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This chapter recounts Oanh's return to Saigon after the Geneva Accords in 1954 that triggered a flood of refugees. It discusses how Oanh helped run a women's hostel for students, including refugees and girls from the provinces in 1955. It also discloses Oanh's political baptism that came when she saw the Diem regime impose Catholicism on a Buddhist country and use religion as a tool for political domination. The chapter details Oanh's affiliation with foreign and local priests, the Catholic Action Movement, and other groups focusing on social problems in a war–torn society. It chronicles Oanh's devotion to young people, the disabled, the unemployed, the abused, and to old friends from Lycée Marie Curie after she gained a master's degree in social work in the Philippines. |
