December 7, 1966.
