SURVIVOR CORPS

Terrific profile and photos of Vietnamese survivor Le Tu Phong on Gretchen Murphy’s blog, Gretta in Vietnam.  It’s definitely worth clicking over to her blog to read more, but here’s an excerpt:

As for the improvements at the commune level, Mr. Phong is happy about the changes he has seen.  The first and perhaps most significant is the spiritual improvement.  From Le Tu’s perspective, one of the biggest challenges for survivors to overcome is their feelings of inferiority.  As a result of working together and building relationships between survivors and between the survivors and the community, those feelings begin to fade.  This increases community integration and enables survivors to empower themselves.  Now there are survivors who work as policemen and staff for the village administration.  Tangible improvements.

There’s much more to Le Tu Phong’s story.  Learn how he was injured and see all the facets of recovery at Gretta in Vietnam.