Veterans for Peace presents Mike Boehm of Madison Quakers, Inc. with a slide presentation and discussion on a series of current peace and reconciliation projects in Vietnam. The event will be held at the Civic Media Center on December 5th at 7:30 PM, and is free and open to the public.
Vietnam veteran Mike Boehm has been working in My Lai and elsewhere in Vietnam since 1992. Boehm has traveled to Vietnam 23 times since then to facilitate these projects.
A veteran who served in Cu Chi, Vietnam, working in Operations from 1968 to 1969, Boehm first returned to Vietnam in 1992 to help build a medical clinic. While there he began to come to terms with his own experiences there and to understand the tremendous capacity of people-to-people
projects for building peace and reconciliation between our two societies.
Boehm'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 has helped facilitate 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 helped facilitate the exchange of art work between the children of My Lai and Madison, Wisconsin.
Madison Quakers, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation,EIN 39-2004266, created to support this work in Vietnam. In the last 15 years, the Madison Quakers have raised more than $800,000 to further this work. For more information on the work of the Madison Quakers, Inc., or to send a contribution to help support this work, please visit the web site www.mylaipeacepark.org or contact Mike Boehm, 2312 E. Johnson St., Madison, WI 53704.
