Mission Statement: To  empower, organize, and equip Vietnamese individuals and communities in their pursuit of liberty and dignity.

Since 1980, one in 10 Vietnamese Americans has received aid from BPSOS while still in Vietnam, on the high seas, in a refugee camp, or after arriving in the United States.

A Few of Our Recent Achievements:

• Resettled 18,000 repatriated boat people to the U.S. through the Resettlement Opportunities for Vietnamese Returnees (ROVR) Program.
• Resettled thousands of former political prisoners through Humanitarian Resettlement (HR) Program.
• Provided refugee protection for high-profile dissidents through Priority One In-Country Refugee Resettlement (P1) Program.
• Post-Katrina, assisted over 4,000 families through Katrina and Rita Relief and Recovery Program, securing them $16.5 million in aid, placing 850 in homes, and referring 265 to jobs, while building capacity for 12 faith-based and community relief organizations. Hundreds of BPSOS’ client families were African-Americans and other non-Vietnamese.
• Spearhead the investigation and assisted the prosecution of the Daewoosa American Samoa case, the largest trafficking case ever prosecuted by the U.S. government
• Rescued 176 trafficked victims in the W&D Apparel case in Jordan (which was featured in the State Department report).
• Represented and secured compensation for 2,600 mistreated workers in the Esquel Malaysia case.

Videos:

HR refugee arriving in the U.S. from Vietnam - Below is a video clip of BPSOS staff and volunteers welcoming Lieutenant Colonel Thai Quoc Thanh who arrived in the US after 13 years of "re-education" and 20 years of persecution.