The Herald-Mail reported that actress Kieu Chinh was a featured guest at the third West Virginia Book Faire's "tea and talk" at the Martinsburg-Berkeley Country Public Library this weekend. Ms. Chinh was one of the four Chinese mothers in the "Joy Luck Club."
Ms. Chinh was born in Hanoi and fled to Saigon in 1954 when Vietnam was partitioned. She became a famous actress in South Vietnam and even starred with Burt Reynolds in "Operation C.I.A." In 1975, when Saigon fell, Kieu Chinh came to California as a refugee.
Kieu Chinh co-chairs the Vietnam Children's Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building turnkey schools in Vietnam. The organization is trying to build 61 schools to serve about 58,000 students. So far, they have built 43 schools. Ms. Chinh's story, The Struggle to Forgive, and her work with the Vietnam Children's Fund can be found here.
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