Trinh Doan’s refugee journey

After Trinh Doan’s home city of Da Nang fell to the North Vietnamese in 1975, her father – a university professor – was sentenced to indefinite house arrest.  In 1979, her family fled, making a two-week voyage in a wooden boat to Hong Kong, where they got help from the IRC.  Two years later an IRC representative met their plane on a chilly October day in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 

Now a bank executive and IRC board member, Doan tells the story of her family’s refugee journey.  Read more about it here.