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| :: Portable Libraries Training Workshop in Vietnam August 3 &4. GVF staff in Vietnam, including Le Ly Hayslip, have just completed the first of a series of literacy and Portable Library trainings which will help train over 150 teachers, librarians and administrators from 50 schools in literacy education techniques and Portable Libraries use... >> :: August 26 GVF Benefit in Jacksonville, Oregon launches fundraising drive. GVF Board Members Dr. Ralph Duffin and Linda Moreau are busily planning an evening of food and fun in Oregon, featuring fine Vietnamese cuisine personally prepared by Le Ly Hayslip, featuring Vietnamese entertainment and a showing of the new documentary pilot From War to Peace and Beyond... >> :: 2006 Bridge of Peace Awards with host Oliver Stone and special guest Martin Sheen celebrates five courageous peacemakers from around the world. See here for a full report and photos... >> :: GVF begins fast and fun online fundraising drive, letting you develop your own "fundraising families" with the click of a mouse... >> :: New "Dental Health Education Project" (DHEP) begins fund drive, bringing dental education and vital resources to the children of Vietnam... >> :: Le Ly returns home to Vietnam for funeral of Tran Thi Huyen, her 102 year-old mother, and shares her thoughts and descriptions of village customs and ceremonies of "living and dying" ... >> :: GVF co-sponsors Returning Veterans Retreat for Iraq and Afghan war veterans with Claude Anshin Thomas, decorated Vietnam veteran and Buddhist monk...>> |
 OREGON BENEFIT LAUNCHES DENTAL HEALTH & EDUCATION PROJECT Oregon Friends of Global Village Foundation present “A HELPING HAND for PEACE & HEALING”, an evening of Vietnamese cuisine and music to benefit medical and educational aid to rural Vietnam. The event will be held Saturday, August 26 from 4 to 6pm at the La Fiesta Restaurant in historic downtown Jacksonville, and feature author, movie subject, and internationally known humanitarian activist Le Ly Hayslip. A wide variety of authentic regional Vietnamese foods will be served, prepared by Global Village Foundation founder Le Ly Hayslip and La Fiesta chef and owner Mai Craft. Bryan and Anh Huynh of Medford will be on hand performing traditional and contemporary Vietnamese songs and music. A short award-winning film on the work of the Le Ly Hayslip and Global Village Foundation will be shown, including footage from a recent aid mission by Medford residents, led by Dr. Ralph Duffin and Linda Moreau. Le Ly Hayslip, founder of Global Village Foundation and author of the NY Times best-seller When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, and subject of the Oliver Stone film Heaven and Earth, will speak about her 20 years of international efforts to bring peace and reconciliation to her former and adopted homelands, Vietnam and the United States. Medford area resident and dentist Dr. Ralph Duffin will also share about his newly created Dental Health and Education Project, which this last February brought a group of Medford area residents and dental professionals to Vietnam to treat over 300 children in remote Vietnamese villages. Another Dental Health Education Project trip, including Dr. Duffin, Jacksonville resident Linda Moreau, and Global Village Foundation founder Le Ly Hayslip, will be going the beginning of 2007. All proceeds from “A Helping Hand for Peace & Healing” go to Global Village Foundation’s Dental Health Education Project and also Portable Libraries Project that brings portable libraries of children’s books to remote Vietnamese villages. Tickets for the event are $50 each and advance purchase is recommended. To purchase tickets or for more information, please Linda Moreau at 541-899-1052 or 541-326-1624. (For ticket and complete information on the benefit, CLICK HERE>>) (For more on Global Village Foundation's new Dental Health & Education Project CLICK HERE>> (For first-person accounts of Dr. Duffin and Linda Moreau's recent Dental Health Mission to Vietnam CLICK HERE >> )
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