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Buck established the Pearl S. Buck Foundation (name changed to Pearl S. Buck International in 1999) [29] to "address poverty and discrimination faced by children in Asian countries." In 1964, she opened the Opportunity Center and Orphanage in South Korea, and later offices were opened in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
[2] [1] PCFA was founded to serve the needs of children left behind by the U.S. military closure. the Pearl S. Buck International foundation estimates there are 52,000 Amerasian scattered throughout the Philippines.
Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines, 1986–1992, first female elected head of state in Philippines; Leader of the first successful non-violent revolution for democracy against dictatorial rule; Laureate of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award, United Nations Silver Medal, Prize for Freedom Award, Ramon Magsaysay Award, and Pearl S. Buck Award (did not finish)
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The Pearl Buck house is open to the public for daily tours seven days a week. Pearl S. Buck International currently offers two house tours to visitors: Pearl S. Buck: Taking Action, [6] [7] which focuses on Ms. Buck's activism and human rights advocacy, and the more traditional biographical and historic Pearl S. Buck: Life and Legacy Tour.
Novelist Pearl S. Buck is credited for dubbing the term Amerasian. Denny Tamaki, a politician of mixed Japanese and European American heritage, is the current Governor of Okinawa Prefecture. The term was coined by novelist Pearl S. Buck and was formalized by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Pearl S. Buck wrote about the Vineland Training School and her daughter's experience in 1950 for the Reader's Digest and Ladies Home Journal in an article entitled "The Child Who Never Grew". This article drew a lot of attention to the Training School.
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