Helpful Links

We have compiled a selection of links for your review. The information contained on these pages should help you in your goal of learning more about the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese people, and those responsible for helping rescue orphans during wartime.

Learn more about the war and why the Americans pulled out:

• Remembering the Vietnam War CD
• http://www.fallofsaigon.org/
• They Played “White Christmas” As Helicopters Flew and Saigon Fell
• Time Asia: Of Ladders and Letters

Learn more about the Amerasian Homecoming Act and peoples’ flight from Vietnam:

• The Refugee Resettlement Section (RRS) of the U.S. Consulate General
• Australia Visa: Vietnamese Refugee Resettlement
• UCI Southeast Asian Archive: Resettlement
• Vietnamese Health: Vietnamese

It says that 23% of adoptees see themselves as Caucasian indicating the culture they grew up in.

• http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/proed/vietprelim.html

This is a good site for current flight specials to Asia. It’s also great for hotel recommendations and culture information.

• http://www.vietnamadventures.com/language_culture/conversation.html

This link provides a list of all the resettlement offices in North America:

• Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR): Annual Report to Congress

Learn more about Betty Tisdale, founder of Helping and Loving Orphans (HALO)-an organization dedicated to bettering the lives of orphans and at-risk children around the world. She was instrumental in rescuing numerous Vietnamese orphans in the late 1970s.

• Helping and Loving Orphans: Betty Tisdale
• Betty Tisdale: The Paradox of Faith
• Inspiration Point: A Wonderful Group of Soldiers
• http://www.nma1.org/chapters/533/leaders/11-00_leader.pdf
• Two Reunions: Betty Tisdale

Amerasian Registry
The Amerasian Registry was created to help assist Amerasians, their Fathers, and/or Family Members search for each other around the World. The Amerasian Registry intends to be the main central database for all Amerasians and their Fathers in the future. The Registry will be available to all of those interested including organizations that assist Amerasians.

Amerasian Childfind Network, Inc.
Their web site http://www.amerasian-childfind.org states: “We dedicated to assisting Amerasians and their Father’s reunite. Our services are free to principals searching for lost family. We are not aligned with any group, governmental agency or cause. Our Only function is the reunification of families.Our primary focus is Vietnamese Amerasians, however, we will assist any child fathered by a member of the United States Armed Services, or a person working for the U.S. Government outside of the United States.”

Sancta Maria Orphanage
Any Adoptees who believe’s or know they are from Sancta Maria Orphanage in Binh Thanh District Saigon, please e-mail (Reunion Organiser and Info……..) Peter Hill at; Reunion Organiser sancta_maria_orphanage@yahoo.com.au and visit Website at; http://www.flickr.com/photos/peter_and_trinh/sets/ where you’ll find Photos of The Orphanage and of the 1st Sancta Maria Orphanage Adoptee Reunion in Feb 2005.

2nd Reunion coming SOON……………..