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| Program in Belfast on Peace and Reconciliation Projects in Vietnam | | 11/12/2009 9:21:00 PM | Email this article • Print this article | The Social Justice Committee of the Belfast Unitarian Universalist Church presents Mike Boehm of Madison Quakers, Inc. with a slide show presentation and discussion of a series of current peace and reconciliation projects in Vietnam, to be held at the Belfast Free Library Sunday, November 15, at 6 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Vietnam veteran Mike Boehm has been working in My Lai and elsewhere in Vietnam since 1992. He has traveled to Vietnam 23 times since then to work on the projects he'll be talking about.
Boehm served in Cu Chi, Vietnam, working in operations from 1968 to 1969. He first returned to Vietnam in 1992 to help build a medical clinic. Bohem's work in Vietnam has included providing loans to almost 3,000 women in 16 different villages, including My Lai, building on the Grameen Bank model of micro credit. In addition he helped with the construction of four new primary schools in My Lai, the My Lai Peace Park, compassion houses for victims of agent orange and extremely poor women, and he has facilitated the exchange of artwork between children of My Lai and Madison, Wisconsin.
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