Hanoi set to raise VND7 billion for AO victims

In 2012, the association campaigned organisations and individuals to donate nearly VND6 billion in kind and cash to its fund to support more than 21,000 AO victims. 

The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) raised more than VND120 billion for AO victims in the first 10 months of 2012.

From 1961-1971, the US troops sprayed more than 80 million litres of toxins, 44 million litres of which were AO containing nearly 370kg of dioxin, over almost a quarter of southern Vietnam. 

As a result, 4.8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to the chemical defoliants, of whom 3 million have been suffered from serious health problems.