Binh Rybacki fled Vietnam in 1975 during the fall of Saigon and moved to Loveland, Colorado. Reluctantly returning in 1993, she finds a country very different than the one she left - children sleeping in the streets, begging, children being sold into sexual slavery. Finding 27 orphans hiding in the back of a monastery, she wired her husband for $2000. That was the beginning of Children Of Peace International and Binh's first orphanage, The Good Shepard Home.
"A Necessary Journey" is a transformational 17-day road trip, tracking fearless, irreverent Binh Rybacki and her Children of Peace medical team. They move from the northern remote mountains of Vietnam to the fast-changing streets of Hanoi -- once the most traditional city, now the key to understanding modern Vietnam -- to Hue, the Imperial City flattened by the 1968 Tet Offensive, and to the cyclo-choked streets of cosmopolitan Saigon. We live and work with Binh and her 42 volunteers. Traveling at an exhausting pace, the team relocates and sets ups clinics on a daily basis, sometimes being forced to change plans at the last moment as Binh duels with Communist government officials.
As we travel the length of Vietnam, Binh’s story unfolds. We meet the ghosts of her past, and it is impossible for us not to be haunted as well by the violent, disturbing aftermath of war. It is "A Necessary Journey" not just for Binh, but for anyone touched by the memories of the Vietnam War.
"A Necessary Journey" is a transformational 17-day road trip, tracking fearless, irreverent Binh Rybacki and her Children of Peace medical team. They move from the northern remote mountains of Vietnam to the fast-changing streets of Hanoi -- once the most traditional city, now the key to understanding modern Vietnam -- to Hue, the Imperial City flattened by the 1968 Tet Offensive, and to the cyclo-choked streets of cosmopolitan Saigon. We live and work with Binh and her 42 volunteers. Traveling at an exhausting pace, the team relocates and sets ups clinics on a daily basis, sometimes being forced to change plans at the last moment as Binh duels with Communist government officials.
As we travel the length of Vietnam, Binh’s story unfolds. We meet the ghosts of her past, and it is impossible for us not to be haunted as well by the violent, disturbing aftermath of war. It is "A Necessary Journey" not just for Binh, but for anyone touched by the memories of the Vietnam War.