Fund for Reconciliation and Development explained

Formation:	1985
Tax Id:	23-2569447
Website:	https://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. Web site: Fund for Reconciliation & Development - GuideStar Profile . 2024-06-12 . www.guidestar.org.
4. http://maic.jmu.edu/gmar/details.asp?OID=1559 Global Mine Action Registry

External links

• FRD Home Page

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