Current
Project
How We've Helped
Friends
of Danang
4017 Washington Road #152
McMurray, PA 15317-2520
Updated 11/28/2008
The Friends of Danang is a 100% non-profit volunteer organization. No one receives compensation; only out of pocket expenses are reimbursed.
- Raising funds to support humanitarian projects in and around the seaport city of Danang, Vietnam.
- Nurturing a better understanding between the people of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Danang, Vietnam.
- Presenting an opportunity for anyone who has been touched by the war in Vietnam to contribute to acts of human healing.
- New School Partnership
1. Friends of Danang
2. India Company, 3rd Battalion 9th Marines, the "I-Three-Niners"
3. Vietnamese Childrens Fund
- Building the Hoi Yen Bridge
- "Let Them Walk Again Danang"
- Friends of Da Nang Elementary School at Hoa San
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Friends of Da Nang Elementary School at Hiep Duc
- Medical Clinic
What's new:
- "The
Vietnamese Are Here"
Read a story in the Winter 2009 issue of Pittsburgh
Quarterly magazine about the Vietnamese community in Pittsburgh.
Republished with permission of
Pittsburgh Quarterly
- FoD
member Noreen Doloughty is featured in the Fall 2008 edition of the
La Roche College Magazine
- Read
the Post Gazette article on FoD member Dan Pultz Nov 2008
- Photo
taken at the Vietnam Embassy's National Day reception in
Washington, DC on 9/10/2008
Cao Tran Quoc Hai, Minister Counselor and Chief Economic Officer;
Roger Cranville, SVP of International Marketing for the Pittsburgh Regional Authority;
Ambassador Le Cong Phung;
Jim Wolf, Friends of Danang;
Dr. Nguye Hong Thanh, Economic Counselor
- Read a article written in the Pgh Tribune Review about Tom Michlovic & Ed Mihalacki highlighting the FoD Vietnam trip July 2008
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- New
bridge photos have been uploaded 4/30/08
- Congratulations
to FoD members Tony Accamando, George D’Angelo, and Jack Gannon.
They were recipients of the Mind, Heart, and Spirit Awards from Duquesne
University.
- Congratulations
to FoD member Ed Mihalacki for winning the Veterans of Foreign Wars
2007 Citizen Education Teacher Award
- View
the Hoi Yen Bridge Construction Report Nov 2007
-
Story"
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Direct
all questions & correspondence to
friends@friendsofdanang.org
This
website is being maintained by
Wendover Middle School
Hempfield Area School District
Greensburg, PA 15601
stclara@wpa.net
Calendar
Monthly Meetings:
Unless otherwise noted, our monthly meetings are held the second Thursday
of each month at:
Enrico Biscotti Co.
Directions
2022 Penn Ave,
Strip District,
Pittsburgh, PA
7:00pm
Minutes
11-
08- 07
12-
13- 07
1-
10- 08
2-
14- 08
4-
10- 08
5-
08- 08
6-
12- 08
7-10-
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8-14-
08
9- 11- 08
10- 09- 08
Fundraisers
2008
- Nov.
11- Veterans Day
Thanks to all who attended
- Nov.
11- Black & Gold Amateur Boxing
Thanks to all who attended
- Nov.
16- Holiday Jewelry Show
Thanks to all who attended
