Aid to Southeast Asia (ASA) is a

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, providing help for the countries of Southeast Asia (mainly,

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

) on a people-to-people basis, aiming to strengthen world peace and respect for human rights. It was established in 1989 by US veterans of the war with Vietnam to provide humanitarian aid and medical equipment and supplies to Vietnam. The organization is based in the United States. In 1997 ASA helped to organize relief after Typhoon Linda. It later provided dental equipment and 8,000 pairs of eyeglasses in 1998. In 1999, ASA gave financial aid to

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programs. Volunteer medical expert groups from the United States often visit and help Vietnamese health facilities through the efforts of ASA. The organization receives funding from the

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(CFC) and individual donors, as well as some corporate funding. In recent years, the organization supplied medical equipment, including operating tables, exam tables, operating room lights, beds, stethoscopes, syringes, mammogram machines, incubators and X-ray machines, which went to Ninh Binh and

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provinces of Vietnam.

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Organizations established in 1989 Health charities in the United States Foreign charities operating in Vietnam {{US-philanthropy-org-stub