Who are we?  VIA is dedicated to increasing understanding between the United States and Asia through public service and programs promoting cross-cultural education. We are an independent and entrepreneurial non-profit organization founded at Stanford University in 1963.

What do we do?  We provide U.S. Citizens and U.S. Residents (between the ages of 18 and 75) volunteer opportunities and fellowships in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand, where volunteers may teach English or work with a local non-profit. On the U.S. side, we bring Asian students from top universities in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China to Stanford where they learn about American culture, public service, and healthcare. So the exchange comes full circle.

Do you want to change your life or make a difference? Check out our summer and long-term programs in Asia or our spring and summer programs at Stanford!

VIA Stanford Programs is holding a bookdrive from December 8 - 12, 2009 at Stanford.  Books donated will be sent to the Guangzhou English Training Center for the Handicapped, one of VIA's partner organizations in China, and with support of the Books-for-China Fund!  To learn how to be involved or for more information, please download a flyer here.  

VIA's Viet-Am Summer Program was recently highlighted in Ngươì Việt Tây Bác newspaper, including a poignant reflection by 2008 Viet-Am Volunteer Mary Jo Pham. To view the article, click here. To read Mary Jo's reflection, click here .

Our Annual Report FY08   Read reports on projects and programs from last year.

The new summer VIAlogue is here!  Check out articles and updates about alumni, program participants, and current volunteers.  Myanmar and China updates from the field included.

A Vietnam volunteer, Tiffany Goodson, who was one of the first children evacuated from Vietnam by "Operation Babylift" in 1975, searched for her birth mother.  Her story recently aired on Vietnamese television.  To see the show, click here .  For the news article, click here .

Congratulations to four VIA alumni who published stories in a new travel guide book, "To Vietnam With Love" !

Lorene Strand ('01-'03) Jessy Needham ('03-'05), Jennifer Davoli ('05-'06), Lillian Forsyth ('06-'07) and Tyler Watts ('05-'08)