History
The Vietnam Children’s Fund was founded in 1993 by the late Lewis Burwell Puller, Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and severely wounded Marine. Puller believed that in war no one goes unscathed but that children, the most vulnerable of all, suffer the greatest hardships. He felt the Vietnam Children’s Fund was a gesture that could not only help close the past but ensure a brighter future for the children of Vietnam.
The first school, located on the former demilitarized zone in Quảng Trị Province, was dedicated in Puller’s name in April 1994, the 20th anniversary of the end of the war.
VCF has now completed over 40 schools which serve more than 21,000 children. Many schools are built in the poorest and most remote areas of the country where the need is greatest.
Read more about this topic: Vietnam Children's Fund
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“You that would judge me do not judge alone
This book or that, come to this hallowed place
Where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon;
Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace;
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)