Website, Archive of Vietnamese Boat People.
Abstract
"OUR MISSIONS:
1- Vietnamese boat people is one of the biggest events not only in the current world history but also in the Vietnamese 4000-year history.
2- The Project tries at best to record as many as possible the meaningful details around this event which happened from 1975 to the time when the last VBP from refugee camps have been resetled in a third country, and details about the first generations of this event.
3- The details will cover: the true causes of the event, the true process of the event and the true
aftermaths of the event.
4- The Project does not mean to raise up a hatred from old stories. It does mean to record truly, correctly and impartially all what did occur to the life or lives of an individual or many individuals (a
group, a community, etc). The Project does not mean to judge or comment on the events, but record the judgments or comments of others as an attribute of the events.
5- All the recording will be digitally reserved in different formats and transferred to different locations for archiving.
6- The Project tries to use the latest technologies in recording the stories in different formats: video, audio, still images or real material evidences.
7- Different ways will be used to introduce the recording to public: web sites, books, magazines, articles, radio, TV, video, etc.
8- Received financial support will be used mainly to cover recording fees, processing fees, archiving fees, travelling fees. and other fees for the project. Any amount remained will be transferred to charity
orgainzations supporting refugees or suffered people.
9- The Project is carried out on the the basis of Voluntary, without political bias or distinguishment, without religious, local and racial bias or distinguishment, and as a non-profit organization.
10- The project needs financial support to maintain, manage, develop and improve its systems and
managements. Some activities to raise fund, to sell or distribute its products to the public are encouraged as a selfsupport service."
1- Vietnamese boat people is one of the biggest events not only in the current world history but also in the Vietnamese 4000-year history.
2- The Project tries at best to record as many as possible the meaningful details around this event which happened from 1975 to the time when the last VBP from refugee camps have been resetled in a third country, and details about the first generations of this event.
3- The details will cover: the true causes of the event, the true process of the event and the true
aftermaths of the event.
4- The Project does not mean to raise up a hatred from old stories. It does mean to record truly, correctly and impartially all what did occur to the life or lives of an individual or many individuals (a
group, a community, etc). The Project does not mean to judge or comment on the events, but record the judgments or comments of others as an attribute of the events.
5- All the recording will be digitally reserved in different formats and transferred to different locations for archiving.
6- The Project tries to use the latest technologies in recording the stories in different formats: video, audio, still images or real material evidences.
7- Different ways will be used to introduce the recording to public: web sites, books, magazines, articles, radio, TV, video, etc.
8- Received financial support will be used mainly to cover recording fees, processing fees, archiving fees, travelling fees. and other fees for the project. Any amount remained will be transferred to charity
orgainzations supporting refugees or suffered people.
9- The Project is carried out on the the basis of Voluntary, without political bias or distinguishment, without religious, local and racial bias or distinguishment, and as a non-profit organization.
10- The project needs financial support to maintain, manage, develop and improve its systems and
managements. Some activities to raise fund, to sell or distribute its products to the public are encouraged as a selfsupport service."
Date
Accessed most recently on July 26, 2021.
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Citation
“Website, Archive of Vietnamese Boat People.,” Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA), accessed April 27, 2024, https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/363.
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