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CMAA
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
In Collaboration with
Lowell Community Health Center's
COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR
Date: Thursday April 1, 2010
Time: 9:00am to 12:00 noon
Location: CMAA, 120 Cross Street, Lowell, MA 01854
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Connecting Community
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When:
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Rain date: Monday, June 28th, 2010
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Clemente Park on 823 Middlesex Street,
Lowell, MA 01851
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Job Description
Position:
Program:
Supervisor:
Grade Level:
Program Coordinator
Elder Service Program
Assistant Director
Summary:
The Elder Service Program Coordinator is overall responsible for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
the Elderly Services Program (ESP). The Coordinator ' s responsibilities will include outreach to Cambodian elders through a
multi-media advertisement campaign, the identification and training of Cambodian mentors to assist the elderly, and assist
the elderly in their dealing with the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. The Coordinator will also be responsible for
the development of new programming activities, the supervision of project staff, and the financial management of the
program.
Functional Areas of Responsibility:
A. Overall responsibility for the implementation of the Elder Service Program.
B. Responsibility for the management of the program budget in accordance with the policies and procedures of
CMAA and the funding agency.
C.
Oversight of the project's monitoring and evaluation to ensure that the proposed outcomes/goals of the program
are met.
D. Coordinate and/or participate in the development of new programming initiatives in the area of support for the
elderly and other activities proposed by CMAA.
E. Supervise project staff.
F.
Represent the project to CMAA staff members, other agencies involved in Elder Services and the funding agency.
Specific Tasks:
A. Overall responsibility for the implementation of the Elder Service Program.
Al. Ensure that the elderly population has an increased understanding of new federal requirements, and the potential impact
on their self-sufficiency, as well as the citizenship process.
A2 . Identify and train Cambodian mentors to assist the elderly Cambodian citizens.
A3 . Identify and assist appropriate Cambodian elders in obtaining citizenship, and facilitate access to other services
available to them.
B. Responsibility for the management of the program budget in accordance with the policies and procedures of
CMAA and the funding agency.
Bl. In collaboration with the Fiscal Manager, ensure that the program budget has sufficient resources to ensure the
achievement of the goals of the project.
B2. Review monthly program expenditure reports to ensure that the project budget is being adhered to in accordanc e with
the program contract.
B3. In collaboration with the Fiscal Manager, re-align budgets and submit requests for budget amendments when
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Oversight of the project's monitoring and evaluation to ensure that the proposed outcomes/goals of the program
are met.
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Cl. In collaboration with the Assistant Director/Programs, ensure that the Program has a logical framework which clearly
articulates the goals/outcomes, outputs and activities of the project, and the means of measuring progress made against
program goals.
C2. Ensure that a system is in place which routinely monitors the progress made against stated goals and objectives.
C3 . When appropriate, modify goals/outcomes of the program and notify funding agency with full justification for changes
in plan.
C4 . Prepare monthly, quarterly and/or annual progress reports in accordance with the procedures of CMAA and the funding
agency, and ensure that the reports are submitted in an accurate and timely manner.
CS . When required by a donor, prepare.the terms of reference for a program evaluation in collaboration with the Assistant
Director/Programs.
C6. When a program evaluation is conducted externally by the funding agency, ensure that all program documentation is
well organized and available, and assist evaluators as required.
C7. Ensure that lessons learned from program implementation are incorporated into all new programming activities within
the area of support for the elderly.
D. Coordinate and/or participate in the development of new programming initiatives in the area of support for the
elderly and other activities proposed by CMAA.
D 1. Coordinate the development of all new programming activities in the area of support for the elderly in collaboration
with the Assistant Director and other CMAA staff, ensuring that the lessons learned from the past are fully incorporated into
the design.
D2. Prepare and/or supervise the preparation of proposals for grant financing for all new programming activities in the field
of elderly services.
D3. Coordinate the development of a Logical Framework which clearly articulates the goals ,' outputs and activities of the
proposed program, and ensure that verifiable indicators are included to adequately measure the progress made against
program goals.
D4. In collaboration with the Fiscal Manager, ensure that the program budget submitted has sufficient resources to ensure
that the goals and objectives of the new programming activity may be met.
D5 . In collaboration with the Assistant Director and/or Executive Director and other CMAA staff, actively solicit and/or
participate in meetings with potential funding agencies and donors .
D6. Identify potential funding sources for new initiatives in ongoing projects and/or new programming activities.
D7. At the request of the Assistant Director/Executive Director or other CMAA staff, participate in the developwent of new
programming activities as appropriate.
E.
Supervise project staff.
E 1. Develop detailed job descriptions for all positions funded under the project, and submit to Assistant Director/Executive
Director for approval.
E2. Participate in the recruitment, interviews and selection of all project staff funded under the project.
�E3. Provide ongoing and constructive feedback on job performance for all supervised staff. Coach and mentor staff as
appropriate .
E4. Ensure that performance appraisals are prepared in accordance with the policies and procedures of the CMAA for all
staff supervised.
F.
Represent the project to CMAA staff members, other agencies involved in Elderly Support and the funding
agency.
F 1. Represent the ES Program to all CMAA staff members at regular meetings, and ensure that the staff of the CMAA are
fully apprised of the progress of the program.
F2. Represent the ES Program to other agencies involved in ES, and develop partnership relationships when and if
appropriate.
F3 . Represent the ES Program to the funding agency in collaboration with the Assistant Director/Executive Director.
Authority and Autonomy
The Program Coordinator will have a high degree of authority and autonomy in the day-to-day decision-making and
implementation ofthe program. The Coordinator's decision-making authority is inclusive in accordance with the signed
program contract. Any new interventions must be approved by his/her Supervisor.
Primary Contacts
Assistant Director of CMAA
Fiscal Manager of CMAA
Project Directors and Coordinators of CMAA
Representatives of other Agencies involved in the area of support for the elderly
Funding Agency
Qualifications:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Bachelor Degree in Human Services or related field.
One to three years of experience in program management and/or human services.
Outstanding interpersonal, organizational and computer skill..
Experience working with linguistic minority populations and bilingual staff, and considerable knowledge of the Lowell
community and Southeast Asian population; outstanding written and oral communication skills in Khmer and English
Outstanding program design and grant writing experience.
Ability to solve problems, and excellent group management and facilitation skills.
Committed to CMAA' s mission to empower and improve the quality of lives of the Southeast Asian population and
other linguistic minorities.
Agreed By:
Incumbent:
Signature
Print Name
Supervisor:
Date
Signature
Print Name
Date
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CMAA's Elder Service Program coordinator job description, [2006-2012]
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Nonprofit organizations
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The program coordinator job description for the Elder Service Program at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection, 1992-2014
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A CMAA organization brochure, 2006
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Nonprofit organizations
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An account of the resource
A 2006 version of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.'s organization brochure providing information on its programs and services and listing staff, board of directors, and advisory board members. The brochure also includes the organization's contact information: physical location, phone and fax numbers, and website.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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2006
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Khmer
English
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uml22_b02_f01_i002
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2000-2009
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Board of Directors
Mr, Hai Cheng, President
Dr. Phala Chea, Vice President
Mr. William Upchitz, Treasurer
Mr. Stuart Santelmann, LICSW,
Secretary
Mr. James J. Cook
Mr. Sovanndara Neang
Mr. Tooch Van
Mrs. Melody Suong
Ms. Sophy Suon
Mr. Borath L. Men
Advisory Board
Dr. Sambath Keo
Mr. Vesna Nuon
Mr. Chanrithy Uong
Dr. Jeffrey Gerson
Attorney Vanthan Un
Attorney Thomas Stylianos, Jr.
Mission Statement
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance
Association is dedicated to
improving the quality of life for
Cambodian Americans and other
minorities and economically
disadvantaged persons in Lowell
through educational, cultural,
economic and social programs.
United .-.
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A Uni t e d W y Impac t Partn er
a
Cambodian Mutual Assistance
Association of Greater Lowell,
Inc.
165 Jackson Street
Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 596-1000
Fax: (978) 454-1806
www .cmaalowell.org
Vong Ros, Executive Director
Hal Cheng, President
�PROGRAMS & SERVICES
Cambodian Health Promotion Project- teaches
participants how to communicate better with their health
care provider and provides information on treating and
preventing specific illnesses such as diabetes ,
cardiovascular disease, cholesterol, osteoporosis and high
blood pressure. Funded by the US Office of Refugee
Resettlement.
The Cambodian Mutual
Assistance Association
Of Greater Lowell, Inc.
165 Jackson Street, Lowell,
MA 01852
(978) 596-1000
Fax: (978) 494-1806
www.cmaalowell.org
For more than 21 years, the
CMAA has helped Lowell's
Cambodian and Southeast Asian
communities, offering a wide
array of services and programs
through the years. The CMAA is
a non-profit social service
agency dedicated to providing
programs and services that
improve the quality of life of
Cambodian-Americans
in
Lowell. Every year we help
hundreds of Cambodian and
Southeast Asian refugees and
their families reach their full
social and economic potential.
Cambodian REACH 2010 Project, a health education
initiative which is a partnership with the Lowell Community
Health Center and others health care providers. This
project is part of the US Centers for Disease Control's
"Healthy People 201 O
"initiative, and is aimed at reducing
disparities in cardiovascular disease between the
Cambodian refugee population and thegeneral population.
Monorom Family Support Program assists families
with developmentally disabled children by providing case
management, respite care, counseling, and recreational
and educational opportunities . Funded by the
Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation
Young Parent's Program aims at reducing welfare
dependency among young parents, ages 14 through 21 ,
who have not achieved a high school diploma or its
equivalent. YPP espouses a model of employability
development to successfully prepare an individual to obtain
a job as quickly as possible in the primary labor market.
CMAA's YPP attends to the whole person, recognizing
that basic educational and job specific skills are important
to young parents in the acquisition of and advancement
in work. Funded by the Massachusetts Department of
Transitional Assistance.
Adult Education- provides our clients with computer,
literacy, and GED classes. A partnership with Lowell Adult
Education.
Citizenship Assistance Program Assistance is
provided with preparing and filing naturalization
petitions and the required supporting
documentation, and preparation for the citizenship
interview.
Walk-in assistance and referral. CMAA staff
members provide assistance with other problems,
and referral to other agencies that provide
specialized assistance for clients who need expert
help.
Assistance for Families of Deportees In
partnership withBoston College Law School, CMAA
offers intake services to identify deportees whose
cases can be handled by the Ruby Slippers
Project, which assists deportees and their families.
Staff Directory
Vong Ros, Executive Director
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Joseph Sexton, Grant Writer
Ronnie Mouth, Office Manager
Judith Dickerman Nelson, Young Parents
Program
Marion Best,YPP Instructor
Dr. Sengly Kong Health Education
Department Director
Brian Chen, Monorom Program Coordinator
Thy Chey, Monorom Program staff
Karena Doung, Community Health Educator
Im Sok, Community Health Educator
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A CMAA organization brochure, 2006
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Nonprofit organizations
Description
An account of the resource
A 2006 version of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.'s organization brochure providing information on its programs and services and listing staff, board of directors, and advisory board members. The brochure also includes the organization's contact information: physical location, phone and fax numbers, and website.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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2006
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2000-2009
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Staff
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Special Meetings
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Board Size and Tenure
Board Nominations
Term of Office
Board Vacancies
Removal of Board Menibers
Board Member Attendance
Termination of Appointment
Quorum of the Board and voting
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Special Meetings shall be called.i>Y'the president, or, if the president is unable or unwilling
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The Association shall hold an annual meeting (fot-'tlte Beard 1Direcfors, and) for the
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General public 'shalt bo nbtili~ -at least'~ weeks fu 'advarice 'o fthe date of the annual
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shall be given both in English and in Kluner. Every person WQpAa$b:'e~mi:egistereci.within
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CMAA board of directors bylaws, 2003-07
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STIPEND FORM
NAME
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ADDRESS
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STIPEND FOR
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TIME PERIOD /DATES _ _ _ _ _ _- ' - c - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
RA TE - - - - - - - - - TOT AL HOURS - - - - - - - - - - - - AMOUNTDUE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _;___ _ __
SIGNATURE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DATE- - - - -SUPERVISOR SIGNATURE
PROGRAM TO BE CHARGED
DATE_ _ _ _ __
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APPROVED BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - - - - - - - DATE ----,------
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A blank CMAA stipend form, [2009-2011]
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Nonprofit organizations
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CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE.ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELI.
120 Cross Street, Lowell, MA 01854
Tel: (978) 454-6200 Fax: (978) 454-6229
INTERPRETER TIME SHEET
Attention Interpreters: To get paid you must complete this time sheet and have it signed every time you
provide a service for the CMAA. All original time sheets (no copied time sheet accepted) must be submitted
/sent to: Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association before the 1st day of each month.
To be completed by the interpreter:
Interpreter's name: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Language: - - - - - - - - - Requested by:
from (Company/Agency etc.): _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Phone number:(~---~) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Type of Service provided:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - D in person D Phone
Patient or client's name
Address
Miscellaneous
D
Other (describe) _ _ _ _ _ _ __
J
Date & time of service provided:
Date:
--=---
Type of assignment:
D Legal/Court D
Medical
Hours worked- Start: _ _ _ _ _ _ A.M. /P.M.
End: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A.M. /P.M.
Preparation time (scheduling, confirmation, follow-up, etc): _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
To be completed by authorized representative of requesting agency or service provider:
I certify that the interpreter named above provided the services described herein, and the times
stated are accurate.
Name: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Title: - - - - - - - - - - - - - Signature: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Date - - - - - - - - /
I
For Office Use Only
Check if service is for: _ _ _Emergency_ _ After Hours _ _Weekend _ _ Holidays _ _ Normal Hours
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A blank CMAA interpreter time sheet form, [2009-2011]
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Nonprofit organizations
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A blank Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. interpreter time sheet used to document an interpreter's service.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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Tue
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Thu
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A calendar for CMAA's March 2009 health events, 2009
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Nonprofit organizations
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A monthly calendar view of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.'s March 2009 health events.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.
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2009
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2000-2009
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On this special occasion of our Cambodian New Year, the Year of the Ox, the
Board of Directors and staff of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of
Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA) would like
to extend our warmest wishes for Happy
Cambodian New Year and good health to
each and everyone of our constituents,
friends, supporters, donors, state and local leaders, neighbors and people across
the nations.
We would also like to express our
most grateful appreciation to our funding
agencies, our state and local leaders for
their support and encouragement. Their
humanitarian assistance is evidenced in our
work of serving the poor, the disabled, the
sick, the elderly, the children, the women,
refugees and immigrants, and the non-citizens to live, learn, grow, and to co-exist
in a multicultural, mixed social and economic society, called "America."
As we celebrate Cambodian New
Year today here in America, it reminds us
all twenty-three years ago in April 17,
1975, when the Communist Khmer Rouge
took over Cambodia just two day after
those joyous holidays. They immediately
started their draconian communist ideology that resulted in two out of Cambodia's
seven million population perishing from the
face of the planet earth and about a million
more fleeing for thier lives to resettle all
over the world. That is the reason why
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in Lowell today. As we celebrate our New
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ourselves to the task of serving these survivors and marginalized people. We vow
to help them to become self-suffiecient
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Again, Thank you for your continued support. Our tasks would not be possible without you. May the Year of the Ox
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BY CHRISTINE CHAUMEAU, Phnom Penh Post
facts from Angkor temples ever
seized was intercepted last month on
THE largest shipment oflooted arti-
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by soldiers, including bodyguards of the
military commander in Siem
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the looting.
Other high-level Siem Reap
sources tell a different story, pointing the finger at Savoeun as the mastermind behind the pillaging and
smuggling.
None of the 17 soldiers has been
arrested.
The artifacts--which were apparently en route to Thailand, neatly cut
into numbered pieces so they could
be reassembled--were recovered
after a 24-hour cat and mouse game
between the soldiers and military police.
The pieces are now at the Conservation d'Angkor in Siem Reap
town. Foreign conservation officials
said they constituted the biggest haul
oflooted artifacts ever recovered in
Cambodia.
The total of nine large Apsaras
and 19 Naga statues came from Koh
Ker temple, roughly between Siem
Reap and Preah Vihear provinces.
According to various sources--all
of whom did not want to be named
for fear ofreprisals--the relics were
found on a military truck traveling
down Route 6 towards Banteay
Meanchey province, which borders
Thailand.
The first attempt to stop the truck
came at a military police checkpoint
outside Siem Reap at Touk Snoul.
The driver flashed his headlights and
drove through the checkpoint.
Forty kilometers away, in Kralanh
district, the truck was made to stop
at another check-point on the border
of Banteay Meanchey province.
According to witnesses in
Kralanh, the 17 soldiers aboard the
vehicle threatened the MPs manning
the checkpoint. "They were pointing
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stop the truck," said one witness.
As well as their guns, the soldiers
showed the MPs a permit signed by
Savoeun allowing them to transport
"wood."
"There was no wood whatsoever," explained one shopkeeper in
Kralanh.
Prevented from going ahead by
the MPs, the soldiers resorted to offering them up to 20,000 Baht ($800)
to allow them to pass, witnesses said.
Despite the threats and offers of
money, the MPs checked the truck
and discovered the statues hidden
beneath an oilcloth on which the soldiers were seated.
The MPs would not let the truck
leave, and telephoned their Siem
Reap headquarters to receive instructions from their superiors.
With a potential confrontation
brewing, an ad hoc committee of
army and military police officials was
hurriedly set up in Siem Reap to decide what to do.
Back at the checkpoint, there was
a three-hour stand-off before the
Siem Reap committee came to a tentative solution--the soldiers were all
allowed to leave but the truck was
impounded and photographs taken of
its haul.
The truck was then sent back to
Siem Reap, and apparently put in the
care ofKhan Savoeun. The next day,
24 hours after the truck had been
stopped, the artifacts were delivered
to Conservation d'Angkor.
Savoeun later told newspapers
that he had been responsible for
catching the smugglers.
But no-one was arrested. MPs
said they knew they could not make
any arrests.
"It is not the first time that such a
situation has occurred, said one MP.
"We often have trouble with the soldiers. The small cannot reprimand the
big ones."
According to several sources and
documents, Khao Savuth, chief of
Savoeun' s bodyguard unit, was
among the escorts on the truck, as
well as at least four of his men.
Savoeun, interviewed last week
at his home in Siem Reap, said he
did not know anyone named Savuth.
But, when questioned further, he
acknowledged that some of his men
had been aboard the truck.
"I gave the orders to some of my
men to dress up and pretend to be
robbers, that is why they were on
the truck," he said.
Savoeun said that he himself had
arranged the second check-point
which stopped the truck--a version
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of events disputed by MPs and other
well-informed sources in Siem Reap
connected with the seizure.
Savoeun said that his 'spies' on
the truck were unable to arrest anyone because the robbers fled. He said
he would rather try to catch the middlemen and the Thai receivers of
looted artifacts, rather than soldiers.
"They are poor and they are offered lots of money. They are not to
blame," said the general.
Asked about the authorization
shown by the soldiers, he said that
he signed many permits and that the
one that they had was exclusively for
wood.
He said that the truck, registered
to another military division, could
have been bought by civilians.
Savoeun declared that he was eager to stop the plundering of Cambodian artifacts, which he had been
told about by contacts in Thailand.
Middlemen had offered up to 2
million Baht for people who smuggled artifacts from Siem Reap temples, he said. No-one had come to
see him and offer money, he added.
Savoeun acknowledged that
some senior officials in Siem Reap
alleged that he was involved in the
robbery. "If they want to file a complaint against me, I will be the winner. I am honest and innocent and I
never receive a bribe. "
He said some Thai smugglers
wanted to kill him.
"I am not afraid of bullets and I
am waiting for the one who wants to
kill me," he declared, removing a pistol from his briefcase and putting it
on his desk.
IF the Angkor temple artifacts
seized in Siem Reap had made it to
Thailand, they could perhaps have
Thailand has on ocassion returned
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meeting at St. Joseph Hall on
Saturday, I was driven to tears by
the act of one elderly Cambodian
man. I had asked him to sign a petition to tell Congressmen and women
and state representatives to do something about the current welfare benefits cut to the elderly and the disabled. The petition asks the legislature to set aside state funds to ensure a minimal safety net of services
to legal immigrants and refugees. It
asks the state to specifically support
and fund the following five-part Compact to protect Massachusetts Immigrants in the FY 98 budget and
provide:
Cash assistance for the elderly and
disabled losing disability payment
by expanding state funding of
EAEDC
Food assistance for legal immigrants
losing Food Stamps by supporting the Nutrition Assistance for
Families, Elderly, Disabled Act,
sponsored by Senator Norton
and Representative Fitzgerald
Medical assistance for immigrants
losing Medicaid by supporting an
Act to Protect Medical Assistance for legal immigrants, sponsored by Representative Antonio Cabral, Representative David
Cohen and Senator Mark
Montigny
State support for Citizenship programs
Oppose residency requirements on
aid to new immigrants
I thought about this man's life as
he carefully and meticulously wrote
down his name and all the members
of his family on a sheet of paper.
English isn' t his language, but he had
managed to learn how to spell his
name and the names of his wife and
children. He wrote, letter by letter,
those names that he thinks are important numbers on a petition to making sure his benefits remain. He was
afraid that the cut would leave him
starving or homeless. As he was
writing, his hand shook as the other
hand held onto a cane. In Cambodia, this man was a peasant who
plowed rice fields and lived with
whatever yields his fields gave to him
year by year. He gathered vegetables, herbs and fish from nature.
The rain and the seasonal changes,
good or bad, were his connection to
the world and the place in which he
dwelled. His village, his temple, his
neighbors and his family were what
he lived for. Then, when the war
came and the five long years of
Khmer Rou ge occupation , where
millions of people were persecuted
and killed, this old man fled. Through
the fire of war and explosion of mines
and firing squads, he managed to
survive and brought his family across
in one piece. Now, he's old, living in
the city of Lowell, with little or nothing to praise about his past. He tries
to live as best as he can with whatever benefits he receives from the
government because this is a democracy where humane acts of compassion and understanding still exist.
Enraged people are taking action
against institutional acts of injustice- the cutting of benefits to legal
immigrants. The man was one
among thousands who gathered that
Saturday to ask the State of Massachusetts to do something about SSI,
Food Stamps and other benefit cuts
for legal immigrants. The Federal
government is trying to force them
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�THE YEAR OF THE OX
By Samkhann Khoeun
A
ncient Cambodian astrologers
observed that events on Earth
tend to follow a twelve-year pattern
with each year represented by an
animal. Depending upon which of
those years he or she was born in, a
Cambodian believed that he or she
Well, here is what I learned
from talking to older folks and also
from a little research I conducted for
my own personal enlightenment.I am
pleased to share it with you.
would be closely epitomized by its
salient characteristics after one those
animals. They noticed that those
born in the same year often share
certain basic personality traits. Thus,
symbolically, according to the year
in which each of us was born, we
are either a Rat, a Rooster, an Ox or
a Tiger; a Horse, a Dragon, a Sheep
or a Pig; a Dog, a Hare, a Monkey
or a Snake.
trological zodiac, the Ox is believed
to be steadfast and methodical, and
though some may find this down-toearth practicality routine to the point
of dullness, the Ox deserves high regard for being reliable and sensible.
It is a pity, however, that a desire to
conform often stifles an innate inventiveness, for the Ox is not without
creative imagination. But, suspicious
of anything that is untried and unproven, the Ox fears taking the initiative. Being so thoroughly dependable, the Ox may rise to positions of
authority; but here too, conservatism
prevents promotion to the highest administrative posts where quick-thinking and a flair for making immediate
decisions are essential.
The Ox may be unromantic,
So, what do people think ofyou
if you were born in the year of the
Ox? What would be the general
characteristics of people who were
born in the year of the Ox? If you
were born in following year, you are
theOx: 1901, 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949,
1961, 1973, 1985, 1997.
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but there is no lack of affection for a
few select friends . Preferring such
company to a wide circle of acquaintances, the Ox can be both loyal and
possessive. In business, the Ox often brings prosperity - not through
entrepreneurial imagination and risk,
but as a result oflogical thought, resolute practicality and honest endurance. What others achieve through
flair and invention is but a shadow of
what the Ox achieve through routine and patience.
The year of the Ox is essentially a time of stability, with the promise of steady expansion. Matters proceed happiest along established lines,
and there may little by way of innovation. But this does not mean that
the year will be unfruitful, far from
it. There are rich benefits to be harvested from the previous year's sowing, literally as well as metaphorically,
since the Cambodians associate the
Ox with the earth, agriculture, tilling
and ploughing.
But while established undertakings can proceed with confidence,
it must be stressed that projects conceived during the Ox Year need a
certain urgency. In practical terms,
this means that in business matters it
is important to get that signature on
the contract, whether yours or theirs,
without delay. The opportunity may
pass all too soon. Or, if a marriage is
contemplated, it would be unwise to
consider a long engagement. The
Ox is associated with bones, limbs,
fractures, rheumatism and arthritis,
and the Year of the Ox promises
well for those suffering from ailments
of this kind.
The year of the Ox, like its
associated winter season and predawn hours, is a period of hibernation and sleep; and there are inevitably those who will be able to exploit
whatever advantages this dormant
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�CMAA - Looking Back, Looking Forward
Joachim Nickerson
he Cambodian Mutual Assis
tance Association of Greater
Lowell, which is known by its
acronym CMAA, has gone through
various transitions during its eleven
years of service to the Cambodian
community. When the Cambodians
started coming to Lowell in the late
1980s, they brought many needs with
them. First, they had to overcome
communication barriers as well as
language and cultural differences
they encountered. The CMAA was
formed as a bridge between the city's
service agencies and the newly arrived Cambodians. Some needed
welfare,jobs and education and language training. The children needed
to be enrolled in school and receive
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proper medical and dental attention.
People arrived with only their IOM
bags (Immigration Office of Migration) containing INS documents.
Consistently, the CMAA has been
there to assist immigrants with their
needs.
The CMAA has gone through
three directors . Mr. Samkhann
Khoeun, the current director, is the
fourth. The first director was Teresa
Therbold, who passed away in 1994,
Vera Godley was the second and
Pere Pan was the third. They all
contributed to the growth and the
functions of the organization as a
human service, non-profit organization.
Neda Nou, who lived in Lowell
for 12 years and worked at the
CMAA the longest, recalled Komar
DayCare when they had only three
children because parents didn ' t understand the importance of preschool education. Now, the daycare
is full with beautiful, vibrant and intelligent children. While the parents
are learning English and working to
gain more work skills, these children
are enjoying their own learning exploration with caring teachers. The
daycare is also looking towards expansion when the CMAA acquires
the Courier Building. Vivian Guimond,
the current Director of the Komar
had expressed great delight toward
working with these children. Individual children learn at different
rates, and she helps them to discover
a process oflearning that will enable
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F
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Care Center. It marked the
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10 th year of serving children and
their families in the Cambodian community as well as in various other
ethnic groups in the city of Lowell.
An "open house" celebration on February 19 th
welcomed
many current and
past employees of
the day
care center and of
the Cambodian
Mutual
Assistance Associ ation
(CMAA).
T h e
Komar
Day Care
Center
was first opened on February 17,
1987 by Betty Borden to reach the
child care needs associated with the
influx of the Cambodian immigrants.
It served to help the families adjust
to their new American life, learn
good parenting skills, and become
productive citizens, all while maintaining their own
cultural heritage.
The children
also have shared
expenences
with families of
other ethnic
groups including
Vietnamese,
Laotian, Spanish,
and Portuguese.
On opening day Betty
Borden was fortunate to have a wonderful assistant
and Khmer translator, Neda Nou.
Neda continues her role today and is
the longest employed worker at the
CMAA! Both were honored with
presentations by executive director
Samkhann Khoeun, the guests were
entertained by Cambodian dance and
music. We were delighted with the
delicate moves of Borbara Heng and
Signit Prak doing the Tiva Propey
dance. It is a children's dance that
was done in Cambodia to commemorate Children's Day. Following this,
Am Chom-Pond played songs on the
dulcimer and the bamboo flute. Our
sincere thanks go out to these performers for volunteering their talents
and adding to our festivities.
Some of our guests included
Marina Schell, administrative manager at the Department of Social
Services (funder of the day care),
Vichenny Keo-Sam and Ro Suon,
past counselors in the day care, and
Joan Gendron, Audra Pinkam, and
Elma Vaidya, former employees of
the CMAA. Everyone
enjoyed reminiscing over
photographs and stories
of past years. This socializing continued over
a delicious lunch of various ethnic foods. The
children's playful gaiety and excitement
throughout the day reflected the success of
the gathering.
Thank you to all for
helping to make this
such a memorable
day!
The Komar Staff
corsages and plaques in appreciation
for their many years of service to
the day care. Betty retired last year
in March.
After the opening remarks and
Vivian Guimond
Ancy Kazemi
Neda Nou
SophomChey
�LETTERS fROM OUR READERS
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I vi 1h to thank you for your 9raciou1 invitation t o at tend t he
fHtive Nev tear•• celebration t bat vil l 100n occur . I u 1orry
that I vill be unable to at tend tbi • j oyou1 event , but I aa
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1nclo • i n9 a check to indicate • y aupport.
Aho , I vant to thank you f or contirlui ng to
to •lhaer Lowell . • I fi nd it t o be a bi 9hly
and I look f orvard to reading eacb i11u1 , I
check with t hi • l etter t o pay f or a yea r ly
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At t his tiae I vi1b to expre • a my very beat vhhH to you and all
aeaben of tbe Greater Lovell Cubodian coaaunity f or a Happy ,
Rnltby , Peace ful and Pro1perou1 l ev Year . Our arn h blHHd to
have you u • l H dH of thi • region ' • CUlbodhn ca.auni ty .
Si ncerely ,
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ENTERPRISE
BANK AND TR UST COM PANY
February 28 , 1997
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Samkbann l<hoeun
Cambodi an Mutual Msi s ta.nce "8sociation
of Greater Low , Inc .
ell
12S Perry Street
Lowe ll, MA 01852
Lowell teen'ssports poorer
pleked for natlonal program
Dear Samlthann ,
On behalf of Georse Duncan and the Enterprise Bank family,
enclosed ii our check in t he amount of $27S . 00 representing p.aywient for
a f ull page ad in the Xllller Lowell Magaz i ne. Bncloaed please find our
ad copy .
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I n light of the la rge number of reques t s which we r eceive from
area non-profits, w are pl eased to be able to support your request
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thi s year .
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Best wi shes for continued succe H .
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•aid . "'I can;t wait t.o go.•
C him. w ho w u ·born in Cam-
bodia, moved to Lowell with hie
fa m ily four ye&.n1 ago. He baa
spent the p ast two au.mmera
playin e oporta and maklnir
friends thr ough the NYSP p,ro-,
gram at U n ivenity ofMaeaa:
ch u setta at Lowe ll. ·
He joined about 300 city kid.o
during the five-week education
and aporta Camp, which ofTera
t w o mealo a day and a healthy
serving of aelf--eateem.
More than 175 NYSP p r ogram • a\ colleges and univenitiea • e rv8 thouaandA of 11- to
16--yea r-olda, including four in
the state: UMaaa-LoweU,
UMaaa-Boeton, Boatoii qollege
and American lnternatiol)al
College in Sprinllfield. .
The program trie • ·'to s park
campers• intereat in math and
acience with fun fiel d trlpa and
off-beat claaaroom work.
..I lotirned t hat friend• h.i p ia
gOOd ,- Chim aa id: "Camp w a • so
much fu n. You bet 111 be going
•ba ck .th is tl umm er." ·
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them to survive in the real world
when they are older: When the
daycare expands, she wants to have
toddlers and more children between
the ages of three and four. Vivian
also teaches parents how to help
their children continue learning at
home. The children learn through
love and trust, through patience and
understanding. The rule also applies
to the services the CMAA provides.
Changes in attitude and in process
oflearning are slow. The CMAA is
committed to helping the Cambodians deal with their day to day
struggles and survival.
The Cambodian refugees contribute a lot to the city of Lowell economically. Neda Nou, who came to
Lowell in 1984, remembers Lowell
when it had little to offer the Cambodian community. There were no
shopping places or markets for Southeast Asians. They began to build
many stores and shops. Then, real
estates prices began to go up, and
many old houses were rented. Also,
car dealers increased their sales since
most Cambodians saved up their
cash to pay for a car all at once rather
than leasing it for a period of time.
Even funeral homes made their
money. In the 1980s, Lowell was a
depressed city. Now, itis vibrant due
to the multitude of cultures here. It
is culturally unique to be in this cosmopolitan of immigrants.
For this coming New Year, the
CMAA has much to celebrate. We
have a newly elected board working
h!lfd to set new visions, priorities and
direction for funding sources. The
Courier Building project is under
way. Everybody involved is very
excited about the limitless opportunities the building offers. But no
matter where it is located, the
CMAA will continue to be a source
of help for the many immigrants in
Lowell.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Would you like to subscribe to our monthly magazine, "Khmer
Lowell"? Would you like to put out an ads to more than 45,000
of our readers.
We offer l9w subscription and ads rate. Please call now for a
quote of your ads. The yearly subscription is only $25.00, Your
subsription and advertisement money not only helping us to
produce this bilingual magazine, but also supporting our work
of serving the Southeast Asian community members who may
otherwise be left out of the system and have no place to go for
help. If you haven't subscribed to "Khmer Lowell", please call
and subscribe now! "Khmer Lowell" provides comprehensive
information about community issues, progress, economic, education, recreation, and more! It also provides you information
about Cambodia as well.
"Khmer Lowell" is a monthly, bilingual magazine published
collaboratively by the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA), the Cambodian American
Voter League (CAVL), and the Khemr Cultural Institute (KCI).
The magazine is widely distributed to Cambodians and nonCambodians throughout the New England areas and the United
States.
We will be delighted to serve your needs! Please call us at (508)
454-4286; fax # (508) 454-1806, or reach us by -E-mail at
CMAA@worldnet.att
Sincerely,
Samkhann Khoeun
Executive Director
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PHONE : (508) 458-4911
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to all become citizens. However,
this man probably does not have a
lot of years to live. He can write
only his name and the names of his
family members. He cannot memorize all the answers to the required
questions the INS would ask. There
is one thing that was wanted that
Saturday. Social justice. Like the
Pledge of Allegiance concludes,
" ... justice for all," not just for citizens. Clare Underwood from the
Merrimack Valley Project reminded
us that we were invited in but to find
out at the end that we couldn't sit
down to the same table. This is not
justice, and Father Jaime Loiacano,
from the Nuestra Senora del Carmen
Church, would agree that what the
government is doing right now can
damage a lot of lives. America is a
land of immigrants, and to victimize
these people would contradict all that
this country stands for.
{TJ ou are cordially invited to join us in celebrating our Cambodian New Year
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Celebration featuring authentic Southeast Asian food, live music band,
dances and cultural entertainment throughout the evening.
The proceeds of the event will go into supporting the many different
programs of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell,
Inc.
Saturday April 5. 1997
6:00 PM to 12.-00 alnlght
Park Cafe
Resta1U'811t
246 Ma'ket ll Lawal, MA 01l52
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Burmese Folktales
Swine, Pig and Lion
There are three animals. Fox is very witty, and very cunning. The pig, the swine and the lions
are very friendly. They are best friends. They love each other. But one day, the fox just goes to
the pig. He just goes and says the bad things about his friends. “Why do you love each other?
This guy is trying to kill you. He told me. You don’t believe me, right?”. “No, he is to be my
best friend all the time.” “Oh, whether you believe me or not, one day you will know.” And now
he goes to the lion and tells about the bad things about the swine again. “The lion is going to kill
you.” Finally, they misunderstand each other. These three best friends, they do not understand
each other anymore because they believe too much about the words from outside. Finally, they
fight each other. They fight each other. Before they die, the fox comes and eats them all.
Moral of the story: Don’t listen to the lying outsiders
The White Elephant
Once upon a time there was a lonely man without family. Since he was so poor, he had nothing
to eat. He had to work for the king as a servant. He had to work very hard as a servant. He had
to do everything of what the king asked him to do. He never refused. He never had a chance to
refuse. Whatever the king asked, he had to do. One day, the king heard that in the jungle, a
white elephant appeared.
The king told him, “You have to go and capture this one. I have given you all things you need.
This time, you have to repay the gratitude by going and capturing the white elephant.” Oh yeah.
“When you come back, you have to come back with the white elephant. If you come back not
with the white elephant, you will be dead.”
He was very upset, but he didn’t have a choice to refuse. He went into the jungle, he was so
afraid, so he even could not look for the white elephant. The white elephant knows how that guy
is feeling. The white elephant had the power. He was so surprised, and he just turn his . . . and
then he looked at and he saw the white elephant. And then he cried a lot. He was crying and
weeping, and he told the white elephant, “I’m so afraid of you, but I have no choice. The king
ordered me to capture you, so I don’t know how to capture you. Can you help me?”
He didn’t want to capture but he was so afraid of the king. If you do not go with me, I dare not
go back to the king anymore. If I don’t go back to the king, how can I live? How can I survive
in the jungle? And then the white elephant can speak. The white elephant said, “I came to you,
don’t be afraid of me. I came here just to help you. Just follow me.” The white elephant took
him into the deep jungle. The white elephant took him into the very, very big Bo Tree.
Many kinds of animals are very heavily, they are playing, and they love each other, having fun
there. So the lonely guy, he was so upset before, but when he see these elephants were very
happily, so he forget everything about his feeling. When he remembers, he turns around and
look, he didn’t see the white elephant anymore. And then he was leaning on the banyan tree
because he was so tired. Then he falls asleep. He got a dream. He had a dream. In his dream,
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�the white elephant told him, just go back to the king. Go tell your king, say, “You will get the
white elephant, what you want.” Just go and tell the king, “The white elephant that you want,
you will get it soon.” In his dream, the white elephant told him. “Before you get the white
elephant, you have to do something. The thing that you have to do is that you have to give away
all the belongings that you have. All the money, all the treasure you have. Just give it to the
poor, the troubled people. You have to give it away to all the people, and then you will get the
white elephant that you want.”
And then finally he woke up. He was thinking if I go back without the white elephant, the king
will kill me. He was afraid of the king. If I don’t go back, what I’m supposed to do here in the
jungle alone. He was thinking all the time. Finally, he decided to go back. The king was so
mad when he saw him without the white elephant, and he took all his knives out. And he
apologized. At the time, the king was so angry and took all his swords. At the time, he said that
he apologized, “Before you kill me, just listen one or two words from me. So let me tell, only
after that you can kill me,” he said. He said, “I met with the white elephant.” So when the king
heard he met with the white elephant, his anger cooled a little bit. And then he said as in his
dream, “So whatever you have, just give away to the poor people. If you donate everything,
every money you have, finally if you have nothing you will get the thing you want, the white
elephant. I will go and get it for you,” he said. “Are you sure?” the king said. “Yes, sure,”
because he really wanted to get the white elephant. That’s why he gave away all the things that
he possessed.
The king told him that, “I did everything what you told me, so this is your time, your turn.” And
he said, “Okay. Yes.” And then he went to the jungle. When he went to the jungle, so the white
elephant was ready waiting for him. And then he took the lonely guy on his shoulder or his back
He saw the white elephant and the white elephant was with him readily. The white elephant
already knew why he was coming back.
The king announced all of his people to welcome the white elephant with a bang. Music or
something like that. They played music very loudly when they saw the white elephant. The
people from the other countries around that area, they heard the news that the white elephant
lived in that area. Everyone wanted to come and see the white elephant. Because it is very rare.
A white elephant is very rare, that’s why they wanted to see. When the white elephant came into
the king palace, the music was playing very loudly. At the time, the white elephant told the
audience, the people, “My name is not the White King. My name is the Prince of Peace.”
Lots of people wanted to come and see the white elephant. That’s why everyday people come all
the time and to see the white elephant. Whenever they come, they bring something like a tribute,
like a present, offerings. Like gold and money, a lot of things they give. Every people, they
come and give like this. The king become richer than before.
After he gives, the Prince of Peace, the white elephant summoned and called the lonely guy and
told him, “I have been living in the palace for many years, so I’m also getting old now. I have to
go back to my place.” He also told the lonely guy, “In that country, everything’s ready.
Everything’s developing. You have peace and everything, so I don’t need to stay here anymore.
I have to go back.” And then the lonely guy went and told the king. Then the king celebrated a
farewell party for the elephant. When the music is coming and the white elephant took the lonely
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�guy on his back, and then he just flied and disappeared. The lonely guy didn’t have to worry
about food anymore.
Moral: If you are generous and can give away your treasure to others in need, you will have
peace, wisdom and wealth.
If you keep your promise
Once upon a time there was a grandpa and grandson. And one day, the grandchild to his
grandpa, “Hey Grandpa, you told me that you are going to tell me about the story.” “Yeah, I will
tell you. I have only one grandson. Of course, I will tell,” he said. And then the grandpa told
about his life story. He told him that, “I was very poor when I was young. I had only one sister.
We really had a hard time to survive.” And then one day, he decided to go and work in another
place. There were two roads to reach to that area. One was the shortcut and the other one was
the normal road that people went. If he went the shortcut, it would take him only one day. If he
went the other way, it would take him two or three nights. They had to sleep on the way two or
three nights. He dared not to use the shortcut because it was dangerous sometimes. He just went
to the normal way. On the way, he saw a rich guy in that village. He got a job from that rich
guy.
After one month, someone came and told him that his father was going to die soon, so he had to
go back. “If you don't go back, you will not have a chance to see your dad.” And so, at the time,
he did not get any wages and any salary yet, but he told his boss. The rich guy at the time, he
didn’t have any money in his hand, but he really felt pity on that guy. Finally, he gave a buffalo
to the guy and his sister.
This time, on the way back to home, they chose the shortcut because they wanted to see their
father. If they went in the normal way, it would take two or three days and they couldn’t have
the chance to see their father. No matter how hard it was, they would choose the shortcut. They
were riding the buffalo. The sister and the brother were taking the buffalo for the whole day.
The buffalo was very tired the whole way. Yeah, in the middle way, in the middle they saw a
very big patty field of rice. The buffalo was very hungry. It ate the rice there.
In the middle of the field, there is a small hut. They heard a voice. They didn’t see anything, but
they heard the voice coming out from the hut. And then they heard a girl telling her grandma,
“Grandma, Grandma, you see the buffalo is eating all our patty.” The grandma came out of the
hut. “Who is that?” she shouted. And then they were so afraid, and they apologized to that
grandma. They told that grandma about their real story and then they apologized the grandma.
“Please don’t do us anything. Please forgive us. Let us go back to see our father. So finally,
after the funeral, we will come back and help you for the harvest.”
That grandma told him, “You have to keep your promise.” “Oh yes, we’ll keep our promise.
We’ll come back and help you for the harvest.” Then, she let them go.
When they went back home, they saw the corpse of their dad. After the funeral, as they
promised, they come back to help the harvest. They helped all the harvest until they finished
everything. “We keep our promise, so let us go back now”. The grandma told them, “Don’t go
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�back. I need you more. I’m also getting very old. I’m very old. I have no children, so I will
give all my things to you.” Finally, they got everything from the grandma. And then their lives
became better.
Moral: If you keep your promise, your life will be better in the future.
The story of cuckoo bird
Once upon a time, there was a couple. They have seven children, six sons and one daughter.
At that time, around that year, the village had robbery. That’s why most of the people did not
have time to sleep. They had to check whether the robbers were coming. But the youngest
daughter, who their parents love her very much. The other six brothers also love her very much.
She slept a lot. When she slept, nobody could wake her up.
In the Karen village, they didn’t have the pillow, but they use the . . . , the very long . . . All
the family use the … as a pillow. If the thieves or robbers came, the mother just took it and
everybody woke up. But one day, the robber came, but the parents took the pillow out. All the
other boys woke up and the girl didn’t wake up. She was left alone at home. All the other
people left and ran. She was around about six years old at the time, so she always nagged to
mom to go and slept with her friend in someone’s house. The parents never let her go and sleep
there because she slept all the time. That’s why. In case the robbers come, she might be in
trouble, and that’s why the parents never let her go and sleep in someone’s house.
But on that night, she was nagging all the time, all the time, but she doesn’t want to hear that
mom doesn’t want to . . . and she let her go and sleep in the house. But unfortunately, on that
night, the robber come and rob the house. All the family members left and ran away. She was
left alone at the house because nobody took her. She was only six year at the time that she was
left in the house alone there.
On the night when the thief and the robber came, she was beaten very badly, so the thief and the
robbers forced her to give them money. She said, “I don’t have the money.” “Come on, tell me
your parents’ name. You have to ask money from your parents, otherwise you will be killed.” So
from that time, she was trying to call her mom. Cuckoo, cuckoo. This is like, “Mom, mom,
mom.” Yeah, that’s why wherever she goes, she was trying to call her mom’s name.
“Where are you now?” Finally, she was beheaded by the thief.
She was beheaded and later she was incarnated into a cuckoo bird.
Moral: Children should not sleepover.
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The complete collection is available on this site.
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The document with four Burmese stories for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The first story is titled, "Swine, Pig, and Lion. The second story is titled, "The White Elephant" and is about a king's servant who went into the forest to capture the white elephant. The third story is titled, "If you keep your promise" and about a grandpa telling his life story to his grandson. The fourth story is titled, "The story of cuckoo bird."
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL,
MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE,
& INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY ALUMNI
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present
Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts
Schedule of Events
Welcoming Remarks
Independent University Alumni Association of Lowell recognition of
Chummeng Soun, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Trailer for Sophileak: Unveiling the Magic and Mystery
Performance of “Sophileak” by Angkor Dance Troupe
Channa Sath as Sophileak (Female Deity)
Virginia Prak as Preah (Prince) Aunaruth
This story is about 2 lovers -- Princess Osa and Prince Aunaruth -- who
were separated by the gods. Sophileak, a female deity who took pity on
Princess Osa, went in search of Osa’s lover. She returned with portraits of
many princes she had encountered, but none of them were the right one.
The princess gave Sophileak her ring and scarf to continue on her search.
In this scene, Sophileak finally finds Aunaruth, who recognizes the perfume
on the scarf. Later, Sophileak will reunite the lovers.
Preview of Apsara Dancing Stone by Angkor Dance Troupe
Full performance on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, at 7pm at Lowell High School
Reading from “Three Flames” by author Alan Lightman, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Discussion to follow.
Book signing and reception
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL,
MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE,
& INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
present
Rekindling the
Light of Khmer Arts
Featuring Alan Lightman , author of the new book Three Flames
and Chummeng Soun, recipient of a grant from the Independent
University Alumni Association for “Sopileak: Unveiling the Magic and
Mystery,” a documentary about the revival of a classical Khmer dance
Monday, September 23 • 5-7 PM
UMass Lowell - University Crossing Lobby
220 Pawtucket St, Lowell, MA 01854
RSVP at: www.alumni.uml.edu/KhmerArts
For further information, please contact CAAS@uml.edu
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL,
MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE,
& INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
present
Rekindling the
Light of
Khmer Arts
Featuring Alan Lightman , author of the new book Three Flames
and Chummeng Soun, recipient of a grant from the Independent
University Alumni Association for “Sopileak: Unveiling the Magic and
Mystery,” a documentary about the revival of a classical Khmer dance
Monday, September 23 • 5-7 PM
UMass Lowell - University Crossing Lobby
220 Pawtucket St, Lowell, MA 01854
RSVP at: www.alumni.uml.edu/KhmerArts
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�You are cordially invited to
a special pre-event reception celebrating
Khmer arts and stories.
4:00
PM
5:00
PM
Pre-event Special Reception
University of Massachusetts Lowell
University Crossing Room 255
Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts
Meet our special guests
Alan Lightman
author of Three Flames
Chummeng Soun
recipient of Independent University Alumni Association
grant for “Sopileak: Unveiling the Magic and Mystery,” a
documentary about the revival of a classical Khmer dance.
For more information, please contact Michael Tith at 978.934.6659
or Michael_Tith@uml.edu
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Engaging Southeast Asian
Families and Communities In
Your Classroom
Saturday, November 2, 2019
OR
Saturday, December 7, 2019
9:00AM to 3:30PM
O’Leary Library, University of Massachusetts Lowell
61 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA
(free parking in Wilder Faculty/Staff Lot, 94 Wilder Street)
Register by Oct. 15 (for 11/2) or Nov. 19 (for 12/7)
at www.uml.edu/sea.
Check-in begins at 8:30AM
Lunch & light breakfast provided
$100 stipend for participation & up to 15 PDPs
About the workshop:
This workshop will focus on ways to increase engagement with Southeast Asian families
and communities. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the diverse histories
and cultures of Southeast Asia, increased knowledge of best practices in culturally
relevant instruction, and awareness of how to engage Southeast Asian American
families and communities using culturally appropriate pedagogy.
Resources & materials suitable for use in elementary to high school classrooms
For more information, please contact CAAS@uml.edu or call 978-934-4612
Presented by University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Asian American
Studies and the Tsongas Industrial History Center
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Vietnamese Focus Group, story 6 (Formation of Vietnam)
R:
But surprisingly, none of you picked the Lac Long Quan Au Co story. That is the main
story about . . . Very important story in our history.
R:
Something . . . with real power.
R:
It a part of our history, called . . . the word in Vietnam called Con Rong, Chau Tien. This
mean Children of the Dragon and Grandchildren of Fairy. So that the Vietnamese is proud of that
heritage which is son of the dragon and grandson of fairy. So the story go like this, Lac Long
Quan is one of the son of the dragon from East Sea coming to the north. And met a lady which is
the daughter of fairy of the mountain. So they got married. After that the Au Co, which is the
name of the daughter of the fairy, not give birth, she laid a hundred eggs.
Moderator: She’s a very fertile woman.
R:
She laid eggs that hatch into a hundred sons. This is just a story, a hundred son.
R:
It’s like the God of the Mountain and God of the Sea.
R:
Then after they live with each other for a while, Lac Long Quan said to Au Co, “I am the
son of the dragon, we live in the sea. You are the daughter of the fairy, you are the mountain. We
cannot live long together. So why don’t we divide it? I take 50 sons going down to the sea. You
take 50 sons, go to the mountain.” So they separated. And 50 children . . . however when we
separate, but we help each other. If there is any problem we will help each other. So the 50 son
go with Lac Long Quan, that make the Vietnamese today.
R:
I think because Vietnam was surrounded by the sea, so that’s why they . . .
R:
I think the story . . . I mean today, a lot of people explain the story the way how our
ancestors tell the story.
Moderator: There’s 50 sons up north and 50 sons in the south. So 50 sons in the mountains, and
50 sons in the sea.
R:
The 50 sons follow the father, make the country, we call Van Lang. And there are a lot of
stories relating to those dynasty called Van Lang. Eighteen kings Van Lang. Many stories like
banh chung, which is we make the rice cake, and the story how we eat the petal . . . the Asian,
we eat the leaves and the...
R:
The beetle juice.
R:
Yeah, yeah, beetle. So many story relating to that 18 kings we call Van Lang. That is the
pre-date to An Duong Vuong which is the story my wife said. So that is pre-date to that history.
R:
This one is the 18 one also the princess . . .
R:
Yeah, that is one of the story within the dynasty of 18 kings. However, the people today,
they can explain the story the way how people back then think, and create that story for us. They
think that there are many tribe back then. They live like a tribe, like here the Indians. They live
by tribe. So they stand for a hundred tribes, different tribes.
�R:
So that’s how they put the whole Vietnam.
R:
In the northern part of Vietnam, so a hundred tribe just out of the wood, hundred, many.
Just mean many, that’s all. It doesn’t mean a hundred, but mean many. Many tribes come
together living in that area. Some from the sea coming up, some from the mountain coming
down. But interesting thing is they explain that because of the people from the sea follow the
father, which is the father is the head of the household. While the mother is a different type of
tribe, what do you call that?
R:
The mountain . . .
Moderator: The mother is matriarch, and the father is the patriarch.
R:
Yeah, matriarch, exactly.
Moderator: That explains why there’s certain tribes.
R:
Oh, your dragon grandma.
Moderator: On my father’s side Chinese from Southern Guangzhou, they moved to Burma. And
so there is the matriarch. And when I met her after my father died, she actually literally sat on a
wooden dragon chair, as the matriarch to preside over. So I didn’t know that, I didn’t know about
them until I went to the memorial.
R:
You could be a princess.
R:
I thought that, when I went to Vietnam just in October, then I note that the women, they
like the head of the house. When they talk, the husband has to listen to them. Even they get
married, they choose the husband, not the husband choose them. Interesting, I’ve talked to them,
because we sat together, and they’re saying, you know, and they work. They take care of the
kids. They take care of the household. They do everything. And I say, “And what about
husband?” Still today.
R:
Today, even you go to the northern part of Vietnam in the mountain area, they still have
the . . .
R:
Mother is the head of the house and they do a lot of things. The husband doesn’t know a
thing.
R:
I don't know. The man is not doing anything.
R:
They don’t have to do anything.
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: So is the mountain the matriarch or the . . .
R:
The mountain is the matriarch. Yeah. Like the Hmong people. All of us know that story,
maybe not new so much. But this one here, everyone knows.
R:
What is the title of the story?
�R:
Children of the Dragon, and Grandchildren of the Fairy. Con Rong, Chau Tien.
R:
Wow! That’s amazing.
Moderator: And so they don’t understand . . . I learned that even though there’s different
countries, the sea communities are more similar than the mountain communities. That ethnically,
you could be ethnically—it doesn’t happen in Laos because we’re land-locked, but if you do
Cambodia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, the people from the coast are more similar than
the people from the mountains are more similar. Because there’s a big divide between the
mountains. The culture doesn’t travel over the mountain. Whereas with the seafarers, they would
go from one island to another island. They would intermarry and then that’s where they get the
mixing or the blending of the different tribes. So you have very similar like my dad’s ethnic
Chinese, Burmese, but married to a Laos-Thai woman. But it’s all mountain. They were all
mountain people. Versus the people from the Philippines and Indonesians, they are more similar.
R:
So the mountain people were more isolated?
Moderator: Mm-hmm, they were isolated just by geography, that the culture is more
mountainous. Mountain people versus sea people.
R:
That’s so interesting.
Commented [C1]: Above story? Not sure about this /
the above story
Commented [C2]: Part of story?
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The transcript of a meeting to share Vietnamese stories, [2018]
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Folk literature, Southeast Asian
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The transcript of a Vietnamese focus group meeting where one story was shared for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The story was about the son of the dagon and the grandson of the fairy. Included in the document are comments left by transcript reviewers.
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Vietnamese Focus Group, story 5
R:
So we both have the story together, and this was something that we like. It’s a legend,
Vietnamese long time ago, back then there’s a king named An Duong Vuong. I will show you all
the names later. And actually, my husband will tell the story, not me. We happy now. Okay, now
you start, honey.
R:
I think the story has been passed down for a long, long time, many generations. This is
one of them. I think has some meaning, after the story I will talk a little bit about that. King An
Duong Vuong, he had a dream to build a city in the shape of a . . .
R:
Kingdom.
R:
No, it’s a type of shell.
R:
A seashell.
Moderator: Like a conch?
R:
That’s right.
R:
You only can go in by one way to get inside, like a spiral to come in. But during the time
he tried to build up the city, the wall keep coming down all the time. After he build it up, the next
day it collapse. He build it again, it keep collapse. So one day the God, the turtle, we call Kim
Qui, is the God of the Turtle, appear and give him one of his claw and tell the king to use that to
make the trigger for the crossbow. As soon as he make that he can find one arrow, it kill a
thousand of enemies. So that is the magic of the trigger using his claw. So the neighbor, one of
the country next to An Duong Vuong, which is called Au Lac at the time. Trieu Da is the king of
another country next to it, he want to take over Au Lac. His strategy is have his son to marry the
daughter of An Duong Vuong. The prince, his name is Trong Thuy, married the princess, which
is the daughter of An Duong Vuong. So they both happy, however Trong Thuy want to know the
secret of how he defend his city. And no one can overcome it or defeat it. My Chau is his wife
tell him the story.
R:
She showed him the crossbow.
R:
She showed him the trigger and the crossbow. So Trong Thuy asked other people to make
an imitate one, and put that into the crossbow, and he took the real one.
R:
This is drama.
R:
That’s why I like it. Tell me more.
R:
And then he came back home.
R:
But before he came back home, he told his wife . . . is that the one thing about the coat?
R:
He came home. And his father’s armies started to surround the city of An Duong Vuong.
An Duong Vuong no worry, because he have crossbow, he can kill anybody. So he just naive.
�R:
No, no, but you forgot one thing. Before Trong Thuy, the husband, leaving his wife and
he said that, “If anything happen to you, then wear a coat with fur. It’s made by swan feather.”
R:
is.
Swan feather. Then just pull the feather and put along the way, so he can find where she
R:
Marking the way wherever she goes, so he can trace her.
R:
That is one of the thing I forgot to mention. When the army of Trieu Da has surrounded
the city, so An Duong Vuong start to take the crossbow out and using it. It not effect anymore,
because no more magic trigger. So he gets surround and he had to find a way to escape. And he
take his horse with the daughter in the back. And the daughter do what her husband tell her to do.
She start to mark the way.
Moderator: Did you get that? The son told that if anything were to happen—son-in-law said to
his wife that wear a coat of swan feathers. So I can find you.
R:
So they can trace her.
R:
Actually, he gave her the coat.
Moderator: Oh, he gave her the coat, the swan feather coat.
R:
So because of that trail there, he’d be able to find An Duong Vuong. And at the time he
had caught the Kim Qui, the God of the Turtle coming up and say, “Your enemy riding on your
back.” Which is his daughter. So that is a sad story is he killed the daughter.
Moderator: Who killed the daughter?
R:
The father because . . .
R:
The king.
R:
This is terrible.
R:
And then they put her onto the well. And then when her husband came to that well, she
had already died. So he mourn her over there. I think later people worship her on that well there.
R:
Oh wow!
R:
Actually, now today, they found the city, the . . .
Moderator: The spiraling shell city?
R:
ago.
Yeah. So it’s really true. They found the foundation. They just found that a few years
Moderator: So it was a legend, that there was a kingdom. And he wanted to build a spiraling city
in the shape of a shell, but he couldn’t do it because the walls kept on falling. Then this magical
turtle gave him . . .
R:
How old is the wall?
�R:
This one must be about more than 2,000 years, because we have a history Trieu Da is one
of the king took over this An Duong Vuong. So in our history matching with the Chinese history,
matching back to the date around hundred years before Christ. Around then. And then because of
the history, I mean because of the excavation recently, they found the foundation. So it does have
something . . .
Moderator: They have a new technology now with . . . Have you read about the Angkor Wat?
How they now have been able to map the underground, so it’s actually larger than the perimeter
now.
R:
Like laser . . .
Moderator: It’s 3,000 times larger than what it is, because they were able to take a computer
projection of the layering of the city. So I wonder if they used the same computer software to
look at the foundation. That’s how they’re now doing archaeology is to look at based on these
computer projections.
R:
How long ago?
Moderator: That one was this past year that they found . . .
R:
Two years I think.
R:
And what is the moral of the story?
R:
This one here? Just a legend. It’s not a moral.
R:
It’s a legend.
R:
Legend, not real.
R:
Well, it has been tell the story like that for many years.
Moderator: Is there a statue of her now?
R:
There is a place, I don’t know what village, but they still worship her with a temple.
R:
And I think that they have a temple of An Duong Vuong too. When we went to Vietnam,
we want to see that place but we couldn’t have chance to see it.
R:
That’s great.
R:
We saw so many interesting in my country. When we went there we see, “Oh my gosh,
there’s a place here from history.”
�
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Vietnamese Focus Group, story 4
R:
Many story. Next story maybe I’ll go. Same idea, same moral, but maybe a lot of detail.
R:
Okay, this story I call it The Golden Star Fruit Tree. I think in your country they have it
too, right?
R:
The star fruit tree.
R:
The fruit tree. But also they put the golden in front, that’s why it has some gold in this
story too. This one very rich man, very rich, who live in the village, he die. He have two sons.
The two sons inherit a lot of money, gold. But two sons are very different. One, the older, the
older one was greedy. The younger one was very kind.
Moderator: The elder one was what?
R:
Greedy. So the older one sat down with the all of the fortune that is his, and left for the
younger only a tree, the star fruit tree. They all have wife. So the older one is all set up about
that, so he don’t worry anything, but the younger one very worry, so he have to base on the tree
for living. So he take care of the tree and make the tree and day after day it get bigger and had a
lot of fruit. And one day the raven come and eat a lot of fruit from his tree. And he feel very sad.
He say, “Why you eat?” The raven didn’t say anything, but the raven keep coming every day and
eat that. So finally, he had to say, “Raven, please don’t eat my fruit because that the only thing I
have.” So the raven said, “Don’t worry. I will pay you back with gold.” And the raven also said,
“Okay, prepare for bag about 60 cm long and wide about three pounds. And wait for tomorrow
morning, I will come back and bring you to get the gold.”
So the next morning the raven come back and put him on his back and fly over the sea to
the island, to the cave, something like that, and get a lot of gold. And the younger one fill with
gold, come back, and he fly back to home. And when he get home, he now he . . . So he very
happy and now he remember his brother. So he contact his brother and invite him to his house.
And his brother say, “No. I don’t want to go.” Because his brother say, “This guy poor. I don’t
need to go there.” But he keep inviting him and say, “I have something for you.” So finally, the
elder come and then he surprised to see his brother now very big house, have a lot of things in
the house, and very healthy. So he asked him why he got that. So the younger one tell him the
truth, they have the tree and then the raven come and like that. So the other elder one say, “Okay,
now I want to do that.”
So he want to trade the tree with my property. So then he trade that and then he give his .
. . he waiting now, he have the tree. And then everyday he come and wait for the raven coming.
The raven will finally come and eat a lot of fruit. He say the same thing, “Raven, don’t eat my
fruit.” The raven say, “Okay, I will pay you back with gold. Prepare a bag with three pounds and
60 cm something. I will pick it up and you will get the gold.” But we know the elder one is very
greedy, so he doesn’t make the bag pounds, he make it six. So bigger, so he can get more gold.
So next day the raven come, carry him, fly over the sea, get to the island to get the gold. And he
filled with gold.
R:
He put the gold in the pocket and everywhere.
�R:
He just filled up and loaded with gold.
R:
He climbed up to the back of the raven and fly back over to the land, to his house. But,
when he fly to the sea and go for a couple minutes, it too heavy, overweight for the raven. So the
raven have to be gone down and leave him off the back, and he dropped to the sea. And died
there. He don’t get gold, because he say, “Let go, let go.” He don’t want to let go of the gold. He
keep going, get heavy, and then he fall down.
R:
So the moral of that story . . .
R:
And then the younger one waiting for his brother, and saying, “Why is it so long he’s not
come back?” And day after he met the raven and asked the raven why he not come back, and
raven tell him the story. He keep the gold and then he fell down.
Moderator: So now the younger brother gets both the properties and the tree.
R:
So the moral is the same, when you grab all things, then you lose everything.
R:
Don’t be greedy.
Moderator: Don’t take more than three pounds.
R:
That’s the back?
R:
No, bag. In the old time, they make bag like this. The raven gives an instruction to make
a bag . . .
Moderator: I would get very little gold if I was on that raven.
R:
Not one pound, you have three pounds.
R:
That’s . . . ?
Moderator: This is only one. See, this is what I want inside mine. I would be very poor but very
happy. I would be very happy with my three pounds. I would not die and live very modestly with
my three pounds.
R:
Great story.
�
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Vietnamese Focus Group, story 3
R:
Yes. This story is called A Big Pot of Gold. In the old days, there was a husband and wife
who lived in a countryside. They are very poor but they have good heart. And then one day when
the husband went to the field, and he have a field of—they grow paddy, rice, and when they
plough the soil . . .
R:
They grow poppy fields?
R:
No paddy rice. Then when they plough soil in his land, he found a big pot of gold. Then
he just put it back, and that night when he went home he tell his wife that I found a big pot of
gold. And the wife said, “Where is it?” He said, “I put it back in our field.” And then the wife
said, “Why don’t you bring it home? If somebody take it then we lose it.” And he answer in a
calm voice, “If that’s the gift from Gods, then it will be ours.” And if it not, and if it fall to other
people hand, then that’s okay too. And during that time there’s a thief who stand in the corner of
the house. They listen to the husband and wife conversation. After the husband and wife went to
sleep, they go straight to the field and looking for the pot of gold. He found it and bring it to his
home. And then the next day . . .
Moderator: Who is this person?
R:
A thief. They overheard the husband and wife story. Then the next day, the husband went
to the field, but he couldn’t find the . . . the thief took the pot home and then when he open it he
saw lot, lot of snakes, big snake crawling in the pot. So he just took the lid and cover it up and
put it away. Then the next day, the husband went to the field and he could not find the pot of
gold. That night he went home and talked to his wife and said, “Somebody took it. I could not
find it.” And the wife said, “I told you to bring it home and you didn’t listen.” And the husband
still answer in a calm voice, “It got took, the gold. It’s okay too.”
Then at that time the thief is also listen to the couple. And he talk to himself, “This man
must be a blind person because there is only snake, not gold.” So he said that I will bring the pot
of snake back to this field. And then the next day the husband went to the field and he found the
pot again. He open it up, yes there’s a lot of gold inside. He left it there and went back home,
talked to his wife. “I found it again.” And the wife said, “but why don’t you bring it home?” And
the husband said, “If it is a gift from God, then it should follow us home. Don’t be worried. It
will find home.” At this time the thief also stand in the corner of the house and he said, “Oh my
God, this man is so crazy. He must be very blind. Okay, I will bring the pot of snake to his home.
So the snake will bite both of them to death.”
So the thief go to the field and carry that pot, and put right in front of his house. The next
morning the husband wake up and when he went out of his . . . , he found the pot right there.
He’s very happy, and he open it, he saw there’s gold inside full to the top, and he called his wife.
“Honey, come here. Here I told you, can you see the gift from God. It find its way home.” And
then from that time they become rich and they help out other poor people. That’s the end of the
story.
R:
Nice.
R:
Where did the thief go?
�R:
They didn’t say it. But the thief didn’t get anything.
R:
But the moral behind the story is if you’ve done good deeds, or if you are a good person,
it’s become like the . . .
R:
You have the rewards.
R:
You get the rewards, but the thief is not a good person. He only want to steal from the
couple, so he could not find anything good in that pot.
R:
Yeah, many story tell us about if you bad, you get whatever you get, if you’re good you
will get . . .
Moderator: You’ll get your just reward.
�
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Vietnamese Focus Group, story 2
R:
This story was my favorite story when I was a little kid. My parents told me about it, and
I also read it from books for moral teaching. I don’t remember all the details, but the main idea . .
.
R:
We have friends who will help.
R:
Yeah, we have friends who will help, but basically there was a couple who was in the
business of selling and buying things to earn a living. But they was not very honest, so when they
make the balance, of mercury in the middle, the bar for the balance. It’s empty in the middle.
R:
Balances, the scale was empty?
R:
In the middle, there’s an empty tube, and they put mercury in it. There’s a hollow tube.
So they put the . . . and mercury was the metal that has the highest density. So when they buying
something, they would try to make that it would weigh less so that they don’t have to pay more.
They use that . . .
R:
Very scientific. Mercury will move it and . . .
R:
Yes. And when they sell things they would try to tip the scale to the other side so that will
weigh more, so the mercury will . . . It can flow easily. Remember mercury . . .
R:
Nobody know.
R:
It’s a liquid metal, right, so . . .
R:
It flows.
R:
After a while, they got rich real quick, they bought houses and they had two sons. They
was good, but it got to the point that they got so rich and then they knew that they was not being
honest. And they tell each other that maybe because in ancient culture they believe in whatever
deed you do, if you do bad deed, bad thing will come to you. Therefore, they say maybe now we
are so rich, maybe we should stop doing that. So they decided to get rid of that scale. They chop
it in half and inside they found a drop of blood. Not a drop but it’s like a clump of blood. They
were so terrified. After a while, the two sons dies. One die first and then the other one die too.
One after the other. So they felt so bad for a few months. You know fairy tale, so they cry for a
long time.
R:
They mourn.
R:
Yeah. The wizard . . .
Moderator: The Buddha.
R:
No, I think there was another name for it. Not a wizard, the good fairy. The good fairy
appeared to them and say it seem like because they’d been crying for months, after their two sons
die. They’d been crying and they were very sad for two months. So afterwards the good fairy
appear to them and say, “Now I can see that you really feel sorry for what you did. And don’t
�worry about it, the two sons that you lost, actually they are the evil children that was sent to you.
Now don’t worry, just continue being good and then you will have other children.” And they did.
So the moral story behind it is that they teach people to be honest.
Moderator: What’s the title of this story?
R:
The Mercury Balance. Or scale. I think it’s a balance.
R:
Back then we don’t have electrical scale, we have like a . . . like a . . . adjusted we have
the scale.
Moderator: Picture of where you have the two balances.
R:
The scale where one heavier.
R:
Kind of there’s a long stick and there’s a hook at one end and then when you weigh it you
will put the weight on the other side. But the rod across, the horizontal rod, is hollow so you can
put mercury in there.
R:
The fairy is a Buddha thing. It’s like the . . .
R:
In Vietnamese, they call it But. Good fairy.
Moderator: Male or female?
R:
Male.
R:
Do you know like the one that you have at the store, where people put the dollar?
R:
That’s different.
R:
I think that’s for . . .
R:
Could you spell that, please?
R:
B-U-T . . . with a dot under.
Moderator: If you were to spell it phonetically, though? But an OO with a line at the top.
Because if we see that, But, but if you do the Boot. Spell it phonetically so we can use it.
R:
I don’t know, most of the Vietnamese fairy tale the But is always the male. I don’t know,
maybe it’s because of . . .
R:
There’s two good character, always happy people.
Moderator: Yeah, because the Westerns, they always said it’s a female. So I want to make sure
it’s culturally right gender.
R:
We have both. Fairy is female. But But is male.
�R:
To distinguish, we say . . . Actually, . . . always is the male. You don’t even need to use
this. But . . . that mean it’s for the female. The good fairy is female, but is for male.
Moderator: And this is the female fairy [Bah] Tien.
R:
But this I can’t really do like that what I did on here.
R:
Sometime just represent by a long bare person, no hair.
R:
This is the male. [Bah] Tien.
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Vietnamese Focus Group, story 1
R:
Me? So the story I’m going to tell is about the God of the Mountain and the God of the
Sea. In during the time of King [Honban], the 18th, he had one of the princesses is the most
beautiful lady. So when she came of age, the King wanted to marry her off, so he’s been looking
for a male with all kinds of . . . or like wealthy, handsome.
Moderator: All these characteristics. Tall, dark, and handsome, and wealthy, okay.
R:
So they tried to get him the most suitable to marry her. So one day, there are two
gentlemen appear and they both fit perfectly for the princess. So once he introduce himself as the
God of the Mountain, which is something, it’s spelled S-O-N and then the . . .
Moderator: S-O-N?
R:
SON, N as in Nancy. Son mean mountain. Tinh mean God. So he say, “I'm the God of
the Mountain.” I own all those on the land, trees, animals, all kind of good things there, and he
had a lot of powers too. So the king was like, “I really like you.” And then the other man was
like, “I’m the God of . . . I’m Thuy Tinh. I'm the God of the Sea, so I own all kind of things
that’s under the sea. I have power, he was handsome, and I own all the wealth down under the
sea. So the king was like, “I only have one daughter. I would love to have you both as my son-inlaw, but since I only have one, so who ever gather sort of like what you call . . . When you
asking someone to marry you have to bring all kind of gift.
Moderator: Dowry.
R:
The dowry is for the girl, the offering. All kind of gift offering. So whoever comes back
with the offering first, I will give my daughter to that person. So the next day, Son Tinh, which is
the God of the Mountain, came back first and so the king marry off his daughter. The God of the
Sea came an hour later and heard that the God of Mountain already married the princess. He got
very upset. He was so aggressive, so he use all his power. He raises the sea level up and he make
wind, he make the rain came, the sea rise.
R:
Tsunami.
Moderator: A sore loser.
R:
Yeah, it rise and what he wanted to start the war with the Mountain God, so he could take
back the princess. The God of Mountain doesn’t want to move the princess that easily. So as the
water raise, he also raised the mountain. So both had been fighting for days, lives were lost. But
after a while they both get tired, so the Sea God settled down, calm down, everything came back
to normal. So what they say is that once in a while when the God of the Sea get upset, and he still
want to take back the princess so he keep fighting, so that’s why people say there’s tsunami,
there’s some other . . . So that is my story. Every time they fight, the Sea God lost.
Moderator: Would that mean that the Mountain King also, is that when you have avalanche and
earthquake that that would explain him? Like when he is fighting?
R:
In this one, I think just explain why we have the tsunami, the flooding.
�R:
The mountain was just raised up.
Moderator: I didn’t know if he crumbled the mountain.
R:
Thank you.
R:
Yeah, I mean like almost every year they have either flooding or . . .
R:
A rematch.
R:
Yeah, a rematch. But every time they fight, the Sea God lost.
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11-28-16 Vietnamese Focus Group
STORY 1
God of the Mountain and the God of the Sea
So the story I’m going to tell is about the God of the Mountain and the God of the Sea.
During the time of King [Honban], the 18th, he had one of the princesses is the most
beautiful lady. So when she came of age, the King wanted to marry her off, so he’s been
looking for a male with all kinds of . . . or like wealthy, handsome.
So they tried to get him the most suitable to marry her. So one day, there are two gentlemen
appear and they both fit perfectly for the princess. So once he introduce himself as the God
of the Mountain, which is something, it’s spelled S-O-N and then the . . .
SON, N as in Nancy. Son mean mountain. Tinh mean God. So he say, “I'm the God of the
Mountain.” I own all those on the land, trees, animals, all kind of good things there, and he
had a lot of powers too. So the king was like, “I really like you.” And then the other man
was like, “I’m the God of . . . I’m Thuy Tinh. I'm the God of the Sea, so I own all kind of
things that’s under the sea. I have power, he was handsome, and I own all the wealth down
under the sea. So the king was like, “I only have one daughter. I would love to have you
both as my son-in-law, but since I only have one, so who ever gather sort of like what you
call . . . When you asking someone to marry you have to bring all kind of gift.
The dowry is for the girl, the offering. All kind of gift offering. So whoever comes back
with the offering first, I will give my daughter to that person. So the next day, Son Tinh,
which is the God of the Mountain, came back first and so the king marry off his daughter.
The God of the Sea came an hour later and heard that the God of Mountain already married
the princess. He got very upset. He was so aggressive, so he use all his power. He raises the
sea level up and he make wind, he make the rain came, the sea rise.
Tsunami.
Yeah, it rise and what he wanted to start the war with the Mountain God, so he could take
back the princess. The God of Mountain doesn’t want to move the princess that easily. So
as the water raise, he also raised the mountain. So both had been fighting for days, lives
were lost. But after a while they both get tired, so the Sea God settled down, calm down,
everything came back to normal. So what they say is that once in a while when the God of
the Sea get upset, and he still want to take back the princess so he keep fighting, so that’s
why people say there’s tsunami, there’s some other . . . So that is my story. Every time
they fight, the Sea God lost.
In this one, I think just explain why we have the tsunami, the flooding.
The mountain was just raised up. Yeah, I mean like almost every year they have either
flooding or . . . A rematch. But every time they fight, the Sea God lost.
STORY 2
The Mercury Balance. Or scale.
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This story was my favorite story when I was a little kid. My parents told me about it, and I
also read it from books for moral teaching. I don’t remember all the details, but the main
idea is there was a couple who was in the business of selling and buying things to earn a
living. But they was not very honest, so when they make the balance, of mercury in the
middle, the bar for the balance. It’s empty in the middle.
In the middle, there’s an empty tube, and they put mercury in it. There’s a hollow tube. So
they put the . . . and mercury was the metal that has the highest density. So when they
buying something, they would try to make that it would weigh less so that they don’t have
to pay more. They use that . . .
And when they sell things they would try to tip the scale to the other side so that will weigh
more, so the mercury will . . . It can flow easily. Remember mercury . . . It’s a liquid
metal, right, so . . . It flows.
After a while, they got rich real quick, they bought houses and they had two sons. They
was good, but it got to the point that they got so rich and then they knew that they was not
being honest. And they tell each other that maybe because in ancient culture they believe in
whatever deed you do, if you do bad deed, bad thing will come to you. Therefore, they say
maybe now we are so rich, maybe we should stop doing that. So they decided to get rid of
that scale. They chop it in half and inside they found a drop of blood. Not a drop but it’s
like a clump of blood. They were so terrified. After a while, the two sons dies. One die first
and then the other one die too. One after the other. So they felt so bad for a few months.
You know fairy tale, so they cry for a long time. They mourn.
The good fairy appeared to them and say it seem like because they’d been crying for
months, after their two sons die. They’d been crying and they were very sad for two
months. So afterwards the good fairy appear to them and say, “Now I can see that you
really feel sorry for what you did. And don’t worry about it, the two sons that you lost,
actually they are the evil children that was sent to you. Now don’t worry, just continue
being good and then you will have other children.” And they did. So the moral story behind
it is that they teach people to be honest.
The fairy is a Buddha thing. It’s like the . . . In Vietnamese, they call it But. Good fairy.
Male.
STORY 3
A Big Pot of Gold.
In the old days, there was a husband and wife who lived in a countryside. They are very
poor but they have good heart. And then one day when the husband went to the field, and
he have a field of—they grow paddy, rice, and when they plough the soil . . . paddy rice.
Then when they plough soil in his land, he found a big pot of gold. Then he just put it back,
and that night when he went home he tell his wife that I found a big pot of gold. And the
wife said, “Where is it?” He said, “I put it back in our field.” And then the wife said, “Why
don’t you bring it home? If somebody take it then we lose it.” And he answer in a calm
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voice, “If that’s the gift from Gods, then it will be ours.” And if it not, and if it fall to other
people hand, then that’s okay too. And during that time there’s a thief who stand in the
corner of the house. They listen to the husband and wife conversation. After the husband
and wife went to sleep, they go straight to the field and looking for the pot of gold. He
found it and bring it to his home. And then the next day . . .
This person is a thief. They overheard the husband and wife story. Then the next day, the
husband went to the field, but he couldn’t find the . . . the thief took the pot home and then
when he open it he saw lot, lot of snakes, big snake crawling in the pot. So he just took the
lid and cover it up and put it away. Then the next day, the husband went to the field and he
could not find the pot of gold. That night he went home and talked to his wife and said,
“Somebody took it. I could not find it.” And the wife said, “I told you to bring it home and
you didn’t listen.” And the husband still answer in a calm voice, “It got took, the gold. It’s
okay too.”
Then at that time the thief is also listen to the couple. And he talk to himself, “This
man must be a blind person because there is only snake, not gold.” So he said that I will
bring the pot of snake back to this field. And then the next day the husband went to the
field and he found the pot again. He open it up, yes there’s a lot of gold inside. He left it
there and went back home, talked to his wife. “I found it again.” And the wife said, “but
why don’t you bring it home?” And the husband said, “If it is a gift from God, then it
should follow us home. Don’t be worried. It will find home.” At this time the thief also
stand in the corner of the house and he said, “Oh my God, this man is so crazy. He must be
very blind. Okay, I will bring the pot of snake to his home. So the snake will bite both of
them to death.”
So the thief go to the field and carry that pot, and put right in front of his house. The
next morning the husband wake up and when he went out of his . . . , he found the pot right
there. He’s very happy, and he open it, he saw there’s gold inside full to the top, and he
called his wife. “Honey, come here. Here I told you, can you see the gift from God. It find
its way home.” And then from that time they become rich and they help out other poor
people. That’s the end of the story.
The moral behind the story is if you’ve done good deeds, or if you are a good person, it’s
become like the . . . You have the rewards. You get the rewards, but the thief is not a good
person. He only want to steal from the couple, so he could not find anything good in that
pot.
STORY 4
The Golden Star Fruit Tree.
The star fruit tree.
The fruit tree. But also they put the golden in front, that’s why it has some gold in this story
too. This one very rich man, very rich, who live in the village, he die. He have two sons.
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The two sons inherit a lot of money, gold. But two sons are very different. One, the older,
the older one was greedy. The younger one was very kind.
Moderator: The elder one was what?
Greedy. So the older one sat down with the all of the fortune that is his, and left for the
younger only a tree, the star fruit tree. They all have wife. So the older one is all set up
about that, so he don’t worry anything, but the younger one very worry, so he have to base
on the tree for living. So he take care of the tree and make the tree and day after day it get
bigger and had a lot of fruit. And one day the raven come and eat a lot of fruit from his tree.
And he feel very sad. He say, “Why you eat?” The raven didn’t say anything, but the raven
keep coming every day and eat that. So finally, he had to say, “Raven, please don’t eat my
fruit because that the only thing I have.” So the raven said, “Don’t worry. I will pay you
back with gold.” And the raven also said, “Okay, prepare for bag about 60 cm long and
wide about three pounds. And wait for tomorrow morning, I will come back and bring you
to get the gold.”
So the next morning the raven come back and put him on his back and fly over the
sea to the island, to the cave, something like that, and get a lot of gold. And the younger
one fill with gold, come back, and he fly back to home. And when he get home, he now he .
. . So he very happy and now he remember his brother. So he contact his brother and invite
him to his house. And his brother say, “No. I don’t want to go.” Because his brother say,
“This guy poor. I don’t need to go there.” But he keep inviting him and say, “I have
something for you.” So finally, the elder come and then he surprised to see his brother now
very big house, have a lot of things in the house, and very healthy. So he asked him why he
got that. So the younger one tell him the truth, they have the tree and then the raven come
and like that. So the other elder one say, “Okay, now I want to do that.”
So he want to trade the tree with my property. So then he trade that and then he give
his . . . he waiting now, he have the tree. And then everyday he come and wait for the
raven coming. The raven will finally come and eat a lot of fruit. He say the same thing,
“Raven, don’t eat my fruit.” The raven say, “Okay, I will pay you back with gold. Prepare a
bag with three pounds and 60 cm something. I will pick it up and you will get the gold.”
But we know the elder one is very greedy, so he doesn’t make the bag pounds, he make it
six. So bigger, so he can get more gold. So next day the raven come, carry him, fly over the
sea, get to the island to get the gold. And he filled with gold.
He put the gold in the pocket and everywhere.
He just filled up and loaded with gold. He climbed up to the back of the raven and fly back
over to the land, to his house. But, when he fly to the sea and go for a couple minutes, it too
heavy, overweight for the raven. So the raven have to be gone down and leave him off the
back, and he dropped to the sea. And died there. He don’t get gold, because he say, “Let
go, let go.” He don’t want to let go of the gold. He keep going, get heavy, and then he fall
down.
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And then the younger one waiting for his brother, and saying, “Why is it so long he’s not
come back?” And day after he met the raven and asked the raven why he not come back,
and raven tell him the story. He keep the gold and then he fell down.
So the moral is the same, when you grab all things, then you lose everything. Don’t be
greedy.
STORY 6
King An Duong Vuong
It’s a legend, Vietnamese long time ago, back then there’s a king named An Duong Vuong.
I will show you all the names later. And actually, my husband will tell the story, not me.
We happy now. Okay, now you start, honey.
I think the story has been passed down for a long, long time, many generations. This is one
of them. I think has some meaning, after the story I will talk a little bit about that. King An
Duong Vuong, he had a dream to build a city in the shape of a . . . a seashell.
You only can go in by one way to get inside, like a spiral to come in. But during the time
he tried to build up the city, the wall keep coming down all the time. After he build it up,
the next day it collapse. He build it again, it keep collapse. So one day the God, the turtle,
we call Kim Qui, is the God of the Turtle, appear and give him one of his claw and tell the
king to use that to make the trigger for the crossbow. As soon as he make that he can find
one arrow, it kill a thousand of enemies. So that is the magic of the trigger using his claw.
So the neighbor, one of the country next to An Duong Vuong, which is called Au Lac at the
time. Trieu Da is the king of another country next to it, he want to take over Au Lac. His
strategy is have his son to marry the daughter of An Duong Vuong. The prince, his name is
Trong Thuy, married the princess, which is the daughter of An Duong Vuong. So they both
happy, however Trong Thuy want to know the secret of how he defend his city. And no one
can overcome it or defeat it. My Chau is his wife tell him the story.
She showed him the trigger and the crossbow. So Trong Thuy asked other people to make
an imitate one, and put that into the crossbow, and he took the real one.
And then he came back home.But before he came back home, he told his wife . . . is that
the one thing about the coat?
He came home. And his father’s armies started to surround the city of An Duong Vuong.
An Duong Vuong no worry, because he have crossbow, he can kill anybody. So he just
naive. No, no, but you forgot one thing. Before Trong Thuy, the husband, leaving his wife
and he said that, “If anything happen to you, then wear a coat with fur. It’s made by swan
feather.” Swan feather. Then just pull the feather and put along the way, so he can find
where she is. Marking the way wherever she goes, so he can trace her.
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That is one of the thing I forgot to mention. When the army of Trieu Da has surrounded the
city, so An Duong Vuong start to take the crossbow out and using it. It not effect anymore,
because no more magic trigger. So he gets surround and he had to find a way to escape.
And he take his horse with the daughter in the back. And the daughter do what her husband
tell her to do. She start to mark the way. Actually, he gave her the coat.
So because of that trail there, he’d be able to find An Duong Vuong. And at the time he had
caught the Kim Qui, the God of the Turtle coming up and say, “Your enemy riding on your
back.” Which is his daughter. So that is a sad story is he killed the daughter.
The king killed the daughter. And then they put her onto the well. And then when
her husband came to that well, she had already died. So he mourn her over there. I think
later people worship her on that well there.
Actually, now today, they found the city, the . . . Yeah. So it’s really true. They found the
foundation. They just found that a few years ago.
The wall must be about more than 2,000 years, because we have a history Trieu Da is one
of the king took over this An Duong Vuong. So in our history matching with the Chinese
history, matching back to the date around hundred years before Christ. Around then. And
then because of the history, I mean because of the excavation recently, they found the
foundation. So it does have something . . .
Moderator: It’s 3,000 times larger than what it is, because they were able to take a
computer projection of the layering of the city. So I wonder if they used the same computer
software to look at the foundation. That’s how they’re now doing archaeology is to look at
based on these computer projections.
STORY 7
Lac Long Quan Au Co story
The Lac Long Quan Au Co story is the main story about . . . Very important story in our
history.
It a part of our history, called . . . the word in Vietnam called Con Rong, Chau Tien. This
mean Children of the Dragon and Grandchildren of Fairy. So that the Vietnamese is proud
of that heritage which is son of the dragon and grandson of fairy. So the story go like this,
Lac Long Quan is one of the son of the dragon from East Sea coming to the north. And met
a lady which is the daughter of fairy of the mountain. So they got married. After that the
Au Co, which is the name of the daughter of the fairy, not give birth, she laid a hundred
eggs.
She laid eggs that hatch into a hundred sons. This is just a story, a hundred son. It’s like
the God of the Mountain and God of the Sea.
Then after they live with each other for a while, Lac Long Quan said to Au Co, “I am the
son of the dragon, we live in the sea. You are the daughter of the fairy, you are the
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mountain. We cannot live long together. So why don’t we divide it? I take 50 sons going
down to the sea. You take 50 sons, go to the mountain.” So they separated. And 50 children
. . . however when we separate, but we help each other. If there is any problem we will help
each other. So the 50 son go with Lac Long Quan, that make the Vietnamese today.
I think because Vietnam was surrounded by the sea, so that’s why they . . . I think the story
. . . I mean today, a lot of people explain the story the way how our ancestors tell the story.
The 50 sons follow the father, make the country, we call Van Lang. And there are a lot of
stories relating to those dynasty called Van Lang. Eighteen kings Van Lang. Many stories
like banh chung, which is we make the rice cake, and the story how we eat the petal . . . the
Asian, we eat the leaves and the... The beetle juice.. So many story relating to that 18 kings
we call Van Lang. That is the pre-date to An Duong Vuong which is the story my wife
said. So that is pre-date to that history.
This one is the 18 one also the princess . . .
Yeah, that is one of the story within the dynasty of 18 kings. However, the people today,
they can explain the story the way how people back then think, and create that story for us.
They think that there are many tribe back then. They live like a tribe, like here the Indians.
They live by tribe. So they stand for a hundred tribes, different tribes.
So that’s how they put the whole Vietnam.
In the northern part of Vietnam, so a hundred tribe just out of the wood, hundred, many.
Just mean many, that’s all. It doesn’t mean a hundred, but mean many. Many tribes come
together living in that area. Some from the sea coming up, some from the mountain coming
down. But interesting thing is they explain that because of the people from the sea follow
the father, which is the father is the head of the household. While the mother is a different
type of tribe, what do you call that?
The mountain . . . The mother is matriarch, and the father is the patriarch. Yeah. Like the
Hmong people. All of us know that story, maybe not new so much. But this one here,
everyone knows.
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A document of six Vietnamese stories for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. Story 1 is titled, "God of the Mountain and God of the Sea." Story 2 is titled, "The Mercury Balance. Or Scale.," and is about a couple who are in the business of selling and buying. Story 3 is titled, "A Big Pot of Gold," and is about a farmer finding a big pot of gold in his rice patty field. Story 4 is titled, "The Golden Star Fruit Tree." Story 6 is titled, "King An Duong Vuong." Story 7 is about the son of the dragon and the grandson of the fairy. There is no story five listed in the document.
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Cambodian Folktales
A Little Girl
A Little Girl, she’s four years old. She lived with an old lady when her parents went to work. She
went around the block, picked up all the short sticks and the wood for fire woods. They cooked
rice in a big, big frying pan and used the fire woods. And they gave her the crust, or the bottom
of the cooked rice.
And what she’d get, a piece like that and she bring to give the boy when they bring the rice on
their head. The whole by the boy, put away the part where they cut underneath. That gets put
away. And when they’re hungry and get a piece here, a piece here, all there, and have one little
piece left in hand. And the brother wanted no more because he . . . all away. Because the whole .
. . and he eat it, eat her finger and bites her finger and bleeding and she cry. And what they do?
The soldiers who see it cry. “Tell her to stop crying,” because it hurt so bad. She just . . . and
shaking. And they put her in the bag of rice and hang her in . . .
And . . . she passed out in their rice bag. When her mom came back from work, heard her
daughter hang up there. And the people, they whistled and the soldier, they ran past and one of
the soldiers, they loved her also when they lived there. They took her out and gave her to her
mom. Her mom thought she was going to die. It was just so hard. But later then the girl was
alive.
This was a true story that happened in the village in Cambodia.
Don’t hate
There’s a guy who is afraid of lawsuit. He just hates it, just a lawsuit, a general lawsuit. So, he
goes up into the palm tree to get away from all the lawsuits. And he is thinking, “You know, as
I'm thinking here, I'm going to make the basket to weave from the palms. And then I can sell
that. And then I’ll get a chicken. And then the chicken will let me afford to buy an ox. An ox will
afford me to buy a servant, and if the servant doesn’t work, I'm going to kick him,” and then ahh,
he falls down. And as he falls, he grabs on to the tree, and he’s hanging by the palm leaves.
Meanwhile—it’s just like dun-dun-dun. So meanwhile, another guy who hates to step on the
poop everywhere, is riding the head of the elephant to avoid the poop. Comes along this guy,
dangling from the leaf, saying, “Help me. Help me.” He replies, “Okay. I’ll stand on top of the
elephant’s head and I’ll try to get you down.” While he’s doing that, he stepped on the elephant,
and the elephant thinks the movement means to go, so the elephant goes. And now they have two
men dangling by the thread, as the other one, the Mr. “I'm afraid of lawsuit,” is afraid of what’s
happening next. And then that’s when he poops his pants, right? And poops on top of the guy
who hates the poop. And then four people come, and they shout, “Help us. Help us. We’re
dangling here by the
palm.
The four people take their scarves and tie them together for them to jump down. They can jump
down safely, landed safely. The guys are okay, and then they go and sue each other.
�Moral: If you hate something, you’ll meet it. If you hate, your fate will meet you.
The snail and the
Hare
There’s a snail living in a pond. The snail heard that a hare is very clever, but he is very cunning.
Then, while the hare stops to drink the water from the pond, the snail yells at the hare saying
that, “You cannot come and drink the water from my pond.” “Hey, that doesn’t bother you. I
drink the water from this pond since I was born.” And then the rabbit insults the snail. “The
crawling snail-ey, slowly, slowly animal. You cannot one day crawl the length once I hopefully,
the lengths what I hop.” And then the snail hearing this one, he is so mad at the rabbit or the
hare. “If you say that you insulted me that I could not crawl in one day to the length of your hop,
so now we compete. We are running a race. Let’s compete.”
The hare takes up the challenge. “How can we set up the rule?” the rabbit said. And the snail
says that, “I agree not to live in this pond anymore any longer, if I lose this race.” And the rabbit
says that,” I pledge that I won’t come and drink the water from this pond if I lose you in this
race.” And then tomorrow, the next morning, these two lovely animals start up the race. And
then the rabbit or the hare run around the circumference of the pond, and then the snail stays in
the water. And running for a while, the rabbit didn’t see any snail running behind him or her,
yelling back, “Hey, the snail, slowly snail. Where are you?” And then the snail knowing we
cannot run the race, cannot compete to win the race with the rabbit, and then they set up the
tricks. And then that snail in the back telling the snail in the front, “When the rabbit yell at us,
you at the front say, “Coo.” That mean, I'm here. When the rabbit says, “Where are your the
slowly snail?” The next snail right to the rabbit or the hare say, “I am here, coo.”
Running for a while, the rabbit’s looking around didn’t see any snail, asking then, “Hey, so now
slowly snail, where are you right now?” Then right next to him say, “Coo, I am here.” And
hearing this one he gets mad and he just keeps running very fast. Almost reaching to the finish
line, one round, one lap, and the rabbit’s yelling to ask for the snail, “Where are you the slowly,
slowly snail?” And then the snail right next to him say, “I am here, coo.” And then the rabbit
know that he lost the race. He lies down right next to the finish line, because he knows that the
snail is right there at the finish line before him. Then all the snails win the race and then they stay
in the pond whereas the hare no longer comes to visit the pond or drinking the water from the
pond. So, they drink the water from the dew instead.
Moral: Don’t judge others. Teamwork can create power.
Don’t Open Your Mouth
So like back in the old time, the shell of the turtle is not crackling like map or whatever kinds of
like that. The shell is so smooth. The turtle lives in a pond and a couple of ducks come to play or
feed themselves in the pond. The turtle asks the couple of ducks, “Why are you coming here?”
And then a couple of the ducks told the turtle that, “Oh, we come here to collect supplies for the
�party on the top of the palm tree.” And then the turtle asks, “Could I be invited to come to the
party?” “Yes!” And the couple of ducks tell the turtle that, “How can you fly up to the top of the
tree because you don’t have any wings and know how to fly?” The three animals discussed to
find ways to go up to the top of the tree. And a couple of ducks got an idea. He got a stick. One
duck used their beak, so each duck used their beak to hold a stick and then the turtle can bite the
end of the stick. The couple of duck can fly the turtle up there.
The ducks warn the turtle that, “You must not open your mouth and speak, okay?” And then the
turtle agrees, “Yes, yes, I will not. I will not speak out.” Now, the ducks prepare themselves with
sticks and the turtle bites on the end of the other stick. The couple of duck fly up. And then up
there on top of the tree, the other ducks are amazed by seeing this turtle coming up to the party
too. And then they yell in unison say, “Oh, the turtle come to you. Brother come too!” And then
the turtle is so happy. He replied, “Yeah, I’m coming too!” As soon as the turtle open his mouth,
“Yes, I’m coming too!” He falls down on the ground. Then his shell hit the ground on a rock or a
stick. That’s why his shell right now look like a piece of puzzle.
Moral: Keep quiet even though you are happy, or you are mad. Be quiet.
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The document with four Khmer stories for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The first story is titled, "A Little Girl," and is about a little girl who when around the block to pick up small sticks and firewoods to cook rice. The second story is titled, "Done't hate," and is about a guy who hates lawsuit, and the second guy hates poop, and they both meet what they hate. The third story is titled, "The Snail and the Hare." The fourth story is titled, "Don't Open Your Mouth," and is about keeping quiet even when you're happy.
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Lao Focus Group, story 7
R:
It long times ago, the one lady who has been passed away or have one boy? No, one boy,
not one boy. The girl. Because every day, don’t have father, mother, go get the—go look for
mushroom and bamboo to sell in the market for living every day, but she poor and then—and
that day, and . . . even to drink, you know, no bamboo, no mushroom, to take home to sell in the
market to sell somebody. She doesn’t have money, she’s really hungry. No rain. The river
dried up. No water to drink. And she saw . . .
Moderator: The foot, a footprint of an elephant.
R:
Footprint elephant, the king’s elephant come there. She stepped on that thing. She said,
“Oh, I found the water,” the water from the footprint. She pregnant. And when she had the
baby, the girl, she go to school every day, you know, . . . small like take the . . . She went to
school, the friend told her, you know, you . . . my daughter, you don’t have father who, you sleep
with your mom, but you're mom pregnant. I don’t see nobody. And she . . . come home, but
they say to you, you know, and said that they told me I’m the elephant daughter. You know
why, you know, elephant kid. You sleep with an elephant? She asked her mom. No, I went to
mountain every day to look for the bamboo and the mushroom, everything I can make for the
money for sell, you know, to sell and buy the food to eat every day and then the mother is sick
and almost died and [see if she] tell the truth for the daughter. You know, I dreamed of water. I
found the water in the footprint, the elephant footprint, that I’m pregnant. But I don’t know,
maybe that he pee in there, I drank that and I pregnant. I didn’t go to nobody . . . husband, only
that I drank that water. You know, and she pass away and the daughter . . . She went to go to
the mountain to look for the elephant. The elephant said, “Why you come here?” Answer, you
know, “My mom pass away, she said the big elephant in the mountain,” you know, I will ask
you, “Are you my father?” He said, “I don’t know. I didn’t sleep with your mom. Why you my
daughter?” . . . really beautiful and smell like perfume.
Moderator: Perfume.
R:
She go everywhere, you know, smell like perfume every day, you know, every day, . . . ,
you know? And then elephant said, “If you're my daughter,” she bend down . . .
R:
Oh, the trunk?
R:
Go down, when you my daughter, you can go up there. My trunk, that really is slippery.
When you're my daughter, you can stand on that.
R:
She said if she’s actually the elephant’s daughter, then she’ll be able to climb his trunk.
R:
. . . to really . . . It smelled good. And then the elephant say, “Oh, you're my daughter.
Accept you're my daughter.” And he build, you know, he make the house for her in the
mountain, because she doesn’t have the mom no more. So and then she grow up, the elephant to
go look for the food, get for her every day, you know, you don’t have a mom to take care of you,
I take care of you. And then as she I think turn to be 18 years old, she said, “I cannot live in the
mountain with my dad. I have to look for someone to take care of me,” and she cut her hair to
�put in a bamboo, that thing, to tie it very good and put the . . . in there to keep it wet for the
[river]. The . . . to open and said I look for my lover. You can find me in the mountain and on
top of the mountain there, I live there. I don’t have a mom. I have a dad. My dad is elephant.
She said, you know, can you accept me as a wife? You will be, you know—to be your wife, you
can go up to find me.” And the prince ride a horse to go up the mountain to see her and they
really fall in love, you know, they have two kids together. The elephant come back. She’s
hiding the husband in the trunk, what do they call it? The cave of the tree. Big tree, right, in the
mountain. Said, oh, maybe my dad doesn’t like the human, you know, he may kill my kid and
my husband, you know? And the father get mad. I smell that, no, human in here. Why you
don’t tell me the truth? And the father said, I want to go somewhere. He came back and bring
the food for daughter and . . . come back. He know that daughter lie to him, but he know, but
then he go away. The daughter, and she took her husband and . . . [in the river] go down to the
kingdom. The father come back to see them in the boat. Oh, my goodness, . . .
R:
Wait, so she ran away with the guy down the Mekong?
R:
With her husband and the kid.
R:
Because she’s scared her dad?
R:
She scared her dad will kill her husband and kid.
R:
Okay, yeah.
R:
And then she flowed down the river, the father came back. He really got mad and he
looked everywhere. He . . . the tree, everywhere that you leave and not tell me, you’re my
daughter, you know, you have to tell me the truth. And then—and got really loud, right, in the
mountain, he and the father.
R:
And then did they get away?
R:
Her father died.
R:
Oh.
R:
How?
R:
Because he get mad, he get broken heart when daughter leave him, you know, heart
attack. And then he . . . the daughter that when I die, to take this, you know, to put the . . .
Moderator: The ivory tusk.
R:
...
...
And put it . . .
�Moderator: So in Laos, what you do is you do . . .
R:
Put the bamboo together, because you don’t have a boat, right?
R:
Yeah, yeah.
Moderator: So you take the bamboo and then you weave it together into a boat. You bring the
tusk and put it into the bamboo.
R:
Float the Mekong River to somewhere.
R:
It’s like legend.
R:
And then he float that thing to the river and it go to the blood of a son, you know, father.
R:
Oh, son-in-law.
R:
Because the . . .
R:
Wait, it flowed to the son-in-law?
R:
No, the son-in-law, the . . .
Moderator: Best friend to the son-in-law.
R:
King.
R:
Oh.
Moderator: Remember, the prince is with his—the elephant’s daughter, but the offering, when I
die, you need to put my tusk as an offering to the river and when it flowed down, it flowed down
to the prince’s best friend.
R:
But then you know, the water go down this way, but they go up.
R:
Mm-hmm.
R:
That they go up to the king.
R:
Yeah.
R:
King’s city there and he said that when I went to hunting, every time I found him and
we’d go together. He met them. The end.
R:
The end?
Moderator: I’m sorry.
R:
The friend was really happy they found that.
�Moderator: The ivory tusk .
R:
He took it.
Moderator: The ivory trade is very popular in southeast Asia and so it’s worth a lot of money.
And so when you cut off—that’s what they use ivory keys for and other—ivory that’s been used
in pianos and stuff. So when you cut off the ivory tusk of an elephant, it doesn’t grow back. So
it was worth a lot and it was ironic that the ivory tusk of the prince’s father-in-law went to the
prince’s best friend.
R:
And then he just took it and the end?
R:
The end, because he was really happy that he found that. He didn’t know who it
belonged to.
R:
Oh, so good or bad? Oh, so it’s legend, like he still has it to this day?
...
Moderator: So you see in the kingdom, that the ivory tusks are in—it’s in front of the palace.
R:
Oh.
Moderator: So the palace, he enshrined it as this is a very powerful—like so the elephant’s like a
patriarch, a matriarch. They are the . . . So there’s a million elephants in Laos and so it’s the
kingdom of the elephants.
R:
Yes.
Moderator: And so those—the elephant, it was his kingdom. It was an honoring of his deceased
father.
R:
Father-in-law.
Moderator: Father-in-law, yes. Because he was a hunter and he went searching for stuff in the
woods and he found the ivory in the Mekong River.
R:
Oh, and it was the daughter?
R:
The daughter and son—the daughter-in-law and son, that he . . . they're really happy.
R:
Oh.
Moderator: He traveled north. The prince traveled north to find the daughter-in-law.
R:
Yeah.
R:
Mm-hmm.
�Moderator: And then when he brought—now that his father-in-law has passed away, he brought
the princess, his wife, back down to his kingdom in the south and that’s where, unbeknownst to
them, because the daughter had done this—what do you call that? Homage to the father.
R:
Like the Viking ship? Yeah.
Moderator: Yeah, right? And so she’s like, I’m doing this donation and it goes down and it
actually ends up in his palace, in his kingdom in the south.
R:
Oh, wow.
R:
Because his daughter went to bury him and everything, you know, the son-in-law too.
Because when he died, he told the daughter, said you come back and . . .
R:
So it was full circle. She buried him like a Viking burial down the river and then . . .
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The transcript of a meeting to share Lao stories, [2018]
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The transcript of a Lao focus group meeting where a story was shared for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The story shared is about an orphan girl who drank an elephant's pee and became pregnant.
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Lao Focus Group, story 6
Moderator: So it’s a true story?
...
Moderator: A long time ago.
...
Moderator: In the heritage city of . . .
...
Moderator: There’s four.
R:
Four kings.
Moderator: Four kings in the ancient . . .
...
R:
Four kings?
Moderator: So there’s four kingdoms in the olden times, . . . yeah. And . . . So those are the four
regions of Laos. Northern, middle . . .
R:
Four kings.
Moderator: So the four kingdoms of Laos.
...
Moderator: One of the kingdoms, his name is . . .
...
Moderator: He’s the king of . . .
...
Moderator: He was sleeping and he was dreaming.
...
Moderator: He was dreaming that he was crossing the river.
...
�Moderator: King what?
...
Moderator: What’s a . . . ?
R:
Poop.
Moderator: The king? Okay, why are people eating poop?
...
Moderator: Okay, so he had a dream that he was eating poop?
...
Moderator: Okay.
...
R:
Why is everything about poop?
Moderator: I don’t know.
R:
We’ll find out.
...
...
Moderator: Okay, so he’s straddling the [Meekon] River with one leg on each side of the
Meekon River.
...
Moderator: So as he’s eating the poop—I’m so glad we finished eating.
...
Moderator: He wakes up. This is a dream. He goes to the temple and talks to [Ajon] who is the
monk.
...
Moderator: Ajon’s name is . . .
...
Moderator: So he interprets the dream for them and says, oh, you're going to have good luck.
�...
Moderator: So now you need to travel north, up north.
...
R:
By boat.
Moderator: By boat.
...
R:
Canoe boat.
Moderator: By the canoe boat, so it’s by yourself, paddle up.
...
R:
The waterfall.
Moderator: Okay, so he approaches a waterfall.
...
Moderator: There’s one piece of gold, just like a lime, the size of a lime, a gold nugget.
...
Moderator: So as he was canoeing, he struck a golden nugget the size of a lime?
...
Moderator: He says if you come upon a golden nugget, don’t take it. So when you're at the top
of the waterfall?
R:
Yeah, the big waterfall.
...
Moderator: Now as he’s paddling, now the nugget is now a pound of gold nugget.
R:
Not a pound, coconut.
R:
Coconut.
R:
It’s a big one.
Moderator: It’s not a pound, it’s a coconut.
...
�R:
. . . eat the poop.
Moderator: Now that he’s paddling up to . . .
...
Moderator: . . . is another region, another city.
R:
Another town.
R:
Another town.
R:
Soon he gets to another town, he found another gold, big like 55 gallon—
Moderator: So like a 55 gallon of kerosene, the container?
R:
Yes.
Moderator: That’s how much gold he found. The monk says don’t take that, don’t take that.
Keep going.
...
Moderator: So now it’s in the evening, he’s getting hungry. So now he parks his canoe and he
comes on the river bank.
R:
And the name is [Parkan]. The town is [Bakan].
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: So the tributary to the Meekon is Parkan and NonBakan] which is close by.
...
Moderator: Which is near . . .
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: So now he’s starting to do the . . .
...
R:
He starts the fire cooking.
Moderator: So he’s getting ready to start the fire.
...
R:
He went to get a rock to make like a stove.
�Moderator: Okay, so he’s now . . .
R:
So he can put like three logs . . . to make a stove, okay?
Moderator: He wants to make a camp fire, right? So he’s collecting the wood for the kinder and
now he has three stones to put the stove on top.
...
Moderator: So he grabs the rock. Now the rock turns to gold. And he turns around and around
him is just gold everywhere. All the rocks are gold. So now he’s . . .
R:
Build a temple.
Moderator: So he builds a temple.
R:
The temple name is [Simkon]
Moderator: So Simkon. So in . . .
R:
That’s a real story.
[Crosstalk]
R:
Yeah, that’s a real story.
Moderator: There is several different temple names.
R:
One’s Simkon and one’s . . .
Moderator: [Simand]. The two temples names are . . .
...
Moderator: Simand and many of these temples . . .
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: Okay, we have to hear the story. We have to hear the story first, because if we have
four people talking, the person typing will hear four voices.
R:
Okay, after they build two temples, Simand and Simkon, then the gold is still left and
they put where? They put in the mountain called . . .
...
Moderator: The mountain. And so all of this gold, there are over 100 temples in the region and
so they used the gold to build these temples and they kept having leftover gold and so they then
�started moving out of the . . . city into the mountain to build another temple in the mountain with
the leftover gold.
...
R:
The temple now is about 800 years now.
Moderator: Eight hundred years old.
...
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: So the moral of the story is . . .
...
Moderator: So remember, the monk says whatever you get—like it started off with just the lime
nugget and he says, “Don’t take that. Wait until you get to your destination and that’s where
you’re going to find your gold and that’s where he found the masses of gold.
R:
I think it’s about you can take what is belongs to you, not belong to somebody. Don’t
take anything that belongs to somebody. What we learned from that.
Moderator: So take what is yours and not what are others?
R:
Yes.
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: So this story is written in the tombs of the scriptures of the monks. So in each of
these temples, you will hear this story.
...
Moderator: So that’s like, it started with just a dream and then he went on this journey to go up
north and he followed the monk’s advice by not taking things that weren't his.
R:
There’s a lot of people have dreams like that in my country.
Moderator: And so when people dream about eating poop, it’s actually a good luck dream?
R:
It’s lucky.
[Crosstalk]
R:
If you crave the poop—if you have a dream you crave the poop, you have good luck.
[Crosstalk]
�R:
Okay.
�
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Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection, 2018-2019
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An account of the resource
The Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection consists of materials from a collaboration between UMass Lowell faculty members and community-based organizations in the Lowell, Massachusetts, area to collect and publish folktales from four community groups: Burmese, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese.
The complete collection is available on this site.
--------------------------
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The transcript of a meeting to share Lao stories, [2018]
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Folk literature, Southeast Asian
Tales--Southeast Asia
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An account of the resource
The transcript of a Lao focus group meeting where a story is shared for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The story shared is about the four kingdoms of Laos.
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Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Lao Focus Group, story 6.pdf
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Lao Focus Group, story 5
R:
. . . my dog and meat.
Moderator: Okay, so this is a story about a dog and . . .
R:
And meat.
Moderator: And the meat.
R:
Okay? I learned at school very young about this.
Moderator: So he learned this when he was younger.
R:
Yes.
Moderator: The dog, he traveled from his house to go to another . . . , then he found the meat.
Small meat.
R:
Somewhere between—somebody left on the road somewhere.
Moderator: Okay.
R:
Then he walked with the meat in the mouth, so when he passed the bridge, the water right
there, passed by the sun was very [shy] and he was looking in the water. He sees the meat, it’s
very big.
Moderator: The reflection of the meat?
R:
He said, oh, I’m going to get that big meat. His meat in there.
Moderator: Uh huh.
R:
And he dropped the small meat and jumped to the water to get the meat. There’s no meat
and he lost the small piece of meat. And he cannot swim. And the alligator come help him out
to cross the river to across the river, the dog pooped on the alligator’s head. That’s why you see
the poop head in there? That’s a dog poop in there. Yes. Then . . .
Moderator: But why? Why would he poop on his head?
R:
Because he needs to hunt. He got mad to the alligator.
Moderator: Why? What did the alligator do?
R:
He opened the mouth, that’s why he was afraid the alligator was going to eat him. He
pooped in the head.
�Moderator: Okay, so we missed that, right? So as he—what, the alligator came to take the dog
across. The dog was afraid of the alligator, because he opened his mouth.
R:
Uh huh.
Moderator: And so when—like the scared poopless. So he was so scared, he pooped.
R:
Came out from him.
Moderator: So he pooped on his head and then he jumped off the alligator’s head.
R:
Uh huh. What we learn from here? Okay? Okay.
Moderator: Okay.
R:
Okay, what we learn in here. Two things we have to learn in here. When people give
you—you found the meat, it belongs to you, not belongs to somebody or . . . to steal another
piece of meat from somebody.
Moderator: Mm-hmm, so be grateful for what you have and not what someone else has?
R:
Yeah, then . . .
R:
Poop on the alligator head.
R:
Then you learn from the dog right here? You learn from the dog, from here, that people
help you out, give you food or carry or something, you get accident. You show respect, say
thank you, not poop on their head, okay?
Moderator: So learn that lesson and say no pooping, but you have to be thankful.
R:
So the dog never learned his lesson.
R:
No. He’s still learning from that. You, say thank you, you know?
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: So that story, the title for the story is The Dog and His Meat? Right? So once upon
a time, there was a dog and he was in a village and he was walking to another village, right? So
along the way, when he walked to the other village, he saw a small piece of meat on the side of
the road. And so he got all excited, he was like, “Okay, I’m going to take this piece of meat with
me.” So as he is traveling, the meat has—so I’m thinking it’s the bone with a little meat on it,
right? So he grabs onto it and has it into his teeth. And as he was walking, he’s crossing over a
bridge and it was really bright and so he looked down and he saw his reflection in the water and
he noticed that in the reflection in the water, there was a bigger piece of meat. Because the light
shining on the reflection causes . . .
R:
He was greedy.
�Moderator: And so he was like, “I don’t want this one. I want that one down there.”
R:
Yes, exactly.
Moderator: So he opens his mouth, dives down, but he can’t swim. Along came the friendly
alligator in the . . . River, says, “I’ll help you across, so just get on top of my back.” But he’s
afraid. So he gets on his back, because he’s going to take him to the other side of the river, but he
gets afraid of the—the dog becomes afraid of the alligator, because the alligator kept opening up
his mouth and so he was scared poopless, so he pooped onto the alligators head and jumped off
and ran away. The end. No meat?
R:
No meat.
R:
No nothing.
Moderator: And no nothing. The moral of the story is be thankful.
R:
So that’s the end of the greedy dog.
Moderator: Be thankful for what you have.
R:
Mm-hmm.
R:
And be appreciative of people who help you and so don’t poop on them, but say thank
you instead.
R:
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
R:
We have the exact same Korean version, but there was no alligator. But the dog barked
at the dog in the water to take the bigger piece and then lost his. That was the end. So if you are
greedy, then you're going to lose.
Moderator: What you have.
R:
Yeah, what you have.
R:
Yes.
Moderator: Wow, that’s a nice story. I like that one. Don’t be greedy. Don’t be greedy and
don’t be poopy.
R:
That’s it.
R:
That’s it, okay.
�
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Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection, 2018-2019
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An account of the resource
The Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection consists of materials from a collaboration between UMass Lowell faculty members and community-based organizations in the Lowell, Massachusetts, area to collect and publish folktales from four community groups: Burmese, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese.
The complete collection is available on this site.
--------------------------
SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.
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The transcript of a meeting to share Lao stories, [2018]
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Folk literature, Southeast Asian
Tales--Southeast Asia
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An account of the resource
The transcript of a Lao focus group meeting where a story was shared for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The story shared is about a dog and meat.
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Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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[2018]
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Lao Focus Group, story 5.pdf
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Lao Focus Group, story 4
Moderator: And so they were able to take a nap.
R:
They were too tired.
[Crosstalk]
...
Moderator: So what was outside?
R:
A gold. I guess while they were sleeping . . .
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: The rice field.
R:
Miracles.
Moderator: Miracle of the golden wheat or the rice crop.
...
Moderator: So the Buddha blessed them with a rich crop and so it’s golden and . . .
...
Moderator: I’ve never seen this before, this must be a miracle.
...
R:
But when they check out to see the gold, the whole field is full of gold and so they said,
oh, it cannot be mined, it is too much gold. So went to announce to the government, saying,
“Oh, this does not belong to me. You have to take it away, because it is not mine.”
Moderator: So they came and took the gold and piled it up. So there’s 12 stories of gold.
R:
Twelve foot. Foot.
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: To 12 feet full of gold.
...
Moderator: Oh, twelve by eight.
...
�Moderator: So when they came to collect it, the gold turned to rocks, because it wasn’t meant for
them and the people who came to collect it. It was meant for the farmer and his wife. And so if
they touched it, it was gold, but if someone else touched it, it turned to rock.
...
So the person who came to touch it said, “I don’t think it’s ours, because when we touched it, it
turned to stone. You touch it, see if it turns back to gold.”
...
So they—when they touched it, the couple, it turned back to gold again.
R:
Could they spend it?
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: So now what do we do? No one else can touch this. So that means that we’re the
only sole owner, because when we touch it, it’s gold, when anyone else touches it, it’s stone.
...
R:
Farmer, farmer.
...
R:
So she forgot the name of it. She said, I don’t know if it was the city farmer or the rice
farmer.
R:
The farmer, farmer.
[Crosstalk]
Moderator: The gold farmer. You can call that story the gold farmer.
R:
Yeah.
R:
The gold farmer.
...
Moderator: Can somebody translate?
Translator: Sure. The moral—I guess she’s saying the moral is that the truth from the heart and
the truth of being fair as far as whatever aspect of life, whether it be sales, whether it be
creating—just thinking about wealth, saving and all that, especially business partners, especially
husband and wife, friends, you know, be truthful. Be fair. Be honest.
R:
And they were truthful people.
�Translator: Yes, yes.
Moderator: So that means you have to be faithful to your partners.
R:
Yes.
Moderator: And true to your partners.
R:
Yes.
Moderator: So it’s just being true to yourself and to your relations?
Translator: So be truthful to what you do and what you say and everything will turn out the
way—yeah.
R:
Be truthful and honest in your relationships.
Translator: Yeah.
[Crosstalk]
Translator: Not just relationships, but what you do and what you say, you know.
Moderator: Just your essence.
R:
Power of giving, it’s called.
R:
Yes.
R:
In everything you do.
Moderator: Yeah. Don’t focus on material things too much, basically.
R:
Don’t be materialistic.
Moderator: Or it’ll just be stone.
�
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Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection, 2018-2019
Description
An account of the resource
The Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection consists of materials from a collaboration between UMass Lowell faculty members and community-based organizations in the Lowell, Massachusetts, area to collect and publish folktales from four community groups: Burmese, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese.
The complete collection is available on this site.
--------------------------
SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.
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Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection, 2018-2019. UML 24. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.
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The collection finding aid, https://libguides.uml.edu/uml24.
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The transcript of a Lao focus group meeting where a story was shared for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The story is about a farmer and his wife waking from their nap to find that Buddha blessed their rice field with gold.
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Lao Focus Group, story 3
Moderator: There are similar moral stories in the Buddhist scriptures and so that’s a similar one
where they use it as part of temple. So when they have the young students who come in that do
the Buddhist scriptures based on his life and those stories and then they do Lao stories that are
much more contextualized to the Lao villagers, depending on where they're at.
...
Moderator: So there’s a husband and wife.
...
Translator: His wife making a full, deliver a lunch for husband.
...
Translator: Every day.
Moderator: So the wife—there’s two couple, the husband and wife. The wife prepares food for a
lunch for her husband every day and delivers it every day.
...
Moderator: And so the husband is hungry, because he doesn’t have any food with him.
...
Moderator: So she was giving ohms to the temple first, before she was able to bring the food to
her husband.
...
Moderator: So his stomach was growling and he’s really hungry and it’s growling and he’s
rubbing his tummy and saying, “I’m really hungry. I’m famished.”
...
Moderator: And he’s like, I wonder where my wife is. Why is she a little bit late?
...
Moderator: And so when she came with the food, he couldn’t quite eat, because he’d lost his
appetite.
...
Moderator: About his appetite. She’s like, I’m sorry I’m late, because I had to go give ohms to
the monks first.
�...
Moderator: And then I had to come back home and steam some more rice for you to come give it
to you.
...
Moderator: The husband says, I’m grateful that you were able to gives ohms first.
...
Moderator: So part of the blessing is to get—the monk blesses the water that is sort of like the
christening version of the Christians and so for him, he took the Christian water and rubbed it all
over himself and then he wasn’t as hungry. Did I get that right?
R:
Yeah.
R:
No.
...
R:
She said that her husband—the monk—prior to that, the monk also went to the husband
to get food to . . . and then the husband doesn’t have any food to offer. The husband offered the
water from the well or to the monk and then the monk took that water to wash himself.
Moderator: Okay. Did you guys get that? So in the Lao culture, the monks come in the morning
with their bowl of arms to get—so this is their acts of compassion where people will make food
and prepare food and so this is their—the villagers’ chance to contribute to their next life. So
when he came around to the husband, he didn’t have any food, but he had fresh well water and
so the monk was able to take the water and cleanse himself. He didn’t have food to offer, but he
had water to offer. And so that was his ohms giving prior to his wife giving food to the monk.
...
Moderator: So they were both happy and grateful that they were able to contribute. So the
husband was able to contribute the water and be able to pray to Buddha and thank him.
�
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The transcript of a Lao focus group meeting where a story was shared for potiential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The story shared was wife delivering lunch late her husband because she gave alms to the monks first.
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Lao Focus Group, story 2
R:
She was—there’s a story about the mother and the son that he’s a farmer and the mother
is the one that’s supposed to bring the lunch to the son and one day the mother that bring the rice,
the lunch to the son, is late and he was too hungry and he was frustrated and he ended up hitting
his mother and kill her. So I mean, this story is teaching about the anger of youth that in that
moment, when you’re out of control, when you cannot hold yourself, and then you end up doing
something really bad and you're going to regret it in life.
R:
Do you remember how it was told?
R:
Um.
R:
He was eating the rice.
R:
Yeah.
R:
He didn’t finish it. Everything to fill up and he—too late to say sorry. He already kill his
mom.
R:
It escalated so quickly.
R:
Yes.
R:
And he build a statue in the temple for the mom—I kill my mom. He go pray that every
time he go to temple, my mom.
R:
This story, I can—I remember quite a bit, okay? So maybe I can . . .
R:
Yeah, tell the story from the beginning?
R:
I went to a temple, probably like seven or eight years old and I always hear this story all
the time. We tend to—when we’re young, we don’t know how to conserve. Not just the temple
part, but the food that we consume. A lot of times we’re wasteful. So the monk and the elder—
our father, mother always tell us, you know, don’t be wasteful, you know how . . . or whatever.
Moderator: Like one ball of rice.
R:
Yes. So the story begin when the mother, who’s trying to get the food ready for the son
and it’s the end of the harvest, okay, where the food is still being harvest, so we don’t have that
much. So the mother only have one handful, not even handful, probably . . .
Moderator: One bite.
R:
Yeah, one bite, and so he bring over and the mother already scared that it’s going to be
late, okay? Because it’s around noontime, because the son didn’t get to eat breakfast or anything
like that. Breakfast in our country is the big, big thing, you know? And the son skipped
breakfast, so he’s hungry after a long afternoon, hard work, you know, in the farm. Plowing and
all that. So he’s waiting for his mom. Finally, his mom show up. He said, “Why’d it take you
�so long?” He’s scolding his mom, you know, cursing and stuff like that, you know, right away,
what do we learn? You know, we learn that he’s disrespectful. We learn that he’s very
impatient. We learn that he’s really mean, okay? And basically the elder, from what I learned
from, and the monk that taught me, is that, you know, you're supposed to be the opposite.
So the summary of the story is that he—instead of focus on what she brought him and the
lunch, you know, only have salt and one bite. She didn’t even get to eat. She saved that bite,
you know, to give him. And when soon she brought that over and she was trying to explain she
didn’t—I mean, he didn’t want to hear what she had to say, so it just—you know, hit her, club
her and she died. After she died, now he’s still hungry. He look at the bite he’s about to eat, but
he could not eat. He realized that, you know, his impatience got the best of him and then, you
know, and killed his own mom and he wanted to say sorry, but he couldn’t. He wanted to eat,
but he couldn’t. You know, so the moral of the story is that it’s not what you want, it’s what you
have and make the best of it, I guess. Okay, like that. It’s really—the elder probably can tell
better than what I can.
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The transcript of a Lao focus group meeting where a story was shared for potiential inclusion in the Southeast Asian Folktale book. The story shared was about a son that got angry at his mother for bringing the lunch late and he ended up killing her.
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Lao Focus Group, story 1
R:
Well, the story that you mentioned earlier, that’s one of them that I grew up with.
Another one is I believe what do you call the ten . . .
Moderator: Is it the—for the temple?
R:
No, no, no. There was a king challenging all the, you know.
R:
Other kingdoms?
R:
Yeah, the kingdoms to who can have the wealth that equals to ten mount. So they can
marry the daughter—I mean, the princess. That always been stuck in my head and of course,
some other folklores or ghost stories that always scared me, but it’s also funny too.
Moderator: Okay.
R:
But that particular one.
Moderator: So what’s the name of that one?
R:
I’m not sure. This is an old one, so I would have to ask the older generation. . . . Yes.
The king challenging all the warriors and whatnot, you know, he’s dying and he’s in need of—I
mean, the kingdom in need of another successor.
Moderator: Okay.
R:
And so the king put a flyer or whatever, announced, saying that whoever come up here,
ten mount of gold.
Moderator: Mm-hmm, and is it just a mount like a mountain?
R:
Yeah, mountain, . . .
Moderator: You know how the plane of jars where they have these big sort of vats?
R:
Well, in our country, we have—what do you call, the termites mound? It’s that big. So
each one—there was ten of them in there, so nobody has it. So [Simeon] had an idea and he’d
come up with—he went to get gold coins and place on the mound. So in the end, I mean, I’m
cutting story short, but I’m pretty sure the story that—I’m spoiling the story here—the older
generation can tell better. But basically, that’s what stuck in my head.
Moderator: Mm-hmm.
R:
So Simeon, long story short here, he placed all the gold into the ten mounds and then he
solved the riddle of what the king placed. So the moral of the story is, you know, he’s very
creative in his idea and he won the riddles. He won the challenge.
Moderator: Okay.
�R:
So it’s encourage, envision, motivation type of story for me and I always think of that
every time I’m coming to a challenge of something. I always place that story in saying, you
know, it’s not how you look at the problem. I mean, it’s not—the size of the problem, that’s
what I’m trying to say. It’s how you look at it and how you handle the problem. That’s always
been my . . .
Moderator: You can just say it in Lao and then we’ll get it translated.
R:
Okay, okay, yeah. Something like that.
R:
Mm-hmm.
Moderator: So this is one of the Simeon folktales that he grew up with and that he—is one
of his favorites.
Moderator: And so it’s another trickster story. How many Simeon folktales or trickster
stories are there?
R:
Oh, hundreds. Hundreds.
Moderator: So depending on which story you remember of you hear?
R:
Yeah.
Moderator: So there’s a collection of them?
R:
Yeah.
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STORY 1
A Little Girl
She’s four years old. She live with old lady when the parent out, go to work.
I’m going to work and she live with old people, and she go around the block, pick up all the . . .
make . . . short stick and the wood for . . . The fire, when they cook rice in a big, big frying pan
and give to them. And they give her that, you know, under the part, like . . . the crust, or the
bottom of the cooked rice.
And what she’d get, a piece like that and she bring to give the boy when they bring the rice on
their head. The whole by the boy, put away the part where they cut underneath. That gets put
away. And when they’re hungry and get a piece here, a piece here, all there, and have one little
piece left in hand. And the brother wanted no more because he . . . all away. Because the whole .
. . and he eat it, eat her finger and bites her finger and bleeding and she cry. And what they do?
The soldiers who see it cry. “Tell her to stop crying,” because it hurt so bad. She just . . . and
shaking. And they put her in the bag of rice and hang her in . . .
And . . . she pass out in their . . . When I come back from work, here my daughter hang up
there, and they tell me. And the people, the . . . , they whistle and the soldier, they ran past and
one of the soldier, they love her also when they live there. Take her out and give to me, he . . .
And I thought she was going to die. It was just so hard.
STORY 2
Hate Poop, Ride Elephant.
So he [hate] the poop and then he wants to ride on an elephant.
that says Hate Poop, Ride Elephant. Hate the lawsuits, climb the top of the palm tree.
In Khmer, it’s rhymes.
Because in Cambodia, you will see only palm trees. They cut out the trees and you see only palm
trees.
They hate the lawsuits and they . . . And instead, they go to hide themselves. He or she, I don’t
know what’s that, sorry. Hide himself or herself on top of the palm tree. So because he doesn’t
want to argue or get into quarrel or go get into lawsuit with anyone, I would like to go and live
myself on top of the tree, the palm tree. And there’s nothing for me to work, to do. And then I
have a small sickle. I cut a palm frond to make a basket. And then while I’m making that, I build
a basket, I’m thinking about stories. And when I make those beautiful, lovely basket of palm
frond I can sell those baskets and then buy some chickens. And when I raise these chickens with
some big chickens, I can earn some money, and then I will sell those chickens and I will buy a
small cow or an ox. And when I raise these ox or cows to be bigger, and then I can sell it, and
then I can hire a slave or a servant. And then if I order him or her to do the work and then he is
lazy and doesn’t listen to me, I will kick him or her. So that’s in his brain.
He’s thinking. And when he think the actions like out of his hand and then he fell out the top of
1
�the palm tree. And then he fell on the rice field.
Okay, so it’s like the palm frond is like this, like a coconut tree. And then while he fell down,
like his conscious coming to his mind. He just grabbed hold of some small frond and then he just
hang, dangle over there. When he fall, if he let go of this frond, he would die when he fall. So
he’s just hanging himself there. And now, we just postponed the story for a while, and then we
are talking about another guy who hate the poop and then he ride an elephant. Because in
Cambodia, they go out and about doing it in the open, like in India. They can open . . . And then
he hate walking and his feet on the poop. So he ride on the elephant so he stay away from those
poops or excrement.
And then while riding on the elephant and the elephant walk below, the guy hanging
himself with the palm frond up there, that guy up there say, “Help me! Help me!” And then that
guy on the elephant stands up and then he stand on the elephant’s head, and then grabbed the feet
of that guy or that girl, I’m not sure. And then the guy up there just shake himself because he fear
himself falling down but while this guy grabbed hold of his feet. And then this guy shakes the
elephant’s head and the elephant thought that, “Oh, this guy ordered me to walk.” And then the
elephant walks. And then now, you see these two guys hanging themselves for dear life with the
palm frond. And now the elephant is gone and two gentlemen or ladies up there. And now the
question is whether these two gentlemen or ladies can stay away from poop or not.
Well, they can escape poop and they can escape lawsuits. Do you think those two people are able
to escape the things that they’re afraid of?
So the top man or top woman is so afraid, so fearful, and then you know that the [sphincters] let
loose, like physically everything’s loose when you are afraid of something. And then the loose
stool come down . . .
And it drop down on the one that’s . . .
And then now the poop drop down on the head of the bottom one who hate the poop so much.
So during the cliffhanging, four men or women walk by. And these two gentlemen or ladies yell,
“Help me! Help us!” And then these four men or women, I’m not sure, ask how can we help?
Four, four. Now, these two men or women ask the four men and women to bring a scarf and then
grab hold of each corner.
A blanket. In Cambodia, we don’t have blanket. We have scarf. We have scarf like this one, but
not beautiful as this one. Cambodian, we have scarf.
Yeah, so they ordered these four people to grab hold of each corner and then stay below. So the
top guy or top person let go of the palm frond.
And then drop into . . . Onto the scarf.
And now you think these four hit each other’s heads and die. The four die.
They don’t care about these four person who die, but these two people sue each other. Because
the bottom one sue, “You poop on my head!” So now, in conclusion, the one who hates the poop
and riding the elephant got sued by the guy up there. And then the guy up there who hate lawsuit
got sued again by this guy.
MORAL: So he said that it’s you are thinking too much and you try to avoid. You are thinking
too much, try to avoid everything. But still, you cannot avoid everything. Yeah.
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�Just a lawsuit, just a general lawsuit. So he goes up into the palm tree to get away from all the
lawsuits. And as he is thinking, he’s like, “You know, as I'm thinking here, I'm going to make the
basket to weave from the palms. And then I can sell that. And then I’ll get a chicken. And then
the chicken will let me afford to buy an ox. An ox will afford me to buy a servant, and if the
servant doesn’t work, I'm going to kick him,” and then ahh, he falls down. And as he falls down,
he grabs on to the tree, and he’s hanging by the palm leaves, and meanwhile—it’s just like dundun-dun. So meanwhile, this guy who hates to step on the poop everywhere, is riding the head of
the elephant to avoid the poop. Comes along this guy, dangling from the leaf, saying, “Help me.
Help me.” And so, he’s like, “Okay. I’ll stand on top of the elephant’s head and I’ll try to get you
down.” While he’s doing that, he stepped on the elephant, and the elephant thinks the movement
means to go, so the elephant goes. And now they have two men dangling by the thread, as the
other one, the Mr. “I'm afraid of lawsuit,” is afraid of what’s happening next. And then that’s
when he poops his pants, right? And poops on top of the guy who hates the poop. And then four
people come and they’re like, “Help us. Help us. We’re dangling here by the palm.”
This is where we can alter and so they can take their scarf and tie it together for them to
jump down. They can jump down safely, landed safely. The guys are okay, and then they go and
sue each other.
..
Oh, you want the four people to live? So the four people tie their scarves around to give a safe
place to jump down. So those two men come down. The man who hates the poop and the man . .
.
Sues the guy.
The guy who hates the lawsuit.
And that’s the end of the story.
And then moral, the line say, you cannot avoid anything.
[OMITTED SNAIL AND RABBIT STORY]
STORY 3
Allejo the trickster
Once upon a time, there was a couple. And these two, the mother and the father never get along
with each other very well. And they end up living separately. And then this couple, during the
time they live together, they have one young boy. So when the mother and father live separately
these Allejo . . . when you say Allejo in Cambodia everyone knows.
He’s an orphan.
The trickster. Allejo mean trickster, the name of the young boy. That is Allejo. And then this
young boy, Allejo, got sent to live in the pagoda or the temple. While living in the temple or
pagoda, that young boy think about the very favorite snack that he love to eat. And then he think,
he set up a plan to get his mother and father remarried in order to eat the cakes, whatever the
favorite snack. Because when you get married in Cambodia or Laos or Vietnam, they will
organize a big feast. And then he will and that his favorite snack like the Turkish delight. And
then the snack, I don’t know, I forgot the name of the snack.
Go to mother.
So first step, that young boy got out from the temple or pagoda to meet his mother living over
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�here, and telling his mom, “Mommy, I think you live lonely for a long time. You’re supposed to
get married to a . . .
[TURTLE STORY OMITTED]
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Yang: So recently we got some story we read back to them again in different version.
There was one story I recently remember. Is about, this family who have a servant who is a
man. He worked really hard, and he happened to love, fall in love with the daughter of that
man. And because of the differences, he wouldn't want to marry his daughter to this poor
guy. But he make a promise to him, "Hey when you work hard, when you plug enough I will
let you marry my daughter." So, the servant, he believed him so he worked really hard. And
until the time to get married, he arranged marriage his daughter with another rich family.
Yang: story 1
And to keep this guy, he's asking him to say, "Hey, wedding tomorrow, but now you
have to do one last thing. You have to go to the forest and find a bamboo tree with a
hundred blocks." And he went to the woods and tried to find, there were so many of them
he couldn't find any of them a hundred pieces. So he was crying, and over here they getting
the party ready for marry.
One of the, fairy came over him while he was crying and asked him, "Why you cry?"
"I am trying to find this bamboo tree, so I can go back and get married." The fairy said,
"Well why don't you do this, you find 100 pieces of bamboo" and then he give you a secret
word so when he say "come back", everything will connect to a long bamboo. And he tried
to carry that long thing around, again and he couldn't get it, it was so long so he cry again.
The fairy say, "Okay well, I'll give you another one, break up to a hundred pieces, collect
them all and go back home." He came back home, and he found they were getting ready for
marriage.
Everybody came out, mocking him, "I told you to get a long bamboo tree now you
leave me a hundred piece of bamboo." He said, "Well I'll show you." He said, "They connect,
the all connect to a long bamboo tree." And this family they were like, "Oh okay, well, but I
don't want to marry my daughter to you anyway." And he said, "Okay, connect." And
everybody in their family stick to the tree. And they end up have to let him marry their
daughter. So, yeah it's a story about, you know [crosstalk].
Phan: In Vietnam too. They were Tan, T-A-N, not my name.
Phan: story 1
Speaker 1:
Her name is Tan?
Speaker 1:
She supported the family?
Phan: Tan. She was really poor. Her mom passed away. Her father got married with
another one, so she got step mother. Her step mother doesn't love her, so she designates a
lot of chores and a lot of work for Tan to work, to do, while her step-sister doesn't do
anything. She did everything in the house, and even she work out a lot, work out her family
to have goods, and everything, but ...
�Phan: She supported the family, and she didn't have enough clothes to wear, but she had
good heart. She was so helpful, and she were willing to help everyone, so everyone loved
her a lot. Somehow whenever she got a difficult situation, the old man, like a fairy, appear
and help her every time.
Her mom, her step mom and her step-sister were really angry because when she
grows up, she looks so beautiful, even though she doesn't have good outwear, she doesn't
have good clothes at all, but she still looks so beautiful. But they feel competitive with her.
They figure out many ways to kill her, but they were unsuccessful. One day when the prince
wanted to get married with a girl, give out a lot of competition so that the beautiful girls can
go and have a competition if they can show that they are beautiful, they are skillful, the
prince may get married with him.
The step mother and the step-sister didn't want them to go to the competition
because they knew that if she come she will win. So they figure out some way to prevent
her from coming. They made a lot of work, a lot of chores so that she didn't have enough
time to finish, and then she can't.
But with the help of a lot of creatures around, like the mouses, the mice, what else ...
the fairy appear and help her. They helped her to finish the chores, and I remember really
hard chores take a lot of time for her. They mess up the rice, the beans ...
Speaker 1:
And the grains.
Phan: The grain. She was gonna separate one by one. That's a lot, but the birds came and
helped her out.
Speaker 1:
So they are animals?
Phan: Yeah, a lot of animals come and help her out with those. She didn't have good
clothes to the party, to the competition.
They make magic, the fairy. But in our tradition, in our [inaudible], it's not a girl
fairy, it's an old man fairy appear and help her. It's similar.
Speaker 1:
Very similar.
Phan: She's supposed to get back before midnight. If she didn't get back before midnight,
everything gonna turn back, the clothes, the high heel is gonna turn back. The magic is not
gonna affect after midnight. Before midnight, she remembered that and then she run back,
but she forgot her shoe, a small shoe.
So the prince got that shoe, and he noticed that whoever can fit that shoe is gonna be
his wife. Then only [inaudible] matched the shoe, so the prince chose her to be his wife, to
be the queen. But the story didn't stop there.
Cinderella did like that, but in our version, when she became the queen, she gets
back to her house, on the death day, the anniversary of her father is really important day in
our tradition. So she come back, she helps out and she gets ready to offer a lot of food to her
�fathers spirit. Her step mother asked her to climb up to the tree, the tall tree to get
something, to get a fruit to offer her father spirit. When she was climbing up to the tree,
they cut down the root of the tree, she dies.
She dies, and then she became a bird, and fly back to the palace. At that time, the
step mother replaced her daughter, her step-sister, to go to the palace to become the queen.
But the prince at that time, he didn't care about Tan, that sister. He still missed her a lot.
Speaker 1:
It's sad.
Phan: It's so sad. Then the bird flew back to the palace. When her step-sister were doing
something, were trying the clothes for the prince, the bird appear and say something like,
“When you wash my husband clothes, remember to wash it clearly, and never hang it up on
the fence. It's gonna damage my husband clothes.” And the prince heard that, and the
prince know somehow the bird is his old past life. He really loved the bird. He kept the bird
with him in a cage. And then her step-sister was envious, and figured out a way to kill the
bird.
Later, the bird with the help of ... I forgot that thing, but later, with the fairy help, the
bird spirit become Tan again, and they got a happy life. The prince, who intended to give
sentence to the step mother and step-sister because of their bad deeds. There's two ending.
So the first ending, Tan asked the prince to forgive them. So she was so good, she
wants to forgive them, she doesn't want to do harm for them. And the second version, there
is ... but I don't like this version ending, they say after she got back, and have a happy life
with the prince, the step mother and step-sister still feel angry, and they ask her how can
you get the white skin, so beautiful skin like that? And then Tan say, “Sit in a hole, half the
body, pour boiling water, and you will get nice skin.”
At that time I said, “Wow, that's weird.” because Tan have good heart, so she didn't
do like that. But because it is a fairytale, some people want to get some kind of ending to
punish the bad people so that it exist two kinds of ending. But I like the first one better.
Phan: Yeah, language. We come from a fairy, and a dragon. When they get married with
each other ...
Phan: story 2
Speaker 1:
The origin of the country?
Phan: Yeah, the origin of the country. So the fairy got pregnant, and she gave birth to 100
children. And later they know that the drag and the fairy cannot live with each other longer,
forever. So they separated. 50 children followed the father to go to the mountain, and 50
others followed mom to go to the [delta]. So that's why nowadays, the 50 children gave
birth to children, and grandchildren, and they are living in a mountain. And the other 50
have children and grand children for a generation in the delta. We are in the same parents.
�We should love each other. We have same connection with each other. In our
country, we use really special name, that is [foreign language] that in Vietnamese, there are
no relevant translation in English, but it means that we are in the same origin. We are
brother and sister. We are relative of each other.
�
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The transcript of a meeting with a Lowell area Vietnamese community member where Vietnamese stories were shared for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian folktales book. One story shared was about a servent that fell in love with the daughter of a rich family. The second story was about a poor girl who had step-mom and step-sister that did not wanted her to get better than them. The third story was about a fairy had a 100 children with a dragon, but the fairy and the dragon could not live with each other so half the children lived with the fairy and the other half lived with the dragon.
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Beatrice Lao
Beatrice:
Oh I discovered it as an adult. It was given to me my first year in law school
by a friend and it's The Little Prince. I have read it probably at least 30 times and I have
read it with my nieces and nephews and IStory 1
Speaker 1:
I haven't read it.
Beatrice:
-give it to everybody every kid who I come across as a gift.
Speaker 1:
That's the gist.
Speaker 1:
Why do you like The Little Prince?
Beatrice:
I like The Little Prince I think at the time it inspired me when I went to law
school 'cause I felt really out of place and the story of The Little Prince is a little prince who
lived in a tiny little planet who tended to a rose and he decided one day to explore the
universe outside of his planet and he was very scared and he met all kinds of people met a
king, he met a drunkard, he met a geographer and he in the end even though he went out to
discover what he thought was a very strange, intimidating world, he learned he was very
enriched by it and he still wanted to go back to his planet to be with his rose. There's more
to it than that but-
Beatrice:
-that story that story stuck with me and it's something that I share with other
people especially young people.
Speaker 1:
That's great 'cause as you were talking 'cause my mom would say that's what
Buddha was, he was a prince who went out to explore the world.
Beatrice:
Oh that's right yes, [inaudible 00:07:53] yeah, yeah that's right yeah. I hadn't
thought of that yeah.
Speaker 1:
It's similar right to all of those trials and tribulations but you go back to
yourself yeah so I never I'm going to have to read that.
Beatrice:
Oh yeah 'cause there's so many stories out there but that one definitely-
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The transcript of a meeting with a Lao community member from the Lowell area where one Lao story was shared for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian folktales book. The story was about a prince who lived in a tiny planet but one day he went out to explore the universe. The prince met all kinds of people and was enriched with information.
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Chanthone Seng interview
Jun: My father and mother told me stories about ... A person who was a tiger, they took
the skin of the tiger and wore it as a ... Taking the skin of the tiger and put it on the shirts.
Prints of the tiger on the shirt. So they said long time ago that the people who put the pieces
of the skin of the tiger onto their shirts end up becoming a tiger.
Story 1
Jun:
The one that is about the young lady that smells like a flower.
Story 2
Jun:
No. The hair that smells nice. So she was born with beautiful-smelling hair.
Interviewer: Why do you like that story?
Jun: Because it's a story about the mother that was ... She was an orphan. Her mother and
father died, and she had to take care of herself. And she has one child. So that's what
happened.
Jun: She had to go and forage for food in the forest. So she searched for mushrooms and
bamboos and plants so that she could eat.
Interviewer: Because and why do you like that story?
Jun: It helps people understand to be patient and persevere ... like a survivor. Resilient.
So that they can learn how to find food and survive in the jungle.
Jun: There's a story about the family that had seven kids. The mother and father are poor
and they don't have money. So they let the kids go and let them live in the forest. So now
they turned into gorillas in the jungle and they're not human. So they finally were able to
farm and get some food so that they went back to get their kids. But the kids have all grown
hairy. They no longer know how to speak like humans. So the mom and dad cried because
they've lost their children. So they would get food and throw it at the bottom of the tree
where their children, who are now monkeys, live. And that's the end of the story.
Story 3
Jun: The second story I would tell you is the story about the girl who was born with the
pretty-smelling hair. The mom and dad birthed a beautiful daughter that had long, flowing
hair that smelled very beautiful. They don't have much money so they collected charcoal to
sell. They would sell the charcoal to buy food and water, or nourishment for their one
daughter.
Story 4
Jun: The daughter went to school, but one day the mother and father died, and then she
was left alone by herself to grow up alone. So she did what her parents did. She went and
foraged in the forest and found food to eat there and found charcoal to sell to make a living.
�Jun: But one day she had a child, and then the villagers would ask, "This is strange, how
can a woman have a child without the father? Where is the father?" The mother had a
secret. The child would ask, "Where's my father?" as she was growing up. As she grew up,
the mother kept the secret of her father's heritage until she was growing old and almost
about to die.
Jun: Her daughter was 18 years old when she told him. So she started this story. So she's
dying and so she tells the daughter that, "When I was younger I went to the forest and I
drank from this water fountain that was a magical water fountain." The water was a hot
spring that came from the rock." So when she drank from the springs that came from the
rock, she became pregnant with the daughter. When she was there by herself, there was no
human. "There was just an elephant. It was the king of the wild elephants. So if you wanna
know your father, go into the forest where there is the water from the rock, and you will
find your father."
Jun: She said that the father was in the mountains by the rock side. So she went there
and she saw this elephant who was sleeping there. So she asked him, "Are you my father?"
The elephant replied, "When were you my child? When did I beget you?" She told the story
about what her dying mother said, saying that she had come here and that when she drank
the water she saw no one. So she said, "Yes, you're right. I did pee on that rock and your
mother drank my pee."
Interviewer: Oh, God.
Jun: So the elephant is gonna test her to see if he's the real daughter. "So the test to see
whether you're my child or not," said the king elephant, "is I need for you to walk out into
that ledge and cross between these two rocks. Between the two rocks is a cliff that falls. A
true daughter of mine can walk over the rocks without falling over. But if you're not my
daughter, you'll fall over to your death."
Jun: So she was able to walk over to the other side of the rock cliff. So that validated that
yes, he was her father. Then she just stayed and lived with her father for the rest of her
years.
Interviewer: So why do you want that story known?
Jun: This is a story about the heritage and to know where you're coming from. So you
never forget your father. Never forget who your father is. It's like your DNA. The story of
your heritage, where you come from, from your father and your mother. So the father took
care of her. So this is the story to tell children to remember who their parents are and who
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The transcript of a meeting with Lowell area Lao community members where Lao stories were shared. A total of four stories were shared for potential inclusion in the Southeast Asian folktales book. The first story shared was about a human who took a tiger's skin and wore it. The second story was about a young girl whose hair smelled like flowers. The third story was poor family with seven children, and left the children in the forest. The fourth story was about an orphan girl who got pregnant from magic water in the forest.
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Chanthy & Kaen
Speaker 2:
There's one story about Nang La and Nang Lun which are the two names,
they were brothers.
Story 1
Speaker 2:
Speaker 2:
What is your favorite story?
There was one story, is my favorite. It's about these siblings.
Speaker 2:
Okay. So there's one story about ... So it's a story about two girls. They make
silk skirts that they sell to people. So they sell the silk to help their families. So that's the
only one I remember from when I was younger.
Speaker 2:
So that's the story that I remember when I was seven or eight years old.
Don't remember the details but that's the story about the two sisters that helped their
family.
Speaker 2:
Story 2
Let's see. Okay. There once was a dog. [Foreign language 00:58:24].
Speaker 2:
Okay. See, this is the one. Here, let me see, [foreign language 01:07:59]. Okay.
[Foreign language 01:08:03].
Speaker 1:
[Foreign language 01:08:06].
Speaker 2:
Is the dog in the river, [foreign language 01:08:13]. So that's his shadow,
[foreign language 01:08:18]. So [Foreign language 01:08:23].
Speaker 1:
Speaker 2:
01:08:33].
[Foreign language 01:08:24].
[Foreign language 01:08:28]. And that's it, the end. [Foreign language
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The complete collection is available on this site.
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Dear friends,
We would like to welcome you to the 4th Annual Southeast Asian Water Festival in Lowell, MA.
1999 and 2000 Lowell Southeast Asian Water is brought to you by the Southeast Asian Water
Festival Committee. We hope you will enjoy this year festival.
Imagine colorfully designed, hand crafted wooden boats, some as long as 60 feet, holding 25 rowers
racing side by side, speeding faster and faster on the river. With the guide of the drumbeat, each
team member in their colorful uniforms paddle together in harmony. Members uniting with the
mission to take back the pride and winning trophy to their hometown. Imagine thousands of spectators along the riverbank cheering for their teams. Both the old and the very young journey from as
far away as the countryside (in some cases by foot) to get a glimpse of this event. Everyone enjoys
the sideline entertainment and activities along the banks of the river. In the capitals of Lao, Cambodia and Thailand the water festival (held every November along the Mekong River), is a major event
celebrating the connection between water and life.
Thousands of miles away, Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival celebration is a unique bridge to
carry on this centuries-old water festival tradition that is celebrated back home. Initiated by the
large Southeast Asians immigrant community that resides here in Lowell, Massachusetts, today it is
a celebration of cultural diversity and appreciation for the river. It includes traditional Southeast
Asian boat races along the Merrimack River, parades, over 40 traditional and contemporary performances and live bands on two stages and children's games and educational activities focusing on
water quality. There is also much ethnic food, Southeast Asian crafts and arts, and informational
booths staffed by health, human service, civic, environmental and local business organizations.
Noted for it's wide participation, uniqueness, and unifying community event, the Lowell Southeast
Asian Water Festival project was highlighted in Lowell's recipient of the 1999 All-American City
Awards. This festival is a partnership of many community groups, including the Cambodian Mutual
Assistance Association, the Lao Family Mutual Association, and Lowell Heritage State Park. Many
other local organizations and individuals have contribution and dedicated their time to make the
fourth annual festival the largest and most memorable one.
For the first time in this year's festival, eight (8) teams will be using two new boats and additional
four (4) teams will be using the two (2) smaller boats. The two new boats, recently arrived from
Laos with 60 feet long and accommodating up to 25 rowers each . Last year, there were two small
boats brought from Cambodia and accommodating up to 13 rowers each. Long before today 's
competition, rowing teams have devoted energy to practicing and learning how to maneuver these
boats in rhythm .
Join us and in celebrating the beauty of the rivers, the blending of traditions and cultures, and unity
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�The 2000 Lowell Southest Asian Water Festival was made possible by
the hard work and dedication of the following individuals and organizations:
Water Festival Committee & lndividuls
Thel Sar
Paul Kesith
Chhavy Sinoun
Rasmey Roum
Mark E. Goldman
Chuck Sart
John J. King
Sarann Noun
Chhavine Chak
Christopher Karas
Mike Van
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Irene Egan
Richard Scott
William McGovern
Bodie Barton
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Chan Tum
Chauncey Normandin
Dan Squeqlia
Danny Chum
Kasey Keo
Lao Boualaphauh
Mantha Prum
Mike Wurm
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Samuth Koan
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Tony Ayeth Roun
Veasna Sim
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Lowell Community Health Center
Lowell Heritage Park
Lowell Juvenile & Adult Probation Departments
Lowell National Historical Park
Lowell Police Department
Lowell Small Business Assistance Center
Lowell Telecommunication Corp.
Massachusetts State Police
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Boat racing is an integral part oi the Southeast Asian water festival tradition. Racing teams from different provinces and
towns compete for the right to represent their temples in national championships held every mid-November on the Mekong
River in the capital of Cambodia and Laos.
In Lowell , we have adapted this time-honored tradition to the Merrimack River. Joining our 32 feet long Cambodian
boats are two new 70 feet long Laotian boats.
Boat races are scheduled every few minutes beginning at 10:00 AM. Races begin upstream toward the Belgrade
boathouse and end near the main stage at the Sampas Pavilion. Race results will be announced at the Awards Ceremony
at the Main Stage at 4:00 PM.
Short Boat Teams
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�Congratulations to organizers
of the 4th Annual Lowell Southeast
Asian Water Festival 2000
GOOD LUCK
To ALL
BOATERS IN THE RACE
BBN is published monthly by the Cambodian
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business news, community news around the U.S.,
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4th Annual Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival program, 2000-08-19
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4th Annual Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival program booklet. The booklet contains 33 pages and includes a friendly letter from Thel Sar and Paul Kesith, the festival schedule, performance schedule, a list of Water Festival committees and individual members, a list of supporting organizations, and more.
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Southeast Asian Water Festival 2001
ENTERTAINMENT SCHEDULE
MAIN STAGE
EVENT
TIME
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Southeast Asian Water Festival entertainment schedule, 2001
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Festivals
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Schedule for the 2001 Southeast Asian Water Festival event. Includes information for the three stages, the events at each stage, and time of the performances.
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2001
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Hospital Drive, Lowell, MA 508/458-1411
�In Memory of
Noreth Tim Som
(1961 to 1997)
The 1997 Southeast Asian Water Festival is dedicated to
the memory of our late colleague Noreth Tim Som.
Noreth's loss was felt deeply through the planning of this
event, to which he gave so much of his heart. He made
invaluable contributions to the Festival through his
knowledge of the Lowell community and Cambodian
culture.
Noreth was an employee of the City of Lowell Health
Department through a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences grant. Our thoughts are with his wife
and two daughters.
The Southeast Asian Water Festival Committee would
like to thank Andy Chung, owner of the Lin Garden
restaurant in Dracut, who hosted a memorial dinner
attended by 100 persons that raised funds for Nore th' s
family.
�About the Southeast Asian Water Festival
A Cambodian proverb tells, " Where there is water, there is afish. "
For centuries in Southeast Asia, the Water Festival has celebrated the importance of water
in all aspects of life. Water has always represented prosperity, life and goodness to the
Southeast Asian people. Buddhist scripture explains that the Water Festival is held to
thank the spirit of the water; to pray for evil spirits to go away; and to honor the Dragon
King who dwells in the water. The Festival also asks the water spirit for forgiveness for
"dirtying"the water - for example, by using it to irrigate soil.
Fishermen and farmers rely on their rivers, lakes and ponds for their livelihood. Villages
sprout next to riverbanks. In recent years, water has also come to symbolize economic
development. Khy Taing Lim, director of the National Mekong River Commission, said,
"Water is our soil, our mines of gold, our main natural resource ... we must use our water
to export, and get foreign currency to develop the country."
During the races, known as Bon Om Tuk in Khmer or Boun Song Hae in Laotian, people
of all ages gather at the riverbanks to sing, dance, and watch the rowing races for three
days in November.
In Lowell, the Southeast Asian Water Festival began as a project funded by the National Institu
of Environmental Health Sciences. The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association; the City of
Lowell Health Department; the Laotian American Organization; and the UMass Lowell Center
for Family, Work and Community formed the original working group. The intent was to recrea
a time-honored tradition for the first time ever outside of Asia, to encourage the community to
work toward many common goals; and to learn from the Southeast Asian community about
important environmental and health issues.
Planning began late in 1996. We welcome your comments and look foward to working with ye
for future Festivals. We would also like to thank Mr. Edward Shih-Chung Wang, coordinator f
the Festival. What you see today represents the work of hundreds of people from throughout 0 1
community. We hope you and your family enjoy the day, and we hope to meet you at the
Merrimack River for many years to come.
Ms. Jane Benfey, City of Lowell Health Department
Mr. Samkhann Khoeun, Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Mr. Richard Scott, Lowell Heritage State Park
Dr. Linda Silka, UMass Lowell Center for Family, Work & Community
Mr. Chareon Vannabouathong, Laotian American Organization
�Thanks to Our Private and Business Sponsors
We would like to thank the individuals, businesses and corporations
that helped make the Festival possible through their generous contributions.
We also thank the individuals and business who "adopted an umbrella "
in support of the beautiful umbrellas you see today.
Our Business Sponsors
Franklin Companies
Joseph A. Godfray, CLU
Home Depot
Lakeview Lounge
Lowell Sun Charities
Key West Corp.
Marcotte Law Firm
Navy Yard Liquors
Reebok
Spot Clean, Inc.
Vaillancourt & Co.
Vic 's Pastry Shop
Our "Adopt An Umbrella" Sponsors
Down Town Auto Repair
Fineberg & Gray Associates
Grey Fox Electric, Inc.
Lowell Real Estate
McPhee, Ltd.
Pavex Inc.
Ben P. Phanmalai Insurance & Income Tax Services
Phnom Penh Supermarket
Ms. Chris Peik
Roy Fence Co.
UMass Lowell Center for Family, Work & Community
UMass Lowell Nursing Department
Xamsenethai Restaurant
Xiong Enterprises
�Our Friends of the Festival
All of us at the Water Festival wish to thank the individuals, businesses and organizations
that have support.e d our efforts with generous gifts of time and resources.
Our Friends of the Festival
American Textile History Museum
Barnes & Noble - Downtown Lowell
Mr. Ed Trudel, City of Lowell Special Events Office
Blaine Beauty School
Cambodian Cable News
Espresso Pizza
Glory Buddhist Temple
Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce
Khmer Television Program
Lowell Festival Foundation
Lowell National Historical Park
Lowell Parks & Recreation Department
Lowell Police Department
Lowell Telecommunications Corporation
New England Folklife Center
Pawtucketville Neighborhood Council
St. Julie Asian Center
UMass Lowell Office of Community Service
UMass Lowell Crew Racing Team
The Voice of Cambodia - WLLH 1400 AM
YouthBuild
�Volunteers
We want to thank our dozens of volunteers and River Ambassadors who are giving freely of their time
today. They include teens representing Big Brother I Big Sister of Greater Lowell; the Coalition for a
Better Acre; The Eliot Church; Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical School; Lowell Catholic
High School; Lowell High School; and the Teen Coalition. Our volunteers also include students and
faculty from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and people from Lowell's many communities.
We also wish to thank Pany Khakeo for making sure our volunteers are well-fed.
The 1997 Southeast Asian Water Festival Committee
Offers Thanks to Our Many Volunteers
Sha-King Alston
Jane Benfey
TomBenfey
Wendy Blom
Khan Chao
Am Chom-Pond
Andy Chung
Marcia Dolce
Lee Hershfield
Paul Hudon
Beverly Johnson
Judith Kelley
Rassany Khakeo
Samkhann Khoeun
The Venerable Sao Khon
Saravon Khun
Angleine Lee
John Mitchell
Rebecca Markey
William McGowan
KimMonh
Ken Northrop
Chath pierSath
Richard Racicot
Sak Seang
Dr. Linda Silka
Chhavy Sinuon
Allison Trela
Patty Trela
Edward Wang
Cheryl West
Blong Xiong
The Spar and Spindle
Girl Scout Council
Please Note: We have attempted to make sure everyone's hard work and enthusiasm has been
properly acknowledged. We apologize for any inadvertent omissions. All information in this
Program Guide is current as of our publishing date.
�The Rowing Races
Boat racing is an integral part of the Water Festival in Laos and Cambodia. Racing teams from throughout the different countries compete for the right to represent their temples in national championships
held every November on the Mekong River in Phnom Penh and Vientiane, the capitals of Cambodia and
Laos respectively.
In Lowell, we have adapted this time-honored tradition to the Merrimack River. Our boats, which were
built in Cambodia, are about 30 feet long and hold 16 team members. The racing boats are sponsored in
part by Saints Memorial Medical Center.
Teams representing local businesses and community organizations will race against each other and the
clock. The two teams with the best times will be invited to compete in the final race at 3:50 p .m.
We would like to thank Boat Committee members Tom Benfey, Bill McGowan of the UMass Lowell
crew team, Ken Northrop of the Lowell Parks & Recreation Department, and Richard Racicot of the
Lowell Festival Foundation for ensuring a safe and enjoyable day of racing for all participants.
Today's Teams Include:
(Please note these are teams registered as of our publication date.)
Team #1
Team #2
Team #3
Team #4
Team #5
Team #6
Team #7
The Royals
F.O.B.
Sea Dragons
Laos Community Soccer
Wat Lao Mixayaram
That Luang Market
Pepsee
Eng Pol, Captain
Kipo Saysongkham, Captain
Roath Ven , Captain
Bounhiang Chanthavanheung, Captain
Kham Lattanasack, Captain
D.K., Captain
Ting Vannabouathong, Captain
Race Schedule:
(Teams to be announced at Race Time.)
Rowing races are scheduled every 30 minutes. Races begin 500 meters upstream from the Sampas
Pavilion and end near the stage. Race results will be announced soon after the completion of each
race and will be posted at the Race Station.
12:20 p.m.
12:50 p.m.
1:20 p.m.
1:50 p.m.
2:20 p.m.
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3:20 p.m.
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�Celebrating the Environment
The Southeast Asian Water Festival celebrates Southeast Asian culture and the importance of water.
The Mekong and the Merrimack Rivers share a history ofproviding nourishment and recreation for
the people living nea~by. We want to learn from these histories. Many of the groups listed below
have spent time exploring the importance of rivers to our culture. Please come join us as we
celebrate the Merrimack River as our common resource. We wish to remember the late
Noreth Tim Som, an original co-chair of our Environmental Committee. We also thank
Paul Hudon and Chath pierSath for chairing our Environmental Committee.
Our Health and Environmental Participants
Charles Consulting
Clean Water Action
The Eliot Church
Lowell Community Health Center Tobacco Program
Lowell Lead Project
Lowell Heritage State Park
Lowell National Historical Park
Lowell Regional Wastewater Utility
Lowell Regional Water Utility
Merrimack River Watershed Education
Merrimack River Watershed Council
New England Aquarium
Northeast Environmental Justice Network
Rape Crisis Services of Greater Lowell
The Relevance Company
Tsongas Industrial History Center
Saints Memorial Medical Center
Southeast Asian Environmental Partnership
UMass Lowell Nursing Program
UMass Lowell Toxics Use Reduction Institute
UMass Lowell Department of Work Environment
U.S. Dept of Food & Agriculture
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Waste Watch Center
Women, Infants & Children (WIC)
(Funding for the community water quality testing was provided by
the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission.)
�Sharing Our Cultures
We welcome cultural and artistic expressions from many communities.
We hope you will sample what our artists and crafters have on display,
and we invite you to learn more about Southeast Asian culture through
demonstrations of traditional activities. We wish to thank Samkhann Khoeun,
Chath pierSath, Rassany Khakeo and Cheryl West for leading our outreach
to area artists, performers and crafters.
Our Cultural and Community Participants
Angkor Dance Troupe
Buddhachak, Inc.
Dragonfly Studio
Glory Buddhist Temple
Khmer Cultural Institute
Laotian Temple of Massachusetts
O'Bonn Studio
Pepperell Spinning Group
Thong Phamduy
St. Julie Asian Center
Trairatanaram Buddhist Temple
Blia Vang
Wat Lao Mixayaram of New England
Weaver's Guild of Boston
�Sampas Pavilion Activities
(Performance times are subject to change.)
I 0:00 a.m. Sava Band- A Cambodian rock band starts the day with fun and excitement.
11 :00 a.m. Chhay Yam Parade - The Angkor Dance Troupe opens the Festival with a march featurini
brilliant costumes and the lively rhythms of wooden drums.
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11 :30 a.m. Blessing Ceremony - Buddhist monks from area temples and spiritual leaders from througl
the community welcome our racing boats to the City of Lowell. Featured guests include the Venerable ~
Khon, the Venerable Chek Chuon, Mr. Samkhann Khoeun, Mr. Chanrithy Oung, Mr. Seang Sak, Mr. K
Silavong, and Mr. Chareon Vannabouathong.
Noon Angkor Dance Troupe - A leading Cambodian dance company directed by Phousita S. Huy anc
Tim Chan Thou presents: the classical Blessing Dance; the Butterfly Dance, symbolizing the curiosity a
compassion of the Cambodian people; and the Pestle Dance, honoring the harvest and the rhythm of the
tools traditionally used to mill rice.
12 :30 p.m. Cultural Fashion Show - Young people from Greater Lowell present traditional and mode:
styles from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and the United States. We are pleased to present a special line of
clothes created by fashion designer Souchitta Chanthompalit of Lowell. The fashion show is presented \
assistance from the Asian Pride Club of Lowell Catholic High School.
1: 10 p.m. Lao Traditional Dance - A group of Lowell performers directed by Katie Un present dancei
blessing the Festival and symbolizing Water Festival traditions.
2:00 p.m. Classical Cambodian Music - Arn Chorn-Pond and Bin Phan perform traditional works on
distinctive Cambodian musical instruments.
2:30 p.m. Wat Lao Buddhavat of Rhode Island - A performance of the Lao Surng Water Festival da1
cheering on the boat racers and the Can Lao dance, famed for showing the distinct natures of the people
Laos. The music is played on the Can, an instrument unique to Laos.
3:00 p.m. The ADAM Project - Breakdancing and hip-hop "movements for peace" by Southeast Asia
youth from Big Brother I Big Sister of Greater Lowell.
4:00 p.m. Awards and Closing Ceremony - Winners of today 's rowing races will be recognized by th
community, and spiritual leaders will bring the day to a close.
�Festival Stage
(Performance times are subject to change.)
I p.m. Traditional Cambodian Music - CMAA Youth Traditional Music Project, under the instruction of
Arn Chom-Pond and Bin Phan, presents folk music. Sponsored by Reebok.
I :30 p.m. Laotian Mo Lam Poetry - Spontaneous poetry about Southeast Asian culture.
2: IO p.m. Cambodian Friendship Dance - The CMAA Youth Dance Project, directed by Rany Him,
perform Khmer folk dances . Sponsored by Reebok . Performers include: Roath Ven, Peter Ven, Ya Uy,
Ribin D., Samoeun Sok, Ryna Him, Danny Sok, Leakhena Levin, Olivia Ly, Peann Chhuon, Rachanna
Song, Saneth Sim, Christy Kang, Anita Roum, Lina Mann, Roeun Soun, Sophanna Sam, Bopha Sem,
Rosin So, Phann Try.
2:40 p.m. Bob Martin - A Lowell native offers folksongs about the Merrimack River.
3:00 p.m. "The Ghetto" - The CMAA Youth Theatre Project, written and directed by Am Chom-Pond,
Barry Marshall and Chath pierSath, confronts drugs, gangs, and teen pregnancy. Sponsored by Reebok.
Storytelling Stage
Share stories, poems and tales of many lands and the rivers
that water th em with area writers and storytellers.
Pe,formance times will be announced.
Featuring:
Li Min Mo,
telling stories of Burma, Cambodia,
Laos and Thailand. Sponsored by
Lowell Sun Charities.
Amy Kopaczewski
Kowith Kreth
Cindy Murphy
Bunrith Sath
Chath pierSath
Richard Scott
�The Mekong River
flows down from
Tibet to China and
through Burma;
Laos, Thailand,
Cambodia, and
Vietnam.
In the languages of
these countries, the
mighty Mekong
River is known as:
the Water of Stone,
the Turbulent River,
the Mother of Waters, the Great Water, and the River of
Nine Dragons.
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the source of creation and a
great destroyer ef life. It feeds
the land from which the rice springs forth; it
sustains the fish in lakes and rivers. It can also
be an implacable force, sweeping away all
before it. From time immemorial, the lives of
the people of Southeast Asia have been dictated by the alternating southwest and northeast
monsoons, steady winds each prevailing for
half ayear. So come the rains followed by
months of parched earth, extremes of flood and
of drought. The cycle of the seasons, both a
blight and ablessing, could never be broken,
but it was the genius of Angkor to master it.
Inheriting the hydraulic engineering brilliance
oJ Funan, the ancient Khmer constructed
canals and reservoirs, moats and pools in a
huge system that tamed water, accommodated
its excess, provided for its lack. In essence,
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Angkor was created from complete mastery
over water and it was awater-borne empire.
Not one of sailing ships and merchant princes,
but one of irrigation assuring abundant harvests, of canals affording ease of access, even
of water balancing the massive stone temples.
As asymbol, too, water in the moats surrounding the great temple mountains represented the
cosmic ocean. Water was also leisure and
Angkor's aristocracy would have cheered at
boat races, laughed on amorous outings to
pleasure pools. With decline, Angkor lost its
ascendancy over water. Canals and reservoirs
fell into disrepair as the empire weakened and
crumbled. Water, once again unbridled, took
control. More than plants, more than man,
water has undermined Angkor's monumental
glory. Yet, although no longer in exquisite balance, water continues to sustain - as well as to
amuse -life at Angkor.
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Long and sleek, brightly colored, with curving prows pointing high, the fleet of racing
boats looks from the bottom of the sea to come and play in the water.
Light glints off paddles plunging in unison into the river. Drums beat time. The arms
of dancers undulate gracefully in the bows. Along the shores of the Tonie Sap river, crowds
cheer while ministers, ambassadors and other
dignitaries surround the King in his pavilion.
Villagers gather from far and wide-for many ,
their only occasion to visit their capital-to
encourage their boat to victory. It is the Water
Festival, Cambodia' s biggest and most gala
celebration: three days in November when the
nation puts aside work and care, and honors the
great naval warriors and accomplishments of the
past. The celebration also marks a unique
natural phenomenon: the changing of the flow of
the Tonie Sap, the river and lake system which
is the heart of Cambodia. From Phnom Penh to
Siemreap, this land of water turns into one
grand party-Cambodia's Mardi Gras.
Hundreds of longboats, propelled by
precision-trained crews, compete for honor and
glory in two-and three boat heats along a 1,000meter course to the King's Pavilion in Phnom
Penh . In Siemreap, smaller boats race in the
more confined waters of Angkor Wat's moat.
The Festival comprises three celebrations-a tribute to water, the ceremony of Ok
Ambok (the pounding of the Rice), and Sampeah
Preah Khai (the full moon Prayers) .
The Pounding of the Rice stems from
Buddhist mythology about a female giant who
can predict the weather. Farmers honor her power each year. The Full Moon Prayers are
dedicated to the power of a rabbit that took its own life in a fire to serve as food for a god who
visited Earth as an emaciated old man. According to Khmer mythology, the rabbit symbolizes
fidelity, justice, and honesty . Many celebrants say they can see its form traced in the full moon
by the god . As night falls and the full moon rises, showers of fireworks light up the sky,
exploding with booms and pops that mix with cheers of awe and joy . Enormous balloons are
�"fed to the moon" and a flotilla of "fairy boats" outlined by lights slips gracefully through the
dusk.
At midnight, flatted rice, called ambok, bananas and coconut juice are offered to the
moon, which returns the thanks with a bright smile from heaven. In a Buddhist ceremony, a
line of candles is gingerly rotated three times on a rod: their falling wax reveals the future.
The Phnom Penh festival' is the largest, with more than one million people crowding the
banks of the capital's riverfront, but the Siemreap celebration is growing in popularity. Celebrated in the early 1960s at Angkor Wat, presided over by King Norodom Sihanouk, the
festival was revived at the temple in 1994, with fishing boats racing. Two years later the boats
were replaced by special, smaller versions of classic longboats. The Siemreap festival offers
spectators the splendid sight of racers competing as dusk falls while the setting sun transforms
the towers of Angkor Wat to radiant spires-as cicadas and birds hum in the forests.
The Water Festival commemorates an era when naval forces fought for control of a land
dominated by water, dating as far back as the Funan era (3 rd to 6th century). King Jayavarman
VII hailed his armada's victory over a Cham fleet in 1181, a battle vividly depicted on wall
carvings at the Banteay Chmar temple in Banteay Meanchey provinces and Bayon temple in
Siemreap. During the 16 th century, King Ang Chan I moved the capital to Lovek in southern
Cambodia.
Today, these and other victories are reenacted in the races. The first round-with seated
owers-represents the elite forces who were sent into battle first, and are followed by the
anding rowers, the second wave of any sea-born attack: all storming towards victory.
The sight of 300 boats gathering at the golden pavilion on the Tonie Sap is the festival's
ax. You will feel the glory of the festival in your heart-still beating quickly to the pace of
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money in hopes of prosperity and long life. Above: Hundreds
Jbodia's moment.
of boats compete for a moment of glory.
�The Tradition of Water Festival Boat Building
(Reprinted from Cambodia: The Legend Comes to Life)
When Chang 'hann Hoy broke into two pieces, people thought it was because the rowers were too
strong. They said the rowers paddled the long, sleek racing boat so fast it just split apart- the bow end
sped away from the stern, leaving one half in Siemreap and the other half far down river in Kompong
Chhnang.
Fast it was. Chang' hann Hoy was so named after it brought food from Kompong Chhnang to monks
at Angkor Wat 150 kilometers up the Tonie Sap river. And the food-chang ' hann-was still hoy- hot!
And the boat was fast because the rowers were strong and rowed with great speed, so the story goes.
But Monh Sok knows that the rowers weren't the reason why the legendary long boat split in half.
Sok, a 51 year-old boat builder from SiemReap, knows Hot Food broke apart because it was built so
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Built for speed, and Hot Food was built so well,
so sleek, so fast, it just raced away from itself.
Surely, the ancient formula makes fast boatsones so sleek, graceful and brightly colored. It is this
ancient formula that produces the boats that every
November fill the Tonie Sap at Phnom Penh and moat
at Angkor Wat in Seimreap for the Water Festival
races, Cambodia's grandest celebration.
Monh Sok says the key to the formula is an
ancient rule: "Kor romaing, bath kantaing, kantuy
.. puos kray"-"the neck of a fallow deer, the bottom of
a basket, the tail of snake named kray." The formula
works like this: The deer's neck is handsomely round.
The bottom of a basket is roughly flat. The Kray
snake's tail is smaller, "like chicken's chest," Sok
says.
The chief workman recites this formula and tells
his workers to carve their boat accordingly- neck of
fallow deer curving gracefully up at the bow, basket
flatness shaping the hull's bottom, thin snake tail
sweeping back from the stem. "If the tail is too big,
the boat will leap," Sok says. The boat builders rush
from stem to stem, and then pull themselves away to see the sides of the long craft to make sure that the
rule has been complied with properly.
The boat is made. You have to entirely answer the requirements of the ancient formula. But what
happens if you use koki thmar wood to make this boat? It will sink, of course. According to the veteran
wh
�boat maker, it is not enough just to follow the rule- the workmen must also select the best quality wood.
They should use the nom1al koki tree, not koki teuk, pchek neung dei"- "koki and water; Pch ek and
earth." But koki is expensive, because it can last hundreds of years- and sometimes hard to find . If the
boat makers cannot afford the best, they should choose another high quality wood, maintaining the strictest
traditions, and thus, produce the best boats. These provinces have also produced many victorious crews.
Building, painting, naming, ra<>ing, and funding the boats-which can cost over $2,000-all of these
things involve a great commitment by communities. The boat usually represents a Wat where it is stored in
a place of honor during the year-revered with incense, flowers and offerings- under an open-air rooftop
which respects the spirit guardian of the vessel. Whole villages typically accompany the boat to the Water
Festival to cheer it on with great pride and honor.
The full-sized racing boat is 20 to 25 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It carries 40 rowers or more,
plus a helmsman and perhaps a dancer or musician who keeps the rhythm at the bow. Because the moat
around Angkor Wat is much smaller than the Tonie Sap or Mekong river, the boats that race at Siernreap
are smaller, only 13 to 18 meters long.
Normally, five to ten people build a boat. Producing a finished vessel caulked with a special mixture
of resins and chopped hemp sack, can take five months or more. Strict rules and spirits influence the
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aming process which is done under consultation with elders and monks; and it is not uncommon for a
·ame to be born of a dream. "Olden Garuda", "Tiger Descending the Mountain", "Powerful White
/oman", "Powerful Black Woman", and "Magic-eyed Woman": many of the names resonate the female
1 of the vessel.
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The building of a boat is accompanied by ceremonies at each stage- entering the forest, cutting down
: tree, and starting the carving. The biggest ceremony is reserved for when the boat is launched for the
·t time.
The ceremony commemorates the spirits of the Naga king and Neang Hing, who preserves the water
Iland. Bananas and decorated coconuts are placed before the boat, five candles are lit, along with
:nse sticks, and traditional music is played. And the monks bestow their blessings.
It is at this time that the final and most significant feature is put in place: the eyes. For it is the eyes,
ch awake the boat's spirit and give life to the racers.
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tail at the stem, see the eyes that embody
the spirit, and the light flashing off 40
paddles, listen to the beat of the rhythm,
you will know the work was well done.
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3rdAnnual
Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival
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Sampas Pavilion • Lowell Heritage State Park
Lowell, Massachusetts
A ugust 21, 1999
�The 1999 Southeast Asian Water Festival was made possible by the
hard work and dedication of the following organizations and individuals:
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American Training
Angkor Dance Troupe
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Center for Family, Work, & Community, UMass Lowell
City of Lowell
Hope Organization
King of Thailand Birthplace Foundation
Latinos en Accion
Lao Family Mutual Association
Lowell Community Health Center
Lowell Heritage State Park
Lowell National Historical Park
Lowell Police Department
Lowell Small Business Assistance Center
Lowell Telecommunications Corp.
River Ambassador Program
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.
Special Thanks to:
Khan Chao, Southeast Asian Water Festival Coordinator
Lowell Regional Transit Authority
Lowell Heritage Ice Cream
Page One Productions
... and our many volunteers
w ho have put endless hours in planning this event.
Friends of the Festival
Peter Aucella
Tom and Jane Benfey
Ruth Houtte
Rassany Khakeo
Lani Beauty Salon
David and Gail Medeiros
Linda Katherine Reedy
Laurence Smith and Linda Silka
T & T Fine Jewelry
Photography: Rady Mom
�3rdAnnual
Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival
Table of Contents
1. Schedule of the Day
II. Boat Races & Teams
III. Festival Map and List of Booths
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�Festival Schedule
10:00 A M
Blessi ng Ceremony & Opening Remarks- Main Stage
11 :00 AM
Boat Races Begin
11 :00 AM
Entertainment, Ethnic Food, Market Place,
Environmental and Informational Booths Open
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Second Stage Opens
4:00PM
Boat Racing Award Ceremony
4:30PM
Acknowledgment of Participants & Appreciation Awards
Buddhist monks bless the racing boats during the
1998 Southeast Asian Water Festival.
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�Performance Schedule
MAIN STAGE
Hosts: Somkhith Vongkaysone & ln-Oy Panyanuvong (Lao Community)
Hosts: Bunrith Sath & Sophalina Tim (Cambodian Community)
9:40 AM
Chhay Yam Parade
10:00 AM
Blessing Ceremony
10:30 AM
Opening Remarks
11:15AM
Sava Band Introduction
11:30 AM
CMAA Friendship Dance Group
12:00 PM
Lowell Lao Teen Group
12:30 PM
Seasia I Buddha Power & New Generation (CMAA)
1:00PM
Big Brother Big Sister ADAM Project I United Teen
Equality Center (UTEC Tribe)
1:30PM
Lao Middle School
2:00PM
Studio Fabu/ River Ambassador Program/ Souchitta Designs
2:30PM
Dance with Sava Band
3:00PM
Tou Koui Nao Kao Noui
3:30PM
Chea X-treme Taekwondo
4:00PM
Boat Racing Awards Ceremony
4:30PM
Acknowledgment of Participants & Appreciation Awards
SECOND STAGE
Hosts: Arn Chern Pond & Sophy Theam (Cambodian Community)
Host: Somsak Kounsombath (Lao Community)
12:00 PM
Century Band
12:30 PM
Tou Koui Noa Noui
1:00PM
Poetry Reading I Bayon Traditional Music
1:30PM
Darasine
2:00PM
ADAM Project I UTEC Tribe & Buddha Power I New Generation
2:30PM
Lowell Lao Teen Group/ Lao Middle School
3:00PM
Phainame
4:00PM
Return to Main Stage for Awards Ceremony
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�August 21 , 1999
Dear Friends!
Welcome to the Third Annual Southeast Asian Water Festival and welcome to the City of Lowell the All America City! We are so happy that you are joining us today to celebrate our cultures and the
environment in which we ar~ now living today.
People have always drawn to rivers because water is life. For centuries, people throughout Southeast
Asia have gathered along the major rivers to celebrate the importance of water in all aspects of life:
food, agriculture, spirituality and economic prosperity. Today, Lowell's Southeast Asian Water
Festival transports this ancient tradition to the banks of the Merrimack River, some thirty thousand
miles away from its homelands.
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First held in the summer of 1997, the annual Southeast Asian Water Festival has attracted some 30,000
people in respect, celebration and appreciation for the water. It is the only festival of its kind in the
United States. As in Southeast Asia, the Water Festival appeals to people of all ages who come together
for traditional dances, music, poetry, story telling, fortune-telling, food, and craft booths, boat races,
and parades of decorated boats. Beginning with a public ceremony of religious, cultural and community
dignitaries, the day ends with a Water Blessing by Buddhist Monks. Now, more than 60 non-profit
agencies, community organizations and private businesses contribute funds and talent to the Festival.
More than 150 volunteers work hard to ensure that the event is successful. The August celebration has
doubled participation in only two years - from 10,000 visitors in 1997 to more than 20,000 last
summer. Its growing popularity guarantees that larger crowds will participate in this year's event.
The Southeast Asian Water Festival was driven by the leadership of the Southeast Asian community.
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA), which headed the
festival, was created by the Cambodian community leaders in 1984 to provide social services,
employment, educational and cultural programs to Lowell's newest immigrants. With the technical
assistance from the Center for Family, Work, and Community at UMass Lowell, the cultural and
religious groups throughout the city are represented in the festival planning. The Laotian Family
Mutual Assistance Association, Lowell Community Health Center, temples, churches, neighborhood
residents and the Heritage State Park representatives are actively involved in organizing and carrying
out the Festival project.
In late June of 1999, the Southeast Asian Water Festival project was highlighted as the one of three
projects in an application to the National Civic League at the All-America City Award j ury competition in Philadelphia. As a result, Lowell was one of the ten cities designated as an "All America
City", and the only city in the East Coast. This is the most prestigious contribution from the Southeast Asian community to the City of Lowell, which is home to the second largest Cambodian
community in the United States; the largest one being in Long Beach, California. It is estimated that
35,000 Southeast Asians reside in the Lowell area and make up almost one third on the City's
population.
We hope that you will enjoy participating in our Third Annual Southeast Asian Water Festival as much as
we are enjoying organizing it. Also, while you are in the area, please don't forget to see many other
establishments in our City as well. Water is life, and there is a lot to like about Lowell!
Sincerely Yours,
Samkhann C. Khoeun
Executive Director, Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
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�Boat racing is an integral part of the Southeast Asian water festival tradition.
Racing teams from different provinces and towns compete for the right to
represent their temples in national championships held every mid-November on
the Mekong River in the capitals of Cambodia and Laos.
In Lowell, we have adapted this time-honored tradition to the Merrimack River.
Our boats, built in Cambodia, are 32 feet long by 4 feet wide and hold 12 rowers.
Boat races are scheduled every few minutes beginning at 11:00 AM. Races begin
upstream toward the Bellgarde boathouse and end near the main stage at the
Sampas Pavilion. Race results will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at the
Main Stage at 4:00PM.
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3rd Annual Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival program booklet. The event was August 21, 1999. This program booklet contains 36 pages and includes the schedule of the day, Boat Races & Teams, and Festival Map and List of Booths.
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSA.GE
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llappy Cambodian !Yew Year-2002
Year of the llorse-2546 B.E.
The month of April is a very special month for Cambodian-American communities across the
country because April 13th through the 15th are the Cambodian New Year days of celebration. The Khmer people look forward to celebrating their Cambodian New Year in April with
all of the joy, hope and anticipation as traditional January New Year celebrations in mainstream societies.
The Cambodian New Year is a time of renewal and Cambodians celebrate the new opportunities by spring cleaning their
homes, making offerings at the pagodas and chanting with Buddhist monks. They are also known to sing songs of praise and
thankfulness as well as play traditional games, make music, and dance to welcome the new Tevoda (Guardian Angel and the
Animal Protector), which happens to be the Horse for this year.
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association's (CMAA) main activities for this New Year's celebration will be take place
at the Tsongas Arena at 300 Arcand Drive in Lowell, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 13th, from 2:00 PM to 11 :00 PM.
This year's festival begins on the actual day of the first day of the Cambodian New Year. Internationally, Cambodian communities throughout the world-from Cambodia, across the U.S. and other nations will be commence their New Year celebrations
on the same day. Those in Cambodia will celebrate for three days while Cambodians around the globe will probably choose one
day due to timing and other technical issues. Most importantly, the spirit of the New Year will be honored.
With 2002's New Year's theme "A Celebration of Khmer Arts, Music and Dance in the New Century", we are featuring
different aspects of Khmer cultural performances, form the traditional Mohory music ensemble to modem live band, traditional dances to pop concert on stage, comedy acts and musical sets, Bassack Opera, Ayai singing, fashion shows highlighting
the once popular era in Cambodia along with food, arts and craft, and information booths throughout the day for people to
sample, purchase and enjoy. Artists include those from around the country, Cambodia and local area. We anticipate between
8,000 to 10,000 people attending this event.
I would like to take this special opportunity to thanks the Manager's office of the City of Lowell, the Tsongas Arena, the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Lowell Cultural Council, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell Telecommunications Corporation and all of the local businesses and individuals who have helped to make the 2002 Khmer New Year Festival a reality
again this year.
May the New Year Tevoda and the Year of the Horse bring you and your loved ones good health, prosperity and much
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Happy Cambodian New Year!
Samkhann C. Khoeun
Executive Director, CMAA
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As President of the Board of Directors of the Cambodian
Mutual Assistance Association, I am proud to present this
issue ofKhmer Lowell magazine. Through this magazine,
we hope to share with you some ofthe rich cultural heritage
of Lowell's Cambodian community, and to invite you to
learn more about the many interesting aspects of our community.
I wouft:f fil{f to wisfi everyone a J{appy 'Kfimer :New 'Year
2002, tfie year of tfie migfity fiorse. It fias 6een an increcfi.6(,e
yearfor our 'Kfimer peopk anaour community. We came afong
way to 6e wfiere we are today; it wasn't a pkasant journey
for many of us. <13ut we are tfie 1(/imer, wfio once ruka over
most of mainfanaSoutfieast )f.sia. It is in our 6fooa tfiat we
are 6ouna to great tfiings for our peopk ana fiumanity. We
are tfie proua inlieritants of tfie great wonaer of tfie worfd;
)f.ngRJ)r Wat. )f.s fong as we are unitea ana at tfie same time
respect tfie aifferences in aff of us, tfien notfiing woufa 6e
impossi6f£ for us to acfiieve. %ere are no two 'Kfimer peopk
a{if{s, we sfioufa try ana put our persona{ issues ana propaganda asiae ana co{{a6orate for tfie saf<! of our community.
This month the CMAA will present its third Khmer New
Years Festival at the Tsongas Arena. Last year's celebration, our second at the Tsongas Arena, was a great success, and we are hoping that this year's event will be an
even better event. We expect to have even more booths
and other attractions this year. I invite everyone to come to
see the New Years Festival on Saturday, April 13, 2002 at
the Tsongas Arena to share in our celebration ofCambodia's
rich cultural heritage. For Lowell's Cambodians, this is an
important way for us to keep our culture alive. For our
non-Cambodian friends, this is a great opportunity to explore Cambodian culture and learn more about the Cambodian community.
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We neea to continue to strengtfien ourfamify ana community
ana l{fep in mina tfiat tfie future of our community ana our
6efovea country aepends sofe(y on our cfii{aren. )f.{tfiougfi
great efforts fiave 6een put into our young peopk we neea to
more. We neea to continue to majmi.ze our fiuman resources in a[[ areas. )f.s 1(/imer peopk we are a[[ o6figatea to
our cfiifaren, fami{y, ana community. We neea to 6e more
proactive, anaaawcate for our community as we[[ as our own
persona{ needs. Our community needs to 6e fieara ana respectecf. We neea to support our 'Kfimer canaufates eitfier
running for city councifor or tfie scfioofcommittee. <Jlie community needs to go out ana vote on tfie C£kction <Day. We neea
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Khmer (Cambodian) New Year, or
Chau[ Cl,hnam Thmei (meaning entering New Year)'
By Samkhann C. Khoeun
The Three Days of New Year ...
Every ethnicity on this planet Earth
has its own favorite holidays or festivals . People celebrate their special
events according to their liking and
also at their preferable time. It is part
oftheir history and culture. The Cambodians likewise have their favorite
holiday-Khmer New Year in mid-April. The exact starting
date and timing of the New Year are determined by a Royal
astrologer. The Cambodian New Year usually start from
April 13 or sometime on April 14 and last for three days and
nights afterward.
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New Year and is signaled by ringing of a bell or a rhythmic
beating of a drum at the Buddhist temple. The bell ringing is
a signal for the new angel to arrive. Plates of special food
are taken to the temple for the monks, and most people attend a New Year service, where they chant Buddhist prayers
with the monks. Then, different kinds of traditional popular
games are played throughout the first day, creating a merry
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second day of the New Year is a time for more praying, for
showing respect for one's elders, and for being charitable to
the less fortunate . Children give parents, grandparents, and
teachers gifts . People offer charity and forgive others for
misdeeds . Cambodians in Cambodia and abroad will pray
for true peace, good health and prosperity for their families,
communities and country.
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The Game of Angkunh
The Angkunh is a wield fruit which grows on the trees found
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diameter, it is flat on both sides . When it ripens, it becomes
every hard and turns into dark brown color.
The game of Angkunh requires two teams of several players
each. The teams stand some distance apart but opposite of
each other, usually teams making up young men on one side.,
and young women on the other side. Angkunhs are stuck
slightly onto the ground in triangle shape. In tum, each player
of each side, usually with three Angkunhs each, tosses the
fruits, Frisbee style, into the opponent's triangle. The team
wins the game when all the Angkunhs in triangle shape have
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At homes, families begin preparing for the New Year weeks before the festival. Houses are
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angle. The losing team will sing the song and the wining
tea111 will dance and move forward to receive their prize by
tapping the opponents ' knee with the flat sides of the
Angkunh fruits . The hollow sound it makes usually sends
the players into peals of delighted laughter, especially between young men and women .
The CMAA's Young Parent Program serves students
between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one (up to their
twenty-second birthday). Funded by the Department of
Transitional Assistance, the Freeman Foundation, and the
Fay Foundation, the YPP seeks to assist clients in becoming self-sufficient. We are an alternative educational program, focusing on helping students obtain their GEDs
(General Education Diplomas). Students also study computer and life skills .
This year the YPP has been very busy and filled all slots
The Grune of Chao/ Chhoung
Often seen as an opportunity to meet with the opposite sex,
this game utilizes the ubiquitous Krama, or Khmer scarf made
of cotton . Two teams--one side made up of young men and
another one of young women, play the game on opposite side
facing each other in some distance.
A Krama is rolled into a ball, with a tail hanging out, called
Chhoung. The game begins with a song describing, usually
in flirting and humorous tone and manner, by the young men
side followed by a throw of a Chhoung ball into the air toward the young women side. Before the Chhoung touches
the ground, any young women on the team has to make a
grab for the tail and swing it back at the first team- with aim
of hitting young man whom she/he fancies .
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the girls they like. Whoever hit by a Chhoung ball, the whole
team has to dance and move toward the opposite team who,
by the way, has to sing a song as a "punishment".
by December. The state recognized this success by giving us more funding for the rest of the year. We are
pleased to report that five students received their GED so
far, and five students have begun working. Another started
classes at Middlesex Community College. We are proud
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Adult Basic Education Program
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association offers computer classes to the community free of charge. These students have completed their course and had received certificate of completion. At the end of each session there is a
graduation party for the students. At these party we invite
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community. Because of its excellent staff and treatment, this clinic
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This clinic is famous throughout Cambodia. Patients come from all
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humanitarian organization CCMHS needs your financial support
since it receives no outside support and does not bill the patients
who are primarily poor.
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staff have worked as volunteers since outside funding came to a
stop in 1999. The staff including a Doctor, a Medical Assistant and
6 trained mental health family workers, have donated their time to
keep the clinic open and serving over 1000 patients and families.
CCMHS is a local non-governmental organization which has had a
clinic at the Siem Reap Provincial Hospital since 1996. It was
founded in 1994 in cooperation with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Cambridge, MA, and with grants from USAID and the
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All articles published represent the views of the authors; they do not
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
I would like to take this opportunity to extend our warm invitation to you and your loved ones to
attend the agency's 16 th Anniversary Celebration & Dinner Banquet to be held at Double Tree Hotel
on the 21 st of October 2000, from 7:00 PM to 12:00 mid-night. I would also like to welcome you again
to another edition of the Khmer Lowell Magazine, a quarterly publication published by the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) of Greater Lowell, Inc. Each and every issue, we try to
share with our readers about the different activities that the CMAA has been working on and/or
planning to do in the future.
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Some important activities worth mentioning here are that the CMAA received, hosted and held meetings with a number of high
profile and dignitary guests including the Unites States Attorney General Janet Reno on September 7'h; the President of
Cambodia's National Assembly, Prince Norodom Ranariddh on September 3rd; the Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on
September 8 th in New York; the Friends Without Borders on August 20th as well as other individuals and groups with different
important projects benefiting to the CMAA and our community. In addition, I participated in testifying on behalf of the Cambodian American communities at a Town Hall Meeting as part of the White House Initiative on Asian Pacific American Islanders
on September 18'\ just to name a few here.
I am very pleased to share with you also that we have completed the renovation of the "Metta Health Center". The word Metta
is derived from the Cambodian word for "loving kindness" which fits perfectly for this health center that will integrate both the
traditional healing and also western methods of treatment, all combined to provide a full range of health and mental health
services to cure sickness with a holistic approach touching the body, mind and spirit of any patient seeking alternative medicine.
The Metta Center will be staffed by professional bilingual and bicultural medical specialists, traditional healers and also Western
doctors, nurses and other health specialists. The Metta Center will be administered by the Lowell Community Health Center, a
nonprofit community health center agency with combined experiences of more than thirty years in providing health care services
to the Low-income community residents in Lowell area, particularly those of Southeast Asian refugee and immigrant backgrounds and also Lowell's large Hispanic community.
I am proud to say, our commitment to developing a Khmer National Arts and Cultural Center, the first of its kind outside of
Cambodia, at the CMAA's 165 Jackson Street headquarters as an integral part of the overall transformation of the former Courier
Corporation Mill building in the "One-stop" Center for social, cultural and economic development Center has been making more
headway lately. After we made presentation to His Royal Highness Norodom Ranariddh during his royal visitation to Lowell in
early September, the prince was very impressed with the CMAA's plan and His Royal Highness promised to help with Cambodian
cultural artifacts including paintings, sculptures, and other items for this Arts and Cultural Center.
Other significant contribution to the CMAA and the Lowell's Cambodian community is the gift of two long traditional racing
boats called Touk Ngor (9Fi ~), or curved boat from Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia forour Bonn Oum Touk (tHl..flfH9fi),
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or better known as the Southeast Asian Water Festival we have been organizing here in Lowell for past four years. And four
additional boats will be also donated by the Lowell's Cambodian American businesses for this event as well. These six boats will
be carefully and ritually built and made from Cambodia's virgin wood called Taki (ffi ~g Fi) strictly followed the ancient formulas
just like many traditional racing boats built in Cambodia for this kind of special occasion. Each boat is about 75 feet in length and
four feet wide and can accommodate 40-45 rowers. The boat is colorfully decorated and spiritually named to give life to the boats
to represent their village, temple, and community. For Lowell, it is our diverse community.
The CMAA and its Water Festival partners will be responsible for shipping these boats from Cambodia to Lowell, Massachusetts
for its water festival on the Merrimack River at t he Lowell National Historical Park. Of course, shipping these 75 foot-long
boats will be a big challenge for us, but we are committed to do whatever we can to get them here in perfect condition for the
races, enjoyment, and adoration.
The Boat Committee will be looking into raising enough funds to pay the cost of shipment and other related expenses in bringing
these boats from Cambodia to America. We would like to invite you to be part of this cultural exchange and preservation of this
unique Southeast Asian heritage by making contribution to the CMAA's Traditional Boat Shipment Fund. Please send your
donation to CMAA- 165 Jackson Street, Lowell, MA O1852. Please join us as we celebrate our agency's 16th Anniversary on
the 21st of October 2000 at the Double Tree Hotel. And thank you for your continuous support. Our tasks would not be possible
without your help.
Respectfully yours,
Samkhann C. Khoeun, Executive Director
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This is an exciting time to be the President of the CMAA. This month, the CMAA will celebrate its 16th year
of service to Lowell's Southeast Asian community. At times like this, we are inspired to look back over the
past, and one cannot help but be amazed by the changes and progress in Lowell's Cambodian community over
the last 16 years. Who would ever have imagined in 1984 that the year 2000 would bring a CambodianAmerican city councilor in Lowell? Who would have foreseen that Cambodian-Americans would own many
businesses, from markets to jewelry stores, to employment agencies? Who would have dreamed that there
would be Cambodian lawyers, teachers, engineers and other professionals in such numbers? Looking at the
CMAA itself, who would imagine that it would grow from a small group of people in a small office at the
dollar a year
International Institute into a multi-million
multi-service agency with its own historic
building?
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business owners, and many more wage earners and professionals, there are still many people in our community who live below the poverty level. There
are still many Cambodian-Americans who cannot speak English well enough to find work. There are still
many families experiencing pain because of conflict between parents and children. There are still many people
suffering from the trauma of many years of war and killing in Cambodia, still feeling the loss ofloved ones to
senseless violence.
In the past few months, the CMAA has begun English classes funded by the Massachusetts Department of
Education, which are open to anyone who wants to learn English. It has received a grant to begin a family
strengthening program to help families in distress through a program that will understand and respect Cambodian culture and values. CMAA has expanded its computer and soldering classes to help more people have
access to good jobs that will allow them to support themselves and their families. With the opening of the
Metta Health Center, the CMAA has made important progress in turning its mill building into a true center for
the community. We will continue to develop programs and projects to help our community become stronger
and more successful. I hope that 16 years from now, we look back on the next few years, and the projects we
are working on now, and say, "Who could have imagined that we could have accomplished that?"
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�ISSUE #13 OCTOBER 2000
CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS - 5i~:5iU-.,~ffii~W5i
Bunrith Lach, President
Chuck Sart, Vice President
William Tith, Treasurer
Sokhary Chau, ABC Financial
Thomas Stylianos, Jr., Secretary, Attorney at Law
Chanrithy Uong, Lowell City Councilor
Chantha Bin, Social Worker
Mark E. Goldman
Sara Khun, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Meehan
Sarnuth S. Koam, Health Educator, LCHC
Ken Niceweiz, Farmer/ Associate Professor, Umass Amherst
Samnang Siv, Researcher
Francis Dawson, Liaison Officer for the VA
Chheang K. Ngor, Senior Administrator
ADMINISTRATION . G~n~i5~€~Gm
Samkhann C.Khoeun , Executive Director
Sothea Chiemruom , Deputy Director
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Jenny Lee , Accountant
Joseph Sexton , Development Director
Ronnie Mouth, Office Manager
Kanika Suthy, Administrative Assistant
AQUACULTURE PROJECT Danny D. Div
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CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH 2010 - G~n~m~~ru
Sovann Kheam, Community Health Educator
CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - G~m:~W¥fliGl.5~~
Samuel Sok, Program Coordinator
Instructors: Ang Pheng, Bunrith Sath ,
Hong Net , Van Chey
YOUTH SERVICES PROGRAM - G~nt~WW5t~
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Sayon Soeun, Acting Program Director & Crimirnl Justice Coordirntor
Arn Chorn-Pond, Coordinator of Arts & Culture
Arny Fortner, Employment & Education Coordinator
Sak Seang, Khmer & Peer Leadership Instructor
Rany Him , Traditional Dance Instructor
Phan Bin, Traditional Music Instructor
Siphann Touch, Art/ Mural Instructor
Tony Roun, Youth Advisor
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Paul Yin , Interim Director
Bora Yi, Senior Case Manager/Job Developer
Ny Ma, Understudy Case Manager
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Prince Rollins , Instructor
Holy Khut, Network Administrator
ELDERLY OUTREACH & ASSISTANCE Chanbopha Hay
VOLUNTEERS· ~nt~W~~S~
Dan McNeil
Denys Meung
Janice Porkorski
Lorraine Cordeiro
Hai Chheng Andy L. Kirn
Samuel San
Cheryl West
Ammarith Oum
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Daniel Bumagin , Building Development Manager
Michael Schaaf, Financial Consultant
Donald Lang & Associates , Architect
Walsh & Co. , Certified Public Accountant
LeMay Company, Constructor
Muckel & Associates, Historical Building Contractor
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EMPLOYMENT SERVICES PROGRAM . G~nt~Wfflimi~Gm
Margaret Lavyn Tham, Program Director
Vincent Bona Un , Job Developer/Case Manager
Debra Pov Ye, Job Developer/Case Manager
ENGLISH FOR EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM - G~ni.5G~~8nMii~G~Gl.5
Danny D. Div, Program Coordinator/Teacher
Les Chisolm, Volunteer/Tutor
KOMAR DAY CARE CENTER - G~nG~m5i~G~€ ~€
Karen Stairs, Program Director/Lead Teacher
Betty Borden, Founding Director
Neda Nou, Assistant Teacher
MONOROM FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM Brian B. Chen , Program Director
Maridy J. You, Case Worker
Thy Erica Chey, Case Worker
George Murphy, Esp., Legal Counsel
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CMAA's ADVISORY BOARD
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Michael Ben Ho
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Venerable Sao Khon
Venerable Ly Vorn
Saly Pin-Riebe
Pere Pen
Susanne Beaton
James C. Dragon, Esq.
Sambath Keo, D.M.D.
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Vanthan Un, Esq.
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Judith Dickerman -Nelson , Program Director
: atherine Martin -Loew, GED Instructor
;ak Seang, Bus Driver
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�The Editor's Word
This is the second time the Khmer Lowell
Magazine (KLM) is honored as a special publication, because it is time to celebrate the
16th anniversary of our organization.
The
main goal is to dedicate this whole issue to
our readers.
We would like to provide as
much information regarding our services to
all communities so that they can learn more
about the CMAA - as much as they like.
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As the CMAA comes up to her "sweet 16" birthday, the KLM also comes to her 4 th one.
Before 1996, this newsletter was known as the
Cambodian MAA Newsletter of Lowell. The reason we changed the name to Khmer Lowell is
just to make it short so that it is easy to
say and remember - from Cambodian to Khmer,
and just take the words MAA Newsletter out
and the word Lowell is still there.
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the meaning and purpose in serving the community are still the same.
These two sisters,
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so that their community can benefit from it.
Moreover, if we look at the list o f the KLM
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Light of Cambodian Children (LCC) is established on the universal concepts ofpeace, love, compassion,justice, and forgiveness.
LCC has a unique quality in that every member volunteers his or
her time. As a non-profit and non-governmental organization,
we hope to bridge the generation gap within Khmer families so
we can start the healing process in the aftermath ofcivil strife. In
addition to providing humanitarian relieffor children in Cambodia, we will build a future based on non-violence, caring, and
understanding among Khmer descendants. We believe that education is an essential part of that healing process, thus we support and strongly encourage Khmer descendants to pursue and
complete higher education.
The Great Success of MSSP at CMAA
Funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) via the
Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (MORI),
after two years of hard work, the Massachusetts Self-Sufficiency
Program (MSSP) has ended its mission very successfully.
The MSSP focuses on many important services helping refugees to reach self-sufficiency. It is the combination of two programs, the Employment Services Program for adults ~nd ~he
Youth Services Program for at risk youth. These services mclude, but are not limited to, enrollment in ESL and or native
language class, support services, employment placement, and
obtaining self-sufficiency.
In furtherance ofourmission, on August 12, 2000 Light of Cambodian Children set a new standard for reaching out to the next generation of Cambodian Americans. Light of Cambodian Children on
that Saturday night awarded two individuals two hundred fifty
($250.00) dollar scholarships that will go toward their educational
expense.
The staff has worked very hard regardless of bad time or
weather; they work
day and night, weekends and holidays, and hot or cold. They
always take turns to be with the training classes held on Tuesday
and Thursday nights and almost all day on Saturday.
Out of many deserving applicants, two were chosen to be our first
Cambodian American Scholarship LCC's Scholars. Congratulations!! The recipients were Savuth Phann and Sokunna Thay. Both
recipients are recent high school graduates from Massachu~etts.
Savuth Phann graduated from Lowell High School and he will be
attending the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in the fall,
while Sokunna Thay, a graduate of Cathedral High School will enter
her freshman year at Emerson College in September.
This unprecedented event culminated from many efforts in encouraging our youth to reach their potential as an individual. _Through
our scholarship, we will promote and encourage Cambodian youth
to set high goals for their education and to attain those goals. Light
of Cambodian Children will do our part by reaching out to our
youth to educate them as well as by serving as a motivating for~e
for our next generation. Besides celebrating our first Scholarship
Awards, LCC had a chance to recognize many individuals recognized as role models by our youth. These individuals were chosen
by nominations from youth throughout New England area.
Outreaching to the community and other community services
providers is also done without any complaint. Whenever a cultural event is held, like Cambodian New Year, Water Festival, or
Folk Festival - and mostly they fall on holidays and weekends
- the MSSP staff is always there passing out brochures or flyers to people. The staff attends as many public meetings and
trainings as possible regardless of where they are held - temples,
churches, restaurants, schools, or even on public streets. The
local public media like Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (LTC), Media One, and the Cambodian media (CLPTV,
CCN, KLTC, KCN) are the right hand of the MSSP in terms of
spreading the word about the services to the community.
Following are just some examples of successful activities of the
project. Keep in mind that there are two more months to go
before the project year is ended - so, more numbers should be
added onto each outcome. Most of the areas of the program are
outstanding in terms of reaching the goals. For the whole two
year project, the goal for enrollment is 430, and the outcome ~s
already 653; the job placement goal is 128, and the outcome 1s
312; obtaining self-sufficiency is 76, and the outcome is 122.
With our assistance, some of those employed clients even earn
more than $18.00 per hour with full benefits.
This is our first time in creating and awarding scholarship. Many of
our members are very hopeful that we can increase both the number of recipients and the dollar amount in coming years. Through
intensive, vigorous fundraising and support from individuals, Cambodian American Scholarship will definitely become a fixture of our
organization. Light of Cambodian Children will be not only a place
where our next generation get scholarship money, but another resource for Cambodian youth.
However, the main concern area in the project is to help in reducing/ terminating people from public assistance (the goal is
96, and the outcome is 45). About 100 clients who were placed in
employment by the MSSP were just one short step away from
public assistance programs such as Welfare, Mass Health, or
Food Stamp; without our help, they would be in need of these
services.
As a Chairperson for Cambodian American Scholarship, I would
like to take this opportunity to thank all the individuals, companies,
and agencies that made our scholarship possible. Thank you for
making a difference in our youths' lives. Your time and donations
go a long way for our youth.
Moreover, besides receiving needed services such as legal, education, medical, and many more for their families and them-
Deborah Pov Ye
Chairperson of Cambodian American Scholarship Committee
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selves, the MSSP clients also receive job skills training which is reaIJy in demand at
the present time. From October 1998 to July 2000, about 100 clients were enroIJed
in the computer and electronics/soldering class; 82 had been exposed to the training,
and 79 of them were awarded a certificate of achievement or perfect attendance.
Right after they finished their classes (and some were stilJ in the middle of their
training) many of them already have job offers paying from $11.00 to $15.00 per
hour.
Now, there are about 85 names on the waiting list for the next training. They
had been calJed for a screening test, just to see how much they can read and
write English; 56 showed up for the testing because some of them either moved
out of the state, got a job, or their phone was disconnected. According to the
plan, in the migdle of September 2000, another 30 to 50 clients wiIJ be enrolJed
in the next training cycle. Hopefully, in the beginning of the 200l's, in answering the need of the community in job skilJs training, more classes wiIJ be added.
Then, more students will be enrolJed and class size is reduced so that the quality of learning could be better.
While the activities of the project make the MSSP a successful program in the
state, they also elevate the status of the CMAA among private sectors, with companies ranging from manufacturing to secretarial. Through our program and especiaIJy in terms of employment services, the CMAA is one of the leading agencies
attracting many companies to seek our services while at the same time attracting
Cambodians from alJ walks of life. This in turn puts CMAA on the national map as
welJ as earning respect from local employment agencies.
Last but certainly not least, the MSSP has become a regular program in terms of
training clients regarding rules and regulations of a safe
working environment. The collaboration with the
Merrimack ValJey Project (MVP) has been as successful as the MSSP organization itself.
Therefore, on behalf of our MSSP clients, I would like to
give many
thanks to the funding provider and also to al) hard working
ESP and YSP staffs at the CMAA.
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�they received their certificate, or when they talked to their friends
and family. Some even have their pictures taken with teachers
and staffs, so that they can keep the photo as their souvenir of the
great occasion they had with the CMAA. Coordinated by Samuel
Sok, Margaret Tham, Thysan Sam, and hosted by Margaret Tham,
this CMAA special event was written down deeply in the graduates' heart as well in the participants'. It enhances the existed
good relationship of the CMAA and the other communities.
CMAA Graduation Ceremony
On August 12, 2000, CMAA threw a celebration for our graduates
who had recently finished their training in computer, electronics,
and citizenship. This is the second time of the year that our Cambodian community, Laotian, and Vietnamese community come together
to support this job skill training education. Moreover, the ceremony was honored by many more people like the Employment
Service(ESP) and the Citizenship program (CAP) funding provider,
CMAA Board of Directors, CMAA staffs, teachers, graduates, and
their friends and family. There were about 150 people who came
to congratulate those 108 graduates.
The CMAA wishes well to all the past and present
graduates, to people who attempt in improving their
life conditions, and also to ones who are in need of
changing themselves through education.
The above participants included Mr. Tony Chavez- ORI Deputy
Director, Bunrith Lach--CMAA Chairman, Chuck Sar--CMAA Vice
President, Thomas Styllianos-Secretary ofB.O.D., Chantha BinB.O.D, Samuth Korm-B.O.D., Samkhann Khoeun--CMAA Executive Director, Renay Martin- UPS Employment Supervisor. We
would like to apologize to the rest of the good hearted people who
attended the party at that time for being unable to list your name
here, like the representative from the Vocational School of Greater
Lowell, CMAA B.O.D., and other friends . However, your presence at that special moment was very important and will live long
in our hearts, especially in those 108 young and old, males and
females, Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese students.
Among them, 42 were from the ESP; 22 from the soldering class and
20 from the computer class. Although 9 students were not awarded
due to their inability in passing the test, they deserve a certificate
of attendance because they came to the class regularly and they
did well on the class exercise. Six students were acknowledged
as outstanding students.
Since it was held on Saturday, and some of the graduates had to
work, only about 2/3 of the graduates could attend. However, it
was a lovely ceremony with about 200 people participating. Certificates and gifts were given to the students and instructors after
the special guests' speeches were done.
The best thing out of the training is that many graduates have
received employment right away and with a good salary; for people
who are already employed do have good opportunity in bringing
themselves up. They get pay at least $11.00per hour; some of them
even get up to $14.00 it depends on their past experience. So far,
we know that four people have started their job the rest of them
are still hard to reach since they work different shifts. Some of
them are people who receive public assistance programs.
Most of our graduates are much older, ages 24 and up. They usually don ' t speak or write English much; that is why they like to
learn. The CMAA program offers them a great opportunity in
learning and improving themselves, their family, and their community as well. So, just seeing them walk up the stage and getting
their certificate, it shows that they are really dedicated to the education. Although they did not say in words, they still could not
hide their emotion at that time their eyes were full of tears of joy
and were so bright while their face really full of happiness when
Graduation Ceremony for students who have completed Basic Computer Skills, Soldering, and Citizenship & Civic Education, August 2000
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or in decimated families, the Cambodian refugees were generally resettled in
economically disadvantaged inner city areas such as Lowell's Acre and
H ighland neighborhoods. Negotiating their way amidst gangs, drugs, urban v io lence, inadequate housing, and poor schools, many felt they had
been transported from one war zone to another.
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The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) of Greater Lowell,
Inc. is in the midst of conducting a capital campaign to raise $1.5 million to
support the physical deve lopment of the SoutheastAsian Family and Youth
Center, scheduled for completion by June 200 I . When completed, the center will be able to serve as many as 5,000 individuals and family members
a year through its various social, educational, cultural, and recreational
activities.
Moreover, these refugees were among the least prepared to adapt to such an
environment. Not only were they suffering from post-traumatic stress
disorder and physical ailments which resulted from their ordeal, but they
tended to be from rural backgrounds, with little or no education, frequently
illiterate even in their own language.
These challenges continue to affect the Cambodian American community
today. According to the U.S. 1990 Census: 26% of Cambodian families in
Lowell are headed by a single mother. The average size of a Cambodian
family is 5.03 persons. Only 46% of Cambodian men and 22 .6% of Cambodian women over the age of25 have completed high scho;:il. The average
per capital income for Cambodian population is $6,250, and 49% of Cambodian families live below the established poverty level, constituting the
second most economically disadvantaged Asian American group.
The proposed SoutheastAsian Family and Youth Center will be located on
the second and third floors in the former Courier Corporation building at
165 Jackson Street in Lowell. The Courier Corporation generously donated
its former headquarters building, with over 90,000 square feet of floor
space and worth approximately one million dollars, to the CMAA in August
1997. The center will be occupying about 20,000 square feet in the unusable space of the Mi lls building. Therefore, the much needed work will
go into an infrastructure improvement and construction of a new service
core that will include a passenger elevator, stairway, lobby, entrance,
new roof as well as office space and a performance stage for traditional
dance rehearsal, after-school youth program activities and for community social and cultural gatherings.
Cambodians came to Lowell to build a new life. Despite their social and
linguistic isolation, many were able to find work in Greater Lowell's factories. Factory work was ideal, as it required only technical ability or manual
labor; fluency in English might not be necessary. Cambodians got together
and built two temples - one located in North Chelmsford and one on Cambridge Street in Lowell. In 1984, the Cambodian community leaders came
together to establish the Cambodian MutualAssistanceAssociation of Greater
Lowell , Inc ., whose mission is to assist Cambodians and SoutheastAsians
to achieve self-sufficiency in their newly adopted country-America, while
at the same time trying to promote and preserve their native cultural heritage.
The Family and Youth Center project has been and will be involving many
youth, families, volunteers, CMAA's staff and board members, elected
officials, governmental officials and representatives from various funding
agencies and foundations who are committed to working together over a
period of 18 months to make plans, carry out those plans to raise enough
funding, and to complete their ideal Center for the Southeast Asian American community in the Greater Lowell.
Programs and Services to be housed in the proposed
SoutheastAsian Family and Youth Center
The Family and Youth Center will empower the Southeast Asian youth,
young parents, parents, adolescents with development disabilities, and the
elders to build positive self-esteem, learn a new language and vocational
skills that would lead them to achieve self-sufficiency in their newly adopted
country-America. In addition, the center will be a pivotal point in helping
to foster and strengthen good relationships, fill the intergenerational gap
between family members and build a strong and healthy community.
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The Monorom Family Support Services Program provides comprehensive services to families that have children with developmental disabilities. The program name came from the Khmer word "Monorom"
which means "peace or harmony", which renects the program's origins
as a respite care services. Services avai lable include Case management,
translation, and transportation to assist families in accessing other services providers, crisis intervention, counseling services, special education and advocacy; parent support group to assist parents of disabled children in
coping with the unique stresses and difficulties of caring for children with special needs; American sign language classes for those whose principal language
is Khmer; and social and recreational programs for disabled children, including
traditional Cambodian dance troupe which integrates disabled and non-disabled
children.
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Youth Services Program offers a safe and supportive environment and
an alternative to gang involvement for the" at-risk" and gang-involved
youth between the ages of I 0-22. Program activities include peer
leadership development, Khmer language instruction, Cambodian traditional dances, music and arts classes; employment training and placement, health education and training; computer training, and homework
club; sports and recreational activities, summer camp. The youth have
been involved in numerous activities including an annual Water Festival, Khmer New Year, Lowell Folk Festival, and other special events
throughout the year. Over 400 youth are enrolled in this program.
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Young Parents Program aims at reducing welfare dependency among
young parents, ages 14 - 21, who have not achieved a high school
diploma or its equivalent. YPP espouses a model of employability development to successfully prepare an individual to obtai n a job as quickly
as possible in the primary labor market. CMAA's YPP attends to the
whole person, recognizing that basic educational and job specific skills
are important to young parents in the acquisition of and advancement in
the work environment. More than 50 young parents have been enrolled
in this program.
StatementofNeeds for Lowell's Cambodian-American Community
Lowell has the second largest Cambodian population in the United States,
numbering 30,000. The largest Cambodian community is in Long Beach,
California, with an estimated number of 60,000. Many of the Cambodian
residents of Lowell are refugees who fled from war-tom Cambodia and
now live in poverty in the United States.
In April 1975, the Maoist communist Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot,
evacuated the cities and systematically killed over two million people-a
quarter of the population--especially targeting the wealthy, educated, or
professional people. Doctors, nurses, clergy, teachers, business owners,
artisans, city dwellers and even those who wore glasses were singled out
for execution since they were seen as bourgeois or contaminated with Western influence.
The Khmer Rouge maintained control by mass public torture, executions,
and dismantling the social order of Cambodia. Men, women, and children
were sent to labor camps and forced to do strenuous work. Famine and
disease became epidemic while medicine and medical care were non-existent.
When the Khmer Rouge regime was overthrown in early 1979, thousands
of Cambodians fled on foot to refugee camps on the Thai border, where they
waited for up to twelve years to be resettled in a third country.
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The Elderly Outreach &Assistance offers older Cambodian Americans transportation, family and psychological support, translation, hospital visit, citizenship education, case management, health education, emergency assistance, crisis intervention, cultural and re ligious activities, exercise and recreational activities. Traditionally, elders are part of the extended family, which provides fo r
their needs. As a result of the war, the Killing Fields under the Maoist communist regime, the refugee episode, disruption and dislocation of famil ies that accompanied them, many elderly Cambodian refugees do not have surviving children, or may have been unable to locate and reunite with the ir survivi ng children or relatives. In Lowell , Cambodian senior citizens are often isolated. They
often do not speak English. They have li mited access to soc ial services because
oflanguage and cultural barriers.
Kick -Off for Capital Campaign
Thus far, the CMAA's Youth Services Program has raised about $25,000
in gross income from the "Children of War and Theatre Play", held on
March 4, 2000 and which featured Ms. Yo landa King, the daughter of
the civic right leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The event was the CMAA's
kick-off and was made possible by the generous contribution of the River
Arts Repertory and the Children of War organization. The play brought
several hundreds of people to Lowe ll Memorial Auditorium to support
the capital campaign initiative of the youth and fami ly members.
Objectives, Goals & Measurements
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To conduct a capital campaign with a goal of raising $2.5 million to
support toward development of the SoutheastAsian Family and Youth
Center at the CMAA's headquarter building on 165 Jackson St.
To construct a service core that includes a fire rate stair, an ADA
compliant elevator, lobbies, wheelchair lift/ramp, and an entranceway
at a point 432 feet from the East end of the building at 165 Jackson St.
To renovate and obtain occupancy permits for approximately 20,000
square feet of second and third floor space for use as the Southeast
Asian Family and Youth Center that include performance stage and
multifunction facilities.
To serve 500 at-risk youth, 250 children/adolescents with development disabilities and their families, and 350 elders in the Southeast
Asian Family and Youth Center.
To provide multi-function facilities to the SoutheastAsian community
in Greater Lowell at an affordable cost serving up to 7,500 people a
year. At least 75% of the persons served in th e SoutheastAsian Family
and Youth Center will be low-income families.
Key Personnel
The CMAA will use outside consultants for the capital campaign, fund
raising, legal services, building development, architectural designs, engineering, and construction of the fami ly and youth center. In addition, CMAA
will put into good use its own management team that consists of an executive director, Mr. Samkhann C. Khoeun , who brings a history of successful
administration of community organization to CMAA; a fiscal manager, Mr.
Thirith Hut, who holds an accounti ng degree from Northeastern University; a development director, Mr. Joseph Sexton, who is a graduate of the
University of Massachusetts at Lowell and Suffolk University Law School;
plus staff members from the CMAA's Youth Services, the Monorom Family Support Services, the Elderly Outreach Program, the Young Parents
Program and also the youth, clients and its dedicated volunteers. Also,
the CMAA's board of directors, who repres ent a broad variety of professions, will bring an important array of experience and training to the
CMAA's policy-making, leadership body, and community relations and
connections.
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January 2000
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August 2000
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Dec 2000
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* Planning that involved youth, family members, staff, volunteers and board members
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* Kick-off event with "Children ofWarTheatre and Film Project" at Lowell Memorial Auditorium
* Khmer New Year Festival - Tsongas Arena
* Capital Cam paign - In progress
* Capital Campai gn - Ongoing
* Capital Cam paign - Ongoing
* Starti ng new fiscal year
* 4 th Annua l Water Festival
* Finalizing on design and construction plans
* Bidding & selecting construc ting company
* CMAA's 16th Ann iversary Celebration,
* Starting on demolition
* Construction begi ns
* Construction continues &
furnishing the Family & Youth Center
* Construction complete
* Permit & Occupancy
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those affected by unemployment, low levels of
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afternoon snack. Our staff is made up of very dedicated
teachers and teacher assistants with over 20 years experience
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with the educational needs of the children in their care.
The children have a variety of activities to do during
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To better increase and promote education and to help reduce crises among youth in public places, staff ofYouth Service Program
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Sop hath Pheang- attending Brandeis University.
Champe Pang- attending Middlesex Community College.
Phea Kim-attending Middlesex Community College.
Savuth Phan- attending Middlesex Community College.
Ann-marie Kim-attending Umass Lowell.
Hieng Chhay- attending Umass Lowell.
Vinny Moun-joining the Marines.
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On June 25-27 of 2000, Sayon Soeun, and Amy Fortner provided
leadership training to peer leaders and other technical education to
many youth. This was done to make students have a closer relationship, understand each other better, and to train peer leaders to
lead others in studying and being involved in other sports as part
of the "Future Stars Summer Camp".
June 28, 2000 was the opening day for the CMAA "Future Star
Summer Sports Camp" that was held at the Butler School. This
program was organized by Sayon Soeun-Acting Director ofYSP,
Am Chom-Pond, Amy Fortner, and other YSP staffs. Helpers
included CMAA youth and older individuals. There were more
than 100 youth from Lowell, age 6-13 years, who participated in
the program. Mr. Matthew Wolf, Jushua Hannan and the counselors introduced many fun games and sports for the future star
participants. Some of the activities consisted of playing sports,
going on field trips and having guest speakers come in. On July
28, which was the closing date for the program, many guests were
invited to participate in the ceremony of giving out certificates to
youth. Guests included were venerable Sao Khoo, Mouth, Song,
and Samkhann Khoeun, Executive Director of CMAA.
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activities such as fishing, mountain climbing, cooking out on campfires, and just relaxing in the wilderness. Before going on the trip,
food, snacks, and camping gears were purchased and organized.
Permission slips were also signed and received properly. In addition to the CMAA's bus, additional vans were rented§ to accommodate the trip.
Besides, our youth studied and contributed to the community as
follows:
I)- Studying Khmer language every Saturday from 9-11 am.
2)- Studying Khmer language for the summer, Monday to Friday
from 9- I Oam.
3)- Practicing traditional dance everyday from 5-7pm.
4)- Participating in selling food during the Lowell folks festival of
July 29-30, 2000.
5)- Participating in traditional dance, rap, and modem dances during the Southeast Asian Water Festival of the August 19, 2000.
Continued Education.
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It was a gloomy day when my two younger sisters and I stepped out
of the car of a friend who dropped us off in front of City Hall. It was
about noontime. There was not a sign of the sun in the sky as it was fully
cloud-covered. Nontheless, the Plaza at City Hall was bustling with
activities. There were people walking around, vendors trying to attract
customers, children with their parents and siblings, and music playing
from somewhere. This was the scene of the Lowell Folk Festival 2000.
At the CMAA booth where I spent all of my time that day were
filled with staff, members of the board and young volunteers calling out
for people to come and purchase the lemongrass-flavored beef sticks,
freshly grilled chicken wings, lomein, fried rice, crab rangoons, and egg
rolls on sale. Everything was laid out on two adjacent tables under a
tent. Just behind the servers were the treasurer of the Board, Mr. William Tith and a Youth Services Program staff, Mr. Seang Sak, who were
keeping track of the cash flow.
About ten feet away from the tent were three or four CMAA men
tending to the grill. Some had their hands burnt from the high heat of the
flam es, but all were good sports until the very end of the day. Even when
at about I :30 in the afternoon, the sky began to pour rain as if someone
was very upset and decided to drench humanity with pails and pails of
water.
I happened to enjoy rain, so while everyone was cuddling underneath the tent, I walked and ran to Sothea's van to bring back about 30
ya rds of plastic film to go around the entire tent. Lucky my hair were in
to tight braids. Otherwise I would have probably resembled a drenched
dark sheep dog!
After the plastic was put up, the servers were calling out to the
people in the rain to come in, be sheltered, and of course to have some
warm food as well. Ths worked pretty well , especially when we let our
customers stay sheltered in our tent as they were eating.
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"The field trip that was my favorite would be to the Hampton
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So thank you everyone who help and brought us to go and have a
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This past summer Monorom had organized three successful fun
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"My first field trip was going to the Hampton Beach :twas cool and
Ny gave me his clam I kept it for three days until it died and it was
fun when everybody swam and the food tasted good too. When it
was our second time going to Hampton Beach when everybody
went swimming the water was colder than our first fieldtrip. When
we went to the beach and when I swam again I swam farther than
last time. When I swam the second time then I got tired then I
wanted to catch some crabs but it as too long to walk so I went
back. I went to ask Ming Thy ifwe could play game with the ball.
Everyone wanted to play Dodgeball. We played for a long time
then we had to go home."
By Sophanny Trate
"From all of the three trips 1
like Hampton Beach. I like
"This was the first day of my life to go to the beach with CMAA.
It was really fun that I went to the beach with them I had fun
there. Almost every Monday I always go to the beach with CMAA.
But now were not going to the beach no more because its gonna
be school so we can't go any more. Well now I think I finish
writing this letter."
By Merry Lam
Monorom staff will keep up with good works and build
good relationship with kids with and without disabilities forever.
Hampton Beach because you can catch crabs and starfish. What I
don ' t like about Hampton Beach water, the water was salty. I like
it when the waves come because I sit down the waves come and
splash me over. In Hampton Beach there were two persons giving out the ice cream. The ice cream flavor was vanilla and it was
tasty. Hampton Beach is the best beach I ever went to."
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Comprehensive Outreach Education Program (COEC) on
April 13, 2000. Of
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Mr. Seang Sak, Ms.
Lillian Pelletier, Ms.
Chenda Soth , Mr.
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CMAA Capital Campaign ......... .. ... .............. .. . .. .... .. 20
Congratulations to the Peer Leaders
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They received the Outstanding
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Readings for Pleasure
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CMAA Programs and Services
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All articles published represent the views of the authors; they do not
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such as articles, folk stories, modern fiction , poems, news, etc. are happily
and gratefully welcomed. Please, limit the document to 1-3 (1 lx8) pages ,
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articles shall become the legal property of the Khmer Lowell Magazine.
Besides, we would like to ask for your good heart to help us by subscribing to, or advertising in the magazine. Your generosity is needed to help us
continue in publishing this KL Magazine. The subscription rate is $14.90 per
year, including shipping and handling. Thank you!
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
ISSUE #12 July 2000
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSA&E
W
elcome again to another edition of the Khmer Lowell
Magazine, a quarterly publication published by the
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA)
of Greater Lowell, Inc. In each and every issue, we try to communicate
with our community members, supporters and friends about the different things that we at the CMAA are working on and/or plan to do in the
near future.
On the building development aspect, we
have been making more progress as well.
We have just finished the first phase of
the facade improvement with a $200,000
grant from the Massachusetts Historical
Commission and the City of Lowell 's
CDBG. Now, with another $260,000 loan
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Fund, Inc., we are in the midst of reno vating approximately 3,800 square feet space on the first floor in an area right
behind our Komar Day Care Center into a "West-Meets-East", or known as
the "Metta Health Center" for the Lowell Community Health Center, which
already secured additional funding from the federal governmental agency to
provide health and mental health services for the Southeast Asian community
in the Greater Lowell area. The Metta Health Center will be operational and
providing services to the community by September 2000.
For the past several months, we have been quite busy with numerous
projects at the CMAA. One project that I'd like to share with you is our
Community Services Employment Program (CSE), which is being
funded by the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Because of the tremendous success of this program, the federal government has increased the funding from $623,000 to $1.5 million a year.
There are over 150 people who have benefited from this program.
Another program is the Massachusetts Self-Sufficiency Program
(MSSP), which is also funded by ORR through the Massachusetts
Office for Refugees and Immigrants (MORI). The MSSP has been
helping hundreds of Cambodian and Southeast Asian people in getting
meaningful jobs with livable wages and excellent benefits. More than
350 people have benefited from this program and a lot more are on their
way to achieving economic self-sufficiency, which is really the main
goal of the program as well as a much-needed achievement for our
com munity members. Yet another successful program is the Youth
Services Program, which is serving more than 450 youth through a
wide range of activities, from social services, educational, cultural,
recreational, multimedia, to employment and community services. One
of their most recent activities was with the U.S. Census 2000 bureau in
the effort to promote awareness through the Community Outreach and
Educational Program. Our Youth Peer Leaders and adults walked
every streets in Lowell and knocked on hundreds and thousands of
doors to encourage people, particularly those of Cambodian, Southeast
Asian and Latino descents, to respond to the U.S. Census 2000 questionnaires . Now, they are involving in the CMAA's Summer Camp
better known as the Future Stars program, which use sport, educational and recreational activities as ways to counterattack negative
influence and gang involvement. There are close to 200 youth ages 7
to 16 enrolled in this summer program. Many thanks to the Red
Auerbach Youth Foundation, the City of Lowell, United Way of
Merrimack Valley, Theodore Edson Parker Foundation, Stevem Foundation, and many more generous individuals who helped make thi s
summer program become a reality for our youth.
Also, the CMAA is in the midst of a Capital Campaign with our goal of
raising $1.5 million to renovate approximately 20,000 square feet of space on
the second and third floors of the CMAA's building on 165 Jackson Street
into a Southeast Asian Family and Youth Center. Much of the work will be
into building a new service core that include a passenger elevator, stairway,
lobby, restrooms, offices, arts and dance studios, music recording studio and
performance stage/multi-functional hall that will allow youth and elders as
well as community members alike to have access for social and cultural
gatherings. The Capital Campaign is scheduled for completion by June
2001, while the Center itself will be completed by the end of 2001.
Step by step, we will be able to complete the entire building development
project as a "One-Stop" Center for the Cambodian community, offering
social, educational, cultural and economic development programs and services. And together, we will make a big difference for our community.
Once again, thank you for your continuous support and guidance. We would
like to invite you to get involved in our Capital Campaign Project so that we
can physically develop the Family and Youth Center for the Cambodian and
Southeast Asian community in Greater Lowell. If you have a chance, please
stop by for a chat and enjoy our humble exhibition of different instruments
and artworks from Cambodia. Enjoy your summer!
Sincerely,
Samkhann C. Khoeun, Executive Director
Other significant achievements worth mentioning here also are 1) a
new five-year funding from the Massachusetts Department of Education to provide Bilingual/Native Language Literacy; 2) a two-year grant
from the Freeman Foundation to continue the Project LEAD (Leami ng
English to Advancement), which is a workplace English program targeting Asian refugees and immigrants to access to education and economic opportunities; and 3) a three-year Community Technology Center funding from the Federal Department of Education to expand the
CMAA's Computer Lab/fraining Center that will be further equipped
with computer systems, multi-media capacity, and connected with DSL
Internet that will allow staff, youth, adult students and community
members alike to learn new technological skills, surf the World Wide
Web, and access the Superhighway information. The CMAA is committed to help bridge the digital divide by working closely with the
Lowell Telecommunications Corporation and the Lowell Technology
Consortium, to expand and establish between 8 - 10 computer centers
throughout the Lowell community.
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really flying fast and just like everything else around, we have to move along
accordingly, or else, we will be left far behind.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you and friends for supporting and
making the Khmer New Year Festival at the Tsongas Arena a big success despite
a short time spent on organizing the event itself. Of course, I did not get the
actual count, but reliable sources indicated that there were about 6,000 people
attended this event on April 8, 2000. We hope to have yet another successful
event again in April 2001.
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We have been, thus far, blessed with good board and staff members who have
been working very hard on different projects, from social services to cultural
celebrations, to hosting distinguished visitors and dignitaries, to receiving
awards and recognition . Our organization has been visited by high profile
guests such as His Excellency Eng Roland, the Ambassador of the Royal
Government of Cambodia to the United States; His Excellency Uoch Borith,
the Ambassador of the Royal Government of Cambodia to United Nations; His
Excellency Sam Ramsey, member of Parliamentary of the Royal Government
of Cambodia; His Excellency Veng Sirivuth, minister of Tourism of Cambodia;
His Excellency Thong Khon, Secretary of State of Cambodia; His Excellency
Sambo Chey, Under-secretary of state of Cambodia; Prince Norodom Sirivudh;
His Excellency John Kerry, US Senator; Maha Ghosananda, the author of
"Step-by-step" and the leader of Dhama Yeatra; Ms. Yolanda King, the daughter of Civic Right leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other important dignitaries and individuals, just to name several in the past six months .
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exciting projects, including the Lowell 's Folk Festival, which is scheduled for
July 28-30, 2000; the Southeast Asian Water Festival; which is scheduled for
August 19, 2000; the CMAA's 16th Anniversary Celebration in late October
2000; and other activities to promote our cultural heritage as well as to celebrate our community achievements.
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Clearly, we cannot achieve these milestones without your continuous support
and guidance as we are now moving forward in leading our community into
the 21" century. We still have a Jong way to go, but we are committed to
learning, listening, and serving our community the best way we possibly can.
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helping the Cambodian American community of Greater Lowell and others.
Sincerely,
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On behalf of the committee of the Khmer Lowell Magazine, I would like to give
my respect, thanks, and love to all of Khmer Lowell Magazine supporters. There
are many of you out there who are so generous and have a good heart toward
our work-CMAA's work. We are not only honored by having your advertisement in our magazine, but some of you even go further by giving your donations
to the Khmer Lowell Magazine and, especially, to the whole CMAA organization.
Ju st to name a few at this time are Attorney At Law- Thomas Stylianos,
Superwash Laudromat- Marty Conley, and Lowell Walk In Medical CenterDr.Tamarin
The Editor,s Word
As part of life, everyone has his/her own duties to accomplish. Parents try
their best for their children's sake; civic leaders work hard to improve the
condition of their community's life; business owners think all day and night
searching for ways to bring profit in; not to be out of the living society, birds
travel thousands of miles just to fill up their tiny stomachs.
Because of a combination of the above reasons, the CMAA staff, paid or volunteers, full-time or part-time. work hard from Sunday to another Sunday without any complaint. They want to provide a good start to their next generation. They want to give prosperity to their community. They want to bring
profits to their own society, and they also want to feed themselves so they can
be alive and continue doing all of the great works. They do all of these not only
for their Cambodian community, but also for the rest of the community living
in the United Sates and outside of the country as well.
Once again, thank you to the Committee and the supporters for bringing this
Khmer Lowell Magazine to serve the community. Please, keep up with the great
work.
May you all have a very good and safe summer!!!
Margaret Tham
Editor in Chief
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ISSU E #12 July 2000
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Chuck Sart, 1st Vice President
Mark E. Goldman, 2nd Vice President
William Tith, 1st Treasurer
Sokhary Chau, 2nd Treasurer, ABC Financial
Thomas Stylianos, Jr., Secretary, Attorney at Law
ADMINISTRATION· G~liWiSWe~m'l
Samkhann C.Khoeun, Executive Director
Sothea Chiemruom, Deputy Director
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Jenny Lee, Accountant
Joseph Sexton, Development Director
Sophy Theam, Executive Director Aide
Ronnie Mouth, Office Manager
Kanika Suthy, Receptionist
Chanrithy Uong, Lowell City Counselor
Chantha Bin, Social Worker, DSS
Sara Khun, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Meehan
Samuth S. Koam, Health Educator, LCHC
Ken Niceweiz, Farmer/Associate Professor, Umass Amherst
Francis Dawson, Liaison Officer for the VA
Danny Narong Chum, Esq. Donahue ft Donahue
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Arn Chorn-Pond , Coordinator of Arts ft Culture
Amy Fortner, Employment ft Education Coordinator
Sak Seang, Khmer ft Peer Leadership Instructor
Rany Him, Traditional Dance Instructor
Phan Bin, Traditional Music Instructor
Siphann Touch, Art! Mural Instructor
Tony Roun, Youth Advisor
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Andy L. Kim
Samuel San
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Daniel Bumagin, Building Development Manager
Michael Schaaf, Financial Consultant
Donald Lang ft Associates, Architect
Walsh ft Co. , Certified Public Accountant
LeMay Company, Constructor
Muckel ft Associates, Historical Building Constructor
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Vincent Bona Un, Job Developer/Case Manager
Debra Pov Ye , Job Developer/Case Manager
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Susanne Beaton
James C. Dragon. Esq.
Sambath Keo. D.M.D.
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On behalf of the CMAA's organizing committee for the Khmer
New Year Festival 2000, we would like to thank the many volunteers, contributors, and supporters who helped to bring the
event at the Tsongas Arena to a reality. With this being the
largest indoors Khmer New Year celebration that the community has seen in a very long time, we would like to acknowledge the approximately 6000 individuals--young and old alike- who gave life to the festivities by being there and enjoying
the various performances and cultural presentations. Thank
you all for your support. We hope to turn this event an annual
event with even more exciting shows and performances in
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Once again, we would like to thank the following individuals,
organizations, and companies that have made a huge difference in the turnout of the Khmer New Year Festival 2000:
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Look at that, t he food and merchandise vendors as well as the informat ion booths were com peti ng for customers and guests t o go t o thei r
respective booths. The seats were arranged in a semi-circle, the usual
arrangement for such a place. At one end of the seating was one large
stage. On t he stage was a decorated background consisting of doors
of a prasat t hat were painted by the staff and volunteers of the CMAA,
with Mr. Kim Sok Koam as the leading artist. This beautiful stage was
made even more lively by t he colorful dancing stage lights.
CMAA's New Year Celebration
Tsongas Arena on April 8, 2000
What is unusual is amazing. S
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one cannot rea lize of accomplishing is different. CMAA"s organization of t he Water Festival t o helping the City of Lowell gain the
recognition of All-America City are a couple
of things that have gotten the attention from
the community at the end of this past twentieth century. But in the beginning of this
second millennium, the CMAA has accomplished
yet another feat, that is the Khmer New Year
Festival. Doesn't the Water Festival and
Khmer New Year Festival sound like they are
related? I will leave it up to the readers to
find out what kinds of activities took place
at the Tsongas Arena.
About a week and a half before the 8th of April, 2000 , there were
rumors that there will be mishaps at the arena that would cause chaos
and insecurity, causing some people to be afraid of what may take place
at the New Year Festival. At this time, the staff of CMAA tried the best
they can to ensure safety for the community. In a short time, April 8th
arrived. Then, both staff and board members of CMAA met at the
Tsongas Arena at 9 o'clock in the morning to set up for the festivities
and make sure that everything will proceed smoothly. The police were
standing guard in just about every corner that may be considered a
dangerous place. And both the police and staff held walkie-talkies for
communication purposes.
The backstage area consisted of numerous rooms where all of the performers and artists were getting ready for their acts and shows. In
front of the stage were arranged between four and six hundred seats
for those who had purchased VIP tickets. Behind these chairs was a
place for the young
children to play
along with the accompanying music .
More people, young
and old, continued
to come into the
arena. Some saw
each other for the
first time in a long
time and stopped to
see how the other
was doing . some
walked around, looking at what was available at the booths while others bought delicious
food from the vendors to eat or searched for good seats in the arena.
At this point, I noticed there were some minor problems. That is, the
chairs infront of the stage were not set up on time causing some to not
be seated. Because of this, I would like to apologize on behalf of the
staff of the CMAA, and would like to ask for the forgiveness from those
who felt inconvenienced.
Each staff member paid attention to their own duties during the set up
process. The truck drivers such as Vincent Bona Un and Mr. Paul Yin
and I tried not to slow down the process of setting up. As for the
At the same time, boys and girls played traditional games like Chaul
Chhoung (throwing a cloth), Leak Kanseng (hiding a handkerchief or
scarf), and Tort Sey (Khmer hackey sack made with bird feathers) until
3:40 p.m. On stage, the Chhayam group beat their drums loudly so that
everyone would know the ceremony has started. Just about a minute
after, Chhayam dancers came out. In their colorful traditional costumes, the dancers dance along the sound of the drum. The combination of the chorus , the music, and the movement of the dancersshaking their body, shoulders, and their head, made the performance
very lively. The audience watched without blinking; some even forgot
to eat the popcorn that they were holding in their hands . As well,
uncles and aunts who are vendors at the booths up on the second level
no longer took notice to their customers; all they cared at that moment
was to watch the Chhayam performance.
vendors of merchandise and food , they proceeded with their booths
with smiles and laughter as things got better and more people entered
into the scene.
Events were supposed to begin at 2pm. However, they were delayed a
little because the police department and security wanted to check
that all the people who had entered the arena were clean of weapons
and any harmful items. At this time, the outside had a cheery atmosphere. Everyone approached others to see how they were doing.
"Are you OK?", 'Which state are you from?"' Some said they were from
Maine, while others said they came from New York, Rhode Island, Florida,
California, and Canada. Just a bit further, young girls and boys or
young men and women held hands, walking or sitting together with
their partners or friends in enthusiastic crowds. How appropriate of
an atmosphere to the weather outside. Young children on the other
hand were chasing each other all around , making me remember of the
time long ago when I used to do the same thing.
When the Chhayam
ended,
Samkhann
Khoeun, the Executive
Director of the CMAA,
came onstage to give
a warm welcome to the
audience. Then, he
asks four monks, the
Venerable Sao KhornKerth Sambo - Kun Sen
Socheat- and Path
Sophal , along with
Muth Song to ascend
onto the st age and do
As I was still trying to think of the old days, the doors to the arena
suddenly opened for the public at 2pm, a sign that the security crew
has finished making sure things were safe inside the arena. The people
squeezed into the doors to get in. Those who did not purchase tickets
yet went to the ticket lines while those who had tickets in their hands
went to the entrance area at the st airs to find seats. But before they
can proceed to the seating areas, they had to be checked with security wands that wou ld detect any weapons. Let"s leave the lobby area
of the arena and go to t he inside where t he activities were happening.
What kinds of things were taking place?
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a blessing for this new year. After the monks had provided the audi ence with thei r blessing, the Angkor Dance Troupe and the Friendship
Dance Troupe performed the following dances: the Blessing Dance and
Robam Phoung Neary. These in turn were followed by dignitaries' remarks, including words of welcome by Mr. Rithy Uong, Lowell's KhmerAmerican City Councilor. As for the rest of the special guests that were
on stage, one at t ime they expressed their enjoyment wholehearted ly
that they even tried to say "Suosdei Chhnam Tmey" (Happy New Year).
The exiting of the dignitaries offstage
brought the Friendship Dance Troupe
once more onstage where they performed Bopha Lokei, a dance consisting
of beautiful young girls, and a folk dance
called Robam Kaen.
After the dancers left the stage, the
Lakkaun Basaak , a type of Cambodian
Opera, was presented. The actors and
actresses performed one act that
showed a prince bidding farewell to the
hermit, his master, to be on his way to
the Royal City. The prince met his love
with the daughter of the great Yak, the
cannibalistic people who can turn into
giants. The Yak came just in time and
fought with him in a great battle until
the Yak accepted his defeat. At the beginning just the Yak's footsteps caused one side of the sky to rumble.
But when the Yak cried that he was the CMAA Yak, the audience were so
enthralled that some exclaimed that the CMAA Yak was not only just big
in size and small in heart. As for Ah-Kang, the hermit's boy, he is not big
in size for nothing. Before leaving, he applied for 551 for his master. To
conclude the one
act opera left
the
audience
with something
unusual but impressive in their
minds.
Friendship Dance Troupe waiting to perform "Bopha Lokei"
When the Basaak
Opera was over,
other performers
came on stage to
entertain
the
guests with poetry reading, an educational comic act, more traditional
dancing, and a fashion show displaying clothes from different eras and
for various occasions, until the Sava band began playing music for the
guests to dance until 11 o'clock at night, when the entire event came
to a close. But when you turn to watch the
staff of CMAA you will see that they tried very
hard to fulfill their responsibilities for the event
without end and without taking a rest. Even
when the event ended, the staff stayed in order to break down and clean up the arena until
1 am when everyone was sure everything was
in place and that there was no need to worry
anymore.
Bara Loeum in
Farmer's Clothes
Left Top Comer:
San Phanith
Above right:
Arn C.P. and
Miss Sek Sereyrath
Left Bottom:
Sophea Davit
written by Sak Seang
translated by Sophy Theam
Right:
Annie Sek in costume
for the Angkor Era
Fashion Show.
Right: Miss Sek Sereyrath
Photos by
Rady Mom
Left:
Ms. Bopha Neang
in Wedding Dress
Photos by
Rady Mom
Many thanks to the Board of Directors,
Staff members of CMAA, and Volunteers
for making this Khmer New Year
Festival 2000 a success!
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As an update for the community, Light of
Cambodian Children (LCC) is still accepting
donations to fund the Cambodian American
Scholarship Program for Khmer high school
seniors who plan to continue their education
within one year of graduation .
Sopheap Theam
womanning the LCC
info table at the
Sports Tournament
4/29/00
Light of Cambodian Children (LCC), a nonprofit and non -govern mental organization, hopes to bridge the gap betwee n
the different Khm er generations so that we can be a part of the healing
process in the aftermath of ci vil strife . LCC will build a future based on non violen ce, caring , and understanding among Cambod ian you th in the Uni ted
States as well as providing humanitarian relief for children in Cambodia.
Photo by
Sophy Theam
LCC, as part of our mi ssion statement to assist Cambodian children in Cambodia who are victims of landmine and civil strife, was able to send $300.00 to
Cambodia. Through Arn Chorn Pond , a fou nder and a member of Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development (CVCD) in Cambodia, the
$300.00 made an impa ct in the
ch ildren of the Cambodian Street
Children Assistance. The money
assisted street children in obtaining their basic needs such as food
and shelter. It also assisted in purchas ing sc hool su ppli es such as
books and book bags.
Last but not least, LCC members
would like to thank all the team s
for their participation, good sportsmanship, and volunteering efforts in the soccer tournament. We are looking
forward to seeing everyone at the Water Festival on August 19, 2000.
LCC members meet with UYCAF (United Young Cambodian Americans Foundation)
in Maryland for Khmer New Year, 4/16/00
Light of Cambod ian Children (LCC) have just recently finished the electi on
process for 2000-200 I. Announcement of the new o fficer s will be made
public at an Awards Banquet, to be scheduled for August. Please look out for
information regarding this eve nt. Aside from that, many members worked
very hard on preparations for the Upward Bound (UB) Workshop for July 4,
2000 at Umass Amherst. The committee worked intensively to research and
do a two hour presentation on Cambodian cu lture and tradition s, educating
the 80 Upward Bound Program students who range from the eighth through
the twelfth grades and who come from Lynn, MA. The workshop was a great
success! And on July l 8th, LCC wi ll present a similar workshop, but this time
on our organi zation fo r the Fall River Upward Bound students. On July 7-9,
a group of LCC members and several high schoo l age students attended the
National Landmine Conference in Washin gton D.C.
Pov Deborah Ye, Chair
Cambodian American Scholarship Program
Light of Cambodian Ch ildren
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LCC also held o ur first (hopefully it will be o ur annu al) successful Soccer
Tournament at the South Common Soccer Field in Lowell , MA. Thi s event
brought many teams together to play for the same goal which was to raise
money that will contribute to our mission. Everyone had a great time even
the organizers. Thi s experience will defi nitely be a plus for LCC members in
the future.
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poss ible through fundrai sing activities and individual in-kind donations. We
LCC members cannot reiterate enough how much we appreciate any kind of
donati on. The (2) two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) will definitely assist
Khmer student s in so me of their edu cational expenses such as books and
suppli es. We hope to increase the amount given out in the coming years.
LCC's scholars will receive their scholarship award in our upcoming Awards
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
Completion of the Parenting Skills Class
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conn.cction 10 the hea.lm c-.a:re system is impott:mHor the continuity of care for acute and
chronic bea1th ca:r1: checkups a1Kf treatment, p:revent.ativ·e cate, and d.e\-aelopmental
assessment. lro.migrnnt children are highly likely to Jac.k a t-.gular conoocti.on 1.0 tbe
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bealth care system. E~·en among insure.d eJ:iildre.n, immigrant children afe Jess likely than
na1 children to rcceh·e medical care. This means that immigrant. chi!d~n ~ tess likely
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to re.cei ve timely care for acute and chronic condilioo!i-, and are unU.kel)' t.o nxciv,e
presemi:iri>,·e t.:are. M!ll1ly i.tudies have suggested that fear ofde.1>0rt.1rio11 or other
immigration-related consequences may be deterring many immig:r:un (}are.nu from
applying for Medka.id and Children.· t< H~
ealtb :Imsuronce Program.
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wdL For many of these adtlllts, lad of E.nglhib proficiency results in llmlted employnumt
· opportumti~ and evnings. This partially explai.~ why immjgrants are
disproportionately poor and much more likely than citizens to re.iy on wiges f:rom lowwage work ai5 thek primary source of incmu.e~ lmmigr.mu are more likely than citizens 10
bnve "low-w.age" jobs that na,v less than. $7.50 aft hour.
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Tbe foreign•born jX1f!nlation 3CCOWJIS for 12 percent oftl!e U.S. talx;!r f ~ (U.S.
Ccns1.JS Bureau, 1.999).
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Ni ~ n pcroellt of [l;O()'llt immigr.mts-vetsns nine peroeot of U.S. mlll\'e
worl: in
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ser\'ice ocaJ,p,ttioos, whl. h inclQ occup.atioos such a:s food prep:aration, childca:re,
and janitorial &.mi'. ces (U.S. Census Bureau, I999}.
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been to translate for Dean Proeung Chhieng,
one of the award recipients, who had been asked
to write up an acceptance speech. But it turned
out that his English speaking ability was great
and that he didn't need me to be up with him to
translate. Nonetheless I enjoyed the event in its
capacity and was able to translate conversations for Dean Proeung Chhieng and a very
young dancer that were both seated at the same
table. The young dancer, So Vannary Sao, came
from Siem Reap only a month ago. While he
was performing in Cambodia, he was seen by
the President of the U.S. National Ballet Association, who was thoroughly impressed with
his dancing capability. She decided to sponsor
him over to the States where he is currently put
into a dance school in New York City to learn
ballet. With him being fairly young, only about
15 years old, I can only imagine how he feels
being brought over from his family and friends,
and knowing almost no English. But he is one
lucky young man to be the chosen one among
his peers in the dance troupe back in Siem Reap.
Sitting at the table amongst such prominent individuals and hearing the President of the ACC
Board open the luncheon with words about
two Southeast Asian nations that are hardly
• An filinois Sur'i'C:Y found duu :refugee women movl.ni from welhre to work were
mentioned in the arts and culture sector, and
co.ncen.trntcd.in low-w.a.ge job'S-·33 pemml earned Jess than $6.00 per hour and 88
Cambodia being one of them, I felt proud, not
percent ea.med less tl!an $8.00 pc:!'." oonr. Oniy eight.percem oomed inore tlum $?.00
only for Dean Proeung Chhieng but for the
per hour (lllinois Refugee Social Savka Com,crtium, 1999),
people and culture of Cambodia itself for being
recognized for such a prestigious award. Dean
• Thirteen pc:rcan 'Of non--citiz:en work. ts are low wage workers who live in low-incom.e Proeung Chhieng of the faculty of choreoe
graphic arts at the Royal University of Fine
families with.,c.hildten c ~ to 4.3 per,cwt ofwru. es and 9.9 peroe.nt of black&
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Arts in Phnom Penh has been instrumental in
(U.S. Census Bomru, 1999),
the preservation and conservation of Cambodian classical dance ever since the Genocidal
• Even though onJy 51.WeD percent of all '/lrorkers are non..,cifi~s., almost 20 perce.n.t of
Khmer Rouge regime that terminated the lives
all low•W;llgC- w ~ who li. e in a low-income family ~ith children are t1on<itiz.ens
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of about 90% of the dance artists and masters
(U.S. CellSlil:S Bw:cao, l999).
of Khmer music and dance. Alongside his work
at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Mr. Chhieng has been leading artists and masters
CAMBODIAN ARTIST/SCHOLAR RECEIVES
to record the history and background of Khmer classical dance to be passed
on to the future dancers and musicians, has organized numerous perforJOHN D. ROCKEFELLER 3RD AWARD
mance tours in the United States, France, Europe, and Asia, captivating both
written by Sophy Theam
international and Cambodian audiences. In addition, he co-directs the CamOn June 5, 2000 I had the privilege to attend the John D. Rockefeller 3,d
bodian Artists Mentorship Program, is a senior consultant to the Dance
Notation Project that's funded by Japan, and serves as an advisor to H.R.H.
Award Luncheon, held at the Rainbow Room of Rockefeller Centre in New
Princess Bopha Devi , Cambodia's minister of culture. Mr. Chhieng briefs
York City. This event was organized by the Asian Cultural Council, an
the five priorities that he uses in his hopes to increase excellence in art
entity that supports cultural exchange, in the area of the performing and
achievement: "l. to stop the present erosive process of culture, 2. to safevi sual arts, between Asia and the United States. Serving both as a grantguard the Cambodian cultural heritage, 3. to restore Khmer cultural values
making foundation and a service organization for cultural exchange, the
and norms, 4. to benefit and promote the artistic creation, and 5. to diffuse
Asian Cultural Council (ACC) presents the John D. Rockefeller 3,ct Award
culture and promote international exchanges."
to an individual from Asia or the United States who has in a significant way
contributed to the understanding, practice, or study of Asian art and culture.
The other recipient of the John D. Rockefeller 3,ct Award is Dr. Nguyen Van
Each award recipient receives $25,000.00 for their professional achieveHuy, director of the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, which opened in Noment and continuation of their practices in the arts of Asia, whether it be
vember 1997 in Hanoi. A leader of ground-breaking field research projects
through international research and/or travel, and with affiliation with an
on Vietnam's highland ethnic groups, Dr. Huy worked with Vietnam's govinstitution or working individually.
ernment-run social science institutions, the Musee de )'Homme in Paris, the
French government, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Ford Foundation
In this event, I sat amongst a group of about forty-five people, consisting of
to establish and construct the museum, exhibiting various crafts traditions
ACC Board of Directors and prominent funders and supporters of Asian art
and ritual performance forms of Vietnam.
and culture, including Mr. Stephen Rockefeller. My role in the event had
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Forty ~ t of all fomp. bom persons work in lhe 1ruumfiic1Uring .apd 5.ervice
industries compared to JO pcrc.entofnauves (Fix, et.
1994).
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The Violence Reflective of Our Society
By Chath pierSath
Like other cities throu ghout Am er ica , thi s mill town, Lowe ll has its share of the violence, which is ren ective of the problem s in our large r society. Gun s
are cheap and accessible to children here. Poverty show s a wide in e9uity between people in a country where the bounty of its food can feed the world . Yet, peopl e
still go hungry everyday. Throughout the urban slum s of America, drugs and domestic violence turn the innocent into murderers. In addition, raw footage of
Hollywood movies and video games fill the minds of th ese children with heroes who destroy, bomb an d shoot peo ple for revenge.
Ameri ca's youth are easily convin ced or swayed to fill the meani ngless voi d with hate and rage. Without love and positive adult super vision to hack and guide th em
again st all th ese evil s, they w ill pi ck up a gun, and when angered, shoot out of control.
In a city of I00,000 people like Lowell, when children di e of violen ce, it is very disconcerting to people. The Cambodian commun ity has more than
its share of violence . Peopl e arc plagued with remorse and sadness of multipl e losses in addition to th e suffering and the poverty th ey experience. It is here, in
this immigrant city of mi ll s and factori es, that m other s an d fath ers gathered to raise their children fro m the war and poverty of their ho m e land. They came with o nly
a few things on their backs, neeing the refu gee cam ps, torn in so many direction s. When a you ng child di es of violence here, it is even mor e diffi cult for the parents
already mourning their earli er losses becau se they all had hope that Am erica wou ld provide them wi th t he safe refuge from the viol ence they had run fr o m.
America, as many later discover, is not the sa fe haven they had so ught. C hildren , w hen physically or emotion ally broken and neglected to their own
demi se, will seek out gangs as a way of handing together for emotional support and a sense of bel onging. They cannot stand alon e to resist viol ence or the hurt and
pain that they experi ence in their lives. Without proper physical an d psyc hological nurturing, th ey w ill run to f\ght evi l on t hei r own t er m s even w hen it m ean s
bein g evi l th emselves. In stin ctively, this is how the world works.
Growing up in thi s co untry is not easy for most Cambodian children . Their gentl e nature is divided and torn bet ween two different cultu res and their
identity is fractured. They exper ience racism. Som e live in poverty, where they are shoved into a o ne- room apartment with two or three other brother s and sist ers.
At th e age of ten , a Cambodian child is expected
to care and become responsible for other younger
siblings. If the paren ts are struggling to make
ends meets, they may neglect their children in
order to work at odd shifts . Some tim es th e
father or th e mothe r has a gambling habit to
feed. Th ere may be a history of family violen ce
and abu se in addition to other social problem s
crow ding th e children 's mind s.
A hea lthy c hild re9uires good
parenting, emotional nurturing and ca ring as
well as ongoing communication. Not every fam ily is capabl e of becom ing whol e and healthy
because diffe rent people experience the world
in different ways . Level of edu cation, culture
and how we are socialized to see and interpret
things around us determin e who we are and
w hat we become. It is not simple t o blam e ,
w hether it is the victim or the perpetrator. Ev er ything is con nected , just as we value the idea
behind the African proverb, "It takes a village to
raise a child," which implies that all of us have
the responsibility toward every child in addition to the children we raise.
The so-called 'bad child' is renective
of all of us. When a youngster commits a murder or an improper act of violence again st hi s
fellow beings, we tend to think that it is because
he is bad or the parents did not raise him right.
That is why he has become so violent. Yet,
through our labels and our prejudices, we make
that child violent, in the images w e see them to
be . We confu se them with mixed m essages of
o ur own as to what is right and wrong. There is
a lot of confu sion out there that young peopl e
face . Som e of them are living in a state of para noia, in th eir gang code of ethic and law, they
see the world as an unfriendl y place, with suspi cion, and plans of vengeance agai nst those whom
th ey perceive are against them.
When found guilty, the two boys ,
both age fifteen, will be jailed for the
rest of their lives. Four lives are
now lost . Murder is an act
of in stant pass ionate rage ,
anger, and bottled hatred.
Without adult guidance
and a positive role model,
these children are
not abl e to know
how to deal with all
ages of enemies invade their hearts and
soul s, thinking that they would be free to com mit a murder in revenge of th ei r friend's death.
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Quality childcare is oft.en -critical lQ ensuring low•lncome lrrunigrn.nt frunilies can :achieve
and maintain self•wffideru:..-y. A s welfare ~form bas .i~.ISOO efforts to move welfare
recipients into the workforce.. the cost, avIYlability, quality, and accessibility of childcare,
' ho1vc become map issues among ma:n-y :populations, i:ncludiog im.o:11gr:ants and refugees,
Childcare Cl'm play a key role in facililatin8 lhe nrlju~c.1n of new immigrant families to
I.he U.S. f'-or mnny new immigrants.. ehlldc:are serves as the :as di~ primary point of
,e11rafamH.l.a.l co11t11ct and can help ease the fatroduction to a new culture aod alleviate
oro:blems of social isol.aiion_
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ln a :ma.tional survey of fomALe adults who were interested in taking E!SL dMSC&., but
four out of every 10 ncmpartkipants ci!ed lack of child care or
triirupruiation a$ their primary barrier to parucipation (Child W dfllro League.. 2000).
no:t ct.11Tenll y ~nroUed,
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ChUdcare was an e\•en rnore s:igniiic<IDt b~meJ: for nonparticipants ·who did not re!ld
EngJisb at aU or not, well (Chlld Wd.fm-c Le!iguc, 2.000),
ln an Illinois report, 63' pc;rwot of non-working women '-1tt.d cbildc~ IQ ~ numbu
one re.a.son for why they did not work {lJJioois Refugee Social S en ·ices Consortium,.
1999).
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A Fl--oritt. Sn® trlli.vffllity stu.d.y fon:od that Spanb~ing penans puti. ipating in
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WAGES, A.orlda'.s TANF program, re_f)Ol1ed the following:
► Almost 60 percent of Spanish-speaking participants reported I.hat ohil.d can: wg oot
available when they started v;•wkio,g, compared to 18 percent of En,glish~speaking
pmicipan~.
► Fiftml pc~nt of Spanish.. & t t s reporu:d having been givan the opportunity to
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meet wilh a childcare counselor compared with 30 pemml of£°0'3lish-speaoo
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According to an Illl.nois refugee W0111en s.vrvey:
► Only two pe. cenl of W<Y.tn.ei11 ~ being happy with their cru.ld-care
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(Crew and Eyerman, l99S).
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► T~nty-one percent of working
women rely on oldct children tr;, provide childcare
.md 32 peroent rely on ~lative.s.
► Twenty•si.x pc:rccnt or working w-0m.en said they have no one to clil'C f« thclr·child
while they a.re wort:ing (D]inois Refugee Social Services Consortium, 1999),
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There is a whole world out th e re ,
which most adults do not under stand. The adults
may not have the skills or the pati ence to listen.
Th ey may be th e enemies these children see in
the world . So me are abu siv e, drug addicts, al co hol ic s , and mi sogy ni st s. The s~
people may them selv es he the
children of the adults who had
al so abu sed and negl ected
them. The cycle of h~te and
violen ce passes down from
the oppress ors to th e op pr essed. It is what we
know and learn, and they
are images of ourselves on
white h'orses toward hell.
We will never be free our
own darkn ess and the suffering we cau se each
other. Once inno cen ce is lo st it is harder to
correct or restore. The innocence of those boys
being arraigned in court has probabl y been violated many times. Th ey do not seem to have any
remorse fo r the deaths they cau sed. They are so
numbed by the despair, outrage, and se nse of
their own losses that they do not seem to care
anymore.
For tho se of us who re mem ber April 17, 1975, we know too well of
these fa ces , with gun s as th eir shields , as they
marched other s to their death. Young men fill ed
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with inh uman hate.
Their eyes showed
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Orgruiizations :s.uch as t1u:: National Orgim11.ation for Women (NOW) report that
:i.rtuni&
rruol women are particularly vo.tnerablle to domestic vio!ence sim:c language
ba.r.ri.e:rs .md fear of imnligriation authorltleS often p~v1mt these women from se~k:ing
assista.nc,e from police or victim advocates. Cllltural factors ma-y '31.so discourage tllCffl
from assertit:lg iheir legw rights, For some undocumented fi::mi!le immigrants,. ma:in.taining
the ~lationsbip with their abuliCI i~ som. times the only way they avoid deportatloo and
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re:JlUQll in the U.S.
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Sixty-one pe;roent of respcm~ m ~ lha'I the}• were sobjccted lQ woekly
pl:ryi;icaJ or emotional abuse;
► Thirty-t!ne perc~ot of te pondents reported an ioorcase of abuse with. immigration
imothc U.S.;
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Nine percent reported that abuse began with :imrnigrr1tion;
► One fifth of respo.tirlcnts :rcpormd that their spouses used.threats of deportation. of
not filin_g inunigration papers, or of withdrawing these papers as .a po'N(3' aod
eiootrol tact:k in abusive rcl.adonsbiips:; mi
► Otie foorth of respondent;s m~ that fear re!.nting to their immigration stall'.15
prevented !.heni from leavilli the abusive remtfonship (Orloff, May 1999).
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Between 1994 and April J 999 over 9,.500 birttcm;i immigran(S filed petitions under the
Violence Against W m:oo.n Aot. (VAWA Sec. 40701 8 USCA 1l S4 )..
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A 1mrVCy oom.ucted by me .l:t:nmigrant WOlllm's: Task For-ce of the Not:1hcm Califomi.a.
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Cool:ltion for lmmignml Rig:hls reve:aled that 34 perecnt of UIUDas and 25 permit of
Fillpi.nas SJtin•eyed had e;1;perienced domes.tic , •roleoee either in their country of origin;
io tlle U.S•• or both (FnmUy Viole~ Pl:ie'ven1ion Fund. 2000).
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A m:.<-mt ~ Y fouod that nearly 83 percent of baMr¢d immignum did not oon'l:a(:t
the police for help dospite J.engthy histories of domestic ..,,foJc~ {Orloff and Dave.
no m er cy or co m -
passion. We would
nev e r under stand
wher e all that o ut burst of violen ce is
coming from, but it
is in a of us, the
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way our societ y
portrays it, and how
we judge children based on their externa l ex pression s. When we see others as different from
ourselves, we make excu ses for our own hatred,
our prejudices , and our in d iffer ence to each
other. All we have to do is look in sid e to find the
an swer to these probl ems of gangs and murder.
ln a su:rv,ey o:f tr.i.lt:ered immigrant women cooducted by AYUDA;
1999).
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In a ~urvey coodm:ted in San Francisco, 64 po:rcent of undocumented b.atttmJ women
said that fear of deportali.oo was the primary reason why they did not seek social
$eMCeS: (Hogeland and Rosen. l99l).
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�Upon arriving in the United States in late 1979 and early I 980's, either alone
or in decimated families, the Cambodian refugees were generally resettled in
economically disadvantaged inner city areas such as Lowell's Acre and
Highland neighborhoods. Negotiating their way amidst gangs, drugs, urban violence, inadequate housing, and poor schools, many felt they had
been transported from one war zone to another.
A Capital Campaign
The Southeast Asian Family & Youth Center
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The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) of Greater Lowell,
Inc. is in the midst of conducting a capital campaign to raise $1.5 million to
su pport the physical development of the Southeast Asian Family and Youth
Center, scheduled for completion by June 2001. When completed, the center will be able to serve as many as 5,000 individuals and family members
a year through its various social , educational, cultural, and recreational
activities.
Moreover, these refugees were among the least prepared to adapt to such an
environment. Not only were they suffering from post-traumatic stress
disorder and physical ailments which resulted from their ordeal, but they
tended to be from rural backgrounds, with little or no education, frequently
illiterate even in their own language.
These challenges continue to affect the Cambodian American community
today. According to the U.S. 1990 Census: 26% of Cambodian families in
Lowell are headed by a single mother. The average size of a Cambodian
family is 5.03 persons. Only 46% of Cambodian men and 22.6% of Cambodian women over the age of25 have completed high school. The average
per capital income for Cambodian population $6,250, and 49% of Cambodian families live below the established poverty level, constituting the second most economically disadvantaged Asian American group.
The proposed Southeast Asian Family and Youth Center will be located on
the second and third floors in the former Courier Corporation building at
165 Jackson Street in Lowell. The Courier Corporation generously donated
its former headquarters building, with over 90,000 square feet of floor
space and worth approximately one million dollars, to the CMAA in August
1997. The center will be occupying about 20,000 square feet in the unusable space of the Mills building. Therefore, the much needed works will go
into an infrastructure improvement and construction of a new service core
that will include a passenger elevator, stairway, lobby, entrance, new roof as
well as office space and a performance stage for traditional dance rehearsal,
after-school youth program activities and for community social and cultural
gatherings.
Cambodians came to Lowell to build a new life. Despite their social and
linguistic isolation, many were able to find work in Greater Lowell's factories. Factory work was ideal , as it required only technical ability or manual
labor; fluency in English might not be necessary. Cambodians got together
and built two temples -one located in North Chelmsford and one on Cambridge Street in Lowell. In 1984, the Cambodian community leaders came
together to establish the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater
Lowell , Inc., whose mission is to assist Cambodians and Southeast Asians
to achieve self-sufficiency in their newly adopted country-America, while
at the same time trying to promote and preserve their native cultural heritage.
The Family and Youth Center project has been and will be involving many
youth, families, volunteers, CMAA's staff and board members, elected
officials, governmental officials and representatives from various funding
agencies and foundations who are committed to working together over a
period of 18 months to make plans, carry out those plans to raise enough
funding, and to complete their ideal Center for the Southeast Asian American community in the Greater Lowell.
Programs and Services to be housed in the proposed
Southeast Asian Family and Youth Center
The Family and Youth Center will empower the Southeast Asian youth ,
young parents, parents, adolescents with development disabilities, and the
elders to build positive self-esteem, learn a new language and vocational
skills that would lead them to achieve self-sufficiency in their newly adopted
country-America. In addition , the center will be a pivotal point in helping
to foster and strengthen good relationships, fill the intergenerational gap
between family members and build a strong and healthy community.
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The Monorom Family Support Serv ices Program provides comprehe nsive services to families that have children with developmental disabilities. The program name came from the Khmer word " Monorom"
which means "peace or harmony", which reflects the program's origins
as a respite care services. Se rvices available include Case management,
translation, and tran sportation to assist families in accessing other services providers, cri sis intervention, coun se ling services, special education and advocacy; parent support gro up to assist parents of di sable
children in coping with the unique stresses and difficulties of caring for
children with special need s; American sign language classes for those
whose principal language is Khmer; and soc ial and recreati o nal programs for disabled children , includin g traditional Cambodian dance
troupe which integrated di sab led and non-disabled children.
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Youth Services Program offers a safe and supportive environment and
an alternative to gang involvement for the " at-risk" and gang-involved
youth between the ages of I 0-22. Program activities include peer
leadership development, Khmer language instruction, Cambodian traditional dances, music and arts classes; employment training and placement, health education and training; computer training, and homework
club; sports and recreational activities, summer camp. The youth have
been involved in numerous activities including an annual Water Festival , Khmer New Year, Lowell Folk Festival, and other special events
throughout the year. Over 400 youth are enrolled in this program.
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Young Parents Program aims at reducing welfare dependency among
young parents , ages 14 - 21 , who have not achieved a high sc hool
diploma or its equivalent. YPP espouses a model of employability development to successfully prepare an individual to obtain a job as quickly
as possib le in the primary labor market. CMAA's YPP attends to the
whole person, recogn izin g that basic educational and job specific skill s
are important to young parents in the acquisition of and advancement in
the work environment. More than 50 young parents have been enrolled
in this program.
Statement of Needs for Lowell's Cambodian-American Community
Lowell has the second largest Cambodian population in the United States,
numbering 30,000. The largest Cambodian community is in Long Beach,
California, with an estimated number of 60,000. Many of the Cambodian
residents of Lowell are refugees who fled from war-tom Cambodia and
now live in poverty in the United States.
In April 1975, the Maoist communist Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot,
evacuated the cities and systematically killed over two million people-a
quarter of the population--especially targeting the wealthy, educated, or
professional people. Doctors, nurses, clergy, teachers, business owners,
artisans, city dwellers and even those who wore glasses were singled out
for execution since they were seen as bourgeois or contaminated with Western influence.
The Khmer Rouge maintained control by mass public torture, executions,
and dismantling the social order of Cambodia. Men, women, and children
were sent to labor camps and forced to do strenuous work. Famine and
disease became epidemic while medicine and medical care were non-existent.
When the Khmer Rouge regime was overthrown in early 1979, thousands
of Cambodians fled on foot to refugee camps on the Thai border, where they
waited for up to twelve years to be resettled in a third country.
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The Elderly Outreach & Assistance offers older Cambodian Americans
transportation , family and psychological support, translation , hospital
visit, ci tizensh ip ed ucation , case manage ment , health education, emerge ncy assistance, crisis intervention, cultural and reli gious activitie,s,
exercise and recreational activities. Traditionally, elders are part of the
extended family, which provides for heir need s. As a result of the war,
the Killing Fields under the Maoist co mmuni st regime, the refugee
episode, di sruption and dislocation of families that accompanied them ,
man y elderly Cambodian refugee s do not ha ve surviving children , or
may have been unable to locate and reunite with their survi ving children or relatives. In Lowell , Cambodian senior citizens are often isolated. They often do not speak English. They have limited access to
social services because of lan guage and cultural barriers.
The Children of War Theater and Film Project is a collaboration of artists
working toward the creation of a theater piece that addresses ethnic conflict, its
effect on the world's young people,
a nd the power of compassion to
heal and inspire change. It is based
on the inspirational work of the
Children of War organization
founded by Judith Thompson and
Arn Chorn-Pond. Over the past
several yea rs, the project artists have
traveled to Cambodia; Dharamsala,
India; Zagreb, Croatia, and Sarajevo
to conduct interviews with survivors, refugees, and leaders which formed the basis of the text. The artists were
filmed by Barbara Kopple, an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose footage will be used both in the theater piece and in her own
documentary about the behind the scenes creation of the project.
Objectives. Goals & Measurements
I.
2.
3.
4.
5.
To conduct a capital campaign with a goal of raising $1.5 million to
support toward development of the Southeast Asian Family and Youth
Center at the CMAA's headqu arter building on 165 Jackson St.
To construct a service core that includes a fire rate stair, an ADA
compliant elevator, lobbies, wheelchair lift/ramp, and an entranceway
at a point 432 feet from the East end of the building at 165 Jackson St.
To renovate and obtain occupancy permits fo r approxi mately 20,000
square feet of second and third floor space for use as the Southeast
Asian Family and Youth Center that include performance stage and
multifunction facilities.
To serve 500 at-ri sk youth, 250 children/adolescents with development disabilities and their families, and 350 elders in th e Southeast
Asian Family and Youth Center.
To provide multi-function faci lities to the Southeast Asian community
in Greater Lowell at an affordable costs serving up to 7,500 people a
year. At least 75% of the persons served in the Southeast Asian Family
and Youth Center will be low-i ncome families.
The Children of War organization
devotes itself to supporting the emotional, psyc holog ical, and spiritual
development of young leaders who
have experienced war, violence, injustice, and oppression. Many young
people growing up in these difficult
circumstances have a desire to devote themselves to social transformation. Children of War has worked
with young leaders from 22 countries, including U.S. inner cities, homele ss
shelters, Native American reservations, and farm labor camps. These youth
leaders have traveled to 60 U.S. cities and over 450 high schools to share their
stories and insights with U.S. youth, building partnerships between inner city
youth a nd international "war" survivors, utilizing their common bonds of
suffering as a doorway to a deeper joy of compassion for each other.
Key Personnel
The CMAA will use outside consultants for the capital campaign, fund
raising, legal services, building development, architectural designs, engineering, and construction of the family and youth center. In addition, CMAA
will put into good use its own management team that consists of an executive director, Mr. Samkhann C. Khoeun , who brings a history of successful
administration of community organization to CMAA; a fiscal manager, Mr.
Thirith Hut, who hold an accounting degree from Northeastern University;
a development director, Mr. Joseph Sexton, who is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and Suffolk University Law School;
plus staff members from the CMAA's Youth Services, the Monorom Family Support Services, the Elderly Outreach Progra m, the Young Parents
Program and also the youth, clients and its dedicated volunteers. Yet, the
CMAA's board of directors, wh o represents a broad variety of professions,
will bring an important array of experience and training to the CMAA's
policy-making, leadership body, and community relations and connections.
Sign of Appreciation:
Mr. Samkhann Khoeun presents
souvenirs to Children of War actors
and actresses. L-R: Lorraine
Cordeiro, Sarnkhann Khoeun,
Yolanda King, Priya Ayyar,
& Daniel Carlton
Kick-Off for Capital Campaign
Thus far, the CMAA's Youth Services Program has raised about $25,000 in gross income from the "Children of War and Theatre
Play", held on March 4, 2000 and which featured Ms. Yolanda King, the daughter of the
civic right leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The
event was the CMAA's kick-off and was made
possible by the generous contribution of the
River Arts Repertory and the Children of War
organization. The play brought several hundreds of audiences to Lowell Memorial Auditorium to support the capital campaign initiative of the youth and fam ily members.
At a time where violence touches every society and hurts our children, the Cambodian
Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc. and its proud sponsors bring to
Lowell a play about children of war-torn countries.
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Timeline for the Capital Campaign and the Family & Youth Center
Janu ary 2000
February 2000
March 4 , 2000
A pril 8, 2000
May 2000
June 2000
July 2000
August 2000
Sept - Oct
Nov 2000
Dec2000
Jan 200 1
Feb - Apri l
May 200 1
June 2001
* Planning that involved youth , family members, staff, volunteers and board members
* Prepare proposal to City of Lowell under its Consolidated Plan-CD BG
* Kick-off event with "Children of War Theatre and Film Project" at Lowell Memorial Audit orium
* Khmer New Year Festival - Tsongas Arena
* Capital C ampaign - In progress
* Capital Ca mpai gn - Ongoing
How YOU can support the CMAA Capital Campaign?
* C apital Ca mpaig n - Ongoing
* Starting new fi scal year
If you are interested in supporting the fundraising efforts for
* 4mAnnual Water Festival
* Finalizing on design and constructi o n pl ans
the development of the Southeast Asian Family and Youth
* Bidding & selecting constructing company
Center, you can send donations to:
* CMAA's 16th Anniversary Celebration,
CMAA's Capital Campaign
* Startin g on demoliti o n
* Constructi on begins
C/o Southeast Asian Family & Youth Center
* Constructi on continues &
165 Jackson Street; Lowell, MA 01852
furni shing the Family & Youth Center
* Construction co mplete
* Perm it & Occupancy
For further in fo rmation, please contact the CMAA's Executive Director, Samkhann C. Khoeun at (978) 454-4286, or Email:
skhoeun @c maal owell .org
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A riddle
is not a mathematical problem. Nor is it a word of
di scipline. A riddle is a tale or problem that has to be solved in a way that 's
to the ideas of scholars: bei ng taught little but knowing a Jot, or to work less
but to get much accomplished. It is to be able to solve numerous problems
with only one move.
Announcement:
The CMAA has recently created the
"Community Emergency Assistance Fund" to
aid families and individuals with unexpected
life tragedies. If you would like to make a
donation into this fund, please make checks
payable to the CMAA and send to:
In order to help you understand more clearly of what solving a riddle is all
about, please read below and help solve the problem as follows.
Grandfather Seng raised a young girl named Sophea, beginning when she
was 7 years old. When the young girl turned into a young woman, Grandfather Seng wanted to take her as a wife. This naughty old man took two
blackened brass coins and placed then them a long cylindrical container and
called the townspeople to be witnesses. When the townspeople were all
gathered, the old man who wanted to have the young woman as wife
proclaimed, "In this container are one white coin and one blackened coin. If
Miss Sophea takes out the blackened coin, she will have to be my wife. But,
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ISSUE #12 July 2000
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The Community Service Employment Program
(CSE) was first introduced in may 1998 by the
Office of Refugee Resettlement in Washington
D.C. as a program announcement
called"request for applications
for projects to provide Community Service Employment opportunit ies
for refugees w h o
have experienced
long-term difficulties
in assimilation".
As broad as this statement is, it opened many new opportunities for
the Southeast Asian population, especially the
Cambodian Community of greater Lowell. In
the first year grant the CMAA was awarded
$623.000 for refugee assistance followed by a
$ 1,500,000 grant for fi scal year 2000. The CSE
program for the first year provided the impetus
for a true set of guidelines for those affected by
unemploy ment, low levels of work readiness.
Refu gees are also affected by an inadequate suppl y of jobs for th eir skill level and some may
have been impacted by job exclusion.
The Community Service
Empl oy ment program is
sponsored by a grant
from th e Offi ce of
Refu gee Res ettl e - ·
ment. and is maintai ned by the Cambodi an Mutu al Assistance Association of Greater Lowell. In the first year, CSE
was able to service 115 clients wh o came to the
ce nter. Of these 11 5 intakes, 42 were placed in
subsidi zed empl oy men t th rough the program.
In fiscal year 2000 the CSE program increased
the outcome by placi ng 62 refugees in the CSE
program wh ile taking in over 89 new clients.
The Community Service Employment program
is now entering its third year with another$ l .5 m
continuation grant to assist additional refu gees
· with subsidized pl acement.
WALSH &CO.
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Auditors and Advisors
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ONE ELM SQUARE; ANDOVER, MA 01810
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(MORI).
This is the second year of the work, and it has been improved a lot. It will
get even much better in the nex t following years. Through the hard work of
all three staff, the program has provided a lot of benefits to the communi ty.
Individuals' and or family's needs have been served, helping people achieve
self-sufficiency.
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Khmer language every Monday and Friday from 4-5pm and every Saturday from 9-1 I am.
Traditional music Monday to Thursday from 4-5pm.
Traditional dance every Tues ., Thurs. and Fri . from 5-6pm.
Arts and culture every Mon ., Wed., Thurs. & Fri. from 3:30-5pm.
Modern English songs and dance from Mon.-Fri. from 3:30-5pm.
From 5-7:30 or 8pm, the program provides transportation to youth
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The youth program provides education through social and historical discussions, short folk story telling, sports, employment assistance, help with finding schools, help with homework, study about strategies of leadership, lead
youths to do other Buddhist ceremonies, bring youths to perform different
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Connected to the Khmer proverb: youth are future in keeping our
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These benefits don't come by themselves! They came because of efforts of
youth staff, leadership of CMAA and funders who face many challenging
problems to provide funding for the program. But these benefits are truly not
enough. There are two other main problems that cannot be solved yet. First,
youth have not received incentives from the community (especially Khmer
community). Second, youth staff and parents have not established a good
relationship to create confidence with each other.
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communication activ it y for public official or private in stitution would unproductive if without the mean of tran sportation .
Youth Services into my job responsibility. My job was to drive the youth
from CMAA to their resident or vice versa on worki ng day basis. On March
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place at 165 Jackson Street. Then the director asked me to drive the youth at
afternoon 5:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. depend on the number of the youth and
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brake problem. Sometime I have to us my personal money to fix CMAA
property in order to provide safety for our youth and the passenger. I am felt
confident driving the van. Then in early 1999, I have heard good news from
the leadership. They wanted to purchase a new van. On the Janu ary 27, 2000
our program director Lorraine Cordeiro gave me the key to me .
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its agenda.
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passengers. I have driven this new van since its mileage was about 40 miles.
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also for all of the CMAA programs.
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15 passenger seats. We used an old van to carry elder to the hospital , temple,
and training at CMAA ect. ... In early I 998, Mr. Samkhann Khoeu n, the
director of CMAA increa sed my job de scription by adding After School
Only two CMAA staffs are responsible for the key, Ronnie and me . So, if any
staff member wants to use it, s/he should fill out a form telling who is going
to drive the car, from where and what time , to where and what time , the
number of passengers, date of using it, and so on. The purpose to fill out the
form is to make sure the car is used for a good reasonable service.
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the work that I used to do with the old car. 1 have to be careful with my daily
driving . I instruct the youth to understand that this car is also belong to them
so they should help to take care of it (not to break things or mess it up) . I have
noticed this instruction works very well. It is important to instruct them,
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Executive Director:
Samkhan n Khoeun
Editor-in-Chief:
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Merrimack Val.ley Chapter
Khmer Associate Editors: Sak Seang
Produ ction and Layout:
CMAA's ADVISORY BOARD
Sothea Chiemroum, Sophy Theam,
and Lorraine Cordeiro
English Associate Editor: Alison Gerva is and Terry Troutt
Cambodian Font Typists: Ro nni e Mo uth , Brian B. Chen and
Maridy You
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Tem Chea
Venerable Sao Khon
Venerable Ly Vorn
Saly Pin-Riebe
Pere Pen
Susanne Beaton
James C. Dragon, Esq.
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Narong Hui
Advertising and Marketing Manager: Samuel Sok, Vincent Un,
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Legal Issues Coordinator:
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CMAA News Coordinator:
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Health Issues Coordinator:
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Community News Coordinator:
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Economic Development News Coordinator:
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Khm er Lowell Magazine is a quarterly publication published by the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
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APRIL 2000
CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
A Message from the Executive Director
Dear Fellow Cambodians and Friends,
I would like to take this special occasion to extend my warm invitation and greetings to all of
our community members, supporters, friends and public officials during the Cambodian New
Year festivities in the month of April 2000. The Carnbodian-American community in Lowell,
Massachusetts as well as many others alike throughout the country, are celebrating this
ancient traditional event called Choal Chnaim Tmey in the Cambodian language or New Year
Celebration.
Traditionally, Cambodians celebrate holidays all year round, but they have one favorite
holiday. Cambodian people have an acute sense of the dramatic, and their celebrations
abound with costumes, lights, floats and parades. Singing, music and dancing are very
popular and enjoyed by people of all ages.
The most popular festival that the majority of Cambodians take part in is the New Year. The New Year Celebration
customarily lasts for three days, from the I 3 th to the 15 th of April. The actual date and time are determined by an
astrologer who calculates the exact moment when the new Thevada or angel along with his or her animal protector,
such as the hare, tiger, dragon, just to name a few, arrive to replace the out-going one. The Thevadas have the
responsibility of looking afterthe well being of mankind . While getting ready to welcome the new deity, most people
spend their time cleaning and decorating their homes so as to ward off evil spirits and disaster. Cambodians in the
United States continue to honor this tradition and celebrate this special fe stivity as much as they can by choosing
the dayand time, and also by conducting activities close to what is done in our native homeland, Cambodia.
On Saturday, April 8, 2000, from 2:00 PM to 11 :00 PM, the Cambodian Mutual AssistanceAssociation (CMAA) and
its community partners will host this wonderful celebration known as the Khmer New Year Festival to be held inside
the newly established Tsongas Arena. The day will be filled with many aspects of Khmer cultural activities including
traditional dances ; music ; a fashion show highlighting Khmer costumes from past to present styles; Khmer opera
known as Lakhan Bassaack; Aa-yai- Khmer improvised singing between male and female; a comedy show; recreational
games; concert performances; and social dances with the local Sava Band. The Angkor and Friendship Dance
Troupes, Cambodian celebrities from Cambodia, our local youth groups and young models will take part in these
planned activities and performances. The New Year Steering Committee has been working very hard to make this
special event fun and for it to appeal to all age groups.
Therefore, on behalf of the Board of Directors, staff members, volunteers, and the whole Cambodian-American community
of Greater Lowell, we would like to, once again, extend our warm invitation to our friends, colleagues, family members, and
public officials, and others who are interested in learning our culture, to join us today as we celebrate our joyous New
Year Festival with the theme "a celebration of unbroken Khmer Heritage ... in a new millennium." Welcome!
Sincerely,
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Bunrith Lach, Acting President
Chuck Sart, 1st Vice President
Mark E. Goldman, 2nd Vice President
William Tith, 1st Treasurer
Sokhary Chau, 2nd Treasurer
Thomas Stylianos, Jr. , Secretary
Chanrithy Uong, Lowell City Counselor
ADMINISTRATION
Chantha Bin, Social Worker
Samkhann C.Khoeun , Executive Director
Alex Keenan-Gallagher, StudentAffairs
Sothea Chiemruom, Deputy Director
Sara Khun, Legislative Assistant
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Samuth S. Koam, Health Educator
Jenny Lee, Accountant
Ken Niceweiz, Farmer/Associate Professor
Joseph Sexton, Development Director
Michael Ortiz, Asst. District Attorney - Middlesex County
Sophy Theam, Executive Secretary
Francis Dawson, Liaison Officer for the VA
Ronnie Mouth, Office Manager
Kanika Suthy, Receptionist
CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
YOUTH SERVICES PROGRAM
Samuel Sok, Program Coordinator
Lorraine Cordeiro, Program Director
Instructors: Ang Pheng , Chhorvy Chhay,
Arn Chorn-Pond, Coordinator of Arts & Culture
Hong Net, Timothy Mouth
Sayon Soeun, Criminal Justice Coordinator
Amy Fortner, Employment & Education Coordinator
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT
Sak Seang , Khmer & Peer Leadership Instructor
George Clark, Program Director
Paul Yin, Assistant Director
Rany Him , Traditional Dance Instructor
Bora Yi , Case Manager/Outreach Worker
Phan Bin , Traditional Music Instructor
Siphann Touch , Art/Mural Instructor
MONOROM FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM
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Brian B. Chen, Program Director
Maridy You , Case Worker
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CAMBODIAN NEW YEAR
ACTIVITIES
Befor e the d ay of the New Year Celebration
A great d eal of prepar ati on takes place :
- Homes are cleaned.
- Homes are decorated.
- Lamps and lanterns are prepared fo r the night decorati on.
- Because shops and stores are closed, food and necessary
ite ms must be purchased and prepared in adva nce.
- Fabric is purchased and new clothes are sewn fo r every
member of the household (fami ly and servants).
- Presents (clothes) are bought or made for parents .
- Food is stocked fo r animals.
- In the afternoon, at the pagoda in the templ e, the
Buddhi sts traditi onally wash the Buddha statues.
Buddhi sts bel ieve that thi s cl eansing of the Buddh a
statues will bring rain fo r the coming crops.
- Water Ceremc ny (pouring or throwing water at each
other) to bestow good wishes and bl ess ing s on each
other ( fri ends, neighbors, fa mily).
- Ugly coloring (playfully coveri ng each other 's faces
with charcoal and or mud). Thi s is the most fun and
most unforgettable part as the close of the New Year
celebration.
* Stupa: Conical or bell- shaped structure containing the reli cs of
deceased persons
New Year 's Eve
- Homes are cleaned and well decorated with (serpentine)
paper streamers, flowers, a new door and wi ndow curtains .
- Newly decorated, multico lored lanterns are hung.
- A tabl e is set in front of the ho use fi ll ed with candl es
incense sticks, flowers, frui ts, and bay sey, whi ch is a '
secti on of the banana tree trunk with legs to which 3, 5, or 7
layers of banana leaves are roll ed up in finger shapes and are
attac hed, as a fa rewell to the fo rmer Devada (A ngel , celesti al
be ing) and we lcome to th e new Devada.
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Bring food and o fferings .
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Adu lts li sten to the monks pray and preach.
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Ra m Yo ng - Dance in a circle
Chhou ng - Tossing the scarf game (see page 10)
Angkunh - (See page 12)
Tea nh Proat - Tug-of-war game
- Gifts are taken to parents .
- At ni ght the candles, lam ps and lanterns are lit.
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as fast as they pile up stones for the bridge, the stones mysteriously disappear. The white monkey dives into the sea to investigate. What he discovers is that a school of fish, led by a golden
mermaid named Sovann Macha, has been carrying off the stones
in an act of playful vandalism. Hanuman confronts the beautiful
troublesome mermaid Sovann Macha - at the same time he can't
help but be dazzled by her beauty and falls in love. While she
initially resists, Hanuman eventually wins her over as his ally in
the fight against evil.
Founded in 1986, the Angkor Dance Troupe is nationally recognized as one of the most experienced and accomplished Cambodian dance ensembles performing today. The Troupe has performed at prestigious venues including the White House, First
Night Boston, and Yale University. In 1999, the Angkor Dance
Troupe received the "Coming Up Taller" award from the
President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. The awards
were given to a select group of IO organizations from across the
nation to honor exemplary youth arts programs.
In the Putterf(y 't)c,.nce, a group of young Khmer hunters capture
butterflies. But when the helpless creatures beg for mercy, the
boys let them go. The Butterfly Dance symbolizes the curiosity
and compassion of Cambodian people, their willingness to always
help and support one another, and above all, their desire to live in
peace and harmony.
Cambodian Classical Dance dates to 700 AD. Classical dancers
performed in temples in ceremonies to appease the Gods and,
more recently, in the royal palace for the King and his guests in
the royal court. Elegant and refined, Cambodian classical dance is
sometimes called "court dance" or Cambodia's "royal ballet."
Once reserved exclusively for Cambodia ' s elite, classical dance is
now performed for audiences around the world and has become a
central symbol of the beauty and spirituality of Cambodian
culture.
'J?ickit,fl l<rovc,.nh is a traditional dance of the Por tribe, which
lived in the Pursat Province of Cambodia. The dance demonstrates
the tradition of farmers who each year would embark on a long
journey - 3 to 6 months long - to pick Krovanh, a spice found in the
distant mountains. Before the journey, the Por villagers gathered
for a big ceremony to pray and offer foods to the spirits - in the
hopes of good weather for their harvest journey and protection
from evil spirits.
Folk dances emanate from rural Cambodia -- from the countryside. They depict aspects of everyday village life and honor
traditions and skills typically undervalued in the rush to civilization - skills such as fishing and harvesting rice. Cambodian folk
dances are lively and spontaneous, created for emotional expression. Costumes are very colorful and reflect the traditional dress
of the particular province or ethnic group within Cambodia where
the dances originate.
Tivic,. 'J?ro~ey was originally performed in Cambodia in honor of
National Children ' s Day. It is designed to give young dancers
experience in movement and the rhythm of the classical
orchestra.The song and dance describe solidarity, nationalism, and
also, the children's joyous day.
The Dances for this Evening's Program
'J?ea.cock of 'J?ur:ic,.t originated in the Pursat province of Cambodia, where lush tropical forests are home to a large variety of
animals and birds, including numerous peacocks and peahens.
The birds' fabulous green and black tail feathers bear the stamp of
nobility. During the dance, performers wearing headgear of
peacock feathers represent apirs of pewfow as they play in the
forest and float on the mountain breezes.
The Pl~:iit,fl l)co,ce was originally performed in the royal palace
in Cambodia to rid the palace of bad spirits and to bless the royal
kingdom. Today the blessing dance is performed at the beginning
of performances and ceremonies of all types. It is a dance of
greetings and good wishes. During the performance, the dancers
come forward and sprinkle flower petals toward the audience. This
is done in the hope of bringing prosperity, peace, and good health
to everyone in the audience.
There's a saying in Cambodia "Where there is water, there are
fish." During the rainy season, the great lake Tonie Sap swells
and spills over, flooding nearby ponds and streams and carrying
along many varieties of fish. When the waters recede the fish
remain, providing the Khmer with a year-round food supply. The
Fi:ihit,fl l)c,.nce demonstrates traditional methods of catching
fish, using braided bamboo baskets and traps.
Te~ Monorum, often considered the most beautiful in the
Cambodian classical dance repertoire, embodies the wellbeing,
friendship, and prosperity of Cambodian people.
Swvc,. 'J?ol - The Monkey l)c,.nce is from the legendary Cambodian Reamker, from which many classical dances derive. In
Cambodian legend, monkeys always fight evil. These monkeys are
army soldiers gathering food for a feast to celebrate a victory. The
lively and acrobatic monkey dance is performed by boys and young
men, who capture the spirit and quick mannerisms of monkeys.
Following the original dance, the Troupe will feature some new
choreography with elements of modern dance.
Love and romance are favorite themes in Khmer stories and dance.
In traditional Cambodian society, young people are carefully
watched and don't have many opportunities to get to know one
another. But the fishing quarter is one place they had the chance
to meet. The Angkor Dance Troupe's rendition of the Fishing
Dance shows how young people balance courtship and custom by
the river's edge.
Hanuman & Sovann Macha or The White Monkey and the Golden
Mem1aid also depicts a scene from the Reamker. Before this
episode begins, the queen was captured, abducted to the kingdom
of Lanka far out at sea. The King calls on a famous army general
named Hanuman to help him rescue the queen. Hanuman and his
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sponsored by the Office of Refugee Resettlement in
Washington D.C. is designed to assist the refugee in
assimilating into the work environment but also to
generate needed benefits to the community. The CSE
program has assisted in the placement of 84 individuals
since January of 1999 and is continuing to help those in
need of work under the "work first" initiative for qualified refugees. For more information contact Bora Yi,
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the following individuals, agencies, businesses, and
others for their support to help make this festival
become a reality:
1. Congressman Marty Meehan,
Member of US Congress
2. H.E. Reichelderfer, US Consul,
Ph nom Penh, Cambodia
3. H.E. Uoch Borith, Cambodian Ambassador to UN
4. H.E. Eng Roland, Cambodian Ambassador to US
5. MassBank
6. Amara Fashion Boutique
7 . Pailin Supermarket
8. New England Employment Network, Inc.
9. Third-Rail Wireless Services
10. Blaine Beauty Academy
11 . Mr. Kimsok Koam, Stage Designer/ Artist
12. Ministry of Culture, Cambodia
13. Tsongas Are na Manage ment
14. Peter Aucella, Lowell Historic National Park
15. The Mayor Office, Lowell
16. The City Manager Office, Lowell
17. Lowell Police Department
18. Khmer TV Program
19. Khmer Community Network
20. Lowell Communications Corp.
21. Rady Mom Studio/Photography
22. Ms. Kanarath An
23. Angkor Dance Troupe
24. Friendship Dance Troupe
25. KimKhaleyan Bridal Services & Gowns
26. Ms. Somaly Hay
27. ROTC Volunteers
28. Massachusetts Cultural Council
29. All the models
30. Youth performers
31. And many other businesses, organizations, and
individuals for their support and participation
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Mr. Bouy Te, Mr. Rith y Uong. & Dr. Kh atharya Um
"What is th e Future of Cambod ians in America" Forum 1/21 /00
O n Fr id ay, Janu ary 2 1, 2000, Light or Cambodian C hildren, the
Camhod ian Mutual Ass ista nce Association of Greater Lowe ll, Inc. (Ci\!AA),
and the Umass Lowell Gra du ate Sc ho o l of Education came toget her to cosponsor a forum on the future of Cambod ian s in the United States. The forum
was held at the CMAA bu ild ing located at 165 Jackson Street, Lowell, MA.
There were about o ne hundred people in attendance includin g
prominent people such as Councilor Rithy Uong, the l'irst Cam bodian Ameri can City Councilor; Mr. Bouy Te, Deputy Director at the Office or Bilingual
Ed ucatio n and Min o rity Language Affairs of the U.S. Department of Education;
an d Dr. Khatharya Lim , Assistant Professor in the Asian /\mer·i can Studies Program at the University of California, Bcrkely.
While the majority of the audience were studen ts (high school and
college), also present were parents, profess ionals, and city school committee
members. All shared the common interest which is "Education, Th e Future of
Cambodians in America".
11any i:,,;sucs and topic:-- vvcrl' hrought up :-- uch as
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education , culture clash, lines of communication, parental guidance, and lack
of role models.
Panelists had a chance to talk about their past and how education and
perseverance brought them here. Their hardship ranged from dodging bullets
to dying in the streets of Cambod ia. How hopes and dreams kept them alive,
and as survivors, th ey wanted to co ntribute hy advocating and educat ing the
main stream co mmuni ty about Cambodian people. Studen t s who .s erved as
panelists had a chance to voice opinions regarding their lives as
American
youths and how hardship seemed to parallel the "grown ups". Though living in
America seemed a luxury, hard ship ofren places them in man y pr-cdicamcnts
that "grown ups" mi ght not have realized .
One major contribution was the setting up of the Cam bodi an Ameri can Scholarship Fund, which was to aid those stu dents who arc comm itt ed and
m oti vated to continue onto hig her education. The sc holarship was set up by
Light of Cambodian C hildren w hose mi ssion is to build a future l>a scd on nonviolence, caring, skill s, unde rstand ing, an d hum anitarian action:,,; ha:-,:ed on the
common concern for the well -being of Khmer children.
In follow up to the forum, aud iences an d panelists, both agreed that
th ere should be more rol e models fo r the you ng ge neratio n to look up to.
There sho uld he more communicatio ns among you ng and o ld. The gap should
cl ose if the future of our community is to thrive es pe cia ll y in the area of
edu cation and co mmuni cation.
NOTE: T he Cambodian Am e rica n Scho larship app li cat ion material s (applicati on fo rm , essay, two letter of recomm e nd ation , and o ffi cial tran sc ript) must
he postmark ed hy July 3 1, 2000. To obtain th e application plea se drop hy the
CMAA omce or e- m ail Li ght of Cambodian Childr en at lcc(ll lccwch.org. If you
have any question s regarding the scholarship such as criteria for applying and any
l'tn~ Meul
general qu estions regarding t he works of LCC , please contact Debbi e ( Pov) Ye
at (978) 454-42 86. To Donate to the Cambodian Am erica n Scholarshi p Fund ,
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pl ease make checks payabl e to Li ght of C ambodian Children and send to: PO.
Bo x 369; Lynn, MA 01905.
Lynn, Ma 0100.S
fol (78 1) 596-:3232
Written by Deborah P Ye,
LCC Camhodian Am er ican Scholar ship Fund C hair
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The Sun will shine...
Why does it seem like the war will never end?
Why can't my people make amends?
We le~ our country to stay alive,
But even here we can't survive
Brothers die and sisters cry
Moms and dads wonder why
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January 2000
CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
Dear friends!
Yet, the CMAA is also in the process of organizing other special
events within the next several months. One of which will be to
bring the "Children of War Theatre and Film Project" to Lowell
auditorium on March 4, 2000. The actors and actresses of the
play include Ms. Yolanda King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., Mr. Arn Chorn-Pond, a Reebok Human Rights Recipient and co-founder of the Children of War, and several other Hollywood celebrities. The play is based on true stories of young
survivors from war-torn countries around the world, including
Cambodia. The purpose of bringing this play to Lowell is to
fundraise for the CMAA's Youth and Family Center, with which
the CMAA can serve a lot more youth who are out there without
proper guidance and support from either their families and community.
Greetings from Lowell, Massachusetts. For the past several
months, the Lowell's Cambodian-American community has
been making many headlines in the Mill City politics when the
first Cambodian American, Rithy Uong, was elected to the City
Council, sending a strong message that the Southeast Asian
Americans are here to stay and that their voice will be heard. It
was incredible for the Cambodian American, the Southeast
Asian American, and mainstream communities as a whole to
finally have someone new in the Chamber of City Council to
represent one of its largest minority groups in this Mill City.
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater
Lowell, Inc., or known in short as CMAA, has been very instrumental in assisting the Cambodians and Southeast Asians to
become US citizens, to register to vote and to actually vote during the last general election of the City of Lowell Council on
the 4th of November. It is also known for its strong advocating
efforts for appropriate services, programs, and resources to
serve the Cambodian, Southeast Asian, and other minority
groups in Lowell, Massachusetts in making their transition
into the American society as well as in fulfilling their socioeconomic and American dreams. In addition, the CMAA is also
trying to promote their native cultural heritage and share it
with others so that all people can appreciate the beauty and
uniqueness of the largest minority group in Lowell. This is
true through the celebration of the Southeast Asian Water
Festival in late August, New Year Celebration in mid-April,
and other cultural activities throughout the year, just to name
afew.
Another wonderful activity being planned is a Khmer New Year
Festival, which is scheduled for Saturday, April 8, 2000. The
steering/planning committee made up of CMAA's staff members,
board, and community members are working hard to make this
festival becoming a reality. The most attractive thing about this
New Year celebration is that it will be conducted inside the newly
established Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts. Whether it
rains, snows or shines, the event will go on. We anticipate between
7,000 to 10,000 people to attend this one-day event.
The CMAA, more than ever, is committed to the design and implementation of programs to better serve and improve the quality of
life for the Cambodian-American community of Greater Lowell
and others. The CMAA has just gone through its five-year, longrange strategic planning process. CMAA had completed its feasibility studies for its building development as well. With these
plans in place, the Board, staff members and volunteers strongly
believe that they will help prepare the organization and guide us
well into the next millennium. And our community members will
greatly benefit from our work, services, and programs.
On October 29-30, 1999, the CMAA celebrated its 15° Anniversary where public recognition were given to many local heroes, community members, funders, volunteers, and elected
officials who had been instrumental and supportive to the
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Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, we would like
to wish you and your loved ones good health, wealth, and happiness
for many years to come!
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event-the New Millennium Dinner Gala highlighting Rithy
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the United States, His Excellency Eng Roland; Lowell's Mayor
Eileen Donoghue; president of Theodore Edson Parker Foundation, Mr. Newell Flather; many funding agencies representatives; past and current CMAA board of directors; and community members.
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
Bunrith Lach, Acting President
Chuck Sart, 1st Vice President
Michael Vann,
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William Tith, 1st Treasurer
Sokhary Chau, 2nd Treasurer
Thomas Stylianos, Jr., Secretary
Chantha Bin, Social Worker
Mark E. Goldman, Public Policy Researcher
ADMINISTRATION
Alex Keenan-Gallagher, Student Affairs
Samkhann C.Khoeun, Executive Director
Sara Khun, Legislative Assistant
Sothea Chiemruom , Deputy Director
Samuth S. Koam, Health Educator
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Ken Niceweiz, Farmer/Associate Professor
Joseph Sexton , Development Director
Michael Ortiz, Asst. District Attorney - Middlesex County
Sophy Theam , Executive Secretary
Bophany Pheng-Beiferman, Juvenile Probation Officer
Ronnie Mouth, Administrative Assistant
Hoeun K. Tang, Receptionist
CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
YOUTH SERVICES PP.OGRAM
Samuel Sok, Program Coordinator
Lorraine Cordeiro, Program Director
Instructors: Ang Pheng, Chhorvy Chhay,
Hong Net, Timothy Mouth
Arn Chorn-Pond, Coordinator of Arts & Culture
Sayon Soeun, Criminal Justice & Peer Leadership Coard.
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT
Amy Fortner, Employment & Education Specialist
George Clark, Program Director
Sak Seang, Khmer & Peer Leadership Instructor
Paul Yin, Assistant Program Director/Job Developer
Rany Him, Traditional Dance Instructor
Bora Yi, Case Manager/Outreach Worker
Phan Bin, Traditional Music Instructor
MONOROM FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM
Kamsort Mao, Youth Advisor
Brian B. Chen, Program Director
Tony Roun, Youth Advisor
Maridy You, Case Worker
EMPLOYMENT SERVICES PROGRAM
Samnang Mam, Case Worker
Margaret Lavyn Tham, Program Director
Vincent Bona Un, Job Developer/Case Manager
YOUNG PARENT PROGRAM
Debra Pov Ye , Job Developer/Case Manager
Alison Gervais, Program Director/Teacher
Lillian Pelletier, Program Assistant
KOMAR DAY CARE CENTER
Terry Troutt, GED Instructor
Montha Oum, Director/Teacher
Sak Seang, Bus Driver
Sajada Syed, Teacher
ENGLISH FOR EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM
Neda Nou, Assistant Teacher
Danny D. Div, Program Coordinator/Teacher
Kimeng Monh, Daycare Counselor
AQUACULTURE PROJECT
BUILDING DEVELOPMENT MANAGER:
Danny D. Div
Daniel Bumagin
ELDER SERVICES PROGRAM
VOLUNTEERS
Thy Erika Chey, Program Coordinator
Holy Khut
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Les Chisolm
Andy L. Kim
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The Royal Embassy of Cambodia presents its
Compliments to the
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
On January 7th and 8th of this new millennium,
the CMAA and the Lowell community were fortunate
to have two special visitors amongst us. The first being His Excellency Ouch Borith, an Ambassador from
the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia
to the United Nations and the second being His Excellency Eng Roland, also an Ambassador, from the
Royal Embassy of Cambodia located in Washington,
D.C., it was definitely an honor for the CMAA to be
host to these two special guests.
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Presented to the CMAA at the "New Millennium Dinner Gala"
by His Excellency Eng Roland
The first day consisted of consecutive meetings with members of the community whose interest in investing in the Cambodian economy brought them to do presentations to the two Ambassadors, but not before the two Ambassadors had a chance to
meet with Congressman Martin Meehan of the 5th District, MA.
The following were a list of presentations before the two Ambassadors. They took place in the co nference room of the CMAA and
was open to the public :
-Mr. Raul Raudeles & Associates
The MesoAmerican Development Institute,
Solar/Biomass Coffee Drying System
-Ms . Susanne Beaton, Director
Lowell Enterprise Community
-Mr. Thomas F. Galligani, Economic Dev't. Officer
Lowell Division of Planning and Development
-Steve Fitzgibbon and Michael Bouchard
Third Rail Wireless Communications
- John Cardozo
Spike Technologies
The Head Table at the Dinner Gala
L-R : H.E . Ouch Borith, H.E. Eng Roland; Dancers Dyana Hak, Sary
Roeuth , Sokny Kim; Mayor Donoghue, and John Donoghue
"A New Millennium Dinner Gala"
On Saturday, January 8, 2000, the CMAA hosted a dinner
gala at the Lowell American Textile History Museum to celebrate
our entrance into the new millennium , Rithy Uong's position as the
first Cambodian American to sit on a City Cou ncil in the United
States, as wel l as to benefit the newly created "Community Emergency Assistance Fund" . This new fund wil l be financially supported by members of the community and go to aid Cambodian
families in cases of unexpected tragedy such as fire , sickness, death,
and homelessness.
The evening began with the VFW Honor Guard performing the opening ceremony, presenting the colors. After performances by the CMAA Friendship Dance Troupe and youth group,
staff, and remarks by Mayor Eileen Donoghue and the two Ambassadors, all the guests danced into the night with the Golden Horse
Band.
Overall, the night was a success, with almost three hundred people in attendance . Special thanks to the following local
businesses for their initial contributions to make thi s event possible: Pail in Supermarket, Battambang Supermarket, Phnom Penh
Supermarket, Safeway Insurance, and Asia World Enterprise.
We would like to wish everyone
the best of luck in the new millennium.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Walker-Rogers Post, Lowell, MA
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Coffee and juice was also served. A large number of clients from
the elderly program attended and brought food for the staff and
monks. The monks gave a blessing. The event was enjoyed by all
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by talented CMAA youths. More than a handful of significant
individuals attended the celebration, including our new city councilor, Mr. Chanrithy Uong, who has been involved with CMAA
during it's early stages of development and was one of the presidents of the Board of Directors. Mr. Uong started the party with a
warm welcome to the people attending and quickly commented on
the outstanding achievements accomplished by CMAA durin g the
years. The night was accented with positive remarks by Congressman Martin T. Meehan and Advisor and Community Leader, Mr.
Tern Chea. Awards were presented to the prominent members on
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Over the past fifteen years, the CMAA has worked
hard to establish a Youth Services Program (YSP).
Initially, the CMAA offered Khmer classes to youth
and gradually increased services over time. The
Monorom Program for children with disabilities initiated the traditional dance classes for youth. During
the early nineties the YSP grew significantly with a
service population of at-risk youth. The youth were
involved in basketball tournaments and other sports
programming. In 1994, due to the lack offunding the
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Ca mbodian youth performs Khmer tradition a l mu sic for guests.
Saturday, October 30, 1999
In 1996, the CMAA received funding for the youth
program and one part-time coordinator was hired. The
Youth Services Program focused on at-risk youth and
activities centered on leadership development, cultural
and arts classes, and media programming. The YSP
coordinator brought significant resources to the
CMAA such as computer donations and additional
funding. By 1998, the YSP had hired a new director
and case manager with funding provided by the Massac husetts Office of Refugees and Immigrants
(MORI). In December of 1998, the YSP was serving
approximately 30 youth.
The CMAA recognizes our youth as a vital resource
for our future. Cambodian youth have experienced
many stresses beyond the normal challenges of adolescence. Our youth need emotional support, educational support, health education, safe and wholesome
recreation which provides challenges, the opportunity
for artistic self expression, guidance, and clear alternatives to at-risk behavior.
The Year 2000 goal of the YSP is to develop a comprehensive program using the arts, cultural understanding, counseling, employment, sports, multi-purpose
instruction, and criminal justice support to meet the
needs of at-risk and other youth. These additions will
strengthen the current services, increase staffing, provide opportunities for staff development, and develop
new initiatives. The YSP staff will invite board members, parents, youth, and youth providers to work together to develop an effective youth program.
Today, the YSP showcases youth performances, art,
peer leadership educational series, community service,
gang prevention, internship opportunities, job readiness training, a well-renowned Future Stars Sports
Leadership Summer Camp, among many other initiatives. The YSP currently receives funding from the
Red Auerbach Youth Foundation, the Massachusetts
Office of Refugees and Immigrants, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, BankBoston, the Enterprise
Community, Shaw Foundation, and other sources. The
YSP has expanded to include five full-time and several part-time staff. Furthermore, the YSP served
more than 250 youth between the ages of 6 through
20 since December 1998. Youth and their families have
received assistance on re-entering the school system,
employment, homework, housing, mental health services, college applications, and other services.
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All dressed up for Trick or Treats
October 28, 1999
The Young Parents Program has been running at the CMAA for
over eight 'years. During that time we have seen many young parents pass
through our doors . The Young Parents Program is an altemati ve education
program, which leads in most cases to a GED. The goal is to move young
parents from receiving Transitional Assistance for Dependent Children
(TAFDC) to work. The program is open to individuals aged fourteen to
twenty-one who are either pregnant or a parent and did not graduate from
high school. The class is very diverse and the language of instruction is English since this is the language everyone has in common. Classes are held
Monday to Friday from 9:00AM to 1:30PM. Guest speakers are invited to
give presentations on a regular basis and we have taken a number of field
trips this year. These included a trip to the circus in Boston, a picnic at Shedd
Park, a visit to Lowell Historic Parks and a fun day at Canobie Lake.
The students work very hard in class, they realize
the importance of getting their GED. Being a parent and a
student is very demanding. We understand the problems
and difficulties associated with this and work closely with
each student to overcome any obstacles. So far this year,
seven students have passed their GED, five students have
gotten jobs, two students have entered training programs
and two students are now attending community college.
WALSH&CO.
ACCOUNTANTS AND CONSULTANTS
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higher may retest at any timeno waiting period.
2. Total standard score of 210 to 218,
two months waiting period before
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four months waiting period
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
MEN 18 - 25 YEARS
Must Register with the Selective Service System
What Happens If I Don't Register?
Young men convicted of failure to register may be fined
up to $250,000, imprisoned for up to five years, or both.
In addition to being subject to prosecution , failure to
register may cause you to permanent] y forfeit eli gi bili ty for
certain benefits. NOT REGISTERING IS A FELONY.
What is Selective Service Registration?
Registration is the process by which the U.S. government collects names and addresses of men age 18
through 25 to use in case a national emergency requires rapid expansion of the armed forces .
What Are The Benefits?
Regi stering with Selective Service can open doors for
you. For example, Selective Service registration is often
required for Federal Job Training. A man must be
registered before he can get Federal (and some state)
loans, grants, and scholarships. Also, Selective Service
Regi stration is required for eligibility for U.S. Citizenship
and other government jobs.
Will I Be Drafted? ·
Registration with Selective Service does not mean you
are joining the military-And registering with Selective
Service does not mean you are signing up for the all
voluntary Armed Services. The fact that a man is
required to register does not mean that he will be
drafted. No one has been drafted since 1973. No
one can be drafted into the military unless ordered by
Congress and the President. A draft would most likely
occur only in the event of war or national emergency.
Registration forms can be picked up at the Cambodian MAA
office or at the Post Office in Lowell. For more information,
please call 978-454-4286 Extension 41.
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Free Physical Examinations
Are you in need
Provided by the City of Lowell
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WHEN:
Thursday Mornings
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35 John Street, 1st Floor
Lowell, MA 01852
visit by the Mobile Mammogram Unit on:
Wednesday, February 2, 2000
WHO:
ALL AGES
(including well-baby visits)
Am I eligible?
All women over the age of 40 who are in
need of a Mammogram are eligible.
How much is it?
If you have an insurance card, please bring
HOW DO I SIGN UP?
You must call the Health Department to set up
an appointment. All City of Lowell residents
are legible. Please note this is only a general
physical examination, follow-up appointments
are not available. However, if necessary,
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A Thief's Story
Once upon a time, there was a poor family. They
had one son. The son often went out to steal
thin9s. Every time he brou9ht somethin9 home,
his mother was happy. She didn't ask him how
or where he 9ot it. She just said, "That's very
9ood."
Many years passed. The little boy 9rew
up and became a full-time thief. One day the
police cau9ht him and took him to jail. The court
said that he must die for his crimes. But before
dyin9, he could have one wish.
The son asked for his mother. He said that he wanted to see her ton9ue.
The mother came and stuck out her ton9ue. Then the son cut his mother's ton9ue
until it was bleedin9. Everyone was surprised. They wanted to know why he hurt his
mother.
The son answered, "My mother did not tell me it was wron9 to steal. And so
I am here now."
The court jud9e decided that the son should not die. The jud9e let the son
90 free. The son became an honest man and lived to an old a9e.
30
Parents: Your children do listen to you. It is what you say to
them that matters, even if it
doesn't show at the time you are
saying it. Your words have more
impact on them than what you
think. So please be careful with
what you say to them, even it you
had meant no harm but on the
contrary would like the best for
your children. In the long run,
you will see what type of affect
you have on them.
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1st Annual Water Festival in Lowell
Traditional Boat Builder Recipe
Rite and Rhythm of Water Festival
Above, the Tradtional Water Festival in Cambodia when French naturalist Henri Mouhot visited in I 860
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A Boat Builder's Recipe ........................................... 6
4.
DSS Testimony .......................................................... 7
5.
Our Children Need Praise & Recognition ............... 9
6.
Phom Penh Silenced Once Again ............................ 10
7.
Rites and Rhythm .................................................... 11
8.
The Courier Building Is Ours ................................. 12
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12. Should Pol Pot Be Put On trail For Crimes ............ 25
13. Losing One of The Community's Best ................... 26
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Khmer Lowell Newsletter is a bi-monthly publication of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
of Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA), the Cambodian American Voter League (CA VL), and the Khmer Cultural Institute (KC!). We welcome your contribution. Send us
your articles, poems, short story, opinion column, political and social commentary or any kind of art work such as
cartoon that you wish to be published. All articles
should be limited to 800-1200 words. Please include
your name, address and phone number.
We reserve the right to edit all materials for space and
contents suitable to Khmer Lowell ' s philosophy. For
articles that we can not printed for any reasons whatsoever, we bear no responsibilities and/or are responsible
to send them back to the writers if writer names and address are not provided.
No part of Khmer Lowell may be reprinted or reprodu ed without our written permission. Subscription rate
for the first year (6-7 issues) is $25.00 (USA); $30.00
(Canada) and $45.00 for all other countries.
All advertising inquiries should be directed to
Samkhann Khoeun, Vuthy Vann, or Thirith Hut. Copyright (c) 1997 by KhmerLowell Magazine.
KhmerLowell Newsletter
c/o CMAA - 125 Perry Street
Lowell, MA 01852
Tel: (508) 454-4286; Fax: (508) 454-1806
�Dear Fellow Cambodians and Friends:
During these summer months, the Cambodian community members will witness
a few important events that are so significant to our growing community here in Lowell.
First, CMAA has just received a big donation of an 80,000 square feet building on 165
Jackson Street, Lowell. This red brick building is a historical landmark and a former
headquarters of Courier Corporation that was owned by the Conway family for three
generations. It is right in downtown Lowell and centrally located within the Cambodian
neighborhoods (please read related article on page 12).
Secondly, CMAA is organizing the first annual Water Festival this August 23 ,
1997. It is a wonderful and historical in scope because this is the first time and the only
kind offestival itself that ever took place outside of Cambodia or Southeast Asia. It is
widely supported by many agencies such as the Center for Family, Work, and Community of University of Massachusetts at Lowell; Lao American Organization; the New
England Folklife Center; the National Historical Park; Lowell Cultural Council; Massachusetts Cultural Council; Lowell Health Department; as well as local Buddhist temples
and Southeast Asian groups. But the most generous supporter of all is the Theodore
Edson Parker Foundation. Parker's fund has enabled us to make this very important
event realizable in the city of Lowell, Massachusetts.
Two beautiful traditional racing boats were made and are being shipped from
Cambodia for this event. On the day of the water festival there will be a lot of exciting
activities for the whole family to enjoy. Of course, admission to the festival is free . But
any donation will be greatly appreciated (please see related articles on pages 8, 24).
Accommodating a sizable Cambodian population of about 25,000, Lowell is home
to the second largest population of Cambodians in the United States. And the donated
80,000 square feet building will provide a singular opportunity for the development of a
Cambodian Cultural and Economic Center that could stand alongside Lowell's other
cultural and historic attractions: the National Historical Park, the New England Quilt
Museum, Brush Gallery, American Textile History Museum, Boots Cotton Mills, the
Morgan Center and Boardinghouse Park, and the new Sport Museum.
On behalf of the Board and staff, I would like to personally invite each and every
community member and friends to participate in both the first annual Water Festival
and also to be part of the development of our Cambodian Cultural and Economic Center here in the city of Lowell.
I'm looking forward to seeing you at the Water Festival this August. Thank you all so
very much for your continued support. The many difficult tasks of serving our growing
Community would not be possible without YOU!
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Volume 3, 1997 published by Ministry ofTourism, Cambodia)
When Chang'hann Hoy broke
in to two pieces, people
thoug ht it was because the
rowers were too strong. They
said the rowers paddled the
long, sleek racing boat so fast
it just split apart-the bow end
sped away from the stern, leaving one half in Siemreap and
the other half far down river
in Kompong Chhnang.
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Hoy was so named after it
brought food from Kompong
Chhnang to monks at Angkor Wat
150 kilometers up the Tonle Sap
river. And the food-chang'
hann-was still hoy-hot! And the
boat was fast because the rowers
were strong and rowed with great
speed, so the story goes.
But Monh Sok knows that the rowers weren't the reason why the legendary long boat split in half. Sok, a
51 year-old boat builder from
SiemReap, knows Hot Food broke
apart because it was built so wellbuilt according to the ancient formula
developed centuries ago to make the
war boats of the ancient Angkor
empire.
Built for speed, and Hot Food was
built so well, so sleek, so fast, it just
raced away from itself.
Surely, the ancient formula makes
fast boats--ones so sleek, graceful
and brightly colored. It is this ancient formula that produces the boats
that every November fill the Tonle
Sap at Phnom Penh and moat at
Angkor
Wat
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for the Water Festival
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Cambodia's
grandest
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of a fallow
deer, the bottom of a basket, the tail
of snake named kray." The formula works like this: The deer's neck
is handsomely round. The bottom of
a basket is roughly flat. The Kray
snake's tail is smaller, "like chicken's
chest," Sok says.
The chief workman recites this formula and tells his workers to carve
their boat accordingly- neck offallow deer curving gracefully up at the
bow, basket fl atness shaping the
hull's bottom, thin snake tail sweeping back from the stem. "If the tail
is too big, the
boat will
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stem
to
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away to see
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the long craft
to make sure
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complied
with properly.
The boat is
made. You
have to entirely answer
the requirements of the ancient formula. But what happens if you use
koki thmar wood to make this boat?
It will sink, of course. According to
the veteran boat maker, it is not
enough just to follow the rule-the
workmen must also select the best
quality wood. They should use the
normal koki tree, not koki teuk,
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D55 Testimony
Linda K. Carlisle, Commissioner of Department of Social Services
(House Ways and Means Committee Heari_ng)
February 25. 1887
SERVICES TO CHILDREN AND
FAMILIES
I
'11 switch gears here and talk
about the work we do to support
the core mission of DSS-protecting children who have been abused or
neglected and providing children with
safe permanent homes.
The families we encounter do not have
storybook lives. The pages of case
records tell horrifying accounts of
abuse, neglect, family violence and numerous tales of parents' inability to successfully raise their own children. DSS
staff rescue children from scary situations everyday in unheralded efforts to
provide them with a better future. Let
me tell you some of the ways we have
strengthened the agency.
Adoption
One of the best success stories in the
country is what DSS has done in the
area of adoption. In 1993 Governor Weld
and Lt. Governor Cellucci launched Assignment Adoption, a comprehensive
plan of action to reduce the backlog of
children in need of adoptive homes and
to restructure the adoption system to
move children onto permanency much
quicker. At that time DSS was completing on average 500 adoptions a year.
Since FY 94 DSS has completed over
1,000 adoptions in each year. House One
asks for $5.59m to fund adoption and
guardianship caseload growth that we
will continue into FY 98.
A few months back I joined Lt. Governor Cellucci at an adoption event in Fall
River where met three young sisters who
were adopted by a Rehoboth couple.
These girls, victims of parental substance abuse, had been in foster care for
several years. They now are together in
a home they can call their own with loving parents, because of our efforts. For
these sisters and each one of the children adopted through DSS, adoption is
a happy ending- or a happy new beginning - in their life story.
Out-of -Home Care
Perhaps one of the biggest areas of
change is in our out-of-home placement
services. Foster homes and group care
are designed as short-term. Children are
placed in DSS homes until they can
safely return home, be adopted or can
live independently. The problem with
foster and residential care is simple the
needs of the children coming into care
have outstripped the technologies available to deal with them. We are caring for
today 's children who have much more
profound behavioral, mental and physical problems, with yesterday's system.
The system that was developed decades
ago has not kept pace with the numbers
or their issues, leaving us with an antiquated means to address some of the
most complex family problems. When a
child has to be removed from his or her
home, our options are primarily foster or
group care with little in between. There
are simply not enough foster families for
the children who cannot safely remain
in their own homes and the system is in
dire need of revamping. Unlike decades
ago, there are not as many two parent
"
families where women are staying home
to raise children EOHHS SECRETARY
Gallant has made helping to expand the
pool of foster parents a top priority. We
have begun aggressive recruitment efforts , targeting corporations, religiou
and civic organizations. The results are
promising. Hopefully the dramatic increases in inquires about becoming a
foster or adoptive parent will ultimately
lead to new homes. We know, however,
that people think on average for two
years about becoming a foster or adoptive parent before making that first phone
call.
Kids Net
We also know that in order to recruit, we
have to make sure our current pool of
foster families are well supported. This
month we announced the award of a
contract to Massachusetts Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to
provide support and membership services to foster and adoptive parents
through a program called Kids Bet. Such
services will include ongoing foster parent training, respite care, a limited
amount of child care, support groups
and other services.
riered Reimbursement
This spring, a new tiered reimbursement
system for foster care will be implemented. This will create four levels of
foster care-a base level, second level for
children with behavioral / emotional
problems, third level for chronic or acute
medical issues and fourth level of contracted therapeutic or specialized foster
care. This new reimbursement system
will rationalize the payment system and
will eventually link the training and certification of foster parents to the level of
children that can-be placed in their home.
This an initiative that is long overdue.
Bridge Homes
In addition to more foster homes, more
options are needed for workers making
the difficult decision of how and where
to place children who must be removed
from their homes. Until now our only
option has been to place young children
with foster parents who may already
have their hands full. Last year we developed a Bridge Home in Boston, this
year we added one in Springfield, and
by the end of this fiscal year, four additional programs will open in the remaining regions of the state. Bridge Homes
are an innovative program model in Massachusetts. They are small, residential
programs for younger children who have
to be placed away form their homes.
They allow us to do better diagnostic
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Southeast
Asian
Saturday, August 23, 1887
11:00AM
Chhay Yam Parade
• Welcoming Ceremony
hosted by the Laotian
and Cambodian communities
1200Noo,
Cultural Events
• Blessing of Boats
• Boat Racing Starts
• Health & Environmental
lnfonnation Booths
• Laotian and Cambodian
Music, Dances, Games,
Stories, Fortune Telling,
Food and Crafts.
4:00 PM
Boat Races End - Award Ceremony
5:00 PM
Closing Ceremony - Water Blessing by Buddhist monks
A FULL DAY OF EXCITING ACTIVITIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY: EXHIBITS, FOOD, DANCE, MUSIC, STORIES TELLING & MORE ...
This Southeast Asian Water Festival will build and
revitalize, in Lowell, a community tradition with a focus
on the Merrimack River and Environmental Justice.
For centuries in Southeast Asia, a Water Festival has had been
organized annually to celebrate the importance of water in all aspects
oflife: food, agriculture, spiritual and economic prosperity. People of
all ages from the cities, towns, and villages would gather at the
riverbanks to sing, dance, watch boat racing and decorated boats
float by. This August, people from all ofLowell 's diverse communities will gather along the Merrimack River to celebrate this vital
tradition of the city's largest immigrant communities.
Directions
By Car. TakethelowellConnectorfromeitherRoute495(Exit35C)orRoute3
(ExUON) to Thorndike St (Ext 5C). Follow Thorndike St and take right tum at second
stop fght on BroactNay St.. Take Broadway all the way and make rjJht tum at SdloolSt
Go over the bridge and take left tum on Pawtud<et BM'.l. Parl<ing is available in Parking
bl along Pawtucket Blvd bet,veen Pawtucket Dr.and Bedford St. at$3 l):lr car.
Commuter Rail: Serroe is available from Boston'sNorth Station to Lowelrs
Ganagher Terminal. Lowell Regional T
ranstAuthorfy shuttles run daily (except
Sundays) between GallagherTerminal and downtown Lcmell.
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Admission is free but donations are always appreciated! Don' t miss
your chance to see this ancient and exciting celebration oflife, the
environment and Southeast Asian culture.
Merrimack River
at the Sampas Pavilion
Lowell Heritage State Park
on Pawtucket Boulevard
Lowell, Massachusetts
For more information please call:
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association at (508) 454-4286
Center for Family, Work, and Community at (508) 934-4677
Trairatanaram Buddhist Temple (508) 251-1198
The Southeast Asian Water Festival is supported in part by the:
Theodore Edson Parker Foundation, Lowell Cultural Council, Gambodian Mutual Assistance Association, UMass Lowell Center for Family, Work, and Community, City of
Lowell Health Department, New England Folk/ife Center-a joint project of Middlesex Community College & Lowell National Historical Park, Trairatanaram Buddhist temple,
Glory Buddhist temple, Wat Lao Mixayaram, Laotian Temple of Massachusetts, Merrimack River Watershed Council, and Northeast Environmental Justice Network.
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Chath pierSath
I ately, there has been a lot of focus on what is negative about Cambodian youth. Few people I encounter
have anything good to say about young
people. They always paint this picture
of children joining gangs. However, I
see just the opposite. At a recent
Khmer Cultural Institute
fundraising event, I
found young people
who are doing well.
As children of foreign-born parents, they
have to deal with language
and cultural problems, racism, self-doubt, poverty and
the desire to fit into the mainstream society. They have to
deal with peer pressure to join
gangs or do drugs and commit
petty crimes. The few who have
followed the wrong path sometimes drag other Cambodian
youth with them. The community at large
seems to have adopted a view of Cambodian youth as troublemakers. Because
of this the police are on constant alert
everywhere, pestering rather than trying to befriend, educate and guide them.
Local authorities often assume the worst,
expecting these children to fail. Sometimes when people expect the worst, that
is what they get.
However, what the youth need, instead, is unconditional love and moral
guidance from their families, and support from the community. They need
positive role models who can demonstrate the difference between right and
wrong. They need respect, and they
need to be valued as people who can
contribute to this society. And the community needs to provide opportunities
in which the youth can find the alternatives from wrong. Otherwise, we leave
the youth isolated and alone to create a
world they have viewed through misguided violent movies and video games
that show only the use of force and violence as a way oflife.
Despite the dangers that exist in this
ever-increasingly violent society,
there are many youth
who
resist
temptations
that exist. And it is important that
we recognize their successes and focus
less on the negatives. We need to admire and praise them when they do follow the right path, for pulling through
without getting their hands and minds
dirtied in drugs or gang violence. We
need to affirm that they are valued as
good productive citizens.
At the Rogers Middle School in
Lowell, where there are many Cambodian students, I had the pleasure of meeting groups of young people who when
asked what they want to become gave a
variety ofanswers: pediatricians, teachers, lawyers, and actors, and engineers.
They are staying in school and are succeeding with A's and B's. They are
thinking about and looking forward to
high school and then going on to college. Sometimes, though, the good students don't always look the way adults
might expect them to or want them to.
Usually, little or few positive things
are said about the Cambodian youth in
Lowell. The way they dress, color their
hair and talk among their peers often put
them in the image of a gang. Some of
these kids have been nothing but normal even though how they choose to
express their trendy, adolescent styles
can and may subject them to other
people' s judgment. Sometimes, adults
throw them all into one bowl of soup.
When a few misbehave, the rest are also
labeled "bad egg," or as the Cambodians would say, "bad seed." In spite ofit
all, these eighth graders at these vario u sschools are doing well. They're
excelling in science, math and
English and even Khmer language. Some can read and
write Khmer better than some
Cambodian adults. With the
right motivation, training and
encouragement, in a few
years when these kids are
in college and in the job
field, they will become
valuable workers of the
future since they are literate in both cultures
and languages.
The
today's
middle school generation is made
up of mostly Cambodian-American born
citizens. They speak fluent, unaccented
American English and they are culturally fluid in their adaptation to the social
reality of this country. They are American in their attitude, their style of dress,
and mannerism even though their parents expect them to keep and follow Cambodian traditions, social values and spiritual beliefs. Few of them have any ties
to or knowledge of Cambodia. Some
parents would tell them about their
Khmer Rouge experience, and that would
become their only context to Cambodia.
The parents tell them about their hardship and struggles with the hope that
their children understand and would not
take this life and the opportunity this
country offers for granted. They want
their children to work hard, stay in school
and be somebody they can never be.
All their years have been lived in the
war and in the violence of mass genocide, and sometimes it is very difficult
for them to convey, even with tears, to
their children the importance of education to their future .
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But it is the ordinary person, the innoome relatives of a CMAA staff
member recently went to visit
cent people who get caught in between
these political power-plays. And no
Cambodia, believing that the
country was experiencing relative calm.
human progress will be made when each
But they got off the plane in Cambodia
time a war breaks out, everything stops.
Back in April, 1975, when the Kroner
one day, and the next day the airport
Rouge took over the city, Phnom Penh
was shut down. Now, this staff member,
and
the
world, waits
for news reports
to
trickle out of
Cambodia.
The reports
are grim and
frightening.
S e t h
Mydans of
the
New
York Times
reported on
July 8, 1997,
Soldlt::rs·loyal to .Hun Sen moye
lin8 in Siem R8ap province,
that "tanks ousted royalist party Funcinpec toward front_ Joined forces With Khmer where the.regional commander of the
has reportedly
Rouge leader Ta Mok.
idled today
was completely trashed. Debris of war
on the city's outskirts pilt d with looted
silenced everything around. Time
motorcycles, sewing machines, tires and
detergent. Patients lay on their beds in
stopped. People were emptied out of
an empty hospital abandoned by frightthe city to face five years of oppression
ened doctors. Several unclaimed bodand slave labor in the countryside. Suries remained in the streets where they
vivors called it hell.
During the current crisis, the Prince,
had been killed ... Reuters confirmed 13
who became First Prime Minister after
deaths, Agence France-Presse 16 and
the elections, ran away to France. His the Associated Press 32, but officials
said the number was certainly much
father, King Sihanouk, seems to run, alhigher." It seems as if another Civil War
ways, to China. They don't stay and
is taking place.
face the problems and try to resolve
them. Instead, they run and make petty
This time the warring is between two
proclamations and blind patriotic calls
rival political parties, the Hun Sen Camthat nobody wants to believe in anybodian People Party and the Prince
more. Most Cambodians are sick of it.
Ranaridh's FUNCIPEC who won the
May 1993 UN Democratic Monitored
They have been lied to so many times
that they don't know what is true anyelections. This has something to do
with the betrayal Hun Sen felt over the
more. When they hear about the conissues of the Kroner Rouge's reentering
flict in Cambodia, they lose faith in any
government or politician. One Cambointo the current politics. The truth to
dian woman, when told about news in
that political quagmire was never truly
Cambodia said, "They all the same. Derevealed to the public. Some Cambodians agree that these Cambodian officials
mocracy or no democracy. Vote or no
are just playing political games. There
vote. Who could you believe in?"
is something going on which is beyond
The relatives of that staff person
the ordinary person's comprehension.
have not called. News of Cambodia's
AP PHOTO
crisis reached their young children in
Cranston, Rhode Island. The children
are very worried about their parents.
Phone lines in Cambodia are cut. Everything has been shut down. Phnom Penh
is silenced once again by flying bullets
and looters who trash everything and
take whatever they need home. There's
so much social and economic disparity
in Cambodia. The top ten percent are
filthy rich and the rest are at the bottom
pit of society. Due to the war and the
long history of massacre and human violence, people have learned not to trust
each other for anything. Most people
are marginalized by the loss of compassion and lawlessness. Cambodia is now
a jungle of human rage and anger.
Within this jungle there is isolation
and pain. Another CMAA staff knows
about this pain because of his own family; a sister may have ovarian cancer. She
lives in an impoverished countryside as
a widow with four little children who have
never seen the light of peace. They were
born to run from violence and the sound
of bombs and grenades exploding, the
sound of AK-47 spraying the sky, day
and night at odd hours. Every time war
comes, she has to gather her children
and run. Now that she is sick in bed, she
might have to stay put with her children
in the house; some soldiers might come
along and bum down her house. This is
how bad and lawless these soldiers are.
As a result of this lawlessness and a
belief that there is little that can be done
to help Cambodia, the humanitarian organizations are in the process of pulling
out. Also, it is likely that international
aid will dry up. The chaos in Cambodia
brings fear for people's safety: the Thai
government has loaded their people and
brought them back home, and other
countries are looking at ways to get their
people out. The Cambodian in Lowell
are in despair. Some withdraw into their
complacency. Some are angry about the
situation. Most people worry about
their family members they left behind.
Another war means a step back into the
Dark Ages. Cambodia will be isolated
again from the international community.
To survive, Cambodia needs peace. If
peace does not come, there will be no
Cambodia left for the world to visit. ■
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(Excerpt from a Magazine, Cambodia: the Legend Co mes to Life; Volume 3, 1997)
L
ong and sleek, brightly colored, with curving prows
pointing high, the fleet of racing boats looks from
the bottom of the sea to come and play in the water.
Light glints off paddles plunging in unison into the river.
Drums beat time. The arms of dancers undulate gracefully in
the bows. Along the shores of the
Tonle Sap river, crowds cheer while
ministers, ambassadors and other
dignitaries surround the King in his
pavilion. Villagers gather from far
and wide-for many, their only occasion to visit their capital- to encourage their boat to victory. It is
the Water Festival, Cambodia's biggest and most gala celebration: three
days in November when the nation
puts aside work and care, and honors the great naval warriors and accomplishments of the past. The celebration also marks a unique natural phenomenon: the changing of
the flow of the Tonle Sap, the river
and lake system which is the heart
of Cambodia. From Phnom Penh to
Siemreap, this land of water turns
into one grand party- Cambodia's
Mardi Gras.
Hundreds of longboats, propelled
by precision-trained crews, compete
for honor and glory in two-and three
boat heats along a 1,000-meter
course to the King's Pavilion in
Phnom Penh. In Siemreap, smaller
boats race in the more confined waters of Angkor Wat' s moat.
The Festival comprises three celebrations-a tribute to water, the ceremony of Ok Ambok (the
pounding of the Rice), and Sampeah Preah Khai (the full moon
Prayers).
The Pounding of the Rice stems from Buddhist mythol
ogy about a female giant who can predict the weather. Farmers
honor her power each year. The Full Moon Prayers are dedicated to the power of a rabbit that took its own life in a fire to
serve as food for a god who visited Earth as an emaciated old
man. According to Khmer mythology, the rabbit symbolizes
fidelity, justice, and honesty. Many celebrants say they can
see its form traced in the full moon by the god. As night falls
and the full moon rises, showers of fireworks light up the sky,
exploding with booms and pops that mix with cheers of awe
and hoy. Enormous balloons are "fed to the moon" and a
flotilla of"fairy boats" outlined by lights slips gracefully through
the dusk.
At midnight, flatted rice, called
ambok, b ananas and coconut
juice are offered to the moon,
which returns the thanks with a
bright smile from heaven. In a
Buddhist ceremony, a line of
candles is gingerly rotated three
times on a rod: their falling wax
reveals the future.
The Phnom Penh festival is the
largest, with more than one million people crowding the banks
of the capital's riverfront, but the
Siemreap celebration is growing
in popularity. Celebrated in the
early 1960s at Angkor Wat, presided over by King Norodom
Sihanouk, the festival was revived at the temple in 1994, with
fishing boats racing. Two years
later the boats were replaced by
special, smaller versions of classic longboats. The Siemreap festival offers spectators the splendid sight of racers competing as
dusk falls while the setting sun
transforms the towers of Angkor
Wat to radiant spires- as cicadas and birds hum in the forests.
The Water Festival commemorates an era when naval forces
fought for control of a land dominated by water, dating as far
back as the Funan era (3 rd to 6th century). King Jayavarman VII
hailed his armada's victory over a Cham fleet in 1181, a battle
vividly depicteQIOn wall carvings at the Banteay Chmar temple
in Banteay Meanchey provinces and Bayon temple in Siemreap.
During the 16th century, King Ang Chan I moved the capital to
Lovek in southern Cambodia.
Today, these and other victories are reenacted in the
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inally, the decision has been made.
There has been a lot of anticipa
tion and excitement around acquiring the
ownership of
the Cour i e r
Building
on Jack-
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where everyone in the community has a
voice and a sense of ownership in the
process. Mr. Rithy Uong kept stressing
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Street.
On May
28, 1997,
t h e
CMAA
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for the
80,000
square
feet Courier. CMAA board members,
staff and some other community members were there to witness the historical
moment. The exchange of signature between Mr. James Conway III, former
owner, and CMAA Board President, Mr.
Rithy Uong, brought many smiles and
awes.
The building is gigantic from the
outside and the
inside.
As
people were taking a tour of the
inside space,
there was a lot of
ideas around
what they would
do with all the
space. Everybody had something in mind.
An exhibition
room over here.
A dance studio
over there. Plans
and possibilities
seemed limitless.
There are three
floors to move, create, do and make
things happen. All we have to do is
work together and construct a dream
the importance of the community's ownership to this building.
"It belongs to all of us," he said.
"We must work together and make something great out of it."
Human and financial resources
needed to develop the building could
only come from the community's efforts
and the willingness of individuals to be
involved in its various stages of development. This is why working together
is so important. The CMAA hopes that
by the end of August, it can move in to
its new home. Once moved in, the work
to renovate the building further for commercial uses will begin step by step.
The building requires a lot of renovation work from the inside and outside.
Windows need to be fixed. The inside
needs to be cleaned top to bottom. The
building is 107 years old. It has gone
through many historical moments. It has
been used and weathered down through
the years . It will not be cheap to renovate and revitalize it. The CMAA estimates that it will need close to a million
dollars just to fix the space for its own
use. However, it looks very optimistic.
An architect has already been identified
to work on the building. A grant from
the city and funding from some private
sources have already been pooled as the
starting point. Plans to draw more capital toward the project is underway.
Many people support and share our excitement toward this building and how
we envision it as our community and
cultural as well as business center. This
is a dream come true for everyone in the
Cambodian community. This dream will
further be realized and strengthened in
time with every Cambodian, young and
old, working hand in hand toward that
same dream. As a community, the Cambodians have not been very visible in
Lowell. With this building and all the
work people plan to do, the Cambodians
hope to gain greater
socio-economic and political access and become even more visible
to the larger society.
As planned, the
CMAA ' s first goal is to
move in as soon as it is
feasible. The office
space will all be cleaned
up and used. Young
volunteers will be recruited to help. Young
people have asked for a
gym where they can
play sports and be safe.
One of the main priorities of the CMAA is
youth. Young people
need more activities to keep them safe
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ling groups together while at the same
time relieving the burden on the foster
care system. House One allows for the
annulization of Bridge Homes in FY 98.
Commonworks
Another major change in our out of home
care continuum has been the restructuring of the Commonworks Program. Residential care networks for adolescents,
Commonworks provides linked. Flexible
programs designed to keep adolescents
in progressively less restrictive settings
and provide better continuity of care,
more appropriate and timely discharge
from the system, heightened attention
to education work with an adolescent's
family and six months of after care services. For the first time, funding will follow the child and the child's needs rather
than the child following the money.
Education
For the children who are in the care of
DSS are their parents. We must make
the critical decisions that impact their
lives. I take that responsibility very seriously, particularly with regard to education. For kids who have suffered the
problems that our kids have, education
can be the most normalizing part of their
lives. It can also be the route to success
for many of them. Therefore, we have
placed a huge emphasis on ensuring kids
in state care get the education they deserve, and that they are educated in the
least restrictive setting. We now have
education specialists in four of our six
regions, have developed joint protocols
with the Department of Education and
are working to see that every child in
DSS care has the appropriate education
plan.
This past fall we held training throughout the state for school systems on their
roles and responsibilities as mandated
reporters. More than 450 people attended this training. In an innovative
collaboration with DOE and the Kellogg
Foundation, DSS has awarded grants to
six schools with high numbers of foster
children to enable them to work closely
with these children, foster parents and
teachers to help smooth the way for
these children to succeed in school.
CASEWORK INNOVATIONS
Throughout my tenure as Commissioner,
I have stressed the need for bringing
addition~! partners to the table in order
to provide the best possible services to
children and families.
It's cliche to say "it takes a village to
raise a child "but it certainly does take
more than just DSS. Several initiatives
are helping us by drawing upon a rich
assortment of professionals in developing the right approach to client needs.
Here are three:
Collaborative Assessment Program (CAP)
The CAP is designed to improve the
coordination of services between DMH
and DSS, to seriously emotionally disturbed children and adolescents and
their families and is in collaboration and
has prevented families from having to
shop around to find the services they
need for their children. We are in the
process of adding a second team and
hope to have all six regions operational
within a year.
one for every District Attorney in the
state. These teams are established so
that DSS, the DAs and loc<J,l police jointly
interview children who may have been
sexually abused. For a child, these teams
ease the pain of being interviewed several times and for DSS and the law enforcement agencies, it ensures closer coordination throughout the investigation.
In 1993 Governor Weld signed a tough
new law criminalizing child abuse. This
bill, known as the O'Brien Bill for Senator Shanpon O'Brien, carries a maximum
penalty of 15 years for persons who
abuse children or allow children to
abused. It carries with it a strong and
important message that child abuse will
not be tolerated. With Secretary Gallant, I want to re-examine and broaden
the referrals we make to the district attorneys for investigation by local or state
police. I also want to begin a dialogue
about how we can even further
strengthen our coordination of investigations with local and state police officials through the district attorneys offices. We need to send parents who
abuse their children the strongest possible message: this will not be tolerated.
Multi-Disciplinary Assessment Teams
Adding the multi-disciplinary team approach to DSS is one of the last major
recommendations of the Foster Care
Commission to be implemented. Now
that each area office has a specialized
assessment unit, we have also started
multi-disciplinary assessment teams in
nine of our 26 offices. These teams are
comprised of community professionals
who will assess high risk cases, including cases with sexual abuse as an issue
and several neglect allegations, and
make recommendations for the appropriate services for the family. These
teams expand DSS' diagnostic capacity
by bringing professionals such as doctors, mental health professionals, the
state's managed care provider for Medicaid mental health and substance abuse,
domestic violence and substance abuse
specialists, and parent advocates, in at
the front end of case.
Sexual Abuse Intervention Networks
(SAIN)
This year's budget provides funding to
expand from five SAIN teams to twelve:
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND CHILD CARE
I'll take a minute to talk about two other
issues that are extremely important to
the work we do at DSS-domestic violence and child care.
Domestic Violence
As I said at the beginning, domestic violence rears its ugly head in about 60 percent of all of our cases. Massachusetts
is a national leader in this arena. It is no
secret that is a strong c·onnection between woman abuse and child abuse.
Our domestic violence consultants provide training and case consultation to
social workers and managers, and direct
services to DSS involved battered
women. House One contains a request
to convert these consultant positions
to full-time employee positions. I urge
you to support this. These consultants
have helped child protective staff to
understand the connection between
child abuse and domestic violence. We
want to work with these women to keep
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�Nobility In Stone
It's a bewildering array of
statues, artifacts and basreliefs that symbolized the
power and the glory of the
Khmer Empire some 900
years ago. Yet, it has been
unveiled, for
the first time,
to an enraptured world-at
the National
Gallery of the
Grand Palais in
Paris.
The "Angkor and
Ten Centuries of
Khmer Art"
exhibition opened
in Paris on January 31 and will run
for four months
before moving to
Washington DC
and then Japan.
The exhibition is
organized by the
Royal Government of Cambodia, the Reunion
des Musees
Nationaux (the
national body in
charged of all
museumsm
France) and the
National Gallery
of Art, Washington.
"It is an important
sign for Cambodia" said French President Jacques
Chirac. In fact, the exhibition has
created such an impact that at least
three newspapers have published
special issues on the arts of
Angkor, while television and the
daily papers like Le Figaro and Le
Amonde have covered the event
with special reports.
And posters showing the head of
Jayavarman VII-the greatest of
the Khmer rulers known for the
haunting Bayon- are plastered
over the walls of the metro and the
sides of buses.
The statues, displayed in four
rooms, are magnificent ... sheer
magic. And why not, for no
civilization in Southeast Asia
produced such creative splendor
and architectural ingenuity.
The statue of Durga opens the
exhibition. An example of the
Indian influence on Khmer art, its
symmetry and bole refinement has
already mesmerized thousands, the
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their families together, except when they
are incapable of protecting their children. That's where the line is drawn.
The budget also contains a request for
$450,000 to increase the availability of
visitation centers by supporting six centers, one for each region of the state.
These visitation centers are crucial in
keeping a mother sage after she has
separated form the offender and ensuring that children are protected.
Child Care
I am very proud of our work in child care.
DSS operates approximately $100 million
of child care services. All of this money
is in contracted child care services and
most of it is directed towards supporting income eligible child care which re- .
quires close coordination with EOHHS
and DTA as it supports welfare recipients and the working poor. When I
started as commissioner four years ago,
there was no child care support at DSS.
Today there is a highly professional unit
that has undertaken the considerable
work of improving the state's child care
services. We have restructured teen
parent child care, worked with the trial
courts to provide day care in several
courts, begun monitoring providers and
worked diligently on rate adjustment issues. During the coming fiscal year we
will reexamine our protective day carethat day care provided to DSS familiesto ~ee '3/.here additional improvements
c·an,.be made. Protective child care is
one· of the most basis preventive services we offer as it allows us to place the
child in a safe environment during the
day and to work on family issues simultaneously. And, as we continue to implement welfare reform, we will continue to
work in close collaboration with DTA
and EOHHS around the policy and rate
issues associated with child care.
CONCLUSION
As we head into FY98, it is clear from my
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boats. Not surprisingly, these provinces have produced many victorious crews.
helmsman and perhaps a dancer or
musician who keeps the rhythm at
the bow. Because the moat around
Angkor Wat is much smaller than the
Tonie Sap or Mekong river, the boats
that race at Siemreap are smaller,
only 13 to 18 meters long.
entering the forest, cutting down the
tree, and starting the carving. But
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when the boat
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decorated
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five candles
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with incense sticks, and traditional
music is played. And the monks bestow their blessings.
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Building, painting, naming, racing, and
funding the boats-which can cost
over $2,000-all of these things involve a great commitment by communities. The boat usually represents a Wat where it is stored in a
place of honor during the year-revered with incense, flowers and offerings- under an open-air rooftop
which respects the spirit guardian of
the vessel. The Whole villages typically accompany the boat to the
Water Festival to cheer it on with
great pride and honor.
The full-sized racing boat is 20 to 25
meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It
carries 40 rowers or more, plus a
Normally, five to ten people build a
boat. Producing a finished vessel
caulked with a special mixture of
resins and chopped hemp sack, can
take five months or more. Strict rules
and spirits influence the naming process which is done under consultation with elders and monks; and it is
not uncommon for a name to be born
of a dream. "Olden Garuda", "Tiger
Descending the Mountain", "Powerful White Woman", "Powerfu
Black Woman", and "Magic-eyed
Woman": many of the names resonate the female spirit of the vessel.
The building of a boat is accompanied by ceremony at each stage-
most significant feature is put in
place: the eyes. For it is the eyes,
which awake the boat's spirit and
give life to the racers.
Making a racing boat, says Sok, who
has been a boat builder since the age
of 18, takes a lot of thought, patience
and work. But look at the sleek boats
as they race past you on the river or
the moat-look at the high deer neck
at the bow and the snake's tail at the
stern, see the eyes that embody the
spirit, and the light flashing off 40
paddles, listen to the _
beat of the
rhythm, you will know the work was
well done. ■
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June 2, 1997
Dear Fellow Cambodians and Friends:
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC will be hosting an unprecedented
exhibition of Khmer Art from June 29, 1997 to September 28, 1997. This is the first and possibly
the last major exhibition of Cambodian sculpture to be shown in the United States. There will be
over 99 pieces of sculpture of Angkor and ancient Cambodia on display at the exhibit in a setting
that is uniquely designed to bring to life the splendor and richness of Khmer arts artd culture.
I wouldlike to take this once in a life time opportunity to showcase the togetherness and
support of the Cambodian-American community for this important function of great significance
and visibility to us . Your assistance and support in helping to promote the exhibition to the
community is very much needed . I also urge you and your family to make plan to attend the
exhibition. The Cambodian-American community in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan
area will provide a Khmer traditional dance and music presentation at the two main opening
functions pmviding our community with tremendous exposure at the international level. The
exhibition will also featured a publication, Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia:
Millennium of Glory, which is a 419 page catalogue with color and black and white illustrations
of every object of the show as well a comprehensive account of Cambodian history, religion, and
architecture. These types of initiatives will have an everlasting effect on our community and CNC
on-going efforts to further develop, promote, and advance the Cambodian community and people
in the United States and abroad .
I thank you for your continuou s support . If you have any questions about the exhibition
or any of the programs and/or membership with the Cambodian Network Council, please do not
hesitate to contact ~e by telephone at 202-546-9144, fax at 202-546-9147, or Email to
CNCnet@aol.com.
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The children I talked to at Rogers
School were very mature in reflecting on
the hardship and the struggles of their
parents. Although it's still hard for them
to grasp and understand everything that
their parents told them, they listen and
take their parents' lectures as their words
of love. Most children would flourish
with success with the support of a community of caring people. They include
teachers, neighbors, government officials, friends and family members to urge
and support them on and to let them
demonstrate the beauty of their customs
and their connection to their cultural
heritage. A fundraising event is sponsored and organized by these children,
with the help of teacher like Mr. Seng
Prum, to make this New Year's celebration possible.
Another teacher is Mr. Thy Oeur,
who came to the U.S. in 1982 as an orphan under the Lutheran Service as an
unaccompanied minor. He was one
among thousands of Cambodian orphans brought to the New England area,
and who have succeeded in life in spite
diced," one said. "Love not hate," another said sort of like the 60's motto "Make love not war." "Don't do drugs,
and follow Nancy Reagan's "Just say
no" advice. "Don't join gangs, go to
school everyday to make your parents
proud, get along with others and stay
out of trouble." ■
COURIER/from page 12
and out of trouble. This is that opportunity for the CMAA to actually create
something for young people so they can
have a place to come and learn, play and
even work. With this building, there's
certainly enough space just for that.
There will be enough room for ESL and
citizenship classes, Daycare, Dance studio, gymnasium, computers, etc. The
building consists of three floors, each
with its unique space for innovative design and development for various purposes.
Thanks to Mr. James Conway III, his
family and the Courier Corporation for
their generous donation. Let's join
hands and work together toward this
common dream. Feel free to contribute
money, skills and expertise that you may
have to this project. Come by and visit
us at anytime. If anybody has any questions, the CMAA Director, Mr.
Samkhann Khoeun, can be contacted at
508-454-4286. ■
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know that they are valued as a human
being.
The bi-lingual teachers at Rogers
School have been an important link to
these children's learning motivation.
These few Khmer teachers are working
hard to provide models of good behavior, and they are determined to pass on
Cambodian traditions and values to their
students. They don't want them to forget their roots and where their parents
are coming from. One of these Khmer
teachers is Mr. Seng Prum. He teaches
math, science and Khmer literature to
fifth graders. He addresses his students
as his children. Mr. Prum works very
hard every year to organize a New Year's
celebration, at which the children dance,
of the various difficulties he faced in his
process of social, physical and psychological adjustment to this country. He
now teaches math and science, and he
gives a lot of his -time to tutoring students who need it.
A few months ago, Rogers hired a
new guidance counselor, Mr. Hai Cheng,
who was also, one of the Cambodian
orphans came as an unaccompanied minor and placed in a foster family in
Amherst. In his foster family, he's the
first to have a Master's degree.
When asked what they would like to
advise other young people to do, the
students at Rogers Middle School all
had good advice and good intentions
for the next generation. "Don't be preju-
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harnessed the energy of staff, the legislature, the administration and the public
to work with us to confront these problems in a systematic way, making tremendous strides.
When it comes to abused and neglected children, we should always look
to do more. As we work to improve the
agency, let us always think 20 years
ahead about what these children should
be like. What kind of adults do we want
them to be For me, this is a work in
progress. I thank you for your continued support in helping us develop a
strong child welfare system and allowing us to continue to create system that
will serve children and families well into
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vices recently launched a
campaign to recruit, train and
open 1,000 new foster homes. These
new homes will be a critical resource
for at-risk children, including juvenile
firesetters. The effort results from
two separate but related concerns.
First, the Department is trying to reduce the numbers of children in each
foster home to prevent overcrowding. Secondly, the Department has
stricter criteria for foster homes to
maintain the highest level of quality
care for children in crisis situations.
The recruitment campaign is aimed
at informing the public of the critical
need for foster care, and of the important and rewarding role a foster
parent can play in the life ofa vulnerable child. One outreach strategy that
is showing success is having our recruiters attend as many community
meetings as they can, as often as they
can, to make the information exchange
personal and to encourage the interest of people who are already committed to making a difference in their
community.
Another change in the works is the
shift to specialized foster homes.
These are residences that can provide
more structure, stability and individualized attention. These homes are necessary when children are in transition
form a stay at a psychiatric hospital.
These children have more services that
require the attention and monitoring
from foster parents, and typically there
is only one foster child in a specialized home. Specialized Foster parents receive additional training and
support and often have to make adjustments to the physical environment
to meet the special needs of children.
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working in conjunction with Fire Solutions and the Massachusetts Coalition for Juvenile Firesetter , Intervention Programs, developed a pilot program, called Fire Awareness in Foster Homes. This is a train the trainer
model designed to provide foster parents with the skills they need to support the intervention of fire setting in
foster children. The model we developed is built on the MAPP training
system that all foster parents currently
attend.
It includes units on making the
home safer and on working with fire
setter intervention programs to support the treatment the child receives
outside of the home. We stress to all
foster parents that you don't have to
have a fire setter your home to have a
fire setters in your home to have a
fire-safety is a day to day issue for
families and it takes an effort to maintain a secure, hazard-free environment. We also emphasize that a child
doesn't have to have emotional problems to be interested in fire. It is not
exclusive to foster children.
Even with our specialized training
and support, foster parents are often
reluctant to take a child with a fire
setting history into their homes. This
fear is understandable, but we must
find enough safe homes for crisis fire
setters in our system. Many of the
children on our case load who set fires
do so to call for help. We need to
respond to that call. You can help by
encouraging people who work in your 1
networks, who know that this is a treatable behavior, and who have success
with these children, to consider opening their homes a s specialized foster
parents. For more information, contact the DSS of nearest to you. ■
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freestanding sculptures radiate an
uninhabited naturalness: the figures
are slender and graceful and
lovingly chiseled.
From that point, visitors will experience one surprise after another.
Harihara , that brings together
three gods, Shiva and Vishnu, was
created at the dawn of the
Angkorian period.
One of the most stunning of the
exhibits is the lying bronze statue of
Vishnu from the Mebon temple.
The six-meter long statue, discovered in 1936, must have been cast
in serveral sections.
What remains today
is the head and a
portion of the torso.
A striking feature of
the style of this
sculpture is the
sculptor's breaking
with convention by
giving an impression
of movement and
expressiveness. The
reclining God was
lying on a snake.
Zhou Daguan,
Chinese envoy who
visited Angkor in
1296, was captivated
byit.
Then there are the
two heads of
Jayavarman VII, and
one of Buddha. The
head of Jayavarman
VII-a study of
regal composure,
complete with an
enigmatic smile-is
on loan from the
National Museum in
Phnom Penh. A
little about this remarkable king,
building activity reached a feverish
rate during the reign of this king
who also built palaces, roads and
hospitals. As his untiring creativity
diversified, Jayavarman's sense of
his own preeminence grew. Before long, he considered himself to
be a living Buddha-which explains why gigantic stone faces of
him were carved to gaze down on
onlookers from all towers of the
city's gateways.
To make the exhibition a complete
show of Khmer masterpieces there
is the wooden carved Orant in
praying posture. This statue is,
indeed, a rare piece-having
survived centuries of turmoil and
vandalism.
We will never be able to fathom
the sheer immensity of Khmer
architecture between the 9th and
the 13 th century. So, seven hundreds later, we will have to be
satisfied with only a keyhole view
of this extraordinary creativity. For
that's what the exhibition in Paris
offers us. ■
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Pot no longer has control
over his main men. Many of his soldiers have been defecting and joining
the current coalition of Hun Sen's and
Prince Ranaridh 's government. In
fact, two of Pol Pot's key players are
trying to work with the current government. Ta Mok, known as the
"butcher," has de fected. Khiev
Samphan, who Pol Pot has called a
traitor, has been trying to negotiate
peace with the intention of participating in the current government in some
ways. However, he won't succeed
since there has been so much opposition against him. He was badly attacked by an angry mob in 1993 when
he tried to participate in the UN-monitored elections.
Pol Pot is now alone in his crusade. According to a recent article by
the Associated Press written by Robin
McDowell, Saturday, June 14, 1997,
Pol Pot executed his own defense
chief, Son Sen. He had Son Sen and
ten members of his family shot, and
then as if the job wasn't quite finished,
he had trucks run over the corpses.
Son Sen was responsible for running
the Tuol Sleng during the Khmer
Rouge occupation from 1975-1979.
Tuol Sleng was a high school turned
into a torture prison, where "enemies
of the state" were taken to be tortured
and killed. Today, the former prison
stands as a
museum
where visitors
can see photos
of victims and
various types
of weapons
used for torture.
F r o m
1975-1979,
Pol Pot was
responsible for
one of the
most brutal regimes in the
world. He has
been called the
"Hitl er" of
Asia. The inte rna ti o na l
community,
including CamI
bodians residing abroad, want him
tried for crimes against humanity.
Three million or more people were
treated atrociously: maimed, tortured
and killed. Every Cambodian has lost
someone in his or her family to the
Khmer Rouge.
Since all Cambodians have been
affected by the killings, they have
strong feelings about what should happen to Pol Pot. Mr. Dith Pran, whose
life was portrayed in the movie The
Killing Fields, is a strong advocate
for putting Pol Pot on trial to face an
international tribunal court. Some
Cambodians in Lowell have also expressed the need to try Pol Pot and
put him away. In Cambodia, capital
punishment is banned. Pol Pot, when
found guilty, would not be executed;
he would be jailed for life. However,
this would not be his only punishment
since Cambodians believe in the process of reincarnation. Those who
commit
atrocious
acts against
other people
in this life
will have to
pay for it in
the next one.
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Pot will suffer in his
next life.
Despite the
magnitude
of suffering
inflicted on
the Cambodian people
by the Pol
Pot regime,
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bodians do
not like to talk about the past. In fact,
there's no mention of the Khmer
Rouge in the current school curriculum in Cambodia. Unfortunately, this
POL POT/Continue to page 28
�On June 4, 1997, Noreth T. Som, my co-worker and my good friend as well as one of the community's most
needed leaders died. This is for him.
How could you leave so sudden, so fast, so easy? Life was a
struggle. The escape from Cambodia was hard. You survived to die
like this? You have come so far across a jungle to flee war and mass
genocide. In the refugee camp, you dwelled within barbed wired fences
hoping to be resettled in another continent. You got your wish. You
got to live the American dream: own a car, pay the rent and keep up
with all the bills, drive across highways, work with many different
people, go to school, and learn ways to map out a life for yourself and
family. There's so much to learn, to absorb, so many things to see, to
be and to do, so many hopes and dreams to digest. But at the same time
you held so much pain in your heart, so much hidden loss and grief; I
have felt this in every eye contact we made. Yet, you went on smiling,
thinking of only today with or without tomorrow, trying to survive the
best way you could.
I think of you now and all the spirits of those who have gone
before me, and it was an honor to have had the chance to know you.
I am grateful to you, for your delight in me, your simple smile, your
kindness and humility. I want to let you know that I am very angry
that you left us. Your wife, your daughters, especially the little one
who will never get to see you old, feel your gray hair and print your wrinkles onto her
palms, the community and I still want and need you here. I am sorry to have to accept that
you 're gone. It's not your fault. This is part of the natural scheme of things. Life gives,
death takes. I am very familiar with this. I have dealt with grief, loss, remorse and
sadness before. You won 't be the last. Death comes to us all. I won't let death conquer my
living spirit. I'll celebrate you and pass you down in memory so that you may live an
eternity. This is how we can overcome death.
I
was with Noreth, along with my other co-workers,
Rassany and Khan, the day before he died. We went
to the state house in Boston together to attend the
Toxic Used Reduction Institute's Grantee Award Ceremony. We left a little early because I got bored and
took it upon myself to convince the rest of my colleagues
to leave. We were having a great time. On the way
back, we wanted to stop in Chinatown to get Dymsum,
but there was no parking. We decided to wait to get
something to eat in Lowell. As we were driving back,
Rassany was telling us her plan to go camping. Noreth
was thinking out loud about the places he wanted to take
his daughter, Moradeth, and telling us about all the fun
things they did together the week before. Since I've
known him, Noreth was always a good father to his two
daughters. He always talked about them. He never
talked much about himself.
· It was such a bizarre feeling that he could be gone
the next day just like that. He was such a healthy person. It made death look so easy. Life on the other hand
is so difficult. We had made plans for the whole week as
to what we were going to do at work and for fun.
At his funeral at the Glory Buddhist Temple, there
was Noreth, dead in a mahogany casket. His lips all
sealed. His face looked as though it was a piece of
molded clay. I was hoping for signs of movement to his
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lifelessness. -I heard that some people have come back
from their death. I thought that maybe Noreth was just
taking a walk. He was on his way back to his body. Yet,
there was no sign of life. The flowers kept piling tip
around his coffin, choking him. I guess it all meant
goodbye.
My mind kept going back to the day before, how
we had so much fun with each other, joking and laughing. I thought about all the little things he did, the way he
carried himself during our work meetings, how he rephrased what everyone had said so that he could make it
clear for himself. And I thought about the Southeast
Water Festival that he had helped to plan but won't get
to participate in. I thought about the kind of man he was,
always humble, always kind and considerate to everyone. The community has trusted him to bring to them
health messages on TV. People working in various social agencies knew him. He was a good networking
person. He was always eager and willing to learn. He
never put himself above others. I came to respect him
as a friend and an older brother. Whenever I needed a
ride, he would take me. He was so excited about his
new green Ford that he just bought and only used for two
weeks before he died. He was always willing to share
POL POT/from page 25
lack of accuracy in education leads to an ignorance about
historical facts. Children think Pol Pot was a joke and that
he never existed. The danger is that history can repeat
itself if we choose to ignore the atrocities of the past.
In fact, these past atrocities continue into the present.
Pol Pot, who is now 69 years old, remains the murderer
that he was. According to Nhek Bunchhay, the army chief
of the current government, Pol Pot is trying to kill as
many people around him as possible, and then leave by
taking his own life. Just like Hitler.
It is difficult to comprehend how such men could kill
so many people, causing so much suffering in so many
lives. To this day, people are still badly wounded. In Cambodia, there is feuding between Hun Sen and Prince
Ranaridh. This feuding and the violence that surrounds is
an example of the wounds left by Pol Pot. People no longer
know how to work together in a non-violent way, without
having to resort to threats and killings. Many Cambodians
have been affected by the war and the massive amounts of
violence they were subjected to. As a result, some are paralyzed by fear and mistrust for each other. This paralysis
his car and his good fortune.
Without him, I feel a kind of void in my heart.
Through working with him, I have come to know his kindness, his heart, his respect for others and the things he
usually did as part of his personal routine when he worked
with people. I recorded him in my diary, and I still have
memories of how he talked, how he smiled, laughed and
the things he usually said to give advice when I asked for
his help. He always thought of others before himself.
His 'hello' and 'how are you?' were always consistent,
without fail.
I remembered when I first came to Lowell and
started working on the Southeast Asian Environmental
Justice Project with him, he was very kind to show me
around the city and introduce me to other people he knew.
When he talked to people, he was always warm and full
of energy. He was always humble in his dealings with
other people. He was a man with a spiritual essence to
his being. Most importantly, he was a man whose life
was an example to other Cambodians in the community.
He was always interested in learning from others, even
from a person younger than he. He always gave people
praises and boasted their spirits with his offering of friendship. I will never forget you, Big Brother. I will miss you
dearly. ■
leads to an abundance of problems within the community.
Pol Pot's exact whereabouts remain unknown. If he is
captured alive, there will be conflict as to how to deal with
him as well. We hope that his captors take him alive so that
he can go to trial. Though there are many who would like
to see Pol Pot and his former rulers dead, there is justification for the argument that calls for his trial. An international tribunal would bring Pol Pot's heinous deeds into full
view for all the world to see. If on the other hand his
captors choose to kill him, there is the risk that Pol Pot's
crimes against humanity will go untold and become easier
to forget. If Cambodia can erase mention of Pol Pot in the
history books, think how easy it would be for the rest of
the world to look away and forget. Instead, Cambodia and
the world should look closely at the past, scrutinizing the
horror. It is only through bringing Pol Pot to trial that the
full horror will be btought to light. And then Pol Pot must
be held accountable for these crimes by going to jail for
life. Somehow the killing must stop. Somehow the world
must collectively put an end to genocide. Somehow the
world must remember the lives lost so that we can all say
"never again." ■
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007
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This collection includes digitized issues of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.’s bilingual magazines <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em>. <br /><br />The collection is completely accessible on this site.<br /><br />View the collection finding aid for more information, <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml19" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libguides.uml.edu/uml19</a>.<br /><br />Note:<br />Additionally, digitized issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> from the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection have been added to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007 Omeka collection so that issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> may visually appear together when browsing in Omeka.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------<br /><span>SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.</span>
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Khmer Lowell, July-Aug 1997; Issue No. 5
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Boatbuilding
Child welfare
Nonprofit organizations
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Khmer Lowell, July-Aug 1997; Issue No. 5. This newsletter has 32 Pages. The letter from CMAA's Executive Director covers the planning of the first annual Southeast Asian Water Festival and there is a page with the event program. Titles of topics covered in the newsletter include Dear Fellow Cambodians and Friends; A Boat Builder's Recipe; DSS Testimony; Our Children Need Praise & Recognition; Phnom Penh Silenced Once Again; Rites and Rhythm; The Courier Building Is Ours; Nobility In Stone; Expanding The Forest Care Safety Net; Should Pol Pot Be Put On trail For Crimes; Losing One of the Community's Best; and more.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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1997-07
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application/pdf; 32 pp.
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Khmer
English
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khmer Lowell Issue 5
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Lowell, Massachusetts
1990-1999
Cambodian American Voter League of Lowell
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Cambodians
Khmer Cultural Institute
Periodicals
Southeast Asian Water Festival
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Saturday, August 23. 1887
11:00AM
Chhay Yam Parade
* Welcoming Ceremony
hosted by the Cambodia
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12:00 Noon Cultu ra l Events
* Blessing of Boats
* Boat Racing Starts
* Health & Environmental
information Booths
* Cambodian & Laotian
Music, Dances, Games
Stories, Fortune Telling
Food and Crafts.
Boat Races End - Award Ceremony
4:00 PM
Closing Ceremony - Blessing with water by representatives of all temples & other faiths
5:00 PM
A FULL DAY OF EXCITING ACTIVITIES FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY: EXHIBITS, FOOD, CULTURAL DANCES, MUSIC & MORE ...
For centuries, in Southeast Asia, a Water Festival has been
organized annually to celebrate the importance of water in all
·aspects of life. Water was and is important to agricultural
production and the food chain of the Cambodian people. Water
also has many spiritual uses in the Cambodian religion, which is
Buddhism. November is their time to thank the water spirit and
renew their hope and faith in their own economic prosperity.
People of all ages from the cities, towns, and villages would gather
at the riverbanks to sing, dance, watch boat racing and decorated
boats float by. This Southeast Asian Water Festival seeks to build
and revitalize, in Lowell, a community tradition with a focus on
water that includes the environment. The Mekong River that runs
throughout Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam will
serve as a cultural backdrop for the Southeast Asian Water
Festival in Lowell. Asian and non-Asian youth and elders will
gather together along Lowell's Merrimack River to celebrate a vital
tradition of one of this city's largest immigrant communities.
1rec ions
ByCar. Take the Lo'Mlll Connector from either Route 495 (Exit 35C) or Route 3(Exit
30N) to Thorndike St.(Exit 5C). Follow Thorndike St. and take right tum at second
stop light on Broardway St.. Take Broadway all the way and make right tum at
School St. Go over the bridge and take left tum on Pawtucket Blvd. Parking is
available in Parking lot along Pawtucket Blvd between Pawtucket Dr.and Bedford St.
at $3 per car.
Commuter Rail Service is available from Boston'sNorth Station to Lowell's
Gallagher Terminal. Lo'Mlll Regional Transit Authority shuttles run daily (except
Sundays) bel'Mlen Gallagher Terminal and downtown lo'M:lll.
Merrimack River
at the Sampas Pavilion
Lowell Heritage State Park
on Pawtucket Boulevard
Lowell, Massachusetts
Join us August 23, 1997. Admission is free but a donation is
always most appreciated!
For more information please call:
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association at (508) 454-4286
Center for Family, Work, and Community at (508) 934-4677
The Southeast Asian Water Festival is funded and supported by the:
Theodcre Edson ParkerFoundaoon,Lcmell Cultural Council {with fundi1g from the Massachusetts Cultura Counci,astate),Carmodian MJtuaAssistanceAssociatioo,Centerior Family,WO!k, and
Community,LCM'ell Heath Departmen~ New England Folklife Center-a joint project of Mddlesex Community Coaege &Lowel Naoonal Histoocal Park, LaoAmetican O!ganization,T
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�Testimony
Linda K. Carlisle, Commissi~ner
Department of Social Services
(House Ways and Means Committee Hearing)
February 25, 1997
G
ood afternoon Chairman Haley
and members of the committee.
I am pleased to be here today as we
begin the next budget cycle. This
hearing is an opportunity for me to
update you on the significant progress
we continue to make at the Department of Social Services. I also view
this as an important opportunity to ask
you to join with the Governor and the
Department as Massachusetts continues to chart new territory in child
welfare nationally, and help me prepare the agency to meet the demands
and challenges confronting the children and families of the Commonwealth into the next century.
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our years ago I spoke before this
committee for the first time as the
new commissioner at DSS charged
with the enormous task of restructuring the agency, restoring credibility and moving the Department forward. At that time I referred to the
agency as the Humpty Dumpty of
state government; it had fallen off the
wall and shattered into a hundred
pieces. The agency and its staff were
at rock bottom. But I had the best
gift a new commissioner could have:
the recommendations of the Foster
Care Commission ably chaired by Attorney Gael Maghony. That document
has guided much of our work for the
last four years.
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Lresentatives and senators, as well
as members of the administration, met
for several months to develop a consensus around additional changes and
funding for DSS, particularly focused
on foster care and new options for
out-of-home placement. We have
been diligent in our efforts to achieve
those bi-partisan goals, all of which
are consistent with the recommendations of the Foster Care Commission.
I
am pleased and proud to say that,
unlike poor Humpty who couldn't
be put back together, DSS has regained its place as a national leader in
child welfare, forging new ground
with innovative, effective programs
such as our domestic violence programs and Commonworks. We have
been able to do so because there is a
broad consensus in the state around
the direction in which we are moving. We are among a handful of states
in the forefront of the use of technology to improve casework with families. Beneath it all, we have built a
solid infrastructure. Although it
doesn't capture headlines, in solid infrastructure has meant a return to the
basics in case practices: doing a solid
investigation and assessment of family needs, seeing the children regularly
and managing caseloads so that social workers are not overburdened and
can truly support the families with
whom they work.
T
he DSS story is not a fairy tale or
nursery rhyme, but a real life
story, where every chapter details new
advances in dealing with troubled children and families, an overburdened
staff and some of society's greatest
ills. · DSS provides services to more
than 20,000 families with over 43,000
children on any day. We estimate that
about 60 percent of these families have
domestic violence issues, 60 percent
have substance abuse problems and
more than half of all the mothers we
work with had their first child as a
teenager. The combination of these
three societal problems is a powerful
indicator of the families that will one
day come into contact with a DSS
social worker.
A
s a society we must take the long
view. We must help break these
cycles and raise children who do not
abuse and neglect their own children
when they become parents. Most of
the problems we encounter are intergenerational, because most of us raise
our children the way we were raised.
The programs and initiatives we have
undertaken over the past several years
must be mindful of our responsibility
in shaping many of the adults of tomorrow; we must work to break
those debilitating cycles of child abuse
and neglect, domestic violence, substance abuse and teen pregnancy. I
urge you to help continue our work
through passage of the Supplemental
Budget request pending in the legislature and by supporting the funding
levels contained in the Governor's
House One budget.
STAFF SUPPORT
Caseload
SS's work begins with trained,
professional staff. My Job as
Commissioner is to make sure they
have manageAble workloads, the tools
to do the jobs (like phones and computers), and receive the guidance they
need by establishing expectations and
then measuring how . well we do
against those expectations. It is also
critical that all state agencies work cooperatively to ensure that services
such as mental health services, medical treatment, substance abuse treatment and day care are available to our
families.
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rowed out to meet the brahman but
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them a capital and changed the name
of the country to 'Kambuja' ." Their
marriage represented, among other
things, a union of the sun and moon
and the birth of the land of Cambodia.
While magical bows and dragon
kings shed little light on actual history,
the fable is an analogue for what historians do know about ancient Cambodia-and much of the rests on the
lives not of dragon kings but of the
Khmer people's ancient rulers. Much
of what is known about ancient Cambodia related to the Khmer kings because the sources of information are
inscriptions related to projects com-
missioned by them or by high placed
officials.
Cambodia's is a complex, ancient
history-a subj ect often shrouded in
mystery and as misinterpreted and
misunderstood as the nation's contemporary politics. While many of the
secrets of its ancient past have yet to
be reveal3d, legacies such as the magnificent Angkor Wat beg questions and
further research for generations to
come.
Perhaps the foremost question is,
"where the original people of Cambodia come from?" No one knows for
sure. There is much debate among
academics as to whether the earliest
arrivals were from India, China or
South East Asia. There is even debate that pre-historic peoples migrated
to the region.
Research has also failed to uncover which languages the original
Cambodians used before the advent
of an Indian-style alphabet around
AD300. But, as far back as 2000
years ago, the people of Cambodia
spoke languages linked to the Cambodian language used today- Khmer.
Languages that are part of the MonKhmer family remain across mainland
South-East Asia, on some of the islands and in certain parts oflndia, and
Chinese-influenced present-day Vietnamese is a distant relative of this family.
What is known, and has been confirmed by carbon testing, is that there
were people with the ability to make
pots, who lived in a cave at Laang
Spean in north-western Cambodia, as
early as 4200BC . It is presumed that
the first Cambodians arrived long before then. Human bones found at
Samrong Sen- settled since
l 500BC- indicate that pre-historic
Cambodians there resembled the Cambodians of today, when allowance is
made for Chinese and Vietnamese influences on the race.
It is thought the prehistoric
peoples of Cambodia were mainly fish
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descendants who lived
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figure prominently in those times.
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fortified villages, laid out in circular
fashion, sharing them with domesticated pigs and water buffalo. Rice
and root crops were grown.
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early Cambodian history, although it
is not known how the process was
triggered or operated at different
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theon, meters for poetry, a social hierarchy system that differed from
caste, and fresh perspectives on everything from politics to architecture
and aesthetics. As academic David P.
chandler describes it in A History of
Cambodia: "Without India, Angkor
would never have been built, yet
Angkor was never an Indian city, any
more than medieval Paris was a Roman one."
The first few centuries AD in Cambodi a are known almost entirely from
the accounts of Chinese historiansthat is from the first century to the
middle of the sixth century. The late
eminent historian Geoge Coedes described the Cambodia of this time as
the center of a Hinduised kingdom
which controlled a large part of the
peninsula and which the Chinese called
"Funan". This word was a transcription of the Khmer phnom, meaning
mountain, according to Coedes. "The
title of these kings was significant,
'kings of the mountain', and it was
after this title that the Chinese named
the country."
More recently, historians such as
Chandler and Paul Wheatley have suggested there is stronger evidence that
the site of "Funan" was in fact a cult
site rather than a major unified kingdom. While it is possible that
chiefdoms in Cambodia occasionally
banded together and called themselves
a kingdom so as to send tributary
goods to China, Chandler says: It is
possible that Funan was thought to
be a major kingdom because the Chinese wanted it to be one and later because French scholars were eager to
find a predecessor for the highly centralized kingdom of Angkor, which developed in the ninth century."
One of the real achievements of
the so-called Funan era is said to have
been systematic irrigation. Buddhism
from India also flourished during this
time, and many of the Chinese sources
describe commodities of trade, local
custom and centralization. In the seventh and eight centuries AD, coastal
trading
states like
Fun an
dwindled
or changed
into settlements further inland,
w hi Ch
Chandler
says were
known in
the Cambodian
case by the
collective
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of these
kingdoms
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wet-rice
agriculture
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and
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subsistence agriculture or
trade.
Cambodia's great Angkorean age
is usually dated between AD802 and
1431, although these are not hard and
fast "beginning and end" pointers. The
word Angkor comes from the Sanskrit word nagara meaning town and
the state known today as Angkor,
which arose in north-west Cambodia
in the ninth century, had been the
homes of Khmer speakers for several
hundred years.
In the eighth century, Cambodia
was divided in two, suggests George
Coedes. Java had probably invaded
and annexed part of the territory. In
the dying years of the century, a prince
with distant links to a past Cambodian regime returned from Java and
proclaimed the independence of Cambodia from Java. He also forged the
cult of the god-king which was to be
the hallmark of Khmer civilization.
This great king, known as Jayavarman
II (802-850), installed himself over
time in four capitals north of the
Grand Lake Tonie Sap. After 48 years
of a rocky reign, during which time
he unified and pacified Cambodia,
Jayavarman II died near Rolous in 850.
He had paved the way for a line of
kings in the Angkor region for the next
600 years.
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and his nephew Indravarman (877889) remained at Rolous. Later,
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calling it Y asodharapura and having th~
vast Baray Oriental basin dug in the
vicinity. King Jayavarman IV abandoned this site in 921 and returned to
Angkor. He built a new capital at Koh
Ker, distinguished by towering, decorative monuments. But in 944, Coedes
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Rajendravarman consolidated Angkor
as the site of the royal court and it
remained the home of Khmer kings
from then on.
After the reign of Jayavarman V
(968-1001 ), the builder of Banteay Srei
and Takeo, the Cambodian kingdom
passed to a dynasty that was, almost
exclusively, of foreign blood. The
work of Coedes reveals these to be
Suryavarman I (1002-1050), a "conquering king from the valley of
Menam", UdayadityavarmanII (10501066), the builder of the Baphuon,;
and Harshavarman III. In the year
1080, Jayavarman VI, unrelated to
previous kings of the same name, installed himself with the aid of Brahman Divakara as a king of a new dynasty---one which was to survive until the 14 th century.
One of the undisputed great kings
of Cambodia was Suryavarman II,
ruler from 113-1150, who was responsible for the building of Angkor Wat
and whose image appears there on the
bas-reliefs. "His reign lasted 40 years
and was full of daring conquests,
which led for a time to annexation of
part of Champa. There followed a
period of fresh troubles during which
the Chams revenged themselves by
invading and destroying Angkor. They
were finally driven away by
Jayavarman VII, the last great king of
Cambodia, who was crowned in
1181, and who not only reconstructed
the capital but added an astonishing
number of buildings," Coedes writes
in his book Angkor.
Crowned in 1181, Jayavarman VII
devoted himself to the teaching of
Mahayana Buddhism- the form still
practiced in a great part of northern
Asia. But after his death, subsequent
Cambodian kings were threatened by
the Thais, who had established themselves in the Menam valley. This was
the beginning of the end of an era for
Cambodia. The Khmers' decline was
not rapid, however, and it was not until
the 15 th century that the court left
Angkor for Phnom Penh. The present
capital is near what some believe to
have been the ancient capital ofFunan,
and ofpre-Angkorean Cambodia.
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youth issues, problems and successes
within our community. We are very
greatful for the constant support of
the Office of Refugees & Immigrants (ORI), especially in the youth
aspect. With the leadership of Mr.
ARN CHORN-POND as a youth
partner and coordinator for the
CMAA, the Youth Corps / Peer
Leadership Program has now began
to be very active again, and we are
very thankful !
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Cambodian youths
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their commitment, skills and willingness to volunteer to help their community. Peer Leaders are involved
in organizing, planning and educating their younger peers and
the community as a whole
about health issues, youth
issues, and other activities
including : Peer Counseling
and Environmental Project,
Pregnancy Prevention Educ a ti on and Conferences
Workshop Planning. Recently we has just began the
Cambodian Traditional Music Class for the 'at risk'
youths. The Peer Leaders are also
helping in organizing events like
fundraising parties for youth projects
and helping to plan the Summer
School for the CMAA in the hope to
keep the Cambodian youths busy,
having fun and become productive
citizens to their community. If you
like to be involved, please contact
Mr. ARN CHORN-POND at the
CMAA. Tel # is
( 508 ) 454-4286. Thank you !
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cause our phones are so antiquated
that we lose a large number of calls
each day, but it is also a service issue
as teachers, therapists, doctors and
foster parents find it nearly impossible
to reach their social workers. Often
it is thought that DSS staff is unresponsive, when in fact there is no
good system for even receiving calls
or taking messages. The equipment
we have in most DSS offices is not
even made anymore. We have been
relegated to snapping up phones no
longer used by other state agencies
that have upgraded their systems in
order to augment our supply of
phones. We need to invest in something that sounds mundane, but is the
lifeblood of our work. Please support a new telephone system for DSS.
Professionalization of Staff
he work DSS social workers do
is one of the most difficult jobs in
the Commonwealth. All of the most
horrific societal issues from domestic violence and substance abuse to
chronic neglect and child abuse converge at DSS. It is essential that staff
have the most up-to-date training to
deal with these problems. In the past
year we have totally revamped the preservice training program for new social workers, implementing a competency based training program. This
pre-service program will form the
basis for licensing all DSS social
workers in the future as required by
the Legislature.
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Child Welfare Training Institute beginning in September of 1997. The Institute will oversee all in-service training for staff and foster parents, including credentialing, at sites throughout the state and work in conjunction
with other schools of social work-both
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Sihanouk Hospital Center for HOPE opened on December 10, 1996 in Phnom
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situation.
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emergency services.
We need your support and financial assistance to begin inpatient and surgical care
by mid-1997. Those in Cambodian who have suffered so much and still so desperately
lack the medical care they need will benefit directly from your donation.
An international staff of doctors, nurses and technicians have been assembled by
HOPE worldwide. The plan of hiring and training 25 Cambodian physicians and 200
other hospital staff has begun.
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has been completed and outpatients are being served. HOPE worldwide will provide the
administrative experience to run this landmark training facility and needs $1.5 million
annually to fund on-going hospital expenses to allow equal access to health care for all
Cambodians.
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cation program for social workers
who wish to obtain their MSW; and
the field placement program for all
students doing internships at DSS.
T
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hance the training we will be able
to do, increase the number of social
workers with advanced degrees and
allow us to receive federal reimbursement for the project. Although this
program is federally reimbursable, we
need the commitment from the Legislature to move forward. In addition
to the work we are doing with Salem
State, I have convened a task force to
work with the schools of social work
throughout the state to strengthen the
relationship between DSS and the
schools, thereby improving the job
readiness of our clinical staff. It is
expected that this work can also help
us undertake additional research to
better understand how we can assist
families. This task force, chaired by
Loretta Kowal, will provide me with
great insight into how we can enhance
collaboration with the public and private institutions that prepare staff for
this line of work.
FamilyNet
amilyNet, our major technology
initiative will completely revolutionize the way we do our work and
allow workers to spend more time
with families as opposed to pads, pencils and desks. DSS has not upgraded
from its monster mainframe system
that was developed in the early 80's.
Thanks to Rep. Angelo Scaccia and
Speaker Finneran, we are well on our
way to implementing a new computer
system that capitalizes on 75 percent
funding from the federal government
for a limited period of time.
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records stored in green three ring.
binders with an online, interactive system. It will streamline casework, dra-
matically reduce paperwork and speed
efficiency of document transmittal
between offices. The system will help
match waiting children with prospective foster and adoptive parents as
well. Part of the design also includes
interfaces with other state agencies,
which will result in better service to
our families. For example, we will be
able to link up with Medicaid's computer system to find out if a child is
already enrolled in an HMO and who
is his primary physician. This project,
in development since 1994, is set to
become operational in August. It is
one of the most exciting technological advances in state government today. This project has been in large
part funded through a federal match
program. the Governor's House One
includes $3 .21 million to operationalize
FamilyNet. This funding is critical to
our ability to keep the system going
once the federal match expires. The
federal dollars support development
but not ongoing costs of running the
system.
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Share in the excitement of the
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Saturday, August 23 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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• A half page in the day's Program Guide distributed to
more than 10,000 visitors.
• A half booth at the Festival.
• Sponsorship of a two-person racing team.
Sponsorship of our traditional racing boats.
Recognition as a primary sponsor in all publicity.
A full page in the day's Program Guide.
A full booth at the Festival.
Sponsorship of a two-person racing team.
$2,500 Includes:
• Sponsorship of the Program Guide for the Festival
and a full-page ad on the back on the front cover.
• Recognition as a primary sponsor in all publicity.
• A full booth at the Festival.
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Sponsorship of one of the Festival's major performers.
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Sponsorship of a two-person racing team.
• Recognition as a sponsor in the Program Guide.
• A quarter page ad in the Program Guide.
• Sponsorship of a two-person racing team.
The Southeast Asian Water Festival
Saturday, August 23, 1997
YES! I would like to be a sponsor of the Southeast Asian Water Festival.
Enclosed is my contribution of:
$2,500 _ _ $1,000 _ _ $500 _ _ $250 _ _ $100 _ _ Other _ _
YES! I would like to offer the following goods or services to the Southeast Asian
Water Festival:
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Please make checks payabl.e to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association.
Please return this form to the Southeast Asian Water Festival c/o
UMass Lowell Center for Family, Work & Community; One University Ave. in Lowel~ MA 01854.
�Dear Friends and Colleagues,
How would you like to subscribe to our bi-monthly magazine, "Khmer Lowell"? Would you like to put out an
a ds to more than 45,000 of our r eaders.
We offer low subscription and ads rate. Please call now for a quote of your ads. The yearly subscription is only
$25.00. Your subsription and a dvertisement mqney not only helping us to produce this bilingual m agazin e,
but also supporting our work of serving the Southeast Asian community m embers who may oth erwise be left
out of the syst em and have no place to go for h elp. If you haven't subscribed to " Khmer L owell", please call
and subscribe now! "Khmer Lowell" provides compreh ensive information about community issues, progress,
economic, education, recreation, and more! It also provides you information about Cambodia as well.
"Khmer Lowell" is a m onthly, bilingual magazine published collaboratively by the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA), the Cambodian American Voter Lea gue (CAVL), and the
Khmer Cultural Institute (KCI). The magazine is widely distributed to Cambodians and non-Cambodians
throughout the N ew England areas and the United States.
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Lowell, Massachusetts 01852
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Your communication of April 11, 1997 regarding the establishment of the
Cambodian language as part of the world language program at Lowell High
School was presented to the members of the Lowell School Committee at their
regularly scheduled meeting of April 23, 1997.
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discussion with the Headmaster.
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to legal immigrants and its impact on Southeast Asian communities at
the State House, Boston, MA.
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Executive Director of CMAA, Pa him Kay, CaseworkerofF amily
Support Program of CMAA, Dr. Jeff Gerson of Umass Lowell, Thy
Chey, Elderly Program Coordinator at CMAA, Judith DickermanNelson, Director/instructor of Young Parent Program at CMAA, and
Chuck Sarth, Chairman of Cambodian American Voter League.
Feb. 27, 1997
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legislators at the State House, Boston, MA
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welcome your contribution. Send us your articles, poems,
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007
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This collection includes digitized issues of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.’s bilingual magazines <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em>. <br /><br />The collection is completely accessible on this site.<br /><br />View the collection finding aid for more information, <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml19" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libguides.uml.edu/uml19</a>.<br /><br />Note:<br />Additionally, digitized issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> from the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection have been added to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007 Omeka collection so that issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> may visually appear together when browsing in Omeka.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------<br /><span>SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.</span>
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007. UML19. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.
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Khmer Lowell, May-June 1997; Issue No. 4
Subject
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Cambodia--history
Nonprofit organizations
Description
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Khmer Lowell, May-June 1997; Issue No. 4. This newsletter has 36 pages. Titles of topics covered in the newsletter include the Southeast Asian Water Festival; Testimony; King of The Mountaing; Khmer Traditional Music for Youth; New Hospital Provides Free Care; Lowell News From D.S.S.; and more.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications
Publisher
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
Date
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1997-05
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application/pdf; 36 pp.
Language
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Khmer
English
Type
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Text
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Khmer Lowell Issue 4
Coverage
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Lowell, Massachusetts
1990-1999
Cambodian American Voter League of Lowell
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Cambodians
Khmer Cultural Institute
Periodicals
Southeast Asian Water Festival