POSITIONS OPEN
Consultant(s) sought for development project in planning for three northern mountainous communes of Vietnam for two months between March and July 2001. Consultants should have specialist knowledge and experience in: livelihoods in mountainous regions; ecology; culture; or indigenous knowledge. Applications welcome from nationals and expatriates, Vietnamese language skills preferred. Contact CARITAS Switzerland, 218 Doi Can, Ba Dinh, Hanoi, carswi@netnam.org.vn
The Australia National University in Canberra seeks both a Convenor of the School’s project on Resource Management in Asia-Pacific and a Post Doctoral Fellow or Research Fellow to undertake research on water resource management. The RMAP Project addresses the social, political and economic context of environmental and resource management in the Asia-Pacific region. Contact Dr Chris Ballard phone 61-2-6249-0305, fax 61-2-6249-5525, chris.ballard@anu.edu.au.
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities are seeking one professor each from anthropology and sociology for one year (2001-2) interdisciplinary social sciences research training course in Hanoi, Vietnam.Contact www.ssrc.org, or Van Tran, SSRC, 810 7thAvenue, 31st Floor, NY, NY 10019, phone (212) 377-2700, tran@ssrc.org.
Toyota Foundation seeks Program Officer for its SE Asia (emphasis on Vietnam) program. Fluency in Japanese required, in Vietnamese helpful. Contact Mr. Kyoichi Tanaka phone 81-3-3344-1701 fax 81-3-3342-6911, tanaka@toyotafound.or.jp.
The Stanley Foundation seeks a program associate for the Emerging From Conflict program, dealing with the international relations and foreign and security policy. Information at www.emergingfromconflict.org Contact www.stanleyfdn.org, or Mr. Dana Pittman, 209 Iowa Ave Muscatine, IA 52761 phone 319-264-1500 fax 319-264-0864 stanley@stanleyfdn.org
Project on the Vietnamese Diaspora, Rockefeller Fellowship In the Humanities 2001-2002 Applications due on or before January 31, 2001. For more information: http://omega.cc.umb.edu/~diaspora or contact Kevin Bowen / Nguyen Ba Chung (Project Diaspora), William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Healey Library 10-8, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125-3393, phone (617)287-5850, fax (617)287-5855, Chung.Nguyen@umb.edu.
The Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program provides opportunities for advanced study to exceptional individuals who will use this education to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering development in their own countries and greater economic and social justice worldwide. Vietnam Nationals are eligible. Application are available from the Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN), Suite # 602 Sao Bac Building, 5 Pho Da Tuong Hanoi, Vietnam. Email: edex@netnam.org.vn
Angels by HaEast-Vietnam
HaEast-Vietnam provided the angels featured in the Fund for Reconciliation and Development’s “Be An Angel” Campaign (see p. 16-17). According to Ms. Yen of HaEast “lucky angels are made by homeless and street children in Vietnam. Their lives are extremely unhappy, so they always wish to have a bright and happy life…. [The] lucky angel is the creation which comes from those strong wishes. In their minds, [the] lucky angel is able to bring that luck to them to change their present lives into better ones.”
The owner of HaEast is Tran Hong Ha, one of the early Vietnamese exchange students sponsored by the US-Indochina Reconciliation Project (USIRP) at SUNY Buffalo in 1993 in cooperation with businessman Nick Kelly. Her shop, located in Hanoi’s Meritus/West Lake Hotel, features a mixture of eastern and western fashion accessories and interior furnishings produced by craftspeople from national minorities. HaEast ships wholesale and is seeking international partners. Contact Hong Ha at nguoi2000@hotmail.com.