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Four oral history interviews with former staff and board members of the Indochinese Refugees Foundation, Inc., an organization that helped resettle Southeast Asian refugees in the greater Lowell, Massachusetts area during the 1980s. Oral histories were conducted with Jacqueline (Fidler) Moloney, Carol Keirstead, Elise Martin, Hai Pho, and Lan Pho. <br /><br />View the collection finding aid for more information, <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml4">https://libguides.uml.edu/uml4</a>.<br /><br />The entire collection is accessible on this site.
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Adoption
Adoptive parents
Community organization
English language--Study and teaching
Lowell (Mass.)
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational training
Political refugees
Refugee camps
Refugee families
Refugee issues
Refugees--Southeast Asia
Refugees--United States
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The audio recording of an oral history with Carol Keirstead on her experiences working with Southeast Asian refugees and as an Indochinese Refugees Foundation, Inc. staff member. Other topics discussed include her work after she left the IRF, sponsoring a family, and adopting a child from Cambodia.
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Connerty, Kale
Ali, Mehmed
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2010-2019
BASF Systems Corporation
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
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International Institute of New England
Laotians
Lowell Public Schools
Moore Street School
Philippine Refugee Processing Center
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
INFORMANT: CAROL KEIRSTEAD
INTERVIEWER: MEHMED ALI
KALE CONNERTY
DATE: MARCH 5, 2016
C=CAROL
A=ALI
K=KALE
A: So this is interview with Carol Keirstead. Is that how you say it, Keirstead?
C: Keirstead, yup.
A: Keirstead, on March 5, 2016. And Carol thanks very much for willing to share some
time for us.
C: Excited to do it.
A: Good, great.
K: All right. Well I’ll just ask the first question. What do you know about the
circumstances under which the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation] was founded?
C: Um, what I know about its founding was Hai Ba Pho and his wife Lan Pho were
Vietnamese refugees who settled in the country, and they wanted to establish an
organization that was really, ultimately they wanted it sort of for and by the refugee
community. So it was formed at a Mutual Assistance Association, which if memory
serves me correctly was really to be governed by members of the refugee community. So,
and his, his dream which actually came to fruition was to have the refugee community
actually you know, set up their own service organizations. So that’s what I recall about
that a few years ago. [All laugh]
K: When did you start working for the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation]?
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�C: In 1982.
K: Okay. And how long were you working there?
C: Two years.
K: Okay. Where had you previously been working?
C: The year before that I was with the university. I managed a Masters ESL Program for
teachers in Lowell Public Schools. It was a federally funded project. So we trained
“mainstream” classroom teachers to be able to effectively instruct English language
learners. So I did that for a year.
K: While you (--)
A: I’m sorry. And Carol how did you get, get into this field overall?
C: So way back when Ed Moloney and I worked together for CETA, which was the, you
know, federally funded sort of Skills in Employment Service Agency. And for whatever
reason you know at the time when refugees were coming into the city I just sort of took it
upon myself to reach out and do as best I could to serve that community through that
program. And so at one point he said to me, “Carol, you know, Jackie is going to be
leaving her position and I think you’d be great for it.” And I said, “Well I, you know,
I’m not so sure about that,” you know, but anyway. So he encouraged me to apply and I
did and got the job. So.
A: And where were you working for CETA previously like geographically?
C: In Lowell.
A: In Lowell, and where in Lowell?
C: Yup, it was up on Appleton Street. You know where the court is now?
A: Oh 89 Appleton, (C: You got it) The old Post Office?
C: Yup.
A: Okay. All right, that makes sense. And go ahead Kale.
K: How did you see the services offered by the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation]
change while you were there? Did you see any change? You were only there for two
years, but.
C: Right. So in terms of change the actual services didn’t change much that I recall.
Again that was a long time ago. You know what changed over time was either one, the
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�nature of the population, or the size of the population that we were serving. I mean when
we first started refugees were being resettled at a pretty rapid rate in this city. So we
were pretty, it was a pretty busy place. Yah, so over time I think it was the nature of the
population that we were serving, not so much the services.
A: And tell us about those changes and the different people coming and going.
C: Yah, so you know it would vary. It was Vietnamese, Cambodian and Lao that we
served and it just changed over time. The Vietnamese community was much smaller that
we served ultimately just by sheer numbers, and the Cambodian community kind of
started to excel. And there were a fair number of Lao families that we served as well.
And that over time, probably even after I left, just kind of flattened and the Khmer
population just kept, you know, people just kept relocating.
A: And why do you think the Cambodian population kind of grew where the other ones
stayed maybe smaller?
C: You know I think it was just a phenomenon of having a solid sort of community who
then would reach out to family, because Lowell at the time had very good employment
situation. So we could get people jobs pretty easily.
A: Um.
C: So the word would get out and family would come and resettle. You know at the time
there were pockets all across the country for different communities. Like the Hmong
were in Minnesota. So for whatever reason communities just began to sort of invite and
encourage people to come and resettle.
A: Where were you running the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation] out of when you
took over?
C: 79 High Street.
A: And tell us about that building, what was going on there.
C: Yah, so the first floor was the International Institute, and then the second floor was us,
very small office space. And then we had, there was like an annex, which was a very
large room where we could hold functions and hold classes, and stuff like that. So it was
great because the International Institute was right below us. So we could collaborate a lot
on serving people.
K: What do you think were the most essential services you offered? What was the most
important?
C: Hm. Well the obvious ones right would be employment services and language
services. We had ESL Employment and Cultural Orientation Services. So those were
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�critical. People needed jobs, but I think overall it was the welcoming, culturally
sensitive, supportive, proactive sort of approach that we took to just you know, helping
people to resettle in a new community.
So we’d do things like you know, have big household drives to have people donate all
kinds of things, because the refugee community they just needed so much. They were in
pretty substandard housing by in large. I mean I recall at the time there were a couple of
prominent landlords and the housing was pretty substandard. So you know, that was (--)
So we did what we did and more.
A: Yah. Who were some of the landlords around town that were notable?
C: It was George [Chambros], [Chambers], [Chamberos]?
A: Chamberas?
C: Yah, was the biggie.
A: Okay. How about Mr. Saab?
C: No, he wasn’t, that I knew of he wasn’t somebody that we encountered.
A: He might have gravitated over to the commercial stuff by that point.
C: Yah probably.
A: Because I know he had a lot in the, maybe in the 60s and 70s. I wasn’t sure.
C: And I sponsored a family while I was in my role.
A: Yah?
C: And the family I sponsored was a very, a family you know, non-literate and you know
from the Province. And so I had to work over a year’s time with them to help them get
housing and get settled and all that stuff. I’ll never forget the first time we found an
apartment for them. It was a decent apartment over in Centralville. And I was helping
them unpack, and you know getting everything settled. And we had all kinds of things
donated for them. And you know it was just so remarkable to step back and understand
what the experience was like for them, right. So a hairdryer, like they were just so
fascinated with a hairdryer. They thought it was to cook meat right.
A: Oh, to cook meat?
C: Right, and then you know, we were helping them put stuff away and they were
putting all the meat in the drawers and all of the appliances in the refrigerator. I mean
just you know, they had no idea.
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�K: Yah.
C: So it was quite the learning experience. And a lot of the work that I did was advocacy
work, particularly with the school department, because at the time they were enrolling I
think it was like fifty students a week at one point.
A: Wow.
K: Wow.
C: And you know, we were hearing, you know there was one case I’ll never forget.
There was a girl who probably had PTSD. No, I know she had PTSD, and they didn’t
know what to do with her. So they kept her home. They didn’t serve her. So a lot of the
work we did had to be sort of advocacy oriented in working with other organizations to
help them understand the population and help them do right by them.
A: Yah. What made you decide that you wanted to sponsor that one family?
C: Well my thing was to sort of walk the talk in what I do. So I just wanted to do that as
part of you know, not just get paid for the work but the refugee community would
actually step up and help out.
K: Okay. So what were all of your duties and stuff? You already talked about advocacy
work, but what else were [unclear]?
C: So I supervised the staff that we had. We had bilingual bicultural staff. I oversaw all
of the programming. Oversaw all of the paperwork with Office of Refugee Resettlement,
you know, had to oversee all of the records and stuff like that.
A: And that was a federal agency?
C: Yes. And so you know, all of the administrative things that go along with an
administrative job, which I didn’t have a clue how to do until I got this job. So it was
really learning on the job, but it was great. And I’d say, you know, a fair amount of it
was really outreach to the community and helping you know, doing cultural orientations
out in the community. Really just helping develop understanding as much as I could
about, you know, the communities that were coming into Lowell.
K: Was there anything while you were on your job that you found unexpected, like any
tasks that you had to do that you weren’t prepared for, well not prepared for but just
weren’t expecting?
C: Yah, firing staff was hard. [Laughs]
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�A: Yah, and without going into the specific persons what was the kind of nature of the
work that made it difficult?
C: It was a staff person that was, you know, I adored him and he was well respected in
the community, but just didn’t do his job. So you know, at some point you have to
address things like that and it’s hard, particularly when you’re a white female and the
person is a member of the community. It’s very difficult. So that was my probably
biggest challenge.
A: Was there any kind of fallout with the community from that?
C: Yes, this individual actually, yes there was.
A: Okay.
K: How many people do you think you helped over there, how many families?
C: Oh Lord. You know I’m sorry. I wouldn’t even know how to, I wouldn’t know how
to do that. You probably have the record. I just don’t even (--) I know we had to report
on it every month. We had to submit monthly reports.
A: Yah. No, that’s fine.
K: We actually might have those in our archives, yah.
C: That would be interesting to see, yah.
A: Could you describe the community as they were coming into Lowell? And you
talked about the, you know, kind of issues with understanding kind of technology and
things like that, which they had never seen before.
C: Right, right. So I guess it was really recognizing that what they had to become
accustomed to and what they had to learn was going to take time. And that they just
needed a lot of support to acculturating and learning what they needed to learn, and in the
employment setting. So that was a whole other thing. So my job as director that was my
(--) We had ESL teachers, and we had cultural specialists, but my job was to find jobs for
people. That was part of my role. So you know, I had to make sure that the work place
could accommodate people who were, you know, had various levels of education and,
you know, could handle expectations in the work place and stuff like that. So that was,
that was a challenge.
A: So tell us what companies were out kind of that you connected with?
C: I remember a big one was BASF. (A: Umhm) So there were a lot of electronic firms
at that time and medical supply firms where all folks would have to do is piecework, put
stuff together. And it was a pretty good job in the tech industry. So Wang, some people
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�could get in. Not a lot, but some people could get into Wang. But there were a couple.
BASF I remember and it will come to me after you leave. [Laughs]
A: That’s fine.
C: There are a few sort of you know, our go-tos.
A: Where was BASF? Was that in Nashua?
C: Bedford.
A: Oh Bedford, okay. Good. And do you remember any kind of stories connected with
people getting jobs and you know, perceptions on that and feelings from the community
response?
C: Can you say more about that? What are you, what are you thinking?
A: Yes. Just I mean did, um, you know, do you remember any particular stories where
you know, you got somebody a job and it really kind of changed their outlook, or their
family’s outlook?
C: I’m sure. I just can’t at the top of my head recall. You know I’m sure there were
many, but yah.
A: Yah. What was the, what’s your perception on the city’s reception of these
immigrants?
C: I would say one of the reasons we ended up with such a large community is because
by in large the city stepped up. They didn’t always do the right thing, but by in large the
city really stepped up I think. You know, a lot of the churches were heavily involved.
Eliot Church, Saint Patrick’s was a huge supporter. Yah, so churches played a big role in
really helping refugee communities. So I would say yah, Lowell was pretty, Lowell did a
pretty good job.
A: Is there any way to find like what that could be attributed to?
C: So who would have been there at the time? Gee, I can’t even tell you. George
Tsapatsaris was the Superintendent of Schools.
A: Okay. Did you guys have a relationship with the school department?
C: I did, you know, it was sometimes heated because I did go to bat for people.
A: Okay.
C: So sometimes I’d be told you know, tell that Keirstead to cease and desist. [Laughs]
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�A: Why? Over what issues?
C: You know, I (--) This is who I am. I don’t like injustice. Where there’s injustice I do
whatever I can do. So when I saw cases where kids weren’t being served well, like a
classroom was set up in a bathroom for a group of Laotian kids. I said, “Uh huh, not
okay.” Um, that student I remember going to bat for because she had some you know,
she was dealing with some emotional trauma and they kept her home. They wouldn’t
serve her. So it was things like that. I just (--)
A: And I’m sorry, when you said they wouldn’t serve, I originally thought you meant the
family, but you were talking about the school department?
C: School department.
A: Okay, and was that Cambodian?
C: She was Lao I believe this particular girl.
A: Okay.
C: You know how certain people stand out in your mind? Yah, but you know so at the
same time George respected me and I respected him, but I had to just, you know, do that
and he had to push back. So you know.
A: Where was the, which school were the kids in the bathroom originally?
C: The Daley.
A: The Daley? Okay. [Chuckles] All right, and I imagine there was some, I mean,
growing pains from the school department’s perspective right?
C: Oh everybody was out of space and it was, I mean really they were registering like
fifty kids a week. And after I left the Indochinese Refugee Foundation I went to work.
They recruited me for the public school system. So I ran the Southeast Asian Curriculum
Program. And so you know, I then saw it on that end. Yah, I mean. And then I worked
at the, did you hear about the Moore Street School?
A: They Morey?
C: Moore Street?
A: Moore Street School up in the Grove.
C: Yah, so it was really the only segregated publically supported school that had existed
in a very long time. It was all Cambodian kids.
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�A: Now how did that school become only Cambodians? Had it been closed previously?
C: It was a private catholic that was closed by the Diocese.
A: Okay.
C: So Lowell rented it I guess (A: Okay) and set it up to serve this huge population of
kids they didn’t have a place to put. So that was in existence. I worked there for like a
year with Bob Keegan. He was the principle. He’s since passed away, but um, yah. So
that was an interesting experiment.
A: What was that school like? How would you describe it?
C: So I thought it was wonderful. I mean I get segregation, I get it, but it was a
protected, all about these kids, giving them what they needed in environment. They
didn’t have to deal with being treated whatever. So it was a protected environment and
we could design the program just for them.
A: Um.
C: In fact, have you seen the Southeast Asian book? Probably right?
A: The Jim Higgins photo book?
C: The cover, that’s the Moore Street School.
A: Yah, I, well I just was looking at that book recently and I said, “Where the heck was
this school?” I didn’t know anything about it. (C: Yah) So when you said it I was, yah.
C: Yah, funny.
A: What else can you talk about with that school? What were the programs that you
were running that wouldn’t be found anywhere else?
C: Well it was you know, before it was a bilingual program. So back then we believed
in bilingual education in this state. We don’t anymore by the way. So it was a bilingual
program where kids had native language instruction and ESL. So we could design the
program so that they got their content, you know, in the native language and then had sort
of sheltered English class instruction too. So it was great.
A: What was the building like physically? Was it in a decent shape?
C: It was decent.
A: Okay.
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�C: Yah, yah, it was okay.
A: No leaky roofs or anything?
C: No, no, it was okay.
A: Okay, good. Um, you talk about Lowell being basically an accommodating
community. Any instances where you remember where it didn’t shine in that area?
C: Housing I would say.
A: And what were the issues there?
C: Really substandard housing. I mean most of the families when I’d go visit, you know,
they’d be roaches all over the walls. They’d be roach paper just like wallpaper, you
know, so just really substandard housing.
A: And did the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation] get involved in kind of helping to
change that situation?
C: You know I’m sure we tried. You know we tried to get families into the best housing
situations we could, but there was limited, limited stock so to speak. And you know, it
was a big, it’s a bigger issue than we could take on, because it’s really, it’s you know, it
hasn’t changed. [Laughs]
A: Yah, yah.
C: So.
A: I know there was a group around town I think primarily connected to churches, but
the Ethnic Covenant?
C: Oh my God, yah! Jay. Jay. What was his name? Great group.
A: Okay. Tell us what you know about the group.
C: Oh, [unclear] the dust off the cobwebs. Jay was the gentleman who founded it I
believe. And I remember they authored a paper called “Thirty Pieces of Silver” maybe?
Right, is that is?
A: I think that’s it, yah.
C: Um, so yah, they were a very advocacy oriented group who really I think sought to
speak the truth on behalf of vulnerable populations. Yah, yah, God thank you for
mentioning that.
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�A: Did the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation] have any connection with them?
C: Yah, yah, we, I can’t remember exactly what we did together, but we definitely
collaborated and communicated a lot. Yah, yup.
A: Tell us about the everyday work week at the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation].
C: It was, I mean the reason I stayed for two years is because I ate, breathed and slept
right, because it was just nonstop, never ending. It didn’t end at 5:00. So yah, I mean
that was primarily why I had to sort of go to a “more normal job”. It was you know,
doing the administrative stuff and then dealing with things all day long that would come
up; refugees coming in with whatever issues that they had and we would have to figure
out how to help them. So it was doing your regular job and then attending to people’s
needs as they would come through the door, which you never knew what those were
going to be.
A: Jackie told us a little bit about some of the issues that the refugees had with kind of
accessing health services. Do you have any (--)
C: Yes, yah, yes. So I would say a big issue for refugees, and I don’t know what Jackie’s
perspective was, they were very reluctant in a way to access American medical services.
And we often would have to (--) Oh, I just thought about this other case. Oh my God.
A: Yah, tell us about that case.
C: I’m just getting emotional. Sorry.
A: That’s okay. That’s okay. Sorry.
C: Wow, I didn’t expect that one. [Crying]
A: That’s okay, take a few minutes.
C: So there was this day, and in walked a woman with her daughter in her arms and her
daughter was almost lifeless. So Chulathy was her name. And so we arranged to have
her taken by ambulance to the hospital and I ended up following her for quite some time
and they could never figure out what was wrong with her. And you know part of me is
feeling like I should have done more, but whatever. And she just like languished in the
system and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her. She was dying and I’ll
never (--) They let her go home at some point and somewhat later I heard that she just
died in Lowell High School. She just died. So, I mean and I tried to work with the
family and it was just you know, a lot of Southeast Asians believe in spiritual even
sometimes sort of ghosts like things right. And so translating between that belief system
and western medicine is nearly impossible. And then you got the language barrier in
between. So I, you know, I worked with the family and I worked with you know, I’d go
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�to visit Chulathy and she just always, she was always doing this. It hurt, it hurt, it hurt,
and they could never figure out what she had.
A: So she was always holding her fist to her chest?
C: Yup, like this and they never could figure out what she had. So, sorry.
A: Other issues on medical or health access?
C: There weren’t the language and cultural resources that of course there are now. So it
was really, really difficult. Yah, I didn’t even think of that. It was really difficult to get
adequate care for people because of the language barrier and the cultural barriers. Yah.
A: So talk about the language barriers in general?
C: Well I didn’t speak any of the language [laughs]. So I always had to rely on you
know, my folks to translate. And so when refugees would go do whatever they had to do
they would always have to find somebody, oftentimes the younger kid in the family, and
rely on that person as their translator which right, is not ideal. So yah, it was, it was really
tough. And that was a lot of the work that our staff had to do, which they weren’t paid to
do really. I mean their jobs were not to be translators, but there you go right.
K: Umhm.
A: Yah, yah. Any funny stories about IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation]
workplace?
C: Yah, so this may not want to be (--) [Laughs] You don’t have to stop it but there were
a lot of funny things, but I’ll never forget this one time. Alise Martin, do you know Alise
Martin?
A: Yah.
C: She was the ESL teacher.
A: Oh she worked at the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation]?
C: Yah.
A: Okay. That’s another interview.
K: We have her [unclear].
C: And I think she was the teacher at this time. We had a couple while I was there, but I
went down to the classroom just to check on things. And we often had people donate
goods. So we’d have plastic bags all along the side of the classroom. So I went down
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�and looked in the classroom and there was a big ruckus going on. And I’m like
everybody is laughing and you know, I’m like what’s going on? So what happened was
somebody had donated things and there was a box on tampons in there. And the Ref,
whoever found them thought they were firecrackers. So they’re all trying to light
tampons. [All laugh] That was a fun one, yah.
A: Other kind of workplace issues at the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation]?
C: You know we always could have used more. It was always a scramble to have
enough resources to do what we needed to do. And I don’t remember at the time. I
remember getting some grants here and there, some small grants to do different things,
but I can’t recall what they were.
A: Yah. Now you worked with the federal government. Did you work with any state
agencies?
C: We, I’m trying to think. Well there was the Office of Refugee Resettlement in
Massachusetts. So every state has its own.
A: Okay.
C: Yah, yah.
A: Okay. So the office you primarily dealt with was kind of, they controlled the funds
that the federal government (--)
C: Right.
A: Okay I see.
C: They were sort of a pass through.
A: Do you remember any individuals or issues with the state?
C: No. I mean like any, I’ve managed many of those things since then. Like there are
always challenges with it, but you know.
A: Yah, regular bureaucracy stuff.
C: Yah, right, right, nothing that I can recall out of the ordinary.
A: Good.
K: Did you see funding change while you were there at all?
C: I don’t remember. Really I don’t remember.
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�K: Did working with the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation] change your perspective
on anything, like such as minority groups, non-profit work?
C: It was life changing for me.
K: Really.
C: Because when I left there I went to work for the school department and then I went to
work overseas in a Refugee Program. So I never would have done that if I hadn’t had
this opportunity. And then I adopted somebody from Cambodia. So it really was life
changing for me.
K: Now where did you work overseas?
C: In the Philippines, in the Philippine Refugee Camp.
K: And was that the camp where Cambodians and other folks from Southeast Asia were
coming?
C: A lot. There were several camps in Thailand and then there was PRPC in the
Philippines, and there were a couple of smaller ones in Indonesia.
A: Okay.
C: When I went the largest population were Amerasians.
A: From mainly from Vietnam?
C: Umhm.
A: Okay. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about how you got involved in that project?
C: So when I was at the Refugee Foundation I was able to make contacts. I also worked
at Middlesex Community College in between, that’s right. So I worked at Lowell Public
Schools. Then I went to Middlesex and help set up the new campus, because what they
wanted to do in setting up the new campus with Molly Sheehy was my, person I worked
with, was to set up what they called a Resource Center, because they wanted to provide
outreach services to the Southeast Asians in setting up the new campus. So I did that for
two years. So through my work at the Foundation and through Middlesex I made
contacts with the U.S. State Department. And when I decided I wanted to try it I just
called and said, “How do you do that?” And the women said, “Well here’s what you do.”
And so I applied to this organization and they flew me down for an interview. And
within a month I was gone. So yah, it was great.
A: Good. So tell us about the camps. There was one major camp for?
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�C: The one I worked in was one major camp, but there were many camps and operation
at that time in Thailand. So a lot of Refugees from Lowell, some would have come
through the camp I worked at, some would have come through Thailand.
A: From Khao-I-Dang
C: Yup, Phanat Nikhom, Khao-I-Dang, yup.
A: And what was the camp that you worked at in the Philippines?
C: It was called PRPC, Philippine Refugee Processing Center. Bad name! What are we,
cows? Yah, anyway. So it was a really large camp. We serviced I think at any one time
there were about 100,000 people there. It was nine kilometers long. It was along a ridge.
It was beautiful, gorgeous, and there were several international organizations there, like
World Relief. ICMC was the group I worked for. There were many, many, many. So
my group ran the, what they called the Pass Program, which was for kids 11.5 - 16 who
were coming to the states. So it was like a school to get them ready for school here. So I
ran that program.
A: And would those kids be orphans primarily?
C: They were, they were not on paper orphans. So a lot of the, you probably know this,
so a lot of the Amerasians kids that ended up coming came through very nefarious means.
So they were orphans in their country, but because people knew they were gold tickets to
get to the states. That’s what they were called. They would sort of adopt them to get to
the states.
A: Oh! So parents that had no blood, or people that had no blood connections to (--)
C: In some cases right. And in some, you know, that wasn’t all of the cases, but it was
prevalent. And in some cases you know, the families really did care about the kids. And
then we had a Khmer population while I was there. And did we have Lao? If we had
Lao it was like miniscule. So it was mostly Vietnamese and Khmer when I was there.
And the Catholic Church was there, the Mormons were there. I mean it was like a whole
community.
A: Yah. Any difficulties there between the different nationalities?
C: Sometimes, yah. Sometimes they’d be pretty nasty clashes.
A: Remember any stories or incidents?
C: Not particularly, but it wasn’t, it wasn’t often, but you know, once in a while, yup.
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�A: Now did you, did you work with Cambodian folks (C: Yup) there? And did some of
those people end up in Lowell?
C: Yah. Like you know, if I’m talking to somebody whose, who I think could fit the age
range, if I meet somebody, I’ll ask them. “So what camp were you in?” And sometimes
it will be that one. Yah, it’s kind of cool.
A: How long did you end up staying there?
C: Two years. I do everything for two years I think. [Laughs] I like to start things up. I
did. I’ve been in my job for twenty. So yah.
A: Maybe we should go back a little bit more and talk about your transition from IRF
[Indochinese Refugee Foundation] to the School Department. How did that come about?
C: If memory serves me, which sometimes it doesn’t, I believe Ann O’Donnell
approached me.
A: Don Pearson?
C: Ann O’Donnell.
A: Oh I’m sorry, Ann O’Donnell.
C: She was the head of the bilingual program.
A: Okay.
C: For a very long time. And I believe she approached me and asked me if I’d be
interested. They had this position. I think they got federal funds for it or something.
A: It was a new position?
C: Yup, to oversee development of a Southeast Asian curriculum. So yup.
A: Tell us all about that.
C: So in my role I oversaw, I had three curriculum developers, one Lao, one Khmer, and
one Vietnamese. And so our job was to try to develop a, you know, native language
curriculum that they could use in the schools, and that was a huge lift, because you know,
we’re talking K-12. I mean it was a huge lift. So we mostly focused on literacy, and then
would you know as we could develop materials, you know, in other content areas. But
we’d produce our own books and stuff like that, yup. And I believe, and you guys would
know maybe the timeline. So there was a time when there was going to be a shift away
from the Indochinese Foundation to splitting off the groups. When you talk to Hai he’ll
know.
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�A: Okay. So like when the CMAA [Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association] was
formed?
C: Yah!
A: Yah, so the CMAA [Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association] was formed in 84.
C: Yup.
A: And I don’t know. Was there a Lao and Vietnamese?
C: There, well there was an effort. (A: Okay) It didn’t take hold, but there was an effort
to do that, yah.
A: Okay. So the CMAA was really the only group that kind of had legs?
C: It ended up, yup, that I recall. Yup.
K: Do you keep in touch with anyone you worked with, or while working for, at the
IRF?
C: Not really keep in touch. I, you know, I would see people out in the community and
you know, a couple of families I keep in touch with that I served, but I don’t keep in
touch with staff as much. In fact it’s funny one of the families that I for whatever reason
just became really close with, a Lao family, their daughter now has children my middle
son’s age and they’re best friends.
K: Oh.
C: So she, so you know when she came to the IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation]
she was like yay big, and now she’s mom to two kids and so it’s yah, it’s great.
K: What about the family you sponsored?
C: I have no idea. [Unclear], I have no idea. You know my life took a, you know, a left
turn. You know, when you have kids everything, everything changes. So you know, I
became much less involved in the community. I took this job up in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. So I became sort of much less connected here.
A: Yah. So you went from IRF [Indochinese Refugee Foundation] to the school
department and then (--)
C: Then to Middlesex.
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�A: And then to Middlesex. And how did you get connected up with Middlesex if you
recall?
C: Maybe Molly Sheehy?
A: Okay.
C: Yah, I think that’s probably likely.
A: Okay. And what did you do at (--) You talked a little bit about it already, but.
C: So you know, in setting up the Lowell Campus they were mindful, right that they
wanted to serve the Southeast Asian population. So we set up this um, and they had a
Gateway City’s Grant I believe to do that. So myself and a Hispanic community Leader,
Peki Wilson, who was at the time really well regarded in the Latino community (--)
A: How do you spell the first name?
C: Peki, P E K I was her nickname. Griselda was her first name.
A: Raselda?
C: Griselda.
A: Griselda. Okay.
C: She was Cuban, but very well regarded in the Hispanic community. So she and I
were sort of the two key staff at the Resource Center which operated out of Wannalancit
at the time, because we started at Wannalancit right?
A: Yah.
C: And so our job really was to provide sort of counseling so to speak to you know, kids
who were interested in maybe attending Middlesex, and while they were at the college
providing a lot of bicultural support for them. You know, doing special events with them
and just being there as a listening ear.
A: Were there a lot of students coming to Middlesex when, at the beginning essentially?
C: Well I think because of our outreach we started really to get kids you know aware of
the college and starting to come into the college.
A: How did you do the outreach? Do you recall?
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�C: Well by that time I had, you know, because of my work at the Foundation I had a
pretty good network. So that wasn’t a huge lift. You know, without that I don’t know
what I would have done, but yah.
A: So who were some of the community leaders from the different refugee communities
at that time?
C: So the Lao I would say Kumson Silavong. I think he’s passed recently. Sommanee
Bounphasaysone, she’s actually a really good friend of mine. Who else in the Lao
community? That’s what I recall, and Sommanee worked for the DCF ultimately.
A: So many Lao folks or?
C: Sommanee is her name, sorry. [Laughs]
A: [Laughs] I’m going deaf anyways, so.
C: I know you and me both. So in the Cambodian community at the time it was Michael
Ben Ho (A: Umhm), great man.
A: Yah, he just passed away as well.
C: I know. Narin Sao. (A: Umhm) You probably know them all. I’m trying to think
who else. Those are the two that come to mind really.
A: Okay. Is Narin still around?
C: Yup.
A: Okay.
C: Yah, he lives in Chelmsford but he’s around. He’s a great guy, great guy.
A: Any politicians that stood out either kind of pro refugee, or not so pro?
C: Like if you tick check off names I could say “Oh yah, I know,” but (--)
A: One of the guys over the years, a couple of the guys that could be perceived as not
being super friendly would be Tarsy Poulios. [Both same name at same time].
C: Tarsy Poulios, right, it just all of a sudden came back to me! Yah, he was like the
Donald Trump of Lowell. So I’d say yah.
A: Do you remember any interactions with any of your jobs with him?
C: No.
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�A: Okay. Anybody on the pro side?
C: I’m sure there were, because again we had, you know, we had a fair amount of (--)
Oh God I’m just remember on the school board, Katherine Stoklosa. She blamed me for
all of the refugees coming to the city.
A: How so?
C: At the school committee meeting.
A: Oh really?
C: Yah.
A: And so she didn’t think it was a good idea?
C: Oh no! We should stop those people from coming, yup. I mean a lot of people were
(--) It’s you know, it’s fear you know the unknown. Right, it’s so common, we don’t
learn.
A: Good.
K: Do you see any similarities in your job today with working with the IRF [Indochinese
Refugee Foundation]
C: No. I wish I did. [Laughs] No, I’m (--)
A: We won’t leave that on the record.
C: Yah! I’m pretty far removed from feeling like I have an impact on people’s lives, but
that’s okay.
K: He kind of skips this question, but what was the most interesting or enjoyable part of
your job?
C: Oh the people. Oh God yah. Just really, just delightful people, and some of them
could be like royal pains in the asses, but you know. Hai’s father worked for me, and a
wonderful, wonderful man. And he was very set in his ways. So supervising him was a
challenge, but you know, wonderful, wonderful man. And so just really wonderful
people and I learned a lot.
A: Any final thoughts about your time working for the IRF [Indochinese Refugee
Foundation]?
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�C: No, just that you know, I want to thank Jackie’s husband. [Laughs] Really it was a
life changer for me, that opportunity, and Hai. It really was. I mean they took a risk with
me, because I was (--) How old was I? I was young, really and you know, I guess the
good thing for me was nobody had that experience because it was so new. So they took a
chance with me and it was great.
A: Yah, you said Jackie’s husband?
C: He’s the one that recommended me for the job.
A: Jackie Moloney’s husband?
C: Yup.
A: Oh, okay, and how did you know him?
C: I worked with him at CETA, the (--) Yup, Ed.
A: Yah, okay. What did he do at CETA?
C: He was one of the managers. So there was Ed and Henry Przydzial, and yah. But
yah, he just pulled me aside and said, “Hey, Jackie’s leaving this job. I think you should
go for it.” Now Jackie is brilliant. And going in trying to fill her shoes, I had to get over
that one right away. Yup, she’s brilliant.
A: How so?
C: I don’t know she just is.
A: But I mean how did you feel that you (--) Was there a learning curve from what
Jackie had done?
C: I mean I would have, if I tried to sort of emulate what she did, or be who she was I
would have failed. So I had to just find my own way in the job and yah. And I was
successful, but I’m just saying you know, yah.
A: Any final thoughts about your time working here in the city.
C: No, I mean I miss it. I loved doing that kind of work. My work is like I said, very
removed. You know, I have a federally funded job where I lead a multi-million dollar
grant, blah, blah, blah. So it’s a great job and but I loved doing community work.
Someday in my retirement.
A: Yah, why not?
C: Yah.
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�A: Great.
K: I think that’s it, right?
C: Thank you so much.
K: Thank you.
A: Thank you.
K: Yah, this is great.
C: So are you a student at UMass?
K: Yah, I’m a student. I’m a sophomore.
C: What are you studying?
Interview ends
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
INFORMANT: LAN & HAI PHO
INTERVIEWER: KALE CONNERTY
DATE: October 5th, 2016
L=LAN
H=HAI
K=KALE
[Note: At the request of Lan and Hai Pho minor edits have been made to this transcript for clarification.
An unedited version of this transcript is available.]
H: Okay, why don’t you introduce yourself and then I’ll do it?
L: My name is Lan Pho. And my husband and I have participated in the resettlement of refugees from
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, into Massachusetts in general and in Lowell and the greater Lowell area
to be more specific since the late 70s.
H: My name is Hai Pho. I am a member of the initial establishment of the Indochinese Refugee
Foundation back in 1976. And with the participation and support of my wife Lan, and five other
members, we established what is known as the Indochinese Refugee Foundation Incorporated in 1977,
on January 27, 1977 by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Thank you.
K: So just to get started, what were the circumstances under which the IRF was started? Or how did
you decide to start it?
H: Okay, all right. The histories of immigration and refugees are quite different. The U.S. program for
immigrants started a long, long time ago, but I think in 1965, ‘66 there was a law by the Congress to
define immigration. And the status of refugees were not well defined then. So people that came
before 1975 were classified by law not as refugees but as immigrants. Immigrants came to better their
lives economically, socially. Refugees came as a place for protection because they were pushed out.
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�So there’s a theory, there’s a pull and push theory. Immigrants are pulled into the U.S. for the
economic social betterment. Refugees were people whose lives were threatened and were pushed out
of their countries and they came for shelter, for protection, for survival. And so in 1975 at the end of
the Vietnam War some hundred and a hundred and thirty thousand refugees from Vietnam were
hosted in the U.S. for their survival, because they were pushed out by the Communist army victory in
South Vietnam. In 1980 the U.S. Congress established a law, the 1980 Refugee Act, that defined the
meaning of refugees and provided a systematic procedures and numbers for annual admission of
refugees into the US, the quota for Indochinese refugees to be resettled in the U.S. per year. And that
is the beginning as far as a statutory refugee definition is concerned.
As far as the Indochinese Refugee Foundation is concerned, we established it in 1977 because in 1975
some Vietnamese refugees just came to New England, to Boston, most of them with nothing but the
clothes on their back. So for the first year or so we were just trying to establish our life, re-establish
our life. And we do try to pull our community together. And we made an appeal on September 27,
1976 for Vietnamese and American friends and supporters to help us organize into a kind of a Mutual
Assistance Association. And that sort of launched the action to create an Indochinese Refugee
Foundation that was drafted. The Charter was drafted and then finally incorporated in the spring of,
January 27, 1977.
K: So going off of talking about the definition of refugees. Looking through the archives we see
documents that are trying to distinguish between political refugees and economic migrants. So were
there any difficulties, or controversies involved with trying to make that distinction? Or did you have
any problems?
H: There are a lot of difficulties. In most peoples’ mind immigrants come [here] to better themselves,
and they should not be dependent on anybody, particularly on public assistance. When refugees came
they had nothing with them. There was no preparation. There was no anticipation of self-sufficiency
at that particular point. In fact total lack of preparation. So from Southeast Asia, from Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia, there are two phases. The first phase in 1975 to 1977, these people came from a very
advanced background, and so they can establish, re-establish themselves very fast, very well. In fact
there are a lot of studies that prove how successful that first phase of resettlement of refugees from
Vietnam at that time [was]. There’s a group of studies that was made [showing] there’s no impact on
the host country, on the United States, particularly with the initial U.S. policy of integration. In the
policy of integration of Indochinese refugees in 1975 there was an effort to disperse, meaning to
spread them out. How did they do that? By a hosting requirement, a requirement having a host, a
family host or a church, or an agency to host each family from Vietnam to settle in the U.S. Because of
that requirement, the Vietnamese who first came as refugees in 1975, ‘76 were spread out all across
the U.S. But – and in addition they were well, trained well, professional people, so with their
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�background and skills they could find jobs, they could find housing on their own. They didn’t need to
depend on any help from agencies of the states or the federal government.
The phase of refugees that came from 1979, 1980 on were pushed out from Southeast Asia, from
Cambodia, from Vietnam because of the drastic, drastic, horrible, horrible violent policy of the regimes
in Southeast Asia. Those people were not prepared and they had to be dependent on public
assistance, and that created a lot of objections.
K: So – I’ll start with you Hai – what were your specific roles in the IRF, first as a member of the Board
of Directors?
H: Yes, I was fortunate to be educated, trained, get my Doctorate Degree at Boston University, teach
at UMass Lowell from 1968 on. So I have a well established root in Lowell. In fact I came to Lowell
some five, six years before anybody else was here, my wife and I, our family. And, in 1975 when the
first wave of Vietnamese refugees came, I was with my friend Doctor Nghia Nguyen, a physicist at
Draper Labs in Cambridge and we put together a group of leading Vietnamese refugees. They are
lawyers, they are engineers, they are scholars, and an American retiree from the State Department,
[unintelligible] to form the founding members group of the Indochinese Refugee Foundation to help to
provide the technical skill to help those who follow us who need some help to create a Mutual
Assistance Association. That is my role.
K: And what about your duties as the Coordinator for the Indochinese Self-Help Project?
H: Then three, four years later when the boat people from Vietnam and the Cambodian Refugees from
Cambodia who were sheltered on the Thailand borders, came. The State Department, because of
[continued need] to resettle Cambodians and Laotians, instead of dispersal they created a cluster
system, meaning they bring them as groups into different locations in the U.S. There were about five,
six clusters, one of which was the Lawrence/Lowell cluster. And each cluster, they bring about a
hundred families to the area, and these are supposed to receive not only assistance in resettlement,
but also to receive assistance in language skills, in employment training and job placement. So the
resettlement consisted of two phases. One is housing and (L: Language skills) language skills. No, that
is training, training in employment. ET, training, education and training. Okay. The first phase is
housing welfare resettlement, just to get them settled in a local community. The second phase is
Employment and Training. And because of the cluster system there was a high demand for
employment training in the Lawrence/Lowell area, [such] that the agencies, the local agencies that
provide the resettlement cannot handle it and do not have the staff, the skill to handle the education,
English as a Second Language, the job preparation and employment placement for them. So we sort of
see the need for it and find ways voluntarily to do it, but [there are] not enough resources available to
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�us, because we are just resettling five years ago and it’s just not enough resources available to us. So
we call on the U.S Government, which at the time [it] is the State Department that is responsible for
resettlement to give us the funding. And so they did earmark some five million dollars to those selfhelp groups, mutual assistance groups, to apply. And if we did qualify they would give us the grant to
provide English as a Second Language, and orientation to resettle, and Employment and Training. So
that’s how I submit an application, because they sent out what is called a “Request for Proposal”
across the United States. And we are among the four or five Mutual Assistance Associations that
received that funding to provide Employment and Training here.
K: Was that the same as the Targeted Assistance Grants Program, or is that something different?
H: Separate.
K: Separate, okay. We won’t talk about that.
H: Target Assistance is different. (K: Okay) So that is the Self-Help Project from the Indochinese
Refugee Foundation.
K: Which was later renamed, years later, to the (--)
H: Employment Training.
K: Employment, yeah.
H: Yes, yes, because – well, before I jump into that. That is how the Mutual Assistance Association
transformed itself in this activity through the Self-Help Project because we believe that we can do it
just as well as anyone else. And in doing that we really make a special effort to find qualified
Vietnamese, qualified Cambodian, qualified Laotian refugees unlike many VOLAGs that relied on
American staffs. We screen ourselves to ask them to provide us staff for these services. The only ones
that we need are Americans who are skilled in teaching English as a Second Language, who are skilled
in running the businesses of Self-Help Project. So that’s how we recruited Miss Jacqueline [Fidler]
Moloney as the Project Director, and Miss Elise Martin as an English language teacher. But the rest of
the staff, and these are very important people, the Vietnamese social workers, the Cambodian social
works, Laotian social workers to go out and do the actual helping of refugee families that came to
Lowell.
K: Okay, I’ll move to Lan. Oh –
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�H: Just one more step.
K: Okay, go ahead.
H: The first one hundred families in Lowell consist of about maybe four or five hundred people, mostly
children and women. There are very few men, okay, because as you can understand the men were
killed in the war or they run all over the place. So the fact that from 1979 to 1982 there’s a large
number of children that need to go to school, there’s quite a few women that need to get the health,
medical health, mental health and welfare, creates some kind of pressure on the community, but
because of the capabilities of these native social providers, workers, they did manage so well that their
reputation gets across the United States to the other clusters. And the problem with that is that it
creates what is known as the second migration. It creates the attraction for Cambodians, for Laotians,
from other clusters who are in South Carolina, who are in Louisiana, who are in Minnesota, who are in
Oregon, who are in California, to drift on their own, nobody brings them here, but on their own they
slowly migrated to Lowell. That increased the population several folds that nobody anticipated. No
one from the State Department, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare – in those days
HEW is also the one that provided the funding – and we did not anticipate that, definitely. We didn’t
know what’s happening there. So that creates a kind of pressure on the host, on the city of Lowell.
K: Were you able to get more funding from the state because of that influx?
H: No! There’s no (--) [Laughs]. That’s the problem. That’s the original problem that creates a lot of
pressure. That’s where my wife came into play.
K: Okay. So [addressing Lan] what were your duties as President of the IRF?
L: Well I immersed [myself in] an effort to relieve the community at large of number one, the
challenge of housing and feeding the refugees and their families. I realized [the need to] get them to
be self-sufficient. Get them to be able to communicate in English and give them an opportunity to
work and earn the bread for their family. I realized that if we don’t want to add any more burden to
the community then we have to seek help from the prospective employer to take part of the, to
provide you know, some limited English language capability and job training for their own employees.
So I went into different companies and appealed to them, that if they like to have good and faithful
employees, then they have to provide some extra services to their employees. For example, the
provision of on-the-job English training. So we came to the company at first learning the job ourselves
and what kind of English that the employees would need. And we developed a curriculum for job
related English training. And we also appealed to the company to provide at least one hour a day for
their employee who came from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to learn English on the job, and also to do
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�show-and-tell on how to do the job, you know, more efficiently. And it turned out that the curriculum
that we helped to develop is very helpful. And the employers are very happy with it. The employees
are very excited about it. So I think all in all the placement of, you know, the refugees into entry level
jobs is not difficult at all. And we started out with one company at the time. And the first one in
Lowell is Lowell Lingerie, which is a textile company. And then we went into Billerica to get into a little
bit of a higher skilled job. At Lowell Lingerie it’s basically training stitchers, you know, who can work on
a sewing machine and do the sewing job. And when we brought the project to BASF, which is a
medical instrument manufacturing company – [H: Medical instruments.] –medical instruments
producing company, it worked out also very well. The job requirement was a bit higher than at Lowell
Lingerie. And it worked out fine. And then we brought it into Bedford with Bedford Glen Hotel and
Resort Center, to train housekeepers, and people in the food processing area. So these are examples
of the three companies lend a hand into the recruitment training maintaining their employees who
came from the Southeast Asian Community.
K: That’s great.
H: That explains the switches, the changes in name of this Self-Help Association, because the Self-Help
start with the resettlement mostly, but by 1982, ‘83, as you know, it split. The program changed name.
And the reason for that is that we’ve now set up the process of recruiting Cambodian, Laotian,
Vietnamese to be providers themselves, to be direct participants themselves. Now we manage to get
them into three separate identities. I don’t know if you realize Indochinese is an umbrella, broad
umbrella, but the fact that the Cambodian are to help themselves, the Vietnamese are to help
themselves, the Laotian are to help themselves, became a reality around 1982, ‘83 – that’s the turning
point. That’s when the Indochinese Refugee Foundation focused on Employment and Training.
K: Did [focusing on] that have anything to do with the struggling economy that was happening at the
time just right in the early 80s?
H: The economy actually is part of the issues, but at that time I think we mostly focused on providing
services. And when we applied for funding for the Mutual Assistance Association we were focusing
mainly at the beginning on resettlement, but by 1982, ‘83, the Employment and Training became very
important, critical because there’s pressure to place these people and get them out from dependency
on welfare. So maybe it played a role, but I don’t think that’s a major role. The major role is the
pressure put on the community, the host community, that means the Lowell inner city agencies, and
that coming to issue is education too, the children, schooling. And that’s where my wife again has to
do the advocacy with the help of city fathers. She can tell you about the effort to do that.
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�L: I guess, you know, at that time, the practice of school desegregation started in the Lowell Public
Schools, because some educators believed that the Southeast Asian children should be integrated into
different schools rather than concentrated in the Acres area, you know, which is also in the heart of the
Lowell area.
H: Also that’s the low cost housing, that’s where the refugees kind of get stuck into. So the children,
you know, naturally are placed into the Acres school and they are all over, in the closet, sitting in the
hallways, etc. They even rented spaces from the YMCA and to house the children.
L: Wherever they can find space for the children, but mostly concentrated in the number schools in
the Acres area. And both the parents and the teachers are not happy about that. No, no, not just the
community, not just the students. So the school undertook a desegregation, it started out with busing
children across the school district rather than concentrated them in one area. At first the movement
or the practice was met with a lot of challenges from not just the community, but from the teachers
themselves. In addition, because parents in the Belvidere area of Lowell would not like to have refugee
children attending the same school with their children.
H: They fall behind and sort of drag the mainstream students. There are a lot of problems then.
L: However I believe that there is a short vision from both the parents and schools. I believe that
diversity started in the school system. You don’t have to wait until the student graduates and is
suddenly met with the challenge of being different. That’s what my personal belief [was], and I fully
agreed with the school desegregation and supported busing of students to different schools in the
district, rather than a concentration of refugee students in a couple of schools. And I was very
fortunate to get the support of first, the Dean of the Graduate School of Education from UMass Lowell.
So together we provide training to the teachers on how to work with students of different cultural
backgrounds and different English capability. So when teachers felt their job was very rewarding –
challenging, but very rewarding – then they started to feel like diversity needed to be started in the
school.
H: I think in addition to that there was such a large influx of children from the refugee community that
the school system was overwhelmed. And because of that there was a lot of resistance not only to
school, but also to refugees and immigrants that fled into Lowell, and they start a movement of antirefugee, anti-immigrants. And in fact it involved the city mayor [Dick Howe]. He had to come up and
justify why, you know, what are we going to do with all of these kids in the school? And so I recall a
time when Dick Howe I think called on us to do something. And so Lan was the one that joined him to
go to Washington to demand more support, you know? And I remember she made a couple of trips
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�with him to HEW, what’s that, Health, Education and Welfare Department to get funding. We got a lot
of additional funds from the federal government to support the school system here.
L: In fact, you know, in the period of five years from a joint effort between the mayor of the city, the
superintendent of schools (H: Mr. Mroz) yah, Mr. Mroz, we went to Washington, DC and knocked at
the door of then Senator Kennedy and Congressman Atkins.
H: Paul Tsongas.
L: Yes, Paul Tsongas, and all together they were able to advise us how to approach in terms of applying
for funding from a pool of money for what they called the Dire Need of Refugee Resettlement, which is
a federal pool of money. And in the period of five years we were able to bring in more than two
million dollars [K: Wow] to this school system, the public school system in Lowell. So it alleviated the
school budget quite a bit, and they were able to hire ESL teachers, guidance counselors, and also to
provide some limited services to students, like free lunch, you know, for the children. So all in all I
think it’s an effort of a community, you know, together with the parents to make school for the
children from refugee families available to them and also it’s a pleasant experience.
K: You were also involved on an Affirmative Action Committee at the, I think maybe at UMass Lowell?
Do you remember?
L: I think (--) Correct, I think at UMass Lowell I was asked to join as a group of faculty to assist the
person in charge of the Affirmative Action Program, or at the time I think it was known as EEO, which is
Equal Employment Opportunity (--)
H: Equal Employment Opportunity.
L: Yes, Equal Employment Opportunity, which is a kind of a different look at Affirmative Action. It’s a
matter of wording, but I think it’s more than that, because with EEO, people feel like, well I can work
with you, but with Affirmative Action Program, it looked like, I have to accommodate you. So I think
it’s a slightly different perspective, but is very helpful you know, to get any initiative started.
K: Do you think there was a problem of discrimination against refugees when they came to Lowell, or
do you think it was more (--)
L: I think there’s a level of challenges. I wouldn’t say discrimination. I think the physical appearance of
children, or adults, from Southeast Asia is very much different from the so to say Caucasian
mainstream. The ability to communicate is also different. And people usually do not have time to
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�understand and to be patient enough to make themselves understood. So I think it created challenges,
but I wouldn’t say discrimination.
K: So the building where the IRF was kind of held, or, was at the International Institute. Were there
any other associations that used that building?
H: Well from 1980 up until 1983 there’s only one, the Self-Help Project that has the funding to pay for
the rent and the classrooms at the International Institute of Lowell, on High Street. And the other, the
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, the Laos Mutual Assistance Association and the Vietnamese
one, were just beginning to perform as social, cultural groups. They used the facility under our, the
Indochinese Refugee umbrella, and we try as much as possible to facilitate the facilities for them. And
in fact we know that – because I’m fully familiar with the history, the rivalry, the hostility – to be
honest with you there’s hostility among the Vietnamese, and the Cambodian, and the Laotian back in
their own country. This is nothing new. So that as the supervisor of the Indochinese Refugee and the
Self-Help Project, I have to anticipate what’s going to happen once each group develops their own
identity. Sort of to reassemble themselves here in Lowell, to gain their own footing in Lowell, they
wanted to be independent from one another. And that is when we prepare the way, honestly at that
time as the program supervisor I don’t expect it to last any more than five years, and that’s exactly
what happened. By 1985 we want to be sure that each one of them can provide service to themselves,
and that the Indochinese would [proceed] in the background and would give up the service providing
for any one of them. Okay, so Miss Keirstead should be the one to tell you how we pulled back and
how the Laotian, the Cambodian, and Vietnamese applied, with her help, their own funding to give
direct support to each other, and that the Indochinese would no longer be there for them. And so in a
way the rental for the International Institute was paid by themselves, no longer [the IRF] by 1985.
K: So after 1985 it seems like you started serving on several advisory councils?
H: That’s correct.
K: So was that kind of the shift with your involvement?
H: That’s correct, yes. Well at that time there was a lot of opposition, a lot of anti-refugee, antiimmigrants across the states, and so it really took more advocacy in the public domain than giving
services to the new refugees. And I really think at that time, I wish I could still stay local, but the
pressure for me to get into the state level to do the advocacy become so critical and there was nobody
else who was doing that. So that’s how we sort of get moving onto that level.
K: So what were some of the things you did as part of the Education Task Force?
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�H: In, not so much in the Education Task Force, it’s mostly in trying to create a place in the state
government to advocate for refugees. I was very fortunate that in 1982 I had the connection with a
team of four or five persons in Boston. These are volunteers. These are some of the social workers,
but they are volunteers in helping refugees, and that included Dr. Don Luce, Jim Lavelle, from the
Indochinese Psychiatry Clinic, Holly Lockwood from the South Cove Mental Health Center, Kathy Lique
from the Boston School of Social Work and me from UMass Lowell, to petition, to draft a petition, for a
kind of an advisory council to the governor. And when Mr. Dukakis was elected for the second term as
Governor of the State, in fact we go through his wife Kitty Dukakis, to ask him to take a positive role for
refugees. He established an advisory council after his election. He created the refugee advisory
council, on April of 1982. So we start off in the fall of 1981 and helped create a council for him. And
from then on it goes on to advocate for refugees across the state. In 1985 we were fortunate to have a
state senator from Lawrence/Methuen, her name is Patricia McGovern, who really, who was the Chair
of the Ways and Means Committee, you know that’s money, Ways and Means is where the funding is,
to provide several million dollars, I think it’s about twenty, twenty-seven million dollars funding for
cities that have high refugee impact and that’s known as the Gateway Program.
K: Were there any other committees that either of you served on that you’d like to talk about? Those
were just the ones that I saw in the archives.
H: So I served on the Advisory, the Governor’s Advisory Council. I was one of the co-chairs of that.
And I also served as co-chair of the Gateway City Program. It was established we had to hold hearings
to see whether the city can justify to receive the money. So we have to hold hearings in twenty plus
cities to see what they need, and to see whether the agencies, the state agencies can really provide
service to refugees in their cities or not. So we hold whatever, you know, is required as hearings
committee. And there are reports. I don’t know if we have the collection here, but the state do have
these hearing reports from the Gateway City Program.
K: So who was at the hearings?
H: There are, the states have many agencies that provide social services. Mental Health, okay,
Welfare, what is, WIC is for women.
L: For women and children prenatal and natal care.
H: Employment training, there is a Labor Department, but in the state what is it called? I forget, it’s
employment training, really placement training.
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�L: Employment and Training.
H: The Office of Employment and Training. There are about seven or nine agencies, the state agencies
that deal with refugee trainees. That do not have any you know, in order to get the services you have
to be eligible. And in order to be eligible you have to be a legal resident. Refugees are not legal
residents. You have to remember that. So they are not eligible until the governor issued a new act
authorizing the agency to admit refugees into their services, and that is really where it opens access to
refugees to come and apply for employment training, or apply for welfare, or apply for women and
children assistances. So we really work on that state level between 1985, 1990, but I end my services
by 1989.
K: So speaking on health, were there any significant issues with refugees receiving health care or
mental health care?
L: I think that is a poorly situation. In Vietnam, or Laos, or Cambodia, mental health is not perceived as
a sickness. It’s perceived as karma. You know in your previous life you must have done something
wrong so therefore you pay for it, you know, in this life. That you [are not mentally stable], because of
something you did in the past, in the previous life. So that is one challenge from the patient
perspective of, “what’s wrong with me?” “Do I need help?” Or “This is my karma. I have to live with
it.” And from the perspective of the service provider, guidance and counseling that is appropriate for
the cultural background of the patient was not available. So therefore in dealing specifically with
mental health issues, it is not easy neither for the service provider nor for the patient. So a lot of
education has to be provided before the patient is ready to receive services, and before the medical
staff, or the counselor is ready to provide the service.
H: Well I can remember one incident or a controversy back in those days that creates a lot of issues for
both schools and parents. In the Southeast Asian community, the Laos, and Cambodian, and
Vietnamese, when you catch a cold what do you do? You don’t take aspirin or anything like that. You
have what’s known as coin rubbings. I don’t know if you’re familiar with coin rubbings. They, in order
to increase skin heat, they rub coins over your neck in the back. And when the kids come to school and
they see all these rubbing marks they say, “Abuse, abuse, child abuse,” from the parents. And so
there’s a huge controversy about what’s going on between parents and children, and it takes a lot of
explanation, a lot to the medical staff, to the school, to explain that’s not abuse of children it’s kind of a
medical treatment.
L: Remedy.
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�H: Remedy for cold, okay. That became a controversy across the refugee community in the U.S. And
they have to have medical doctors from different, you know, perspectives come and explain and write
articles to explain that it is not really an abuse of children. And we here too, are asked to explain
what’s going on with the children, and we have to go to school and explain it to them.
L: And I think, you know, Jim Lavelle who was at the time coordinating the mental health services
providing (H: veterans) at Saint Elizabeth Hospital in (H: In Brighton) in Brighton, would have to do a
lot of education, you know, explaining to both the physician and the parents, to know how to approach
mental health assistance in a very appropriate way.
K: Were there any (--) Going back towards the schooling, were there any controversies with having
bilingual classrooms, or having classrooms set aside for refugee children?
L: There was a movement at the time across the U.S. cities and communities of English as the only
language taught in the schools.
H: Well there were leaders, community leaders, there was George Kouloheras, Lowell school
committeeman who submitted a petition to the legislators, to the state officials, to make Lowell as the
English language school, English language only in school.
L: English only in school. But I guess, you know, there is a transition period whereby students and
teachers need to communicate with each other in order for education or learning to happen. And in
that transitional period, there’s a lot of study that’s been done indicating that bilingual programs –
which means that the subject is being taught in two languages, in English and in the home language
also – would shorten the transitional period for the student into mainstream classroom. And so you
know there’re a lot of challenges that the teachers, the school district and the students are facing and
they try to work out a better way to receive education and to provide education services.
K: There was also a campaign called “Jobs for New Americans.” Do you remember exactly what that
was about, or if it was connected to the Self-Help Project?
H: It’s not connected to the Self-Help Project. How that came about I’m not familiar with.
K: Okay. What was one of the, what do you think, each of you, was your biggest challenge with
working for the IRF, or what was the biggest challenge you faced?
L: I don’t think that you know, there is a notion of the biggest or the smallest challenges that we were
facing at the time, but it is the awareness of, we need to do more work in order to make things happen
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�either in schools, in hospitals, in the community. And when we came to terms with that challenge, you
know, everything we did was trying to smooth the way and make the challenges less challenging. So I
think we both, you know, the service providers and the service recipients, realized that, it’s just a
matter of making it work. So it’s a challenge, but there’s no big and no small one.
H: The only one of my concerns in those days when we [first] established the Indochinese Refugee
Foundation, [we] focused mostly in Boston, because that was the time when refugees came and
resettled in Boston. But by 1980 the population shifted to Lowell, the refugee population shifted in
Lowell and we had to focus so much work in Lowell that we left out Boston. And in that sense I felt
kind of sad that I could not, we could not do much more for those refugees in the Boston area. And to
that extent the members on the Refugee Foundation Board could not give us, lend us more support,
because most of them were in Boston, they were not in Lowell. However they did come every month
faithfully to the meeting, the board meeting here in Lowell in order to lend us support. We just could
not have enough resources, have enough strength to lend more work to the Boston area. But in a way
we felt that they gave us more support than anybody else that could help us to move on, to establish
the kind of services that we were able to do here in Lowell. So that, I would say that’s the only thing.
K: You spoke about how refugees ended up coming here because of the relative success of the
resettlement program here. Do you think that was the big kind of influence in why there’s such a big
(L: influx) Cambodian population now? Is that the explanation?
L: I think for, you know, that concentration of refugees from Southeast Asia into Massachusetts and
into Lowell, there were three situational factors that influenced the movement. One is the availability
of beginning low skill jobs. The number two factor is the availability of housing, low income housing.
And the number three factor is actually quite important. There are Buddhist Temples, places that are a
different religious entity that are available in support of the refugees who live, or who want to, who
were drawn to Lowell. So I think these are the three major factors that fuel, or attract the second
migration movement into Lowell.
H: These factors are very important, but I think the initial factor is, I believe, the fact that we perhaps
were the first organization that insisted on having a Cambodian, a Laotian, a Vietnamese native to do
the assistance to provide the kind of outreach, resettlement and employment training support within
the refugee communities. That really provided the sense of confidence that we understand what they
have to go through and we know what we can do to help them here. That sort of created a wave, an
appeal to those who are from elsewhere, from other clusters, to drift into Lowell. That I think, that
created the increases in population, and that also increased the support, the social support, the
cultural support, I think critically it’s the cultural, social support that brought about the Temples, that
brought about you know, the family clusters. Otherwise if you just have housing placement alone,
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�anywhere else in the U.S. you can have that. Housing, jobs, you can go anywhere, but without that
value system, the social, the cultural values that “This is my people,” it will not attract them to come.
K: Do either of you have any other stories you’d like to share from the time, any specific experiences
with somebody?
L: Well actually I think that the interview with the information that we share with you thus far, you
know, would provide a sufficient story of resettlement, of the first wave, the second wave, the third
wave of refugees and immigrants from, you know, Cambodia, from Laos, and from Vietnam. When
you work more on the transcription, if you feel like you need some more information please feel free
to contact us.
K: Okay.
H: Well I just have a little story that I happened to experience. And that is, when we explained the
conditions of refugees in Lowell to Kitty Dukakis, she nearly cried. And she was the one that really said,
“Let me see what I can do.” In 1979 she paid her way to Cambodia, to Thailand in the border. And she
came back and hosted, adopted a Cambodian kid. I mean to me that is something that I will never
forget.
K: How do you think your time working for the IRF has influenced you?
L: I usually think that if I receive some good advice or some services from somebody then I mark on my
bucket list that I will find the opportunity to pay back. And I think the most satisfying feeling that I had
in volunteering my time for more than thirty years in the resettlement of refugees is a way, a very
small way, of paying back.
H: For me I think that it changed my life really. I came here to be a professional. Okay, I came not as a
refugee. I came as a student, went to high school in Waltham. I don’t know if you know anything
about Waltham. In those days back in the 1950s there was not a single Asian around let alone a
Vietnamese. I went to Boston College to get my degree so that I could go home and, you know, be
someone important. The feeling that I’m home-rooted here in Lowell because of that experience,
volunteer work, helping refugees, my own people and getting to know a lot of good people, really
profoundly affected my life. I cannot tell you how much, like Chet Atkins, Congressman from I think
Groton or, no, not Groton, Concord, or Kitty Dukakis, or Elise Martin and Jackie Moloney. These people
affected my life deeply. Made me feel I am rooted here. So I can tell you that really helped me more
than anybody else. Thank you.
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Four oral history interviews with former staff and board members of the Indochinese Refugees Foundation, Inc., an organization that helped resettle Southeast Asian refugees in the greater Lowell, Massachusetts area during the 1980s. Oral histories were conducted with Jacqueline (Fidler) Moloney, Carol Keirstead, Elise Martin, Hai Pho, and Lan Pho. <br /><br />View the collection finding aid for more information, <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml4">https://libguides.uml.edu/uml4</a>.<br /><br />The entire collection is accessible on this site.
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The edited transcript of an oral history with Lan Pho and Hai Pho on their experiences establishing and supporting the Indochinese Refugees Foundation, Inc. Other topics discussed include their involvement helping refugee communities after the the IRF closed.
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Community organization
English language--Study and teaching
Lowell (Mass.)
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational training
Political refugees
Refugee families
Refugee issues
Refugees--Southeast Asia
Refugees--United States
Social service
Unemployed--Services for
Oral history
2010-2019
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Cambodians
Documents
Indochinese Self-Help Program
Laotians
Lowell Lingerie Company
Lowell Public Schools
Mutual Assistance Associations
Stouffer's Bedford Glen Hotel
The Acre
Vietnamese
Vietnamese Mutual Assistance Association
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Four oral history interviews with former staff and board members of the Indochinese Refugees Foundation, Inc., an organization that helped resettle Southeast Asian refugees in the greater Lowell, Massachusetts area during the 1980s. Oral histories were conducted with Jacqueline (Fidler) Moloney, Carol Keirstead, Elise Martin, Hai Pho, and Lan Pho. <br /><br />View the collection finding aid for more information, <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml4">https://libguides.uml.edu/uml4</a>.<br /><br />The entire collection is accessible on this site.
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Lan Pho and Hai Pho oral history interview audio recording, 2016
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The audio recording of an oral history with Lan Pho and Hai Pho on their experiences establishing and supporting the Indochinese Refugees Foundation, Inc. Other topics discussed their involvement helping refugee communities after the the IRF closed.
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Pho, Lan T.
Pho, Hai B.
Connerty, Kale
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Indochinese Refugees Foundation, Inc. Oral Histories, 2016
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Lowell, Massachusetts
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Community organization
English language--Study and teaching
Lowell (Mass.)
Nonprofit organizations
Occupational training
Political refugees
Refugee families
Refugee issues
Refugees--Southeast Asia
Refugees--United States
Social service
Unemployed--Services for
Oral history
2010-2019
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Cambodians
Indochinese Self-Help Program
Laotians
Lowell Lingerie Company
Lowell Public Schools
Mutual Assistance Associations
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Stouffer's Bedford Glen Hotel
The Acre
Vietnamese
Vietnamese Mutual Assistance Association
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10:00 to 12:00, was a success though the rain
was pouring and a sabotage attempt was
made. Mr. Sarnkhann Khoeun, Executive Director of
the CMAA, came to the office early that morning to
find both front and back doors were bolted and nailed
shut from the outside. Apparently, somebody did not
want the election to take place. Nevertheless, cars
filled the street and the parking lot in front of the
CMAA. More than three hundred Cambodians,
which included many elders, showed up to cast their
vote.
One man, who wished not to be named, said
that the reason why he got up this early was because
he didn' t want to see CMAA destroyed. Not long ago
Mr. Sarnkhann Khoeun was on the verge of being fired
by the former board, and he was put out of work for a
month. This was not due to any wrong doing, but
because of personality clashes he had with a few of
the board members. This is not uncommon, since
people have different self-interests, and sometimes
political affiliations and foggy notions of power can put
them at odds with each other. When people bring their
personal agendas to the table often times such situation
will occur.
As a result, the work that was very beneficial
to the community was slowed down. The disunity,
power struggle and the conflict of interest almost
forced the CMAA out of the nonprofit business. Many
would hope that this kind of thing would not happen
again, and with the newly elected board, community
members are hoping for better results.
This newly elected board, which consists of
three women and ten men (three are former board
members), vowed to work together under one common
vision to bring productivity, positive results, organizational growth, maturity, money and needed human
resources and services which will help members of the
Cambodian community. This newly elected board has
members of diverse educational backgrounds and
experiences. The CMAA is happy to welcome and
have them. They are listed as followed:
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�Anti-Immigrant Mood
Moves Asians to
Organize
By STEVEN A. HOLMES
LOS ANGELES -- Marty Shih is
the kind of person who has earned
Asian-Americans the widespread
characterization as the model
minority. Born in Taiwan, he
arrived in the United States in 1978
with $500 to his name and began
selling flowers on downtown
streets here. Eighteen years later,
through grit, hard work and
ingenuity, he has built his company,
The Asian Business Connection,
into a telemarketing giant that in
1994 sold $40 million in products to
Asian-Americans. But Mr. Shih ' s
rag-to-riches story took an unusual
path last month when he established the Asian American Association to, among other things,
campaign against legislation that
would drastically reduce the levels
oflegal immigration, an issue that
has galvanized Asian-Americans
like no other in recent times. The
not-for-profit association 's executive director, Qingsong Zhang, a
Chinese immigrant said 'we became concerned about what was
going on in Washington, D .C . We
all believe that if these bills become
law, there will be a negative
impact on the Asian community:·
The establishment of the association is an example of the growing
political activity on the part of
Asian-Americans in response to
anti-immigrant sentiment. As an
issue, immigration strikes particular
chords among Asian-Americans,
and proposals to scale it back
produce particular anxieties.
Though people of Asian descent
are only 3.7 percent of the American population, Asians made up
36.6 percent of immigrants to the
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the first time. This year voter turnout
among Hispanics was the highest of
any other year and Luz was proud
that she participated as one of those
voices.
She is from Puerto Rico and as a
child she remembers her mother voting and atthat time she would ask her
mother if she could also vote. There
is a history ofperforming one's civic
duty in her family with her mother
setting a good example.
Luz says that it is easy to register
to vote. Prior to this year' s election
some people were in her neighborhood doing voter registration. All she
had to do was give them her name,
address and social security number.
Later a letter arrived in the mail
informing her where to go to vote.
As a young mother going to school
and on the transitional assistance
program she realizes how important
it is to get out there to vote. The
political theme this year has been
veryanti-immigrant, with welfare and
other cuts to social programs, voting
for her was a way to be heard.
Luz who has two daughters feels
that the U.S. gives safer refuge for
her and her children compared to
living in Puerto Rico. Here is this
country she appreciates the many
educational andjob opportunities. She
started the YPP hoping to finish her
GED in order to find a good job or
continue her education. Now she is
near completion and waiting to hear
about this one job. If she doesn't get
the job she will continue on to college.
YPP has about twenty students
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Mr. Rithy Uong, elected President
Mr. Tern Chea, first Vice President
Ms. Chantha Bin, second Vice President
Mr. Tuel Sar, Secretary
Mr. Seng Ty, Treasurer
Ms. Sokha Diep, second Treasurer
Mr. Michael Ben Ho
Ms. Sithra Chan
Mr. Chiem Huon
Mr. Pan So
Mr. Nick P. Mann
Mr. Chiv Peter In
Mr. Ly Mao
Mr. James L. Canavan, Secretary
Mr. Ravuth Yin, Chairman ofFundraising Committee
Mr. Vesna Nuon
Mr. Ly Mao
Mr. Kem Men
Ms. Ellen Sharkey
Mr. Sideth Im
Ms. Sann Thach
Mr. Sambath Chey Fennell
Mr. Van Chey
The CMAA also thanks all former board
members for their service and dedication to the
community. They are listed as followed:
Mr. Nick P. Mann, President
Mr. Chiv Peter In, First Vice President
Dr. Linda Silka, Second Vice President
Mr. Dararith Ung, Treasurer
Mr. Somrith M. Kear, Second Treasurer
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�Report by Joachim Nickerson
Program Manager
T
hree years ago the Massachusetts Cultural
Council approved a grant to the CMAA to
teach children with and without disabilities
Cambodian classical and folk dance. Bunrith Sath, a
caseworker for the Monorom program was instrumental in designing the project and Joachim Nickerson
wrote the grant proposal. Rany Him was recruited as
dance instructor.
We named the group, The Friendship Dance
Troupe. It has been a successful project which has
continued with funding from the Lowell Cultural
Council.
The dance troupe has performed publicly at various
events and in local churches as well as for CMAA
staff. It is anticipated that they will perform in march
1997, at the national conference of the National which
Association for Asian and Pacific American Education
will be taking place in Boston. This will be an excellent
opportunity for Asian American/Pacific American
educators to see first hand how children with disabilities can realize their potential.
It is truly satisfying and rewarding to observe these
children develop and refine dance movements. It
builds self-esteem and pride in the Khmer culture for
both the students with and without disabilities. Another
important factor is that it fosters interest in learning and
helps maintain a motivation in school and on-going
knowledge. Already it has been observed that some of
the children who were having difficulty maintaining
boundaries in school are greatly improved, their
attention span has increased as well. They learn selfdiscipline in dance instruction which carries over to
other areas of their lives as they realize that they have
accomplished new skills. Both teachers and caseworkers see improved behavior and a more focused
involvement in various subject areas.
Bunrith reports great change in these children and
one has only to observe the faces of these young
people and their more developed interactive skills to
know that self-esteem can be built through the arts.
While artistic creativity is often overlooked in favor of
math and science these children show that creativity is
as important in developing an integrated person.
Arts are important in changing the attitude of
children, and most children who participate in extra
curricular activities are more likely to do well in school.
More after school artistic programs like this should be
developed and the initial funding from the Mass
Cultural Council was a significant contribution. The
children themselves certainly can testify to the importance and benefit of this program.
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movements have been the impetus
to disability rights. The Civil
Rights law was passed in 1964
with the voting rights law enacted
in 1965. The Fair Housing Act
passed in 1968 and is Title 8 of the
Civil Rights Act. The Developmental Disability act is an amendment to the 1968 law.
The Fair Housing Act Amendments of 1988 (FHAA) was
enacted by Congress to extend
certain civil rights protections to
people with disabilities (and others)
in the sale and rental of housing.
Protections are extended to people
with disabilities. The FHAA
provides protection to people with
disabilities who have a mental or
physical impairment which substantially limits one ormoremajor life
activities. The person must have a
record of such an impairment or
are generally regarded as having
such an impairment. People who
associate with individuals with
disabilities are protected, too.
These may be parents, siblings or
other caretakers.
has a record of such an
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is regarded as having such an
impairment.
Note: "major life activities" means
functions such as caring for one's
self, performing manual tasks,
walking, seeing, hearing, speaking,
breathing, learning and working.
For What Act May A Handicap
Discrimination Complaint Be Filed?
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Refusing to rent, sell, or deal
with a person, or otherwise
denying a unit or making it
unavailable because ofhandicap;
Falsely indicating that a unit is
not available because of
handicap;
Discriminating in terms,
conditions or privileges of sale,
rental occupancy, or in ser-
HANDICAP COVERAGE
Who is handicapped as Defined by
the Fair Housing Act? A person
who:
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impairment(including, butnot
limited to, hearing, mobility,
visual impairments, chronic
alcoholism, chronic mental
illness, AIDS, and AIDS
related complex and mental
retardation) that substantially
limits one or more major life
activities;
vices of facilities in connection
with a dwelling because of
handicap;
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stating a preference oflimiting
rental to handicapped persons;
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Failing to design and construct
certain buildings of four or
more units in such a manner as
to incorporate accessibility and
adaptive design feature
described in the Act.
What Are The Time Limits For
Filing A Complaint?
Complaints must be filed with the
U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Housing within one year of
the alleged violation. Persons may
also file private lawsuits, for which
the period is two years.
What Housing Is Exempt From
The Act?
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the Cambodian Mutual
Assistance Association
CMAA), there's a middle
aged, slightly bald headed man who
answers the phone. I called him
"Lok Crew", which means
"Teacher" in Khmer. His name is
Mr. Savy Suth, who was a former
high school teacher of math and
natural science before the Khmer
Rouge occupation of Cambodia in
1975. During the Khmer Rouge,
thousands of educated people, like
him, were murdered. For Lok
Crew, however, knowledge saved
him. The Khmer Rouge needed
him to gather herbs and roots used
as medicine to care for the sick.
They needed him to look after the
children and to help them make
banners and propaganda slogans to
propagate Maoist agrarian collectivization. Most older people in his
village didn 'tthinkhe would live.
They suspected that sooner or
later, the Khmer Rouge would kill
him too. Today,heislivingin
Lawrence, working at the CMAA,
answering phone. When you call
the CMAA, you will hear his soft,
patient Khmer-English voice,
"Hello, this is CMAA. May I help
you?" This is a welcoming voice,
which is not only good for answering phone, but also to bring your
problems to as well.
A year ago, he started
working for the CMAA as a
volunteer. Now, he is part time
staff doing Administrative Assistance. He also acts as a counselor
and a case worker. Cambodians,
especially single mothers, come to
him for assistance and moral
guidance. He listens to them and
shares with them their pain and
struggle. He sympathizes with
them and tries to help them as best
as he can. Most of the time,
people who come to him just want
somebody to listen to them. Some
of the women, whose husbands left
them for other women, came to
him in tears. They tell him about
the problems they have in trying to
raise two or four children by
themselves. They don ' t know
enough English to do things on their
own. They can't read and write
their own language. Their children
don't understand them because
their children don't speak enough
Khmer. They get very afraid and
overwhelmed by everything around
them. The social, economic and
political system here is very
complex. When the welfare
department asks them to fill out
papers, they can't do it themselves.
Sometimes the welfare people
scream at them and even call them
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names. They feel degraded, but
there ' s little they can do. They
come to the CMAA, to Lok Crew,
hoping for a sense of consolation.
They tell him that their boys might
be in a gang. They don't like the
way their boys dress. Some of
them dye their hair, pierce their
ears, wear loose pants and listen to
rap, gangster music. They don't
know what to do. They don't
understand the youth culture, and
they feel so alienated from the lives
of their children.
"I think that I'm going crazy,"
one woman told him. "I want my
children to get an education so they
won't be in the dark like me, but
they don't seem very interested in
school. What's going on?"
The question has no simple
answer. As a former teacher, Lok
Crew is asking the same question.
There' s a big difference between
the Cambodian children here and
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Pond and I am a
recently hired youth
coordinator at the CMAA Youth
Corps: Peer Leadership Program.
This program is funded by MORI
(Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants).
I am very pleased to have the
opportunity to work with young
people. As we all may know, there
are many issues and problems
facing our young people. As
parents, most of you fear that your
children may be caught in gang
involvement and violence. Some of
you think that your children are
safe at school and that they are
learning the necessary knowledge
to prepare their lives for the future.
However, I am sorry to tell some
of you that your children may be
hanging out on the street with
peers who may push or pressure
them to commit crimes or even
acts of violence against their fellow
students.
The problems are vast and
complex. Nobody is to blame.
However, we need to work
together to love and encourage our
children more. We need to let
them know how important education is to them by showing and
demonstrating good examples and
human values. We need to work
together to come up with noninformal methods of education that
will build self-esteem, sensitivity
and strong character in our children.
I need your help and support.
As a coordinator of the youth
program at CMAA, I am now
offering our young people two or
three after school programs.
. First, a computer center is being
Continue to page 25
�Continue from page 17
those in Cambodia, but it wouldn 't
be fair to compare them either.
Here, the children have their own
struggles and peer pressures to
deal with. They want to fit in, and
a lot of them have a hard time
balancing between two different
cultures. Most of these children
just want their parents to trust them
and give them room to breathe.
They want praise and encouragement and some kind of validation
that they are valued. They want
their parents to listen to what they
have to say, to trust and believe in
them.
"Children, especially when they
are young, need a lot of encouragement and love, " said Lok Crew.
Most Cambodian parents are not
short of love. However, the
process they use to communicate
that love can sometimes be misunderstood by their children. Some
parents lecture their children as a
way of showing love. When they
do that, they come across as being
too controlling and forceful. Most
Cambodian children who grow up
in this country can't live up to the
traditional values and beliefs of
their parents. Any restriction
forced upon them will cause them
to rebel and run away. This is
especially hard on single mothers,
who often, don't know much about
the kind oflife their children lead
outside their home. They feel that
they are loosing any sense of
control over the destiny of their
children. Their children know the
system better. They speak English. Thus, mothers often have to
depend on their children for their
own survival.
Lok Crew, who came to the
United States in 1992, feels that he
has it easier than most Cambodian
parents. His wife is an educated
housewife, who by choice, chooses
to stay home and care for their two
daughters. The oldest daughter is
ten years old, and she is already
excelling academically beyond
statewide expectation. She was
one of the 45 spelling bee champions in the state of Massachusetts,
and she' s already studying a
he says, which is different from
most Cambodians who often view
age as a barrier to learning.
Lok Crew is trying to change
this general view by encouraging
parents who he comes in contact
with to participate in the CMAA's
adult literacy
program. The
program, which is
run by Mr. Pahim
Kay, teaches
illiterate Cambodian
adults how to read
and write Khmer
so that they can
become better
examples as
parents.
"Parents must
learn in order to
help their children
learn. They also
need to share their
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problems with each
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foreign language (French) in
won't ever feel alone, especially
addition to English and Khmer. In
single mothers I've listened to," he
April of 1996, she received two
said.
fifty dollar United States Savings
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Bonds. One was purchased and
my heart when they tell me about
given by the Department of
their heartache, their confusion and
fear, their illnesses and their sense
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of loss. All I can do is to encourthe other by Governor Weld. Lok
age them to cry while I listen. I
Crew is very proud. He hangs a
know it's hard, especially when
photocopy of his daughter's
you're a mother with two to four
Savings Bonds on the wall at
children to raise all by yourself."
CMAA. The youngest daughter
"Living in the United States is
didn't even have to go to kindernot easy, but with a little determigarten because her IQ test score
nation, one can make it. In Camwas too high.
bodia, one might not. For single
"I try to instill a love for learning
mothers with four or five children,
in my children when they are
life might mean having to beg for
young. To do so, I have to love
food on the street. Here, I don 't
learning myself," he said.
think the government would let you
Lok Crew applied to two
starve to death. No matter how
colleges with the hope of entering
poor you are, you can acquire basic
medical school. Now, he is in his
shelter, food and adequate clothing.
40s, and he figured that he could
It would be different in Cambodia."
probably finish medical school at
the age of fifty or so.
"One is never too old to learn,"
SEIYAM
SUTH
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Street School
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AIDS cases in Cambodia is
on the rise. As more HIV
testing is being done, statistics
become scarier by the day. Could
AIDS be the second genocide?
The Cambodian people have gone
through enough already. They
have gone through hell in the
twenty year history of war and
massive violence. Cambodia does
not need AIDS on top of it. The
reality is, however, AIDS is
already in the blood stream of
some people. I can testify to it
because a brother of mine died
from it seven months ago. I
witnessed the suffering and the
fear in his eyes. It was a long,
agonizing death, and I certainly
don't want to see any more
Cambodians go through it. However, due to the lack of education
and the belief that AIDS is still a
foreign disease make all Cambodians vulnerable.
Conservative estimates suggest
that by the end of the decade, the
AIDS virus will infect more than
one million Asians each year, more
than in the rest of the world
combined, according to Philip
Shenon in a Special Report to the
New York Times.
In Cambodia, some have feared
that AIDS will kill more people
than the Khmer Rouge time. With
an increase in bars, nightclubs and
brothels in major cities, AIDS is
likely to increase, and would
probably become a weapon of
another genocide if increased
awareness does not take place, in
particular in provincial areas.
Reaskmey Kongea, reporter for
the Cambodia Times, wrote in the
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that the Incidence of HIV and
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is on the rise in
Kratie Province, with an estimated
38.5 percent of the people in that
area afflicted by the virus. He
went on to say that, according to
the deputy director of the National
AIDS Prevention Committee, Dr.
Kiev Sokha, of 401 people who
were tested for the AIDS causing
HIV virus 38.5 percent tested
positive.
Of the 38.5 percent, 28.5
percent were commercial sex
workers, 3. 7 percent were from
the police force and four percent
were pregnant women.
Kiev Sokha said that the statistics were released by the Provincial National AIDS Program during
its eight-month operation in Kratie
which began at the beginning of
1996.
Kratie has a population of
245 ,072, of which 101 are prostitutes. The province has 30 brothels and two night clubs.
Kiev Sokha said aid workers
have been trying to inculcate
awareness among the provincial
peopie, especially those in the
remote areas on the AIDS problem.
He explained that the reason for
the increase in the incidence of
HIV was due largely to the
ignorance on the subject, especially
how it is spread.
However, Dr. Hor Bunleng, the
director of the National AIDS
Committee in the Ministry of
Health told the Cambodian Times
that the reported number of HIV
patients in Kratie was not official.
There ' s no way of telling since
there ' s no method of testing or
consistent studies done. The
Ministry of Health in Cambodia is
only at its primitive stage in dealing
with this deadly disease. When
one is infected with HIV, mostly
through heterosexual contact or
blood, there is no blatant evidence
that person is carrying the virus,
and it can sometimes take five to
ten years to develop symptoms and
full blown AIDS.
The virus in Asia is a subtype E
which is more dangerous and easily
spread than the subtype B in the
U.S. Laboratory tests show that
unlike
military men who go and seek
traditional remedies with the hope
of curing it like gonorrhea or
syphilis, which are treatable with
herbal medicine.
AIDS cases among the Cambodian population in the United States
is fairly minute, although the Center
For Disease Control, (CDC),
reports 3,457 adult Asian Pacific
Islander Americans with AIDS, but
it doesn't mean that there ' s no
need for awareness and education.
As Cambodia
becomes more
1 safe and
prosperous to
travel to, more
and more
Cambodian
Americans
will find their
way back
home, and
some people
will sometimes
have fun and
forget that
AIDS is
something to
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cells - called
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Sun .
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National Development Organization) volunteer, I went with my
brother, who was HIV positive and
later died, to several traditional
herbal remedies stores and clinics.
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that they have had patients who
tested HIV positive, especially
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information on
prevention and
testing, please
call Andrea
Lasky at the
Lowell Health Center on
Merrimack Street at 93 7-6045 or
Sister Willie at Julie Outreach
Center at 937-2437. To speak to
someone in Khmer, call Samnang
Chea at (617) 889-5210 (Chelsea)
or (617) 2284-6281 (Revere)
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better chance for children to
remain interested in school. The
New England Alive experience is
very much in line with the concept
ofexploring, pretending and
experimenting as a means to
educational discovery.
The Komar Day Care Center
serves children and their families
who need assistance and education
to develop safe and productive lifestyles. Our center is staffed with
one director, one teacher, one
Cambodian bilingual assistance
teacher, and one part time counselor. We care for as many as
twenty pre-schoolers by teaching
them social skills and academic
readiness while building their selfesteem. Most of the time they are
doing children's work- playing.
That is how they learn. There are
areas around the room for exploring, pretending, and experimenting.
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games while developing their
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to the park for wider and more
open space where they can run,
skip,jump, and throw balls.
Our other activities include a
field trip to the New England Alive
where small wild animals who have
been injured are cared for and a
picnic in the park. This past
summer their staff bought some
animals to the Komar Day Care
Center.
Parents are always welcome to
visit the Komar Day Care Center.
Part of our program is also directed
at helping with parental skills. Our
child care counselor calls parents
frequently to make sure they
understand everything that is
happening at the daycare. We also
send home information about
caring for our children, including
their basic needs - dressing for
changes in the weather, dental
care, personal hygiene, healthy
diets, and immunizations.
In last April we celebrated the
New Year with a Cambodian feast
and in November we have a
traditional Thanksgiving feast. This
year we also saw a special performance of Cambodian Dances.
Recognizing cross-cultural needs
and showing respect for language
and values of all ethnic groups are
always practiced.
There are several openings for
children (ages 3-5 years) oflow
income families and of families on
AFDC whose parents are attending classes such as ESL (English
as a Second Language), GED
(General Education Development
Tests), and job training. Please call
CMAA for more information
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and all are young mothers. The
class has a high expectation of
these young mothers. The teacher,
Judith D. Nelson, works well with
the students and expects a lot from
them. Luz appreciates Judith for
pushing her to work hard and
believing in her ability. Luz also
says that the YPP focuses on
individual attention as opposed to a
regular high school, which makes it
more possible to get the GED.
In the past year several students got their GED. One is
currently enrolled in Middlesex
Community College, three will start
in January and one is in a specialized training program. We are
proud of these students and
congratulate Luz and the other
young women who have experienced success.
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set up. A total of seven computers
are now functional for our young
people' s use. Software has been
installed. They can do their
homework on Microsoft 3.0 and
6.0 . We hope to set up E-mail and
Internet system to allow young
people here to communicate with
those in Cambodia.
I need volunteers. Those of you
who can teach basic computer
literacy are welcomed.
Secondly, I will be offering a
class in Khmer traditional music.
Your children can sign up and learn
to play a traditional Khmer instrument such as the flute and the two
string troy as well as the khim. I
believe in the importance of music
in connecting young people with
their roots and their Khmer soul. If
anyone of you can offer to teach a
musical instrument, please let me
know and volunteer.
Thirdly, our youth program, in
collaboration with the Khmer
Cultural Institute of Lowell, is
organizing a theater group of
Cambodian youth to write, produce,
act and stage. Through this they
will be able to share each other's
life experiences and self-reflection.
I am working on scheduling all
of these three programs as after
school, non-informal activities and
educational programs. Any
university students, parents,
brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts
are welcomed to volunteer. I
cannot do it alone.
Call me at 454-4286 or come by
to CMAA at 125 Perry Street,
Lowell, MA01852.
Arn Chorn-Pond,
Youth Coordinator, Singer and
Instrumentalist
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A landlord or provider of
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person's expense, to the
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use areas if the proposed
modifications are necessary for
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housing/premises.
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reasonable to do so, a landlord
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the renter agrees to restore
the interior of the premises to
the condition that existed
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required to offer housing of a
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fl celebrate Christmas even though
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it because Jesus Christ, like other
manifestations ofGod, taught love
and compassion. He taught us to
love our fellow beings and to look
upon each other as equals.
~or this Christmas, I wantto lead
ahealthy, happy and productive
life by understanding myself, my
unique gifts and purpose in this
world. Throughmydailypracticeof
meditationand prayer, I know
that I will generate a clearer
sense of self ' ·' andconnection
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to remember
each day
as an extraordinary privilege oflife and
my connection
to all other living beings. The world
is my home, and my home is the
world. With this in mind, I will
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day and how they can affect the
future and everything around me. I
know that good actions, good deeds,
caring thoughts and meaningful motivationaremeans to amorepeaceful and constructive world. I wantto
remember that I am responsible for
myself and other people. Human
beings are interdependent of each
other. Tome, there'snorace,color
or creed. There is only being, a
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growing,learning,playingandevolving together with all inhabitants of
this planet. Diversityis beautiful, and I must celebrate it as a way of
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penniless. I want to practice consuming only what I need so that
others may share the wealth and
richness of this world. When my
dream is realized, I want to help
others to realize theirs.
Christmas ... What does it mean to
you?
Timetospendwithfamilyandshare
love. - Mr. Sarnkhann Khoeun,
Executive Director
To share good things with
otherpeopleto bring out
the best in them. - Rosemary Zaleski
Christ is born! - Savy
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works to reduce poverty, provide basic health, education and
housingforallpeople. Iwi111ookfor
little miracles inmy life and remember my connection to my dream,
vision and my heart's calling, and
rememberthatl can do anything as
long as I do it with those who share
this world with me. I believe that I
have great potential to love, care,
give and serve others.
Merry Christmas
of
mas.
Nothing our tradition
does not celebrate Christ- anonymous
Beingwithfamily.. .sharingthecompany andlovewithmyfamily. Vivian Guimond
Sharingtimewithfriendsandfamily.
- Ancy Kazemi
Being happy and have fun with my
fumily. - Thy Chey
Shopping, beingwithfarnily, being
with children, friends, smell the pine
trees, presents, mistletoes,
Santa Claus. - Judith's Young Parent Class
The birth of Christ speaks of new
birth in our lives. - Joachim
Nickerson
�is Coming to the Merrimack River August 23, 1997
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magine a beautiful summer day
of festivities and fun. Imagine a
colorful, joyful Southeast Asian
Water Festival coming to the
Merrimack River. You can hear
traditional and modern Southeast
Asian music, dance, listen to
storytelling, get your fortune read,
eat tasty ethnic food, watch boat
racing and
learn about
environmental and health
issues from
the different
booths we set
up.
This is a
replication of
a Water Festival
that
takes place
every year m
Southeast
Asia.
In
Cambodia,
the Festival
celebrates the
direction reversal of the
Mekong River and the beginning of
the harvest season. In the city of
Phnom Penh, people from all over
the country come to see the boat
races. Men and women wear colorful costumes. Food stalls line the
river bank. Music from live bands
can be heard. There' s fireworks and
colorful, neon flotillas to light the river
at night. The river bank in front ofthe
royal palace is packed with people.
For different non-governmental organizations working in Cambodia, it's
their chance to pass out information
on HNI AIDS or landmines during
the day. At night, people enjoy live
comedy shows, traditional theater,
music and dance. They also celebrate a religious ceremony called
oum ombok in honor of the moon
Goddess. People line up to receive a
special sacrament of coconut juice, a
spoonful of meshed banana with
pounded rice from the monks. This is
to renew one's hope and fortune .
The Water Festival in Cambodia
was banned under the Khmer Rouge.
It has only recently been revised.
Today, the tradition is very much
alive. Happy people are seen again
every mid-November along the river
in front of the palace enjoying the
boat races.
Wewanttoreplicatethistradition
here along the Merrimack's
Pawtucket Blvd. So far, a Southeast
Asian Water Festival Group has been
established, and theplanningprocess
has started.
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association and the Lao American community are collaborating with
the city ofLowell, the City' s Department of Public Health, the New England FolkLife Center, the University of Massachusetts - Lowell ' s
Center for Family, Work and Community, and other agencies on this
festival.
On November 5, 1996, our first
meeting with community members
took place. Attendees at the meeting
included a monk, two lay nuns and
various community leaders and university students.
The purpose of the
meeting was to get
community involvement and reflect further on how
the Water Festival
is celebrated in
Southeast Asia.
Everybodywasexcited as they reminisced about what
they remembered
of the festival in
their homeland.
This festival is for everybody
toenjoy,notjustfor
Southeast Asians.
People of all ages
will be able to enjoy food, music, storytelling and learn
more about the historical and cultural
connection to the Merrimack River
and the Mekong in Southeast Asia.
There will be a replica of a boat built
exactly like the ones in Asia along
with many other festivities to enjoy.
We need your involvement and
support. Community members are
asked to volunteer and give ideas and
participate in the planning
of this festival. If you would like to
get involved, please call me, Chath
pierSath, at CMAAat 508-454-4286.
�Design Editor
VuthyVann
Senior Editor ( Khmer )
Vuthy Vann, PahimKay and Savy Suth
Senior Editor ( English )
Joe Nickerson, Judith D. Nelson and Chath pierSath
Research Director
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Board of Directors
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President
Mr. Tern Chea
]st Vice President
Ms. Chantha Bin
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Discrimination in housing
Nonprofit organizations
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Voting
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1997-01
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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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C ara Im,
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came out of
the ThaiCambodian
border Khao-I-Dang Refugee
Camp. She arrived in the United
States September 1981. She initially lived in Connecticut and
moved to Lowell after a few years
there. She came to the U.S. by herself, and later brought her mother
and three brothers to this country.
She has a college degree in Mathematics and Business Management.
Now, she is working with the Cambodian American League ofLowell
(CALL) as its program coordinator. The C.A.L.L. is an organization that focuses on economic development in the Southeast Asian
community in Lowell. They provide
small business training, help people
understand how to acquire loans to
achieve their dream of buying a
home and become literate in the
business world.
Sara is one Cambodian women
who has achieved success. When
asked to define "success" she spoke
of having a balance in various areas
oflife. This includes·a family, a stable
job for financial security and a moral
and spiritual responsibility towards
the community in which you live. To
achieve success, she also adds, one
has to be very self-detem1ined and
have a desire to learn and grow.
One must want to make a difference not only in one's own life, but
in the lives of other people and be
able to see oneself as a contributing
memberofsociety. Importantly, one
must do what one loves in order to
achieve a certain self-sufficiency and
satisfaction.
In society, some social, economic and political issues are unique
only to women. They have to balance family and work and also their
roles in society. A lot of the issues
are difficult, and Sara has identified
several relating to her own life. Being a woman and an immigrant in
this country has expanded her horizons and perspective, but not without struggles. She had to deal with
cultural and language barriers, which
many Cambodian women are still
struggling with today. Many Cambodian women in America are not
as integrated into the mainstream
American culture as Sara has. A lot
ofthe Cambodian women in Lowell
are experiencing post traumatic
stress from the war and the Khmer
Rouge years. They have not recuperated like Sara and thus it is
harder for them to provide their children with any positive wisdom to
guide them. Therefore, it is more
difficult for them to identify and
achieve their own personal goals.
Although Sara is fluent in English
and Khmer, she still feels that it is
more challenging to realize her goals
than it would for a native English
speaker.
Sara has always been a very
good role model for young women.
Her conm1itrnent to the community
and her long tem1 involvement demonstrate her ability to face challenges. Every year she assists
CALL in organizing a beauty pageant which focuses on helping young
women build self-esteem and establish roots and cultural identity. It
helps young women identify and
realize personal goals in addition to
strengthening the family.
Sara is also participating in the
Lowell Career Beginning Planning
Team to provide youth with mentors who could assist them in clarifying their future career and goals.
When asked what advice she would
give to young women, she said they
should identify a role model or mentor who they like, and follow his or
her example in order to achieve their
own success. Success includes the
motivation to learn, grow and experience new challenges.
Sara is always looking for learning opportunities. Recently, she
completed an Economic Development Leadership Training provided
by CIRCLE (Center for Immigrant,
Refugee Community Leadership
Empowerment).
When asked, with her knowledge and skill, if she wants to go
back to Can1bodia to help, she said
that she doesn't have enough
strength to go there and work.
However, she will visit family. Her
mission is to help people here in the
United States since there is a great
need especially among the Cambodian people. "Cambodians abroad
must be strong and unified if they
want to help rebuild Cambodia from
its war torn history," she said.
While a lot of Cambodian men
occupy themselves with the politics
of Cambodia, Sara keeps herself
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info1rned without getting involved in
the political quagmire. She is an
Ame1
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in America and in Cambodia. She
votes in every election.
Sara reflected on the role older
Cambodian women play. She
thinks of her mother who had little
education, but who helped her become strong and detem1ined as an
individual. Her mother has been a
positive role model by being a good
example. Sara appreciates her
mother's wisdom and simplicity in
her ways of resolving life's day to
day problems. Her mother draws
thedailywisdom of life fromherown
experience. In many ways, Sara
appreciates the older people because of their life experiences.
"Older people - a lot of them are
wise," she said.
Sara
talked
about
intergenerational relationships. She
feels that teenagers who grow up in
America have a harder time dealing
with cross-cultural issues. They
have to figure out where they belong and where they are in American society. " It is very hard for them
to balance two different cultures."
The yow1ger generation is the future
of the Cambodian American community. The obstacles they are facing now don't necessarily weaken
them, but probably will strengthen
them since they have gone through
the struggles and appreciate what
they have been through. " I have to
keep reminding myself all the time
about where I came from and how
1survived the Khmer Rouge."
As adults, we have to be positive role models and provide them
with guidance and support to face
the challenges they deal with in li fe
and prepare·them for the future.
One does not have to have a college degree to be a posi ti ve role
model. "My mother never had a
college education, but she teaches
me ways to save money, life management skills and provides me with
practical solutions to solve confhcts."
The Cambodian community in
Lowell has suffered a great deal
from a bad reputation due to gang
violence and intergenerational conflicts which evolves from a lack of
basic skills to identify and resolve
issues. "This is why we need to
work extra, extra hard to recuperate from this gang image."
Sara, in her integrity, looks at life
in a practical sense just as her
mother taught her. This includes
basic skills to deal with day to day
living and problem solving. As a
positive role model, this is what she
would like to give to other young
women.
Chantha Bin and Her
Journey
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age
of nine,
Chantha
Bin was
separated
from her
family by
theKhmer
Rou ge
and put
into
a
chi ldren's
camp. The war created many orphans due to land mines , starvation'
relocation and mass killing. When
A
the Vietnamese occupied Cambodia in 1979 she fl ed with other
people and was befri ended by an
old lady who she called "grandmother". They both became very
i11 and were in comas and the old
woman's fanlily dug two graves. At
this point she had a drean1 of a man
in white who said there is room for
only one. They had to make the
choice as to which one stayed. The
old woman had trouble making a
decision and the man suggested that
she go because she was old and had
lived her life whereas Chantha was
young and had a lot of years ahead
of her. She awoke, the old woman
had been buried and the fan1ily was
ready to put Chantha in the grave
as well.
Chantha came to the United
States in 1982 as an unaccompanied minor and lived in Amherst
MA with American foster parents.
Cambodian and other unaccomparued refugee minors were sponsored
by Lutheran Child and Fan1ily Services who recruited foster homes.
She had two years of education in a
refugee camp, Sakeo I and II, before coming to Am erica. Her foster father was a professor at the
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst; her foster mother was a
secretary. When asked why she
had succeeded when others hadn't,
she said that she had support from
other nunors who were mostly male
but who supported and encouraged
her and did not see her as a sex
obj ect. She lived in a very disciplined environment with her foster
parents which was similar to how
Can1bodian parents raise their children. She finished high school and
went to college. While in college
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she began to experience post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome and
lost a great deal ofweight; she was
only 79 pounds. Her foster mother
took her to various doctors who
were unable to diagnose the problem. She failed college and was
expelled because her grade point
average fell.
At this point Chantha got a job
helping special needs children, and
it turned her life around. She began
to work with a child who she calls
Benjamin who had cerebral palsy,
and he didn't like to be touched or
fed. This boy was unable to feed
himselfand do other basic skills such
as going to the bathroom. He was
unable to take care of himself and
through working with Benjamin and
others, she began to look at her own
life. She realized that she had abilities which these children didn't and
she.began to ask herself why she
was so sad. She began to see her
abilities in a positive way. She became proactive, and one day her
relationship with this boy changed
her life. She decided to hug him
and tell him that she was there for
him. Initially she communicated with
him by singing. It took time, but he
did come around and began to feed
himselfand allowed her to become
emotionally close to him.
Chantha was transformed by the
experience of Benjamin and was
able to go back to college and
graduate with a degree in early childhood development. She had to get
beyond her own suffering to reach
somebody else and then both
people grow.
Two years ago she went back
to Cambodia where she met her
biological parents after almost
twenty years of separation. Her
women should form a coalition as a
mother was quite emotional, hugged
support system, a self help group.
her and cried, but she says that she
As a facilitator in the school sysdidn't have the same emotion betem she has the opportunity to ascause she didn't know her parents.
sist with communication between
She realized that a mother's love for
parents and children. While she
her child is always with her, always
isn't a trained counselor, she bewondering where the child is, but
lieves that she helps with the healing
the child can forget if the child
process as well. By being open,
doesn't have any memory of the
honest and down to earth with the
mother. The mother can't forget.
parents she found that they trust and
She had difficulty relating to her
appreciate her. Through working
mother in an emotional way from
with the community and talking with
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people we are all in the same circle
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ration from loved ones. She ran
next day to wait to see where they
from war, was alone and vulnerable.
will sleep that night. This is totally
unfair to any child, but this is reality.
A symbol ofhope and healing was
We just do not have the number of
present when she visited Angkor
foster homes we need to accommoWat and saw the beautiful sculptures
date all the children that come into
smiling at her, and she began to recare. We will find a home each night
alize that she belonged to a heritage
for a child in need, the home may
of a great civilization than she had
only be temporary, but at least the
thought. The expression ofthe base
child will be safe.
reliefrevealed to her that she was a
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At the moment Chantha is workto have a large home or to take large
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often viewed as black culture,
has found its way to the
hearts of Cambodian youth. In raps,
these Cambodian youth, gangsta
wannabes are finding a new sense
of self in black street life - as portrayed in rap music. Rap is the sermon of the street and youth against
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other cultures, borrowing from whoever they can relate to. Often times,
what they borrow is seldom viewed
as something good. What they do
and express in their lifestyle, a lot of
the time, raise eye brows and questions about who they are and what
they are all about. Parents, in particular, are scared and skeptical about
the whole thing, when they hear their
c hildren listen to rap music and see
them wearing baggy clothes. Some
boys even pierced their cars, which
their fathe rs would never do since
gender roles are ti g htl y defined
within their cultural context. Here,
in America, anything goes. Everybody is free to do whatever he or
she wishes. Indi vidual freedom is
loudly being expressed and valued.
Cambodian parents who are less
integrated into the American cultural
mainstream arc lost. Some can' t understand why their children have chosen to listen to this obnoxious. loud
and in-your face form o f music and
wear such unattrac tiv e baggy
clothes, hang out on the street and
dance as though they are pointing fingers at each other, trying to pick a
fight. What they are doing is actually their way of rebelling against
their parents and any notion of cultural establishment. The in-your face
lyrics that they gyrate to give them
an identity, a way of relating to the
world and their peers. These in-your
face lyrics often describe and sometimes glorify violence, misogyny, fast
living, drinking and drugging. Some
lyrics are just senseless, repetition of
screams and " I do you good baby,"
most of which you don' t understand.
Parents are not so much to blame
for all of this. MTV and other medians of cultural infiltration and media
are constantly telling these youth how
to behave, act and dress. Wearing a
baseball cap sideways is cool and it
signifies a certain sign of group identi ty. Baggy jeans and cloddy athletic shoes are trendy. The music
video stars are wearing them. The
girls soaked their lips mud red. They
project their figures by wearing bell
bottom pants and tight shirts brought
back from the 60s. They dance slow
dances with boys before they even
married. Young girls as young as
twelve are learning the arts of flirting.
Some parents are overwhelmed,
fearful and afraid of what their children are turning into. They think their
children are cultural monsters who
are experiencing some cultural difficulties, trying to figure out where they
belong, what they believe and why
they are put on this earth, and for
what purpose. Maybe they' re just
expressing the spirit of being young
in this free for all nation, America.
One night, at a non-smoking and
non-alcohol fundraising party that the
CMAA peer leaders put on at Roger
School, I saw several young boys as
young as twelve smoking Marlboro
cigarettes. The::-e were a lot of them
there. They paid five dollars to get
in. Those who smoked weren't allowed to take their cigarettes and
lighters in . At the beginning, a few
danced, and even toward the end,
only half of those who were there
danced. The rest sat and watched.
That was their night out of the house.
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arn1s front to back. Their legs stayed
in rhythm, propelling their short wiry
frame forward almost airborne. This
boy and his gang danced as if they
were swimming through time. Easy.
Smooth. Cool. Some of them wore
a bandanna over the ir heads. A
young man had a nose ring and one
of his pant legs rolled up w hich
docsn ' t make sense to me. T hey
looked nothing like the innocent,
c harming, Angkorian faced Khmer
children I know, and if! was in their
parents ' shoes, I would probably be
very shocked to discover what I had
seen. At the same time, how everyone can not j udge by external appearances because there can be
gentle spirits beneath the facade. I
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up in this country and realize the issue of trying to balance two cultures
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Cambodia's Poor
n Cambodia, there are two
landmines for every child and
adult. The case of ITTV/ AIDS
is on the rise. The 70% forest covered land has been reduced to 40%
in just three years. Corruption is a
way oflife among government officials. With an increase in bars and
nightclubs comes an increase in HIV/
AIDS cases, alcoholism and domestic violence. To top this, there's the
problem of smoking and American
Tobacco Companies cashing in on
Cambodia's poor.
Newport, Camel and Marlboro
cigarettes, which are most favored
by young people in the United States,
are also very popular among Cambodian youth in Cambodia because
they come from America. Marlboro
is widely advertised. Groups of
Marlboro girls can be seen all over
the city streets dressed in Marlboro
colors, red and white, giving men free
cigarettes.
Most ofthese girls are high school
age students. There are not many
jobs for young girls in Cambodia.
Beside prostitution, they sell beers
and cigarettes and work long hours
in restaurants for a very low wage.
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list them all. There's one brand,
"Angkor," which one would think is
an indigenous product, but on the label, it says that the tobacco is from
the United States of America.
Each company has its own sales
pitch. However, everyone of them
uses young girls to sell their product.
They dress in the colors on the cigarette pack. The beer companies
make them wear uniforms that represent the country where the beers
come from. Some are dressed like
they were in a beauty pageant, wearing evening gowns. They wear
sashes such as "Miss Tiger Beer"
or "Miss Marlboro."
Cigarette brands like Lucky
Strike, Marlboro, Newport, 555 and
the French version of Alan Delon
take over the airwaves and television ads. They pay beautiful actors
to endorse it. "It's smooth and
fresh," says one actor as he takes in
the smoke and blows it back out of
his nostrils as though he's Humphrey
Bogart (who by the way died of cancer).
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"According to a recent international report, smoking kills 3 million
people every year, and the annual toll
could reach IO million by 2020. So
far, most of tobacco's victims have
been men in developing countries, but
now, the report says, more women
in the West and men in developing
countries have begun to smoke.
However, while Westerners struggle
to kick the habit, tobacco companies
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willing to light up" (from the World
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In Cambodia alone, there's no
way of telling how many people
would die of lung or heart disease
and cancer caused by smoking.
Most men don't live that long. The
average life expectancy is between
45 and 50 years, and according to a
report by the World Health Magazine in 1995, chronic diseases like
lung cancer and heart disease are
generally uncommon because relatively few people survive to those
ages when such diseases become
manifest. In Cambodia, health data
and figures showing the patterns of
tobacco use are poor and unreliable.
Yet smoking is particularly risky in
Cambodia where populations are
anemic because it reduces their
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Very poor people often use tobacco
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�West, are turning toward new markets in Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries. In Laos, during the water festival's boat race, the
winner takes Marlboro home:
Marlboro money, Marlboro cap and
T-shirt, _even Marlboro trophy.
Marlboro billboards in Cambodia are
very visible in every social and traditional event. The handsome, good
old American cowboy on the billboard is seen urging people to smoke.
What people don't know is that the
man in the picture with a cigarette in
his mouth died oflung cancer. With
controls over nicotine and tar content, health warnings, and advertising a lot less stringent in Cambodia,
Marlboro is free to sell and enlarge
its billboards.
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as an appetite suppressant - a
cheap and accessible means of
warding off hunger pangs. The men
who drive cyclo and motortaxis, and
street children especially, use cigarette as well as alcohol to suppress
their appetite.
A country like Cambodia does not
have the financial ability to educate
people about the danger of smoking.
While health education messages
against smoking are widely disseminated in developed countries, they are
nowhere to be found in Cambodia.
Television, radio and newspaper outreach are impossible since they have
all been taken over by tobacco companies who have money to pay for
airtime.
The international tobacco companies, fearful ofdeclining profits in the
Marlboro, Camel or 555 and a variety of other brands of international
and local tobacco addictives. There
are hundreds of them, those tobacco
companies who have money are the
most prominent. Like Marlboro, it
can afford to pay young female crusaders to go around in their colors to
advocate its smooth, American cigarette taste.
In Cambodia close to 90% of
men smoke, and it's a socially accepted behavior while cigarette companies exploit this practice to their
own material benefit. By destroying
the health and well being of Cambodian males, tobacco companies continue to become wealthy. This is happening all over the world with cigarette companies capitalizing on vulnerable populations.
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Cambodians who reside in Lowell.
Lowell has been looking for a new
(Community Economic DevelopLowell, being a city ofimmigrants,
home. The current office building
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is home to the second largest Can1cannot be upgraded to modem stanapproved a $10,000 as a low inbodian population in the United
terest loan to cover predevelopment
dards. For example, the heating
States. They have congregated here
system doesn't work properly. The
work. However, the building was
since the early 1980s.
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many centers within a center. The
board and the executive director
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members are currently embarking
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for $50,000.
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conference hall to hold large conferences or conventions as well as
to do training workshops. Some
had asked for a kitchen and a banquet room to be built, which can
also be rented out to host wedding
parties or special social and cultural
as well as fundraising events. Others are looking to expand daycare,
classroom sizes, have a dance studio for the children to learn and practice their cultural and traditional
music, dances and theater. The
80,000 square feet Courier building is even big enough for a religious
retreat center where people can get
lessons on meditation, learn about
Buddhism, hold conferences on
peace and non-violence or any
other subject ofinterest. It can even
be a place to congregate and do religious ceremonies on New Year celebration or Pchurn Ben (Ancestors
Day}. One staff thought about a
movie theater that can also be used
for concert, beauty pageant and
other cultural and artistic performances. A youth coordinator wants
a gym for recreational and sports
activities for young people after
school, as well as, for old people to
do some recreational exercises that
will enable them to live longer and
healthier lives. An English as a Second Language teacher dreams of
having a language lab built into her
classroom. These classrooms are
also to be used on weekends to
teach Khmer language and give
adults, through the Cambodian
Voter League, weekend citizen
classes necessary for Cambodians
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it would generate more money for
space. A guest lodge to house
the city as more people come to visit
Cambodian students, or special
Lowell.
master residence artists or any other
Imagine, a building where there's
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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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temple,Gklry Buddhist temple,Wat Lao Mxajaram,and Lootian temple of Massachusetts.
�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.
F
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.
T
ast year a bi-partisan group of rep
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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four years ago was the staff. By
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deep in the mists of time. As
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with the ability to make pots living
in a cave in north-western Cambodia. Human bones found at
Samrong Sen--settled since
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Cambodians there resembled the
Cambodians of today ...
By Jane Turner
An old Cambodian legend has it
that the country ' s origins may be
traced to the marriage of a foreigner
and a dragon process- or nagiwhose father was the ruler of a waterlogged land.
One of several version of the tale
holds that a brahman called
Kaundinya, bearing a magical bow,
was sighted one day off the Cambodian shoreline. The dragon-princess
rowed out to meet the brahman but
he shot an arrow in her direction
which struck her boat. The act so
frightened the princess that, out of
fear, she agreed to marry the foreigner.
Kaundinya made a gift of clothing
to her, and the dragon-king, for his
part, "enlarged the possessions of his
son-in-law by drinking up the water
that covered the country. He later built
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
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made for Chinese and Vietnamese influences on the race.
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fashion and exterior adornment did not
figure prominently in those times.
Later, around 1000BC, they lived in
fortified villages, laid out in circular
fashion, sharing them with domesticated pigs and water buffalo. Rice
and root crops were grown.
"Indianisation" is an important feature, lasting more than 1000 years in
early Cambodian history, although it
is not known how the process was
triggered or operated at different
times. However, in the first 500 years
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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,
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says were
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of these
kingdoms
came from
wet-rice
agriculture
and manpower mobilization,
and
not
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trade.
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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.
His son Jayavarman III (850-877)
and his nephew Indravarman (877889) remained at Rolous. Later,
Yasovarman, Indravarman' s son
moved the capital to the north-west'
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
recounts,
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all accounts, they were the glue holding DSS together, yet caseloads were
high, morale was low and professional
development was not at the caliber it
should have been for an agency like
DSS. Thanks to the Governor and
the legislature, since FY'93 there has
been an increase of nearly 300 social
workers and about a dozen lawyers.
DSS spending in the social worker
account has increased from $54.2m
in FY 90 to a projected $84.4m in FY
98. I am pleased to report that for the
first time in the history of DSS, the
statewide average social caseload has
been below 18: 1 for the past six
months. This is a trend we hope to
continue. Our next goal is to see that
no individual worker has a caseload
higher than the standard. We think
we can achieve this within the cur-
rent staffing levels. This budget marks
the first time that I have not requested
additional staff
Worker Safety ·
and-in-hand with caseload reduc
tion is the need to provide staff
with the safest work environment possible. We were all shocked and saddened to learn of the murder of Linda
Sylva, an investigator in our Cape office in September. Although her killer
has not been apprehended, and the
motive cannot be linked to DSS at this
time, her death has unleashed pent up
anxiety among staff about their safety
and prompted a renewed focus on
worker safety issues . DSS staff
works in the shadow of violence everyday. They go places some police
say they will not go without backup.
It is crucial we give them the tools to
increase their personal safety as they
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Governor Weld filed a $4.8 supplemental budget request in January for
various safety items for DSS. Such
items include bullet resistant glass in
reception areas, beepers , cell ular
phones worker safety training, telephones and other items. We hope you
will look favorab ly on this request as
soon as possible. Let's not wait until
another tragedy occurs. Many of
these items are one-time expenditure.
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annualization of items that are not onetime expenses.
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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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has had the fortune to begin focus-
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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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Peer Leadership Program involves 15 to 20
Cambodian youths
who are currently in
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
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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
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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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mated Child Welfare Information
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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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Saturday, August 23, 1997
YES! I would like to be a sponsor of the Southeast Asian Water Festival.
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Lowell, Massachusetts 01852
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Mr. Samkhann Khoeun
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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.
The Committee voted to place your communication on file pending further
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.
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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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CMAA's New Home on Jackson Street, Lowell
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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Associate Editors (English)
Judith D. Nelson, Chuck Sart, Seng Ty
Advertising/Marketing Managers
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Thirith Huth, Vuthy Vann, Timothy Mouth,
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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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Nobility In Stone ...................................................... 14
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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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�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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�(Excerpt from a Cambodia magazine: "The Legend Comes to Life"
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.
F
ast it was. Chang' hann
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
m
Seimreap
for the Water Festival
races,
Cambodia's
grandest
celebration.
Monh Sok
says the
key to the
formula is
an ancient
rule: "Kor
romaing,
b a t h
kantaing,
kantuy
p U O S
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 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
leap ," Sok
says . The
boat builders
rush from
stem
to
stern , 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 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
assessments of children and keep sibDSS/Continue to page 13
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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-
s
where everyone in the community has a
voice and a sense of ownership in the
process. Mr. Rithy Uong kept stressing
o n
Street.
On May
28, 1997,
t h e
CMAA
signed
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
testimony that there is much on our plate
atDSS. We are on the front line of some
of the ·most devastating issues facing
today's children and families. Over the
past four years we have successfully
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pchek neung dei"-"koki and water; Pchek
and earth."
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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. 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
the biggest ceremony is reserved for
when the boat
is launched
for the first
time.
The
ceremony commemorates
the spirits of
the
Naga
king
and
Neang Hing,
who
preserves the
water and
land. Bananas and
decorated
coconuts are
placed before the boat,
five candles
are lit, along
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
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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
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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
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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
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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-
DSS/from page 15
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
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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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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
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with these children, to consider opening their homes a s specialized foster
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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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Rouge is inevitable. Pol
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.
Clearly, Pol
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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there's no mention of the Khmer
Rouge in the current school curriculum in Cambodia. Unfortunately, this
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�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
NORETH/Continue to page 28
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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
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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
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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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races. The first round-with seated rowers-represents the
elite forces who were sent into battle first, and are followed by
the standing rowers, the second wave of any sea-born attack:
all storming towards victory.
The sight of 300 boats gathering at the golden pavilion on
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Executive Director:
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Editor-in-Chief·
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Khmer Associate Editors:
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Production and Layout:
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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
CMAA's work and services as well as its community through
good and rough time.
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Without a doubt, our work would not be possible without the fmancial support and guidance from the many funding agencies, foundations, and individuals out there. With that, we would like to
express our heartfelt thanks. And on behalf of the board of directors, staff members, volunteers, and clients of the Cambodian
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!
On January 8, 2000, the CMAA celebrated yet another special
event-the New Millennium Dinner Gala highlighting Rithy
Uong's community achievement, but at the same time establishing the "Community Emergency Assistance Fund" to further assist those who are in needs due to unexpected tragedies
such as being a victim of fire, homelessness, and other unforeseen dangers. The event was attended by many important people
including the Cambodian Ambassadors to the United Nations,
His Excellency Ouch Borith; the Cambodian Ambassador to
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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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
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Danny D. Div
Daniel Bumagin
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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
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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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January 2000
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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
CMAA Youth Program was terminated, however
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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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January 2000
CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
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
Auditors and Advisors
to
Nonprofit Organizations
ONE ELM SQUARE
ANDOVER, MA 01810
978-474-4667 781-729-7067
(FAX) 978-474-4343
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2. Total standard score of 210 to 218,
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Editor-in-Chief:
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American Red Cross
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Khmer Associate Editors: Sak Seang
Produ ction and Layout:
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English Associate Editor: Alison Gerva is and Terry Troutt
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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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All articles published represent the views of the authors;
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the responsible person are correct.
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Magazine.
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by subscribing to, or advertising in the magazine. Your generosity is needed to help us continue in the publishing of this
magazine. The subscription rate is $1.99 per issue, including
shipping and handling. For advertising, please contact Vincent
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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
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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
Tony Roun , YouthAdvisor
Brian B. Chen, Program Director
Maridy You , Case Worker
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Margaret Lavyn Tham, Program Director
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Vincent Bona Un, Job Developer/Case Manager
Alison Gervais, Program Director/Teacher
Debra Pov Ye, Job Developer/Case Manager
Lillian Pelletier, ProgramAssistant
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Montha Oum, Director/Teacher
Sak Seang, Bus Driver
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Danny D. Div, Program Coordinator/Teacher
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days of the new yea r all the people (from the king to farmers) are
free from work and go to offer foods to monks in pagodas, play
games, dance and si ng. At the time of the changing of the animal
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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.
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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
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- Everyo ne dresses in their new clothes.
- Famili es visit the pagoda:
Bring food and o fferings .
Build th e sand dune ( or rice dune), whi ch is a small hill.
Adu lts li sten to the monks pray and preach.
Youngsters pl ay popul ar traditi onal games and dance :
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.
- Everyon e dances and pl ays until morni ng.
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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
army of monkeys set about to build a bridge across the ocean , but
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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".
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education , culture clash, lines of communication, parental guidance, and lack
of role models.
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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.
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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
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CMAA Programs
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Mr. Seang Sak, Ms.
Lillian Pelletier, Ms.
Chenda Soth , Mr.
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CMAA Programs and Services
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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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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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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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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
AQUACULTURE PROJECT· G~l'i5i5jl'i:;e
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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
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Vincent Bona Un, Job Developer/Case Manager
Debra Pov Ye , Job Developer/Case Manager
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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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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
omething that
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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ISSUE #12 July 2000
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
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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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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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• One in five children in the U,S . is either an immigrant or has a.n immigrant parent
{Ruiz. de Vd11soo and Fuc, 2000).
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Approxunately 26.3 miUh:m immigra11ts now live in the United State;s, the largest
numb« ~ded in the 11. lion's hirurry, and ~ 33 percent increase over 1990
(Camarota, 1999).
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.Nearly onc in ieo U "5. families with chiklten is I! mb:ed inunigration :status fam.ily.i.e. fllii'iilies where at least 000 parenl is 31 noncltize.11 and one child is a citizen (Fix and
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l:mmigtali.on &tatus f'amilie'5 (Fu and .Zfmmeima:n. 1999).
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'.fbree.qoartm of the children in noncitizen families are eltizr.ns (f'i~ and Zimmerman,
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York's low•incomc chiMnm live in mixed..statu.s familic$ (fli~ and Zimmerman, 1999).
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Iinconle lmmigrant cchildreo {tDd reduc.--e public reiml:mrsemeucs to providers that serve
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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
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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~
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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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Ccns1.JS Bureau, 1.999).
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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).
arnmgem¢nt,
► 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
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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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refusal, Miss Sophea understood that the two coins the old man had placed
in the container must both be blackened coins. But despite her knowing this
for a fact she still decided to grab for a coin anyway because she couldn't
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Won't disgrace the foster grandfather?
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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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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
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
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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.
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ACCOUNTANTS AND CONSULTANTS
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.
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have received assistance from the MSSP at CMAA, particularly in support
services and job placements services. Just only in the first 6 months of th e
second fiscal year alone, from October in 99 to March 2000, more than 350
families have been assisted in filling out applications for Food Stamps,
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clients are new immigrants who received their college degrees in Cambodia.
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General Practice, and some get a B.S . degree in Economics in the United
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who used to receive part or full benefits from TAFDC (Welfare Department). We have many connections to all kinds of work, ranging from office
to manufacturing to professional.
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Moreover, at the present time, the staff has established two job skills training classes to enhance the ability level of our clients. The training classes are COMPUTER and SOLDERING . These classes are led by the qualified and
certified instructors who really have a heart for
the community. There are four classes of computer training and two classes of electronics
training. Both training are conducted on weekday and week-end. The MSSP staff had enrolled 35 clients in the computer
training and 23 more clients in the soldering training. They will finish their
training at the end of this July.
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Khmer language every Monday and Friday from 4-5pm and every Saturday from 9-1 I am.
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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
to get home safely.
Other Activities
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
places in the community and provide general help to families regarding civic
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True experience has shown that activities of the youth program mentioned
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Reduced harmful actions in public places
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Connected the youth to whole community
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Made the youth aware that they have rights to celebrate/do ceremonies
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Made the youth understand between them and parents
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Connected to the Khmer proverb: youth are future in keeping our
culture
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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ISSUE #12 July 2000
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�TRANSPORTATION AT CMM
The mean of transportation in any society has a very crucial role in
it such as in family, business, non-profit organization and government institution and society as a who le need to transpo11 object or person from one
point to another point in space. In any walk of li fe need to use transportation
such as ; farmers , businessperson, and public officials. In the early society,
especially folk in agriculture economy have been using ox cart, horse cart,
elephant , bicycle, car, tricycle, train, boat, ship, and airpl ane to transport
object or person from one place to another in daily activity. If we don't have
the mean to transport objective or person from point A to point B , then the
economic activity in that society is undeve loped or poor condition. The
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
15, 1998 CMAA had moved from old place from 125 Perry Street to a new
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
their activities outside of CMAA such as; performing Khmer classical dance,
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sport act1v1t1 ect.. .. CMAA 's van in a very bad condition; the oi l is leaking,
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 .
If we look back to CMAA organization, the transportation job is
one of the most important activities that can move our organization forward
its agenda.
The CMAA got a new white van, a 2000 Ford E350; it carries up to 15
passengers. I have driven this new van since its mileage was about 40 miles.
The new van is not on ly for the Elderly program and Youth program, but it
also for all of the CMAA programs.
I have been starting working at CMAA si nce the late of 1997 in
Elder As sistance & Outreach Services program which under the direction of
Ms. Thy Chey. In that time the CMAA own an old van made in 1987 that have
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.
Since I got the new van, I have taken care of it very carefully, 1 even double
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,
because if they do not understand about the importance of the van , it is hard
for them to help in taking care of it.
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Arn Chorn Pond , or Sayon Soeun, takes the youth to perform classical
dancing or playing sports in Amherst or Lynn . Sometimes, I take them to the
uni versity in Boston. Just my driving of the van is over 50 miles per day. For
instance, from the end of January to the end of May, 2000, this van had been
driven 3571 miles. Although the van is used a lot in transportation, one van
is sti ll not enough for the need. As you can see, there are many staff members
in each program. The program staffs are busy with inside and outside work,
like taking clients to medical c linics, schools, courts, companies, and to
meetings. Everyday, all of them use their own cars to provide the services to
the clients. Now, you can see that not only the CMAA's van that is busy, but
the staff's cars too. This work goes on without stopping. The non-stop
activity shows that the CMAA is going forward, improving, and developing
because of the availability of the transportation.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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reers, there are many more who are failing
ward to caschool. While there are many Cambodianto
finish
American
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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COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT - G
Paul Yin , Interim Director
Bora Yi, Senior Case Manager/Job Developer
Ny Ma, Understudy Case Manager
COMPUTER LAB/TRAINING - G
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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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CONSULTANTS - iint~WbnmG\.5
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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
G~nt~W~Mi
Michael Ben Ho
TemChea
Venerable Sao Khon
Venerable Ly Vorn
Saly Pin-Riebe
Pere Pen
Susanne Beaton
James C. Dragon, Esq.
Sambath Keo, D.M.D.
NarongHul
Vanthan Un, Esq.
PROJECT BASICS - GSnt~WG\.5€~~Gm
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YOUNG PARENT PROGRAM - GSnt~WW5~&nism
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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.
Also,
the meaning and purpose in serving the community are still the same.
These two sisters,
the CMAA and the KLM, hold hands together
working with no complaints just for the
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the dedication and commitment of many busy
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Although they all have
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40 hours per week), they still take more time
out of their own family putting in this work
so that their community can benefit from it.
Moreover, if we look at the list o f the KLM
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longer working at the CMAA, but they still
contribute their own personal time to support
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part of your business and your life.
With love and respect,
Margaret Tham, Editor In Chief
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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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ISSUE #13 OCTOBER 2000
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.
Cen9r1t11f1tlons!
MSSP-ESP Staff
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Debra P. Ye
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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
February 2000
March 4, 2000
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May 2000
June 2000
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Dec 2000
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* Planning that involved youth, family members, staff, volunteers and board members
* Prepare proposal to City of Lowell under its Consolidated Plan- CDBG
* 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
For further information, please contact the CMAA's Executive Director, Samkhann C. Khoeun at (978) 454-4286, or Email:
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As broad as this statement is, it opens many
new opportunities for the Southeast Asian population, especially the Cambodian Community of
greater Lowell. ln the first year grant the CMAA
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followed by a $1 ,500,000 grant for fiscal year
2000. The CSE program for the first year provided the impetus for a true set of guidelines for
those affected by unemployment, low levels of
work readiness. Refugees are also affected by
an inadequate supply of jobs for their skill level
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The Community Service Employment program
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of
Greater Lowell. In the first year, CSE was able
to service 115 clients who came to the center.
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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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attend college, trainings and workshops to keep up to date
with the educational needs of the children in their care.
The children have a variety of activities to do during
the day to help them develop the social, emotional and educational skills needed for their futures. Our new curriculum
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look forward to an exciting year oflearning for the children.
The staff works closely with families and outside
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We are members of the Lowell Community Partnership. This partnership is directed by the City of Lowell
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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
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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.
6)- In year 2000, seven CMAA youth successfully completed High
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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.
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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.
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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!
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"The field trip that was my favorite would be to the Hampton
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wouldn't have a very great time during the summer.
So thank you everyone who help and brought us to go and have a
very great time!!"
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This past summer Monorom had organized three successful fun
cookout field trips to Hampton Beach State Park and Pawturkaway
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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.
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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."
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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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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSA.GE
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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
happiness for many years to come!
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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
to eaucate our peopk of tfie importance of 6ecoming V.S. citizens. Wfien we fiefp oursefves tfien otfiers can fiefp us.
We celebrate Khmer New Year once a year. So let us
unitedt in celebrating our proud culture an heritage. This
year we celebrate the year of the horse. Let the angle of
this year blessing us good health, prosperity, and importantly unity and harmony to our people and community
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Have a safe and enjoyable Khmer New Year.
Oncf: again, I woufa {if{s to wish, a{{
ofyou a safe anaprosperous 'Kfimer
:New <Year.
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Vicheavy V. Chantrea, Receptionist
Bunrith Lach, President
Sathya P. Pholy, 1st Vice President
Samuth D. Koam, 2nd Vice President
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Chuck Sart, Secretary
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Stephen Thong, Assistant Manager
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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
predominantly in Stung Trieng and Kratie provinces in northeast of Cambodia. Measuring about 2 to 2 1/2 inches in
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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still lingering inside the household
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New Year celebrations, people thank the departing Tevada,
or the Guardian Angel and the Animal Protector, for example,
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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 .
At half time, the young women get to toss forward the
Chhoung ball into the air while the young men get to aim it at
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
of our students and the successful year we have had.
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
Mr. Samkhann Khoeun Executive Director of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association to address the class and
congratulate them on their efforts and education.
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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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keep the clinic open and serving over 1000 patients and families.
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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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CIAA LOWELL MAGAZINE
20 Years
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20th Anniversary
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If we look back twenty or twe1
;ty-five years ago, when we first arrived in the US from the long
dangerous journey of escape from the Khmer Rouge's wrath, we all breathe a sigh of relief
because we are in America now. We will not be tortured, starved, killed and separated from our
loved ones again. At the same time, we felt some fear about our futures in this strange place.
Many of us arrived with little but the clothes on our backs, with no knowledge of English
language, American culture, no job skills and no one to point us in the right direction to get the
help we needed to start our new lives.
In 1984, the CMAA was founded. With its focus on Cambodians helping Cambodians, the
CMAA was a place where Cambodians could go and receive help from people who spoke their
language, understood their culture, and shared their experiences. The CMAA was a place
where one could go for help with renting an apartment, for English classes, for training in job skills that would help one
get a new job. Over the years, the CMAA had many successes. It ran a daycare that allowed parent~ to work, in
households where tvvo incomes were needed to make ends meet. The CMAA offered English classes that allowed many
newly-arrived Cambodians to communicate with their new neighbors; they helped with immigration issues that separated
families; they ran classes and gave assistance for those seeking American citizenship; they provided family counseling for
families under stress from the change in cultures; and they subsidized job placements that helped many get their first job.
The CMAA ran one of the largest youth programs in Lowell, helping hundreds of youth to find their way between
traditional Cambodian culture and the culture of their American classmates.
The CMAA became one of tJ1e leading forces in the preservation of traditional Cambodian culture. The CMAA brought
the \!\later Festival to the hanks of the Merrimack River. Today, this showcase for traditional music, dance and crafts
draws tens of thousands of people from all over the globe. The youth program taught traditional dance and music to
Cambodian youth to encourage the appreciation of tJ1eir rich heritage.
Today, the Cambodian community in Lowell boasts many successful businesses and professional otfices. A large number
of Cambodians have purchased their own homes and are enjoying successful careers. Cambodian parents are now
attending their children's college graduations . Many of these individual successes stem from the efforts of the CMAA.
All of these successes come from the sacrifices of the staff of the CMAA who worked long hours for less pay than many
of their colleagues at other agencies. \Vhen finances were tight, many staff members did not get paid on time. The
dedication of these staff members is an example for all of us.
Our work is not done. \Ve face many challenges, especially after the 9/ 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center
Towers that created many negative sentiments towards immigrants and a floundering economy. These situations made it
more ditlicult for us to achieve our goals. Nevertheless, the Board of Directors and staff are poised to overcome all
obstacles in order to realize the CMAA's mission. We are focusing on our tasks of developing a strategic plan, growing
our programs, investing in our board and staff developments, developing leaders within our community and within our
youth, and working with our partners to complete of the
development of the 90,000 square foot historic mill
building donated by Courier Corp. to the CMAA. I am
very optimistic about the success of our community and
of our organization.
Sincerely,
Congratulations from the G rea te r Lowell
Chamber of Commerce on your 20 yea rs of
success.
Vongsaranak Ros
Executive Director
Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce
144 Merrimack St. Suite 203
Lowell, MA 01852
Website: www.glcc.biz
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�Dear Friends and Supporters,
It gives me great pleasure to warmly welcome you to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
(CMAA) of Greater Lowell's 20 th Annual Celebration. Over the past 20 years, the Southeast
Asian community has made great strides in the areas of business, economic development,
education, social welfare, home ownership, as well as in the political arena. Today, we are proud
that there is a Cambodian American City Councilor in Lowell, the Southeast Asian Water Festival
is recognized nationally and internationally for its cultural contributions, and that the CMAA has
made significant improvements in its infrastructure.
Established in 1984 by Cambodian refugees in an effort to assist our community members to
attain self-sufficiency, the CMAA has become the largest Southeast Asian social service agency in Greater Lowell. We are
grateful to the Courier Company for their kind donation of the Hamilton Building that now houses the CMAA. In a
collaborative effort with the Boston-based Architectural Heritage Foundation, our building will undergo major development.
We are also enthusiastic to be a partner in the City of Lowell's JAM Plan.
Federal , State and local budget cuts have deeply impacted the CMAA's programs. These cuts have come at a time when
unemployment and poverty have increased in our community. Unfortunately, we have lost some valuable programs that
would have been instrumental during these difficult times. Consequently, we had to continue providing essential services
to our community with limited resources . The support of our funders, sponsors, partners and other key stakeholders
enabled us to be a viable agency and to continue providing services. And therefore, we extend our sincere thanks to all who
have supported the CMAA over the years.
Most recently, through the auspices of the Jericho Road Project and Sherbrooke Partners, the Board of Directors of the
CMAA conducted an organizational assessment. This important initiative served as a guide toward systematic changes
within the agency. These changes began with diversification of the Board of Directors, financial accountability, and
improving daily operations. Currently, the CMAA has board members with diverse and relevant expertise who are
positioned to lead the agency. In addition, our Executive Director has been a great advocate for the CMAA and an
essential liaison with the public and private sector. Most importantly, the staff has been a core asset throughout the
years. We are proud of their energy and selfless dedication, which is the foundation of the CMAA.
As we grow in strength and recognition, it is our sincere hope that we will continue to work together to achieve our
objectives. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all donors, sponsors, advertisers,
and individuals who helped make this 20th Annual Celebration successful.
Sincerely,
Hai Cheng
Chairman
CMAA of Greater Lowell, Inc.
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ADMINISTRATION - G~nW1.SW1:?~Gm
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�Welcome to CMAA Lowell Magazine! As the Editor-in-Chief for this special program book
edition, I am pleased to provide you, the reader, with a variety of thoughtful and some powerful
articles and advertisements brought to you by our various contributors and supporters. With the
guidance of several members of our team, I am proud to introduce this special edition to you. I
am also grateful for the opportunity to actively participate in all aspects of CMAA goals and
aspirations, for I have always believed that it is through dedication and involvement in the
community that we discover ourselves.
There are several individuals whom I would like to personally thank for their own commitment to
this publication and to the planning and organizing of CMAA 20th Anniversary celebration. To
begin with, I would like to thank Brian B. Chen, the Associate Editor, who has devoted much time
and energy to this endeavor; specifically, to the complete layout of the magazine. I would also like to thank Ronnie Mouth,
Barbara Zipps Glass, Judith Dickerman-Nelson, Sarah Uch and other staff who have been especially helpful in collecting
submissions, typing and editing this fine work. What great display of teamwork!
This special publication has the privilege of introducing agencies and businesses to the community. We are grateful to
those who have contributed to the magazine, and we encourage others to use this as a resource.
I encourage all of you to take time to read and think about the impressive submissions provided in this special magazine.
Please contact us with any comments, suggestions, or ideas that you have to help us grow and improve as an annual
publication. I would love to hear from all of you, and I hope you find this program book helpful and insightful!
Happy Anniversary, CMAA! May you continue to prosper and achieve.
Phala Chea, Ed.D.
The Value of Health
By Barbara Zipps Glass, BS, R.N. of CMAA
The World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or illness.
If we believe that this definition summarizes our well being, then we might want to ask ourselves, what value we put on
health. Do we appreciate health as a positive feature of our lives?
We do not function in this world in the physical aspect alone. Health is more than our physical body. In understanding our
health we need to understand how our emotions, feelings, beliefs and values play a role in both our health and our illness.
What role does knowledge play in our understanding of health? First, we need to be able to understand what information
the medical provider is conveying to us. Next, knowledge allows us to have a clearer understanding of our health status,
illness or disease, in order to ask questions and interpret the new information. Finally, this knowledge allows us to make a
more informed decision in determining what type of treatment we feel is right for us and choose to pursue.
There are several ways to keep ourselves healthy.
Awareness: Being aware of when something is feeling out of balance and understanding what our body is telling us.
Prevention: Use nutrition, exercise and activities, limit stress factors, practice stress management, and be aware of subtle
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Education at the CMAA
by Judith Dickerman-Nelson: Education Director
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association was formed twenty years ago to assist new refugees to the
Lowell area. The programs of this agency have helped many as they've made their home here. The education
department has been a cornerstone of this assistance association, and our anniversary provides an opportunity to reflect
on our growth.
On any given day at the CMAA, one can find educational activities going on. We have a variety of classes
taking place Monday through Saturday, and the range of activities is great. From computer classes to Khmer classes,
from English classes for speakers of other languages to traditional dance classes, from GED classes to music classesthe options go on.
Our computer teacher, Holy Khut, teaches two classes: computer class level I and computer class level II. In
these classes, Mr. Khut introduces students to computers, and in level one he introduces keyboard typing, computer
hardware, Windows, and Microsoft Word. In level two, Mr. Khut goes deeper into Microsoft Word, and teaches
students about cover letters and resumes; additionally, the teacher introduces the Internet and how to use search engines.
We have literacy classes that focus on reading comprehension and writing skills. Here our teacher Marion Best
leads students in activities that strengthen their written communication skills. Ms. Best assists the students with critical
thinking skills, as well, and these skills will help our students as they move into the work world.
One of our longest running programs at the CMAA is the Young Parent Program. This is an alternative
education program for young parents between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one who have dropped out of school.
The program helps students prepare for the GED test by studying the five subjects of that test. Additionally, this
program focuses on life skills, including parenting issues and work-readiness. The aim of the Young Parent Program is
to help the young parents move towards self-sufficiency, and it is our belief that an education and a job will take them
there. Kerrianne McDermott and Marion Best teach in this program, providing classes and personal support. Our bus
driver for this program has been Sak Seang. Ms. McDermott has been driving while Mr. Seang has been sick. We
appreciate her willingness to jump in and drive!
In addition to the Young Parent Program, we have had GED classes for anyone interested in gaining a high
school equivalency diploma. We've had young students who have recently dropped out of high school, and we've had
older students who left high school a long time ago. The various ages represented remind us that it is never too late to
learn.
The CMAA is also the site of a satellite program for Lowell Adult Education (LAE). As a satellite of LAE, we
are able to offer English classes for speakers of other languages (ESOL). We have a morning class and an evening class
taught by Mr. Kosal Suon. Mr. Suon assists students in language acquisition, and the classes are lively and informative.
The CMAA enjoys its collaboration with Lowell Adult Education and appreciates the opportunity to serve students who
need to learn English.
In the past, the CMAA had a youth program that featured peer leaders and dance instruction. Although that
particular program has closed, the agency-always seeking to improve-has begun another program. On Saturday
mornings, a new dance troupe practices traditional Cambodian dance to the sounds of traditional music. The Bayon
Fine Arts Troupe is the newest addition to the CMAA and with its dance instruction and music instruction seeks to instill
a love and respect of Cambodian culture. Additionally, there are Khmer language classes taking place on Saturdays and
students are learning the Cambodian alphabet.
The Education Department has grown over the past twenty years, and we are grateful to the many funders who
recognize the importance of education. I would like to take this time to thank the Department of Transitional
Assistance, the Greater Lowell Workforce Investment Board, the City of Lowell Enterprise Community, United Way, the
Freeman Foundation, the Fay Foundation, Foundation M, the Department of Education, and all others who have
supported us in the past. We look forward to your continued support as we move forward.
In addition to our funders, the education department has collaborated with a number of agencies over the years.
Thank-you to the Department of Health, Alternative House, Women's Services, ~IC, the Mental Health Association of
Greater Lowell, Early Intervention, and so many others. We have benefited from the workshops and information you
have shared freely with our students. Over the years, there have been many who have helped the education department,
and I may have forgotten to name all of those who have been of assistance. Please forgive me and know that we
appreciate all that people have done to make certain that the CMAA's mission to improve lives through education
continues to be met.
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A Dedicated Servant
By Judith Dickerman-Nelson
Rany Him was born on March 2, 1966, and she died on September 13,
2004. She died much too young, and her life was much too short. But during
this short time she touched many people in many ways. I met Rany for the first
time in 1995 at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA). This
was when the CMAA was located on 125 Perry Street. Rany performed many
duties for the CMAA, then. I got to know her well, as one of her jobs was
working as the recruiter for the Young Parent Program (YPP). As the director
of the YPP, I was Rany's immediate supervisor. She also worked as the
Coordinator of the Citizenship Program.
Working with Rany, I had the opportunity to see her every day. What I
remember most is Rany's smile and sweet voice. She always smiled, and she
always had something good to say, a compliment that made you happy. Looking
back, now, I imagine Rany must have had a personal motto that she would say
something nice to everyone she met, because every day she did.
At anniversary parties and New Year's celebrations, I would often see Rany dancing the Rom vong.
She would teach me how to hold and move my hands, how to move gracefully around the room. Rany was a
wonderful teacher, and this is the role many people remember her in. She worked with the children of the
CMAA's Monorom program, teaching traditional Cambodian dance to children with Down's Syndrome and
other disabilities. Rany had patience, and I remember watching her adjusting a young dancer's hands so that
they would have the proper form. In the afternoons and early evenings, Rany would work with the youth,
teaching the young men and women the Coconut dance or the Pestle dance. Most recently, she was working
with the Bayon Dance Troupe, and I know she was thrilled when Paula Chea and Sovanndara Neang went to see
her in the hospital. They brought a picture of the kids performing at the Water Festival and a card signed by the
troupe.
Rany took her teaching job very seriously, as she was passing on knowledge of Cambodian dance that
was almost lost during the Khmer Rouge. By passing on her own knowledge of dance, she made certain that
this tradition of intricate, beautiful dance would live on. I remember watching the young dance troupe performing
at various events and seeing Rany watching too, like a proud mother observing her children.
Rany worked for the CMAA while raising her own young children. She and I would speak about our
families, and I know she loved hers deeply. Like many mothers, she juggled the demands of being a mother, a
wife, and a worker. And despite the demands of her busy life, Rany always put on a happy face. I loved to hear
her laugh and to see her joking with friends.
In 1998, Rany left the CMAA to work at the Department of Transitional Assistance. We were all sad
to see her leave, but since my program works closely with DTA, I would still see Rany regularly. Additionally,
Rany continued to come to the CMAA to teach dance. She volunteered her time, generously giving of herself
so others would know the beauty of Cambodian dance. So we honor Rany's memory by remembering her
beautiful spirit, by remembering to always say something nice to people we meet, and by remembering traditional
Cambodian dance.
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Highlights in this issue:
Executive Director Message
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The CMAA is dedicated to improving the
quality of life for the CambodianAmerican community of greater Lowell
and other ethnic minorities through
educational, cultural, social, community
and economic development efforts.
Special Thanks to the following
Media for their support!
"Voice of CMAA -Thinking Out
Loud Radio" WUML 91.5 FM,
Every Friday at 11 :00AM12:00PM, Hosted by Brian B .
Chen, Ang Pheng, Sak Seang
"Voice of Cambodian Children Radio" WUML
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by Sidney Liang and others
"Voice of Cambodian American in New England"
WCAP 980 AM, Every Tuesday and Thursday from
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As we wrap up the 20th year of service to our community and enter
into the 21 st year, I would like to thank our past and present funders,
staff, volunteers, Board of Directors, Advisory Board members and the
Cambodian business community for their contributions to the success
of our organization. For the last twenty years, CMAA has provided
important programs such Job training, ESL classes, Young Parents
education, Citizenship classes, Youth outreach and organized many
cultural celebrations. These are vital programs for many people in our
community looking to improve the quality of their lives.
It is not easy to find resources to put these programs together but it is because
many great people fought hard and believed in the mission of our organization
that we have been successful for the past twenty years. I would like to dedicate
this year's annual celebration to our past and present funders and those who
served this agency in any capacity.
Because of the effects of 9/11, the war on terror, the war in Iraq, natural disasters,
and high energy prices coupled with slow recovery in our economy, the business
of serving the "underserved" is extremely challenging. Program funding is being
cut at all levels, putting our poorest community members' greater risk.
As bleak as the funding situation is, I am optimistic that CMAA will find ways to
continue to offer programs vital to the lives of our community members. Earlier
this year we successfully completed a joint staff and Board of Directors' planning
retreat. With the help of the Jericho Road Foundation, we are working with
consultants from Sherbrooke Partners and Ms. Wee Nee to develop a strategic
plan that will create a blueprint for future programs and ensure the success of the
CMAA.
Sincerely,
Vongsaranak Ros
Executive Director
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21st A nnive rsary November 5, 2005
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It gives me great pleasure to warmly welcome you to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance
Association (CMAA) of Greater Lowell, Inc., 21 st Annual Celebration. This is another
successful year for the CMAA. Among our many accomplishments is the achievement of
fiscal transparency, board development, strategic planning, new partnerships, and
programmatic restructuring.
The Southeast Asian community continues to thrive and contribute to the economic and
social development of Greater Lowell. Our community members have opened new and
expanded existing businesses, purchased homes, pursued ambitious educational and career
goals, and improved their quality oflife. We have also achieved a milestone in the political arena. I would like to
take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to former City Councilor Rithy Uong for his remarkable
advocacy and extensive services to the communities of Lowell.
This year the CMAA held its first Advisory Board meeting. Beginning in 2005, the Advisory Board will meet on
a quarterly basis. The Advisory Board is instrumental in strengthening the CMAA and guiding us on the development
of the organization. In addition, the CMAABoard of Directors completed a full year of development activities led
by Mr. Welles Hatch, a volunteer from the Jericho Road Project. As a result, we are pleased to report that we have
made significant improvements in the functioning of the Board of Directors. With assistance from the Jericho
Road Project the CMAA is now moving towards Strategic Planning, which will position the organization for
future growth. A comprehensive strategic plan will also ensure that the organization meets the needs of our
community.
The CMAA faces some difficult challenges as we work to address issues related to building development. With
delays in building development, the structure continues to deteriorate. Subsequently, the cost of operating and
maintaining the CMAA building continues to rise. The CMAA Board of Directors and Executive Director are
fully engaged in addressing this issue and building development will be the top priority for the organization in the
commgyear.
Federal, State, and local budget constraints deeply impact the CMAA's programs. Securing funding for key
programs is a challenge and the CMAA is currently seeking a grant-writer to assist the agency in bringing in funds.
Nevertheless, the organization does have some new initiatives this year and is committed to providing essential
services to its clientele, many of who are unemployed or underemployed. We extend our deepest appreciation to
our funders , sponsors, partners, and other key stakeholders whose support has enabled us to provide these services.
On a final note, this year has been difficult for many of our fellow citizens in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and
New Hampshire. There have been some devastating events throughout the world, especially the Tsunami and
recent earthquake in Asia. For many of our community members, such loss is reminiscent of our own losses
during the Cambodian genocide. The CMAA Board of Directors and staff extend our sympathies to those affected
by these tragic events.
As the CMAA grow in strength and recognition, it is our sincere hope that we continue to work together to reach
our goals. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the donors ,
sponsors, and individuals who helped make this 21 st Annual Celebration successful.
Sincerely,
Hai Cheng, M. Ed, C.A.G.S.
President
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEFS NOTE
Welcome to Cambodian Mutual Assistance ·
Association's 21 th Anniversary Program Book! It is a
pleasure and an honor to have been given the
opportunity to serve as the Editor-in-Chief for this
special program book again this year. It is also a
formidable challenge, but one that is made easier by
the help of our very distinguished staff members.
Together, we aim to provide the readership with
comprehensive articles and advertisements submitted
by our various contributors and supporters.
A Program Book of this nature is a collective
enterprise, one that is made possible through the efforts
of contributors, reviewers, designers and editors, and
also through the support of other CMAA staff and
Board members. There are several individuals whom
I would like to personally thank for their own
commitment to this publication and to the planning
and organizing of CMAA 21 th Anniversary celebration.
To begin with, I would like to thank Brian Chen who
has devoted much time and energy to completing the
entire layout of the program book. I would also like
to thank Ronnie Mouth, who has been especially
helpful in collecting submissions for this fine work.
ADMINISTRATION -
CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH -
To those who submitted articles and advertisements, I
hope you found your work with CMAA staff a
beneficial experience. To all of our regular advertisers,
thank you for being a part of our team effort. I
appreciate your interest and look forward to working
with you again next year. To all of our readers, please
contact us if you have comments, suggestions or ideas
for future growth and improvement.
GSn~miit;ms
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Joseph Sexton, Health Director
Sovann Kheam, Community Health Educator
Karena Doung, Community Health Educator
Jerusha N. Peterman, Nutritionist
MONOROM FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM Boroeuth B. Chen, Program Coordinator
Thy E. Chey, Case Worker
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Angela Lessard, YPP Bus driver
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about the impressive submissions provided in this
special edition. The CMAA Program Book targets a
diverse population - all of whom are beginning to
develop their tastes for reading and using the CMAA
Program Book as a community resource.
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Stuart Santelmann, Secretary-Assist. Director
Sovanndara Neang, Board Member-Paralegal
James J. Cook, Board Member- ED, LDFC!Lowell Plan
Tooch Van, Board Member-UML Community outreach Coard.
Melody Suong, Board Member
Sophy Suon, Board Member
May this New Year bring you great wisdom, health
and prosperity!
Phala Chea, Ed.D.
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able to relate with each other with many things because most of us are in the
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Blood Pressure and Health Outreach at Pail in Park ........................................................................... 14
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I am excited about the achievements our organization enjoy this past year and the staff,
board members, clients, volunteers and supporters deserve all the credit for the success.
Our health education program has literally saved lives during our health screenings. As
part of our health education classes and health screenings, we have nurses check our
participants' blood pressure and cholesterol level. The results are alarming. In several
instances we had to call the ambulance to take people the hospital because their blood
pressure was dangerously high. We are glad our health education program funding was
renewed by the Office of Refugee Settlement to keep our wonderful community health
education staff reaching out inform people about the importance of regular health check ups.
Over the pass 22 years, the CMAA have successfully assisted many Asian and other ethic refugees to
start their new lives in cities around Greater Lowell area. The services that majority people accessed
were basic but essential to begin building their live here in America such as; English classes, job
training, after school tutoring, translation services, school registrations, etc ... 22 years later, the
community's successes are evidenced in a numbe~ of our community member who have started
businesses, bought homes, graduated from high schools and colleges, and are now contributing to the
economic growth our new country. That being said, the CMAA's work is far from over. In fact, it has
gotten greater. There are still many people needing basic services that we are currently providing. In
addition to the basic services, we now have to help our business community grow, educate the
homeowners the about the financial responsibilities of owning a home, assist our graduates with access
to good paying positions, inform everyone about the importance of voting and political representations
and most importantly, teaching our community how to maintain good physical and metal health. I am
please to inform our community members that our board and staff, with the assistance from the Jericho
Road Foundation volunteers, are working hard to come up with a strategic plan to address our
community's needs during this of time of limited resources. The work ahead is challenging but if we
look at our past challenges, our current accomplishments, and our future opportunities and work together;
we can achieve even greater success.
I am optimistic about the future growth the Cambodian community here in the Greater Lowell area. I
encourage people to continue to work together and register to vote so our voices will be heard at the
policy levels.
Sincerely,
Vong Ros
Execute Director
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CMAA LOWELL MAGAZINE
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Dear Fellow Community Members:
It has been a busy year for members of the Board, the chairs of our many committees and the staff at the
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) with meetings, planning, and implementing of
services. Our major challenges for this year have been about stabilizing the organization financially
and structurally and creating a sense of urgency to improve, grow and strengthen our agency. For me,
these challenges have been inspiring and they have enabled us to identify several areas that we would
like to improve and ways in which we could tackle them.
The Board and staff are compiling the ideas and feedbacks generated by CMAA board and staff and
members of the public in preparation of our strategic planning. With the help of Jericho Road Project,
we hope to develop a strategic plan that will provide us with the direction to better serve our community.
With the community support and guidance, we hope to make CMAA more visible and more accessible
by: 1) increasing/diversifying our board memberships; 2) continuing to improve our existing programs,
services and outreach; 3) initiating and implementing creative new opportunities and services for
community members to empower each other, to be more self-reliant and to take part in leadership; and
4) planning for and improving the development, training, functionality and effectiveness of CMAA as
an organization and as a resource for the community.
I sense a growing excitement through many of our meetings and hope to extend that excitement to you.
If you would like to help move CMAA forward, please feel free to contact me or Mr. Vong Ros,
Executive Director of CMAA. I urge you to get involved and share your thoughts about what specific
areas you would like to see us work on this year. By "us" I mean you, me and all the members of our
community.
In closing, I would like to thank my fellow Board members, Executive Director, staff and distinguished
supporters and volunteers for making our 22 years of service possible. In addition, I would like to
thank Mr. Hai Cheng for his great leadership, dedication, motivation ana stamina in getting us to this
point.
Best Regards,
Phala Chea
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Sophy Suon, Vice President
William Lipchitz, Treasurer
Stuart Santelmann, Secretary
Sovanndara Neang, Board Member
James J. Cook, Board Member
Tooch Van, Board Member
Hai Cheng, Board Member
Melody Suong, Board Member
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Vongsaranak Ros, Executive Director
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Joseph Sexton, Grant Writer
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Im Sok, Community Health Educator
Karena H. Doung, Community Health Educator
Jerusha N. Peterman, Nutritionist
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(3) Monorom Family Support Program assists
mentally disabled children from 3 to 22 years
old and their families. Services include
interpretation,
transportation to
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appointments,
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The Health Department is strongly and faithfully
committed to accomplishing the CMAA strategic
mission to improve the quality of life of all
Cambodians in the Greater Lowell area through social,
economic and cultural development programs. Our
vision is to provide a one-stop health resource center
where any Cambodian can find assistance and
information for as many health topics as possible.
Taking pride in serving Lowell Cambodian
community, the CMAA health department is currently
implementing four main healthcare programs including
(1) Cambodian Health Promotion, (2) Cambodian
Community Health Education REACH 2010 , (3)
Monorom Family Support Program, and (4) Nutrition .
( 1) Cambodian Health Promotion Project increases
awareness and knowledge among Cambodian
refugees and
asylees of the
importance of
regular health
screening, signs ,
and symptoms,
treatment,
.available health
care services
and ways to reduce risk factors of Osteoporosis,
Hepatitis, Cancer, and Depression . Funded by
the Federal Office of Refugee and Resettlement,
the project is run by the CMAA well qualified
team of a registered nurse and a Cambodian
nurse practitioner.
(4) The nutrition initiative at the CMAA works to
provide nutrition education to Cambodians in
Lowell, especially those with diabetes, heart
disease, and
high blood
pressure . We
offer nutrition
education
classes with
cooking
demonstrations
to show how
to reduce sugar and simple carbohydrates,
sodium, and saturated fat and cholesterol in
traditional foods.
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Cambodian population in Lowell on such health
topics as Diabetes and Cardiovascular di seases
m vanous
arrangements
including
community
workshops,
education
groups, physical
exercise, social
outings, and the
river walk. The project is run by CMAA's team
of experienced lay community health educators .
The project is funded by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention through a sub-contract
with Lowell Community Health Center (LCHC).
We have created a Guide to Healthy Eating for
Cambodian Americans, which is designed to
help people with diseases like diabetes, heart
disease, and high blood pressure make healthy
eating choices while still eating traditional
Cambodian foods. The Guide has a section on
shopping, preparing, and eating healthy food
Cambodian foods, and includes 20 recipes of
traditional Cambodian foods that show how
tasty healthy food can be. The Guide is in
Khmer and English, side-by-side. If you are
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Blood Pressure and Health Outreach At Pailin Park
By Sengly Kong, Director ofCMAA Health Department.
On July 27, 2006, the CMAA Health Department organized a Blood Pressure and Health Education Outreach at
a locally known Pailin Park (diagonally opposite the Pailin Plaza) located at the comer of Middlesex and Branch
Streets. The event was made possible through a
partnership between the CMAA Health Promotion
Project funded by the U.S. Office of Refugee and
Resettlement and the Cambodian Community Health
2010 (CCH 2010) funded by the U.S . Center for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
Services at the event included blood pressure reading,
distribution of health promotion materials, and an
opportunity for those who have questions about their
blood pressure and other related health issues such as
heart disease, diabetes, cholesterol and others. Before
taking his/her blood pressure, each participant was asked
to read and sign a consent form as a normal standard
procedure.
Our surprising presence was puzzling to all the people who came to the park to play or watch volley ball and
basket ball. Some were walking around our tent and smiling at our team while others were looking at us from
a far wondering what was going on in their volley ball court. To clarify the entire puzzle and wondering, our
staff was quick to reach out and explain them about the purpose of our presence. As a result, most of the
people on the court enthusiastically participated and enjoyed our services. And fifty-one (51) people have
their blood pressure read .
The results of the blood pressure reading were expectedly
encouraging. Most readings were within the normal
healthy range. One man however had a high blood
pressure reading. Our Health Promotion nurse talked
with him about the effects of stress, exercise and salt on
the blood pressure, and explained that the normal blood
pressure reading should be below 140/80. The client
asked if he should see his doctor and the nurse
encouraged him to do so. Overall, the blood pressures
of these sport active individuals were within the normal
range as recommended by the American Heart
Association.
The fact that most of these sport active members have good blood pressure reading confirms the importance
of active life style as one of the most effective proactive measures for healthy being. The finding can be
disseminated to other community members so that they would adopt active life style and become healthier.
In addition to the above finding, this outdoor event provided a great opportunity for the members of the
Cambodian community to gain better understanding of their health, health issues affecting the community,
and available health care services. The model should be replicated other places so that it would generate
aggregative positive health effects on the Lowell Cambodian community that has been disproportionately
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loar1ti1t9 A1totfaer
classes are offered at the 165 Jackson Street location .
A satellite of Lowell Adult Education, the site offers
two classes that run Monday through Thursday, taking
place each day between 9 am and 12 noon . These two
classes used to be located at the St. Julie Asian Center,
but with that center closed, Lowell Adult Education
and CMAA worked together to find a home for these
classes. Another day class takes place on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday from 9 to 11. Then at night on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday there is a class from
5 pm to 7 pm. Additionally, Citizenship classes are
offered for students in this program .
I like going into the classrooms and meeting
the students, and I enjoy listening as they try to learn
new words and sentences. Truly it is a joy as they begin
to make sense of English, this new language for them .
As I have studied Khmer, I've come to appreciate even
more the students who come before work, those who
come after work and those who fit in their language
studies while children are at school. Our students
juggle multiple respon sibilities, and still they manage
to fit learning English into their demanding schedules.
These E nglish classes are filled with eager students
who work hard at acquiring this new language. Each
week as I try to learn more Khmer, I marvel at our
English learners and their motivation, dedication.
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On Thursday afternoons at 3:00 pm, one can
hear sounds of Khmer consonants and vowels being
repeated in the conference room at the Cambodian
Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA). Mr. Kosa!
Suon is the teacher, and he volunteers his time to help
students learn his native tongue. He reads the letters
out loud and the students repeat each sound .
I am one of the students who come each week,
and it is a struggle to grasp the sounds: n 8 ri ill \:t
We say the letters, these consonants, and after we learn
the vowel s, we put consonants and vowels together to
form small words. We practice writing the letters, and
it is difficult to get the shape just right. I feel like a
child who is just learning the alphabet, and I begin to
hav e a better understanding of the students who come
to learn English here at the CMAA. ·
The Khmer language class is free and takes
place each Thursday between 3pm and 4pm. This is
not the only class offered at the CMAA . Lowell Adult
Education and the CMAA have the As ian Adult
Education Project located at the CMAA. Four different
CMAA Current Funders:
Department of Mental Retardation
Department of Transitional Assistance
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Lowell Community Health Center
United Way of Merrimack Valley
The Aubert Fay Charitable Fund, Foundation M, Fay Foundation,
Parker Foundation, Greater Lowell Community Foundation,
Charles Farnsworth Charitable Trust
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individuals who have been very supportive.
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LOWELL MAGAZINE
The CMAA
23nd Anniversary
Celebrationl
Highlights in this issue:
Executive Director Message
The President's Note
New Grant from Comcast
CMAA HOPE-NOW Project
CMAA Health Department
Spotlights
23rd Anniversary Program
Other News and Advertisements ...
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CMAA LOWELL MAGAZINE
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Lowell Five .................. . ............. . . . . ..................................... . . .. .. .. ........ ...... .. .. . . ........ ...... . .... 2
Making a Difference .................................................. . ..... . .. .. . . .. . .. . .... . ... . .. . . . . . .. .. . ..... . .... . . . ..... . . 3
Magazine Committee, Mission Statement, Local Media ............... .. . .. . .......... ... . ... .. .. . .. ........ .. .. ........ ... 4
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Executive Director's Message ....................................................................... . ........ . .... . .. .. . .. ...... 5
Message from the President, Tmorda Sandwiches, Cheysaravann Driving School ............... . ....... . ........ ...... . . 6
Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell Community Charter Public School ..... ....... . . . . . .... . . .. . . ...... . . . . . ..... . ... . 7
CMAA Staff, Board of Directors and Advisory Boards, List of CMAA Funders .. . ....... .... ............ ...... .. . .. ... . .. ... . 8
New Grant from Comcast, Education Department and Lowe II Adult Education ... . . . . ............ . ... ... .... . . ... . . .. . ..... 9
Law Office of Gallagher & Cavanaugh, LLP. ............. .. . .. . .. ..... . .............. . ....... . .... . . .. . . .. ..... .. . . . . .......... 10
Special Thank to holiday donors, Hang Meas Video ............... . .. . ............................ . ........ . . . ..... . .. . . .... 11
Sponsors and Supporters, CMAA HOPE-NOW Project ..... . .............. . ... .. .. . .. . ... . . . ... ........ ............... . .. . . ... 12
Network Health, Lowe II Adult Education, Le Petit Cafe Restaurant , P&P Jewelry. . .. . ... . .. .. .. . .... . ....... . .. . . ........ 13
KK Insurance, LGH , Phnom Penh International Travel Services ....... . .............. . ........ ... .... . . .. .............. .... . 14
Community Based Cambodian Health Promotion Program Comes to You . .... .. .. .. ...... . ............ .. .. . .............. 15
CMAA Health Department Spotlights .. ... .................... .... ...... ... ..... .. .. .. ................................ . 16-17
Anniversary Program, Pine Chiropractic .. ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . . ............... . . .......... . . . . ... . .... . . . ............. . ........... 18
Lowell Development and Finance Corporation ...... . ........................ . . .... . .... . ..... .. . ... ..... .... . . .. ...... . ..... 19
Fay McCabe Funeral Home, Community Team Work Inc . ..... . . . .. . . . .. . . . ............ . ................................ . .... 20
James L. Cooney: Insurance-Real Estate Agencies .. .. ... . ... . ...... . ...... . .......... . ....... .. .... ... . . . ..... . .. .. ... . ..... 21
Saints Medical Center.. . ... ..... . ....... . ....... . ..... . ..... ... . . ...... . . ........................ . . ........ .. . .... . .... . ....... . 22
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Making a Difference
Over the seven years that the Cambodian Community Health 2010 program opened its doors and
hearts to the Cambodian community a number of changes have taken place that lead to the improved
health of the individuals that make up the community.
For those who do not speak or read English it may be difficult to comprehend the vast medical
system and learn how to navigate all the steps for obtaining and then following through with medical
care. These steps include, the purpose for taking medications as recommended, making and keeping of
appointments, the importance of understanding about your disease or illness, and the significance of
being able to call 9-1-1 in an emergency
We have seen changes in the community, changes for the better. Individuals who at one time
required the assistance of an Advocate to help them manage the health care system are now able to
manage it on their own. These individuals have made changes in their activity levels, food choices, taking
medications, consistency with appointments, and knowing how to manage some of the risks and symptoms
that trigger certain diseases, while also learning how to manage their current illness
To some of us these changes may seem small. However many individuals, who over the last seven
years have learned these new skills and now experience these healthy modifications in their daily lives,
have found these changes invaluable.
In their own words, the community gave us an understanding of their personal health challenges.
They shared how learning about health and illness and adopting healthy behavior changes made a
difference to them and their families.
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l~Xl~CIJTIVI~ l)IREC'l,()R'S IIESSA(;E
I am pleased to be able to report at the end of our 23 rd year that the
CMAAhas many positive things to share with the community. We are
now settled in our new location, and for the frrst time, the CMAA is located
in the heart of the Cambodian community, where we are more accessible
than ever. In spite of a challenging move from our old location at 165
Jackson Street to our new headquarter at 12 0 Cross Street Lowell, MA,
our organization still successfully served over 1000 people with health
related services, ESL and GED classes and elderly exercise and social activities, meeting or exceeding the
goals we set for each of our programs. Our agency also collaborated with many other agencies to organize
cultural and civic activities. By working together we have been able to assist the Southeast Asian Water
Festival manage their money, mobilize minority-led agencies such as Light of Cambodian Children, SABAI
and Laos Family Mutual Association to pool resources to address our community issues in a focused and
coordinated way. We were able to increase the number of community members registered and voting during
the last gubernatorial and the 5th District Congressional elections, making the voice of our community heard as
it has never been heard before. We have completed a strategic planning process, meeting with members of the
Cambodian community and the broader Lowell community to learn about the needs of our clients, and of those
who have never received services from CMAA before. We now have a blueprint for creating new and
exciting programs to meet the needs of the Cambodian community. Recently, we received word that we are
going to receive a large grant from the US Office of Refugee Resettlement to offer Individual Development
Accounts, a powerful tool to increase the ability of refugees to purchase homes, open new businesses, further
their education, and to build a better life for themselves, their family and the entire community.
Much work remains to be done. Many Cambodian families were victimized by a fraudulent scheme, many
face foreclosure due to predatory lending and health disparities continue to cause many members of our
community to suffer disease, and even die before their time. These are major problems that we need to
address urgently.
Our Board of Directors, our staff and myself are committed to work with the community, our political
representatives and funders to find solutions to the above problems. We all know it is hard work but if we all
work together, register people to vote, buy from businesses that support our community and educate those
who control the money needed to do this work, I am sure we are equal to these challenges, and that our hard
work and dedication will pay off with a stronger, more prosperous and healthier community for all.
VongRos
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Dear Distinguished Friends, Community Members and Supporters:
Please join us as we celebrate CMAA's 23 rd year of services in the Greater Lowell community. This year has
been a very productive and challenging year as we complete our strategic planning, fmalize the sale of the 165
Jackson Street building, search for a more accommodating and community friendly site, adjust to a new
location, and move forward with our services without disruption. These were no easy tasks, and we have the
hardworking and dedicated staff to thank and appreciate.
Now that we have settled in our new location on 120 Cross Street, we will focus our efforts on the cooperation
and collaboration of our staff, our supporters, and our neighboring agencies/organizations to implement our
strategic plan. We hope that this focus will continue to improve our services and our visibility within the
community.
If you wish to get involved in shaping our programs, services and visibility, please join us. I welcome your
assistance!
In closing, I would like to thank my fellow Board members, Executive Director, staff, supporters and volunteers
for another heartfelt year. Thank you so much for your never ending commitment to our community.
Best Regards,
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Sophy Suon, Vice President
William Lipchitz, Treasurer
Stuart Santelmann, Secretary
Sovanndara Neang, Board Member
James J. Cook, Board Member
Tooch Van, Board Member
Chanrithy Uong, Board Member
Sothy Sopheap, Board Member
Kevin Coughlin, Board Member
Sorin Seng, Board Member
Lianne Linlavong , Board Member
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Vongsaranak Ros, Executive Director
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Joseph Sexton , Grant Writer
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Barbara Zipps Glass, B.S., R.N. , Program Nurse
Im Sok , Community Health Educator
Buntha Krouch , Community Health Educator
Jerusha N. Peterman , Nutritionist
Ronnie Mouth, Health Promotion Educator
Bethany Phrakonekham , Community Health Educator
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Marion Best , Instructor
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Department of Mental Retardation
Department of Transitional Assistance
Department of Public Health
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Lowell Community Health Center
United Way of Merrimack Valley
The Aubert Fay Charitable Fund, Foundation M,
Fay Foundation, Parker Foundation, Comcast Foundation
Greater Lowell Community Foundation
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Charles H. Farnsworth Charitable Trust
City of Lowell/CD BG
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New Grant from Comcast
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association is pleased to announce that they have received a new grant from
the Comcast Corporation. The grant is for the Education Department's Young Parent Program (YPP) which is a program for
yo ung parents between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one who have dropped out of school. The program 's focus is to
assist the students in becoming self-sufficient. This goal is met by helping students to obtain their GED and then guiding
them as they choose a path toward their future careers.
The Comcast grant enables the CMAA's Young Parent Program to provide an enhanced career development
component. Two former students who have received their GEDS and successfully entered the workforce will coordinate the
workshops. Gina Moscato and Bethany Phrakonekham have already started working with the CMAA's young parents,
exploring career paths and beginning to work on resumes. The ten workshop subjects are: Career Paths and Jobs, Setting
up Job Shadowing, Resume Writing, Interview Skills and Role Playing, The Job Search: Newspapers and the Internet,
Building a Professional Appearance, Job Expectations: towards a stronger work ethic, Budget and Personal Finance Part I,
Budget and Personal Finance Part II, Credit Report Rating/Repair.
In addition to the career development workshops, the YPP will continue to partner with the local library in order to
strengthen the students' literacy and love of reading. The young adult librarian and the CMAA's YPP meet every three
weeks for a reading group. Reading is critical for the students' future job prospects, as well as for their families' growth. We
be! ieve improving the students' literacy wit I have a positive impact on their children's lives by introducing reading into the
family.
We appreciate the Comcast Corporation's willingness to help the CMAA's Young Parent Program and thank them
for their generous support!
ESOL students studying English.
Education Director Judith Dickerman -Nelson
with former YPP student at graduation.
The CMAA's Education Department And Lowell Adult Education's ESOL Classes
The Young Parent Program (YPP) works with students between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one who have
dropped out of school and are either pregnant or already a parent. The CMAA's YPP is funded by the Department of
Transitional Assistance, Banknorth, Foundation M, the Fay Foundation, United Way, and Comcast. Additionally, the YPP
collaborates with the Pollard Memorial Library and has a reading group that meets every three weeks at the library. We are
grateful to our funders who give us the opportunity to serve these young parents.
The YPP program started its new fiscal year in July, and we have been having an exciting year! One student
completed a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program, and another student started her CNA training. Still another who
passed her GED went on to a work-readiness training program at Middlesex Community College. Two students who
received their GED diplomas went on to employment. Another student passed her GED and plans to go to Middlesex
Community College. At least three other students are near completing their GEDs and are making plans for their futures. We
expect that the rest of the year will be as exciting and productive.
The classes for English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) that take place at the CMAA are a part of Lowell
Adult Education . We have been a satellite site of Lowell Adult Education for many years and enjoy this on-going
partnership. After St. Julie Asian Center closed, the CMAA and Lowell Adult Education decided to transfer two English
classes over to the CMAA so that students could still receive instruction. That aspect of our partnership continues. We
offer four different English classes with one taking place at night and three taking place in the day. Over sixty students are
learning English at the CMAA!
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The CMAA would like to thank.Acton's First Congregational Church for their continued service to the
Cambodian community in Lowell. For years now, this church has generously donated Christmas gifts for
children who might not otherwise have gifts on C~stmas morning. They even wrap the wonderful gifts that
they give! We thank them from the bottoms of our hearts.
Many others give generously, as well, during the holiday season. For Thanksgiving, these organizations
donate: The Staff at the Rogers School, Battambang Market, Khmer AngkorMarket, Seven Hills Community
Services, DSS staff, United Way, Glidden's House, The Dracut House of Pizza, and many individuals, too .
Between these groups and individuals such items as turkeys, rice, blankets and many other things are donated
for the poor in the community. We are so thankful that they remember those who are less fortunate .
To all of these people who reach out with their hearts, we say thank you.
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Conway Insurance
Lowell Five Bank
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CMAA HOPE-NOW Project
This Fall (2007) the CMAA is launching the HOPE-NOW Project, an academic support and mentoring
initiative that works with college bound high school students and their families to plan and prepare for
college entry.
The HOPE-NOW Project is collaborating with the Lowell Public Schools, universities and colleges, and
scholarship programs to ensure successful transition oflow-income youth from Lowell into higher education.
The project currently:
• Accepts referrals (by High School Guidance Counselors or self referrals) for students in their junior
year of high school.
• Works with students and families in college planning, searches, admissions and financial aid
applications, development of personal statements, as well as compiling other documentation
necessary for college applications.
• Arranges campus tours for students and their families, with a minimum of3 tours required of each
participant.
• Matches participants with long-term mentors
• Works with students and college to maximize use of college or university resources
Provides regular case management and follow up of all participants from the time of entry to graduation
from college or university.
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Community Based Cambodian
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From Community Gardening to learning about
Osteoporosis, Hepatitis and Cancer, individuals from
the Cambodian community have taken advantage of
these activities and educational topics conducted by
the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of
Greater Lowell's (CMAA's) Cambodian Community
Health Program. CMAA received a grant from the
Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in September
of2006 which enables the staff to provide educational
classes to the refugee and asy lee community as a
whole.
CMAA understood from prior educational
classes that there was a significant need to bring health
education ou t into the community and through
collaborative efforts with agencies such as Casey
Family Services, International Institute, Lowell Council
on Aging, Lowell Adult Education, as well as area
restaurants , such as , Khemara, Pailin City, and
Sanmonorom, CMAA did just that.
Educational classes are conduc ted by a
registered nurse, the Director of the program, and a
nursing student. Both the Director and nursing student
are bi-lingual in English and Khmer. The purpose of
the program is to inform and educate participants about
Osteoporosis, Hepatitis and Cancer and to teach them
the risk factors of the disease and to learn the
preventative methods for minimizing their risks. The
focus is on Prevention and How to recognize the early
warning signs of these diseases. Information is shared
on how a diagnosis is made and the importance of
speaking with your medical provider earlier rather than
later. An emphasis is placed on early diagnosis with
the understanding that chances of recovery improves
with early diagnosis.
In addition to these in dwelling educational
classes CMAA, has held outdoor health fairs at
different sites, such as, the South Common and Pailin
Park, where staff provided educational materials and
free blood pressure screenings.
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clinic at CMAA, senior social meal at Lowell Senior
Center, and stress reduction field trip. Destinations for
field trips include historical, recreational, and farming
sites.
among Cambodian elders
Community gardening is part of the health
promotion project funded by the U. S. Office of
Refugee and Resettlement to educate Cambodian
refugee / asylees about hepatitis , cancer and
osteoporosis ; it is also
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health for elders who are
symptomatic of depression.
Over the past few months, participating elders
have taken bus tours to various places including Boston
Museum of Science, Wal-Mart Super center in New
Hampshire, and Amherst Buddhist Temple. The
program has served the total unduplicated clients of
55 Southeast Asian elders . Many of them are
Cambodian Americans. In addition to the stress
reduction trip, elders have received a monthly senior
clinic where they have their blood pressure checked
up, prescription review, and opportunity to ask any
question they might have related to their personal health
care management.
The
gardening
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between CMAA and a local project named " Lowell :
the Flowering City. Gardening takes place every
Wednesday of the week from 9AM to 12 PM;
participants are involved in every step of the gardening
process including seed acquisition, seed germination,
soil cultivation, and seedling plantation. They are
enthusiastic about the activity because it provides them
with socializing and perhaps therapeutic opportunity.
When asked what they think about the activity,
most said they were very appreciative of being
involved, and especially enjoyed the exposure to fresh
air. One elder said " it is really good that I have a
chance to breath a fresh air under cooling shade of
apple trees and experience a summer breeze." Others
have felt and expressed the same experiences.
Nutrition Education and Cultural
Competency
Eating healthy foods will greatly help reduce
risks of developing certain health problems and/or
further complicating certain diseases including diabetes
and heart disease.
Funded by the Center for Disease Control
and Prevention through a sub-contract from LCHC,
the CMAA nutrition program is designed to increase
knowledge and raise awareness among the Southeast
Asians (SEA) in Lowell of healthy food choices. The
program also provides in-service training for health
care providers working with the SEA group.
Copies of A Guide to Healthy Eating, which is a
manual on how to prepare healthy foods for our heart
has been published in both Khmer and English, and
eight hundred fifty (850) copies of the guide have been
distributed.
In order for their services to be accessible
and to optimize the benefits to the minority community,
providers need to be exposed, at least, to some basic
cultural beliefs and
practices of the group. To
this end, CMAA provides
as part of the nutrition
education
cultural
competency training.
In addition to the activity at the greenhouse,
the CMAA health promotion team considers expanding
gardening activity to the two Buddhist temples in the
area. Container gardening seems to be a viable
alternative, and the team will conduct a preliminary
feasibility into the option for the two temples where
most Cambodian elders congregate.
Stress reduction trip to Museum of Science
CMAA has diversified its services to elders
who are socially isolated and home bound. Funded in
part by the Community Development Block Grant of
the City of Lowell and the
grant from the Farnsworth
Foundation, the CMAA
Elderly Program Service
is, for instance, designed to
provide a monthly senior
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CMAA Health Department Spotlights
Volume 1, Issue 2
July, 2007
Commonwealth Care Prowam
REACH 2010 Prowam
As most ofus know there have been many changes in
Massachusetts regarding healthcare . Massachusetts,
has lead the way by requiring and facilitating health
care coverage for all Massachusetts residents. The
implementation of this law posed many challenges for
our clients. The CMAA was grateful to have received
a grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield Mass Foundation
to help assist clients in registering for Commonwealth
Care. In order to let our clients know about this new
service we have been doing outreach to the community. Brian Chen talked about Commonwealth Care on
his radio show Thinking Out Loud on 91.5 FM. Mr.
Narong Hui, a host of a Cambodian Buddhist Show,
has been extremely helpful in letting the community
know about Commonwealth Care. Also, CMAA's
Health Director Mr. Sengly Kong went on television
to talk about Commonwealth Care. There were also a
few other shows that have been very instrumental in
bringing information about the new insurance laws and
CMAA's services to the CambodianArnericanpublic,
including Koun Khmer and Khmer Sentimental Show.
For the month of July we have assisted 25 walk in
clients in applying for Commonwealth Care. To date
(since March 2007) the total number of walk-in clients
we have served with Commonwealth Care is 123 . Our
Commonwealth care program here at the CMAA has
been very successful and has helped many of our community members in getting health insurance. We continue to help community members with assisting them
in registering for Commonwealth Care.
CMAA has diversified its services to elders who are
linguistically isolated and home bound. Transportation
difficulties effect the ability of Cambodian American
immigrants and refugees on a day to day basis. REACH
2010 has been teaching participants how to use LRTA
(Lowell Regional TransitAuthority) public bus. On July
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assisting clients with the Flex Fund program. The Flex
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in two payments. The money that they receive is used
for helping them to buy clothing, school supplies, or
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SOUTHEAST ASIAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, 2019-ONGOING
UML 17
Thel Sar, Oral History #19.02
INFORMANT/NARRATOR: THEL SAR (TS)
INTERVIEWER: SUE J. KIM (SK)
DATE: APRIL 18, 2019
SPEAKER
DETAILS
TS:
I had involved a lot of work... in the past.
SK:
Oh, okay. Great. Okay. All right. So, this is Sue Kim, and I am codirector for the Center for Asian American Studies, and Project
Director for the Southeast Asia Digital Archive. Today is
Thursday, April 18th, 2019, and I am here with Mr. Thel Sar, at
UMass Lowell. We're in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and
Social Sciences, 820 Broadway Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.
So, thank you so much for agreeing to share your experiences with
us.
TS:
Thank you for letting me being part of it.
SK:
So, I thought we would just start... could you tell us about where
you were born, and where you grew up? We can start there.
TS:
Yeah, I can be briefed with that. So I was born in Cambodia.
SK:
What year?
TS:
In the late 1960s, and I lived in Cambodia through the Holocaust,
Khmer Rouge. And then I, you know, when the Vietnam invaded
Cambodian, I was left Cambodia to come to America. So, I lived
through, and I was one of the few survivors in my family. And on
October 1981, my aunt brought me to America, uh, my
grandmother. And so I had lived with my grandmother. First place
I lived was in Jacksonville, Florida. Yeah, I lived there briefly.
And then I went to Virginia; Arlington, Virginia. Went to high
school there. And after high school, I went to college in
Swannanoa, North Carolina.
SK:
Where did you go into... where did you go in North Carolina?
TS:
I went to a college called Warren Wilson College, which is located
near Asheville, North Carolina.
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SK:
What did you major in?
TS:
My major was in the General Education, specializing in helping
Southeast Asian, mainly the Cambodians.
SK:
Oh, that's fantastic!
TS:
Yeah. So when I graduated from college, I went back to Virginia.
In those times, in Lowell there was influx of Southeast Asians,
mainly the Cambodian immigrants came to Lowell, Ma. And with
the influx, there's a lot of crime. There's shortage of a
professionals. So I was pretty much recruited to come up here, and
to work with Southeast Asian youths.
SK:
So you... where were you at the time? Well-
TS:
After I graduated from Warren Wilson College, I went back to
Arlington, Virginia. And lived there... Stayed there very briefly
then in September, 1991 I came up here to Lowell, MA.
SK:
From Arlington?
TS:
Yeah, from Arlington, Virginia. I was interviewed for a job with
the CMAA of Greater Lowell as a youth counselor. My job
mainly, trying to create activities for youths because back in those
days we didn't have much activities for Southeast Asian youths, so
they mainly hung out with groups, and were alleged to been called
gangs. So the DA... there's a lot of murders, a lot of violence. So
they wanted to create some fun activities for the kid. So my job
was to bring them together, and come up with some activities...
SK:
Oh, I see. I didn't know that you were youth counselor at CMAA.
So, that was from about-
TS:
September 1991 until July 1992, when I went on to work for the
Department of Youth Services for the State of Massachusetts. I
worked there for about nine months.
SK:
Where does... for the record, in the '90s, where did the Department
of Youth Services, where did it fit? Was it related to DSS or-
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TS:
No, the department has its own separate department. It's a
department of corrections, pretty much. It's a Social... Department
of Correction for kids under the age of Eighteen, when they...
committed crimes, they'd go to the DYS instead of the adult
facilities.
SK:
And how did you get recruited into-
TS:
So I... so we... there was shortage of professionals, and [crosstalk
00:04:49] and so, when I was working for CMAA, I went to court
lot to watch trial at the courthouse, and with my degree, the
department of DYS wanted me. In addition, because of my
language skills, I speak Khmer, and I can write and read... fluently.
So I was a good candidate for the job.
SK:
And who's... before you started working for DYS, when you were
still with CMAA, whose trials generally? Was it the kids you were
working with? The family members?
TS:
Yes, it's... kids that I had worked with in the past. And then some
of the... so they needed some kinds of representation from the
community at the courthouse. And I was sent there to be a liaison,
so if people showed up at the trial, they could get me helped
them... translated to them so they could understand the processes.
So my job is to make sure that people who... well, the victims, the
friends, and families, they have good knowledge of what went on.
SK:
So, since you were involved with that, then you started working
with Department of Youth Services, and so what were your duties?
Or what was your position?
TS:
Well, a couple of times when I was with CMAA, when they ran
into problems with language, they asked me to help. So I would go
to juvenile detentions and helped in translation. So that was... they
said, "Look, we really needed you to..." so that's how I started, the
interview, and got position.
SK:
So, the position then was-
TS:
A caseworker.
SK:
Caseworker? Right. I see. And so, what was your job like then?
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TS:
Well it's... I'm from very conservative family. I was like, my job
was to... So I mainly worked with the Cambodian youths and the
parents. When youths committed crimes, they adjudicated them.
And then they sent by the court to the Department of Youth
Services; my job was to investigate their backgrounds, and also
looking into ways to help them... you can't lock them up for life, so
you tried to help them to assimilate back to the community when
they finished their sentences. And so my job was to make sure that
they... when they lived in the community, they followed the
conditions sat by court and the department.
SK:
So this is... so were you a probation officer at this point?
TS:
No, not yet. Not yet. My probation officer job..when I was still
working DYS, you also had to go to court as well. Because when
kids were arrested for serious crime and appeared in court they
would be sent to DYS detentions; I went court to get information
of their background and to report to the department. Sometimes,
court ordered treatments. And some time just to be there to write
down of new court dates or new status of the cases. So I was there
as a liaison from DYS, and that's how I was at the courthouse. The
court was also did not have Southeast Asian worker as well. I was
recruited to go into the position as well.
SK:
In the '90s, what were the biggest problems or issues that you saw
coming up, either on the side of the law enforcement or, or on the
side of the families, or the community members?
TS:
I think; it was discrimination. This community was not prepared to
receive such large group of people. And this community had a long
history of discrimination. People in the community did not treat the
new comes with welcome but hostile. There was lack of services.
There was very little help, and those newcomers knew nothing. So
we had to work hard to help them understanding the systems. We
had to confront many wrong doers that it was not right for them to
treat people unlawfully.
TS:
There was lack of facilities such as schools and playgrounds.
Everything they did was against the law. Until a group of people
say to them, "Look, we are not stupid. We're not dumb. We know
that this is illegal, so you have to treat us right do the right things".
And the leaders in the community started to do more to help the
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newcomers. In one situation, we had to take the city to court in
order to force them to integrated kids in schools and build more
schools. They agreed to build new facilities to accommodate new
students and hired people to represent the population.
TS:
And the kids, they had a lot of free times in their hands. Schools
did not provide good services. Many kids skipped schools and
hung out on the streets. They started label those kids as gangs and
criminals. And I refused to label them... I've been working here for
so many years. I refused to recognize that they're gangs and all
that.
SK:
So court cases goals were to fight racism and discrimination.
TS:
Yeah.
SK:
What were some of those instances?
TS:
Southeast Asian kids were called by bad names and they pushed
them around for no good reasons-
SK:
By other students or?
TS:
By white kids and Hispanic kids. These Southeast Asian kids took
pride in their cultures; they took pride in themselves they were
tough kid too because they had gone through so much in their
lives, in the camp (prison like). So their mentality is like, "No, I'm
not going to take this, and I'm going fight back". And the police
was not helpful, the kids "I'm going to take control of this place,
not you", and then that's how gang started.
SK:
That's a good. How would you describe the relationship between
the police and particularly the youth, Cambodian youth at this
time? In the '90s.
TS:
I think, again, the police didn't have good relationship with
Southeast Asian youths. The police said, "I'm going to step on you,
I know you", and they did it as far as they could to violate those
kids right. There was no hope; “If I did these things, maybe I can
suppress this people, and there's nothing going to happen". I did
not think this was right ways to treatment our youths. I'm getting
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Let me get some…
TS:
It's okay.
SK:
Very good.
TS:
So we came here to live. We were survivors from Cambodia. We
were legal immigrants. We did not buy our way here. The ways
they treated us was not fair. We knew that. We refused to take
abuse. We came together and said, "Look, we're not going to take
this". But we do this systematically and legally. We had enough
educated people to work with. We needed to change from inside,
outside, and all around. We needed to be humble enough to make
changes. So, my role with the DYS and all, I pulled kids in and
say, "Look, to give respect and get respect, you got to do
something to make sure that they don't... you don't want them to
look down at you, you'll need to do something meaningful".
SK:
Yes. Did you work as... When you were with the DYS
caseworkers, did you work a lot with the attorneys?
TS:
Not as many, but I worked with a lot of therapists and [crosstalk
00:14:29] but again, I wore many hats. So I was always very
active, even though I worked with DYS, I opened Khmer Sunday
School; I coached soccer, and did a lot of other stuffs. We knew it
was a struggle.
SK:
You mentioned Khmer Sunday school. What, what-
TS:
So when first I came here, a lot of kids did not grown up in
Cambodia. However, they wanted to learn Khmer language and
culture. So I started Khmer Sunday School Program by myself.
Even though I wasn't a Khmer teacher, I was able to teach them,
and then recruited teachers. We became a big program, hundreds
of kids attended.
SK:
Where was this building?
TS:
We had to use the old temple in North Chelmsford. We had many
volunteers, and we became very successful.
SK:
How long was that school?
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10 years.
SK:
And also you were... because you were coaching, what-
TS:
I had coached for a few years. I coached soccer and basketball.
SK:
Was it through an organization or, just…?
TS:
Lowell Youth Soccer and highlander youth basketball.
SK:
So, this... you were a caseworker in maybe '92 to '93 or something?
TS:
Yeah. '92 to '93.
SK:
And then in ‘93 became a [crosstalk 00:16:48]
TS:
Probation officer. March 1st, 1993.
SK:
So how did that happen? I mean, [crosstalk 00:16:54]
TS:
I'd been working with a lot of people, and one day someone in the
Probation Department approached me and asked me if I wanted to
work for the court, "Look, we need someone like you". And so he
encouraged me to apply, "There's a job posting, why don't you
apply?" So I applied. I was interviewed by 3 judges and was hired
two weeks later: 3/1/1993.
SK:
How did your duties change? Where... Were you doing things that
are very similar? Or did it change what you were doing?
TS:
It's almost about the same, but I didn't have to travel much. I was
in the courthouse.
SK:
Lowell District Court?
TS:
Yeah, Lowell District Court. But again like I said to you, I always
wore many hats.
SK:
So what were some other ways that you did that? Was it
individual... conversation?
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TS:
I interviewed people and helped with translation. I directed people
to the right places to get help. I helped recruit new workers. I
spoke to community.
SK:
So, when you mean by kids, you mean... Because you talked about
that you work with both; the defendants… and the victims…
TS:
Yes, I worked with defendants and victims to make sure they
understood their rights.
SK:
You're like an advocate, and a navigator for them in the
courthouse.
TS:
Yes.
SK:
One hat.
TS:
Yes, one hat.
SK:
I've spoken to some attorneys, like defense attorneys, and they
talked about like, who are not Khmer. And they've talked about
how difficult it was to communicate to sometimes the families,
right? The defendants, but also the families, but also the victims, if
there was a language issue. So, did you participate in those
process? I think the legal processes are so complicated already,
right? And so I can't imagine trying to explain all of this sort of
complicated legal stuff in two-year-old court languages.
TS:
So, my goals are to make sure every one walked out the court
house knew that they were served well.
Unknown Speaker:
Open up.
SK:
Oh, hey?
Unknown Speaker:
I just wanted you to say goodbye.
SK:
Okay.
Unknown Speaker:
I'm last one here. Hello?
TS:
Hi.
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I didn't want to go into...
SK:
Okay, bye!
TS:
So I think that a lot of times, a lot of attorneys did not give enough
times to Southeast Asian clients. They made up excuses because of
languages. There's always a way that they could work with people.
SK:
So, specifically working with probation, is that after a sentence has
been…
TS:
So, individual was arrested, the police job is almost done. They
documented their reports. The next morning, or the next day they
brought the individual to court, and probation took over. Probation
officers interviewed the individual and reported to judges. Cases
decided and found guilty. The individual placed on probation.
Probation Officer assigned to supervise individual. There are many
types of conditions: drug testing, GPS, and Scram and much more.
SK:
What's Scram?
TS:
Scram is a machine... breathing... alcohol testing machine. So we
can monitor it from anywhere. And GPS, just like the car, you can
see the people walking around. So that's... our job is to make sure
that... so we do all that
SK:
And when you monitor them, afterwards, is it sort of regular
checking or...
TS:
So it's different levels. Some are more severe, and some are less
severe. A couple scenarios, like assault and battery on somebody...
they probably get a split sentence. They get two years house of
correction; one year to serve, one year suspended. And the
suspended sentence is the one that they are on probation. Typical
order of probation conditions: drugs counseling, mental health
counseling and many others. And so we make sure that they do all
those things. If they failed to comply with the order then the judge,
their probation would be revoked and sent them to jail.
SK:
So you really are caseworker from the moment that they're arrested
[crosstalk 00:27:13] all the way through to the end of the
probation?
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TS:
And then we prose... at the same time if they violate the probation,
we prosecuted them. So we acting like a prosecutor as well. And
we also do a home visit. Make sure that they... yeah.
SK:
What were the... What was the... Who are the people that you were
working with most in the '90s right? It wasn't like...
TS:
I'm specializing in Southeast Asian probationers because the judge
could impose 20 different conditions, and if they did not
understand then they could not do the right things, then they could
go to jail. So I was assigned to work with them. I was successful in
helping them.
SK:
It was mostly young... Was it youth or all ages or...
TS:
So, back then it was older people.
SK:
Like, thirties, forties?
TS:
No, 20 to about 40, 50.
SK:
And what were some of the...
TS:
A lot of domestic. Gambling... not nearly enough number of drugs.
SK:
What kind of gambling? Actually, I just came out from another
interview, but the attorney…
SK:
Then how did things change like the late '90s to the 2000?
TS:
There's a lot more changes now a day. So there is less Southeast
Asian now. Now this has a lot with... still domestic. There's a good
number of domestic violence, and then it's also not as much
gambling, but not as much drugs either... it's OUI; driving under
influence, a lot of that.
SK:
So, what other kind of things sort of... like your experience, or
your working... your experiences with working with the
community, did things change? As we moved into the late '90s and
the 2000s?
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TS:
Yeah. There's... There are families who were struggling to
assimilate in the US.
SK:
What do you mean?
TS:
You had a lot people from countryside in Cambodia who were not
educated because of the service was not good... those kids dropped
out of school and committed crimes, generation after generation.
SK:
Are struggling.
TS:
Struggling and still of course. They had a lot of kids in troubles,
and their kids trouble.
SK:
So there's... there's the generation-
TS:
Generation.
SK:
I see.
TS:
And then... my son, he is doing research, so his finding is that...
over the summer, did on gang-
SK:
What is he? A student or... here, where?
TS:
He's a student at Wake Forest University.
SK:
Oh, Wake Forest? Your sweatshirt. So is he... what's his major?
TS:
He majored in psychology.
SK:
He did research?
TS:
Research on gang.
SK:
In...
TS:
Southeast Asian Gang. So he interviewed a bunch of gang
members
SK:
Around here?
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Yeah. And he interviewed with different ages.
SK:
That's fantastic!
TS:
He is the senior, and he going onto Columbia University for his
graduate school.
SK:
For graduate school?
TS:
Yeah.
SK:
Congratulations! That's wonderful. That's great. We need more
researchers on Southeast Asian American studies, but also
researchers who are Southeast Asian American for-
TS:
He's going to be... he's doing clinical psychology.
SK:
That's great. That's wonderful. What kind of things did he find?
TS:
So he saw... he found out that a lot of these kid parents were not
around. Parents disconnected with schools, and no mentor... lack of
mentoring. So those components leaded kids to struggle on theirs
owns.
SK:
Have you seen an impact of a lot of the youth services that have
arisen in Lowell in the last few decades? Like Teen BLOCK, or
UTEC, or Boys & Girls Club?
TS:
They do, they do. I think that the... I have to give them a lot of
credits, and I think they make a lot of efforts. But at the same time,
I think they are not very organized and appeared to be isolated
from each other. I have a task to do, and I'm just doing this on my
own. There is so much need. And I think... and I... So, this is
something that I see. Even UMass Lowell hasn't put a lot of effort
into it. Because I think they feel that we are incapable of doing the
job to maintain our own greater goods. So they don't give a hand.
And when you go and don’t give them a hand, they make it very...
Let me give you an example. So the changes took place in the '90.
So the leaders who were representing the community... two
decades later, 2000, this 20 years, they fired every one of those
guys. They made it a point you have to pass this process or that
process in order for you to stay employed.
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They fired, sorry, who-
TS:
Teachers. Back in the day they hired Khmer teachers to teach.
Then a lot of those teachers were fired.
And then now a day 97% of teachers and staffs in Lowell Public
School are Caucasian. I think the last time I heard them saying was
that they went to recruit diversity teachers were South Carolina;
Columbia, South Carolina… completely make nonsense.
TS:
And that's why I help find a Community Public Charter School in
Lowell, MA. I was part of that. I was a board member and
chairman for ten years. And the city was not happy with that.
SK:
What were the characteristics or what did you feel like you could
do with the Charter School that you couldn't do otherwise?
TS:
So, we brought in people representing the populations in the city,
so they understood the needs, and they made effort to meet those
needs, and they knew how to motivate, not just kids in school, but
they motivate parents to get involved in school. They don't just
stop saying, "Hey, I saw your kid here". They go to houses and
say, "Hey, your kid is doing well." They make the people feel like
one family.
SK:
And because the Lowell public schools were not meeting the needs
of the community, you had to work elsewhere?
TS:
I can talk about my family, about what I did with us, all that. While
I was at the probation department, I went to school here, got my
Master at UMass Lowell in Community Social Psychology. I was
working with Doctor Joyce Gibson, and since they move on, Linda
Silka… I don't know where she is right now, but-
SK:
She's retired. I know that she's still around.
TS:
So she... they were very supportive.
SK:
Did you know Robin too? Robin’s still here.
TS:
Robins and I were in same class. Yeah. She's really nice. So I got
involved, and from the data they collected, I saw that the data was
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useless to the school, because I know that they will not... I mean
they make some attempts, because they got extra money... to use
that money, but they didn't do a good job and tell them... So I...
from that data, I work on my own family in many ways, and I told
you I (unclear) school with CMAA. So they... in community
there's infighting …
SK:
African-American. So believe me I know…
TS:
Politic all over the community too, but I tried to stay out with it,
and focus on what's most affective... So for my role as probation
officer is to make sure that the kid who wanted to go into law
enforcement, making sure that if they wanted to do intern at the
courthouses, they could do it. In terms of kids who wanted to
become police officers I asked currently police officers to help
mentoring them.
SK:
That is fantastic.
TS:
So we have good relations with them. And also attorney and
anyone who is different, I want them to feel welcomed, and I fight
hard for that.
SK:
It sounds like you've done a lot of work, to help change the law
enforcement... the makeup of the law enforcement. Like you're
saying, the schools have to change. [crosstalk 00:37:48] Have you
seen any progress in trying to get the law enforcement to make that
systemic change?
TS:
So, from my conclusion, they know where to feed the hungry
mouth.
SK:
They know where to feed the hungry.
TS:
And a lot of times when people who got fed they were happy. They
stopped caring about anyone else. Then they stopped helping.
SK:
I saw something in the news, online news in 2017, there was a
People of Color Criminal Justice Conference that you spoke at.
Can you talk about what that was, and what the goals of that was,
and what you did there.
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So I don't know how they got me to talk about… that, but I was
very straightforward with them. I said... I didn't... I think it's very
challenging, the way... I wouldn't call it conspiracy, but I think it's
the culture that kind of lay these ground that... you got to prove
more, you got to prove more. And so-
SK:
You mean Southeast Asians have to prove more? [unclear] in order
to be better… in order to get the same treatment.
TS:
So I spoke... the other day, I spoke at the Lawrence Academy in
Groton, MA, and my prediction is in the next 20 years, most of
these prestigious boarding schools, there's going to be like 60% of
Southeast Asian in the school, because we got money, and then
we're going to send them to the best schools. Because I saw South
Korea, I saw Japan, China. A lot of times, they do not think you
are qualified to be where you are. So they make it hard for you to
move forward.
TS:
You've got to do the work. Show them how hard you work and
then they will respect you, because if we don't do that, that's not
going to help us. I suggested that
TS:
And then the people who I work with, will come back and say,
"You saved my life.”
I knew an Indian American lawyer. And before she became a
judge, she was a lawyer, and she did not know this court well. And
I used to ask her and say, hey, and I told her you go in front of this
judge, this is how you should do this and that.
TS:
And so when she became a judge, and she is like, Wow! And then
when she learned about my family, myself, and how I was... I'm
not important to these people’s eyes, but I do important things for
my kid and myself, so I only can do these things because I learned
and worked hard. I grew.
SK:
When you were working... when you started working the '90s in
Lowell District Court, were you the first Khmer… probation
officer?
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TS:
I was told I was the second probation officer, the other person, he
only lasted there briefly. He left, but I didn't even know that he
was...
SK:
What about now? How would you say-
TS:
So now there are more of us. There are more Probation Officers. I
recruited more.
SK:
Do you think that we have, in terms of both the police department,
but also probation officers and attorneys... I don't know. Enough is
not the right word. But-
TS:
Are well represented?
SK:
Yeah. Are we well represented?
TS:
We are not. We are not. I don't know whether in 20 years or 100
more years, no. I think, like I said to you, there's plenty of people
here that can do the job, but they don't give them a chance. Not a
chance. Not even a chance. They feel that...
SK:
Like the... there's a parallel between like the schools and like law
enforcement agencies about that there are people out there who can
do the job, but there are not-
TS:
They did not. I gave you the example. I used to coach, and winning
is not just something in my blood, but it's just something that I
work so hard at, you know, and in coaching, they'd rather give it to
somebody else than... But I say to them, I say, I said, "There's no
roadblock that can keep me from going forward", because I will go
forward, and I will make my way far and beyond.
SK:
What else has changed, and what hasn't changed? In the instance
from the 1990s to now? So you're saying that there are some more
probation officers, but we still need more?
TS:
The leadership. So we are lack of leaders of everywhere.
Everywhere.
SK:
You mean... within the community or everywhere?
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A leader, it's not the people in front of you that you know, and you
see that, that you think is a leader. Leader who’s done well, who
established and accomplished who have visions, and I don't think
they call on them to help with the community. So, they don't call
on those guys. They call on somebody who will say, "Don't worry.
I will say you've done a good job. Keep doing what you do". And I
think that's where things... I give you an example. I don't know
how many times this gentleman screw up. I rather not mention
name. He had violated every ethic rules, he has his hands in every
politic meeting, and he's the best, I guess to the city. You ask me, I
always say... When you want somebody to lead you, let's... you
know, you gave him one time to make mistakes, but if he keeps
making mistakes, I don't think it's a good idea to have that
individual keep leading. That's just an example, and I think this
community, put a blind eye on a lot of... these are so many... I've
known so many people done well, but they are not going to
exhaust all energy to catch fire ... So there are a lot of times we
step back.
SK:
What about in relation to the Lowell District Courts and stuff like
that. How would you describe in terms of community members’
relationships to the court system? Has it improved?
TS:
Excuse me one sec. Let me text my wife a sec.
SK:
Oh, yeah.
TS:
Because I put an alarm at home, so I want to make sure that...
TS:
Sorry about that.
TS:
She's working DCF.. was known as the department of Social
Services before.
SK:
So you are very civic family?
TS:
I think so.
SK:
So do you and your wife and your... you said you have a son. Do
you have any other-
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Two sons. I have two sons. One's working in Boston. He's working
in a financial investment company.
SK:
Do you think that the understanding of the Lowell district courts of
say then the complexities of community members has improved?
TS:
I play a good part of it, because it's... We haven't gotten any
complaint from people. So, I think we have good relationship, and
I think they know how effective I am working with people. So I
think they allow me facilitate, and I don't think we have a lot of
problems with Southeast Asians.
SK:
Have you had any experience with people with orders of
deportation?
TS:
Oh, yeah. I've done... I do, I do. Over the year, so I knew a lot of
them. But I have also been telling them that they would be
deported if they stopped appealing. And I think some of them
stopped appealing, so they get deported.
SK:
And also just because the ground changed under…
TS:
Yeah, the ground changed. It's...
SK:
Because there was no repatriation agreement in the ‘90s.
TS:
I have a good knowledge of all these things, but again, you can
only do so much. And the one who approached me, who asking me
to advocate for them, I was very successful in stopping that
process.
SK:
So, what are some... As we were sort of going towards the end,
what are some other... because you that there are other challenges
that still face the community in relation particularly to the law
enforcement, but maybe just overall. You've mentioned like
leadership issues...
TS:
I think a lot of... I think we as community, I think we still...
because a lot of the infighting, because of lack of transparency...
There's a lot of thing happening, but I don't think it connected well.
And, with that, I think we become more suspicious of each other. I
think it just because of this community. I think that's a challenge.
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And I think not enough kids are going to colleges. I think UMass
hasn't done much to help. I think my son, the last time, I think his
finding it was like I think with 15 to 20% of the kids that finish
college in four years, and they might go back, but I doubt it. And I
think if you want to make a difference, I think they would... their
respond with, "You go and do it". I think their resource they waste
it on keeping people going further in life.
SK:
What do you mean?
TS:
So I... Let me see. My kids went to school, in Lowell, and then I
found the data with UMass Lowell, they're not doing a good job,
lack of parent participations. And I think the kids... They think that
the kids will never get as smart as them. Only a few can get
smarter. And so I said to them, “Getting involved with these things
give you so much more knowledge.” So my children were
exceptional because I told them... I learned from different people
that high school in Lowell, MA is not a good place to have
foundation for colleges. So I made sure my kid didn't go to high
school in Lowell.
SK:
Where did they go to high school?
TS:
My younger one went to Groton School, in Groton, MA and my
older one went to Central Catholic for two years. Sport, academic,
and family were the keys thing. And at Central Catholic, he was
recruited to play soccer at Lawrence Academy in Groton, MA.
The younger one who went to Groton school traveled the world.
He's fluent in Khmer and Spanish. He's a good writer. You can
read his blog color… “Khmer Odyssey.”
SK:
That's great!
TS:
You can learn a lot about family, and he's a... Both of them are
exceptional soccer player, and both of them are... the one... This
younger one is also a musician. He can play 10 instruments. But he
all... Both of them are grounded. At home, they clean, cook, and
help out. And the older one... so when he went to... The younger
who went to Groton schools and Wake Forest University, so he
went to India, France, Italy, Peru, and Spain, and Cambodia. So it's
all funded by the schools. The older ones graduated from
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Lawrence Academy got recruited to play soccer in Kenyon
College, Gambia, Ohio.
SK:
That was a very good school.
TS:
So both of them... and then the... So after Kenyon, he got a job,
two days before graduated. A job, an investment company. And
from there... and so he is there now for over a year. And I told my
kids, because... so my kid always... I keep telling them, say, "I'm
not paranoid, kid" they say, "Why, Dad?" Because you seem like
you (unclear) they discriminate, they racist against... I'm not, I'm
not. They say, "Well, how come?" I say, "Look, if people look at
you again and again and again and, do some facial. So any time
you know they are thinking of you the wrong way about you.
TS:
And then sometime you even overheard conversations or jokes.
And so my kid keeps saying, "That's not true". I say, "When you
get older, you'll know". So both of them run into discrimination.
So now they were like, "Dad, you were right." So I say to them, I
say, "So how are we going to overcome that?" They said, "Well,
work hard. Work hard". My older one is... he's doing well. So he
does that. And on the weekend he fixes houses. He has a girlfriend
whose family owns has some apartments. Very ambitious…
TS:
And the little guy, he goes to Columbia University for his Master.
And then he's going to seek a PHD. And I told them. Look, we
can't change the way people think, but if you have all the answers,
and how hard you work they will ask you. They will ask you. And
that is when they start asking you, and they will impress of how
hard you work, and how much you know. And so those are the...
And we remain humble. In the summer, when the kids are home, I
always make sure that they serve the community. Make sure they
get involved, make sure that they give back.
SK:
Have you ever spoken at the UMass Lowell... That we have a
School of Criminal Justice and Criminology?
TS:
No.
SK:
I think they would be interested to talk [crosstalk 00:58:29]
because you work with this particular... specifically as a case
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worker, Cambodian and [crosstalk 00:58:33] these Asian
American.
TS:
I have a lot of students who... who's interned at courthouse. So I
taught a lot, mentoring them. And recently, I've been speaking to
the kids at the Lawrence Academy and Groton school.
SK:
I think I just... I saw on the paper that Lowell Police Department,
they just had a swearing yesterday or a couple of days ago, with
four new police officers who were all people of color. So there's
slow change.
TS:
Now they need leaders. Someone who are in the circle. Because I
think they... From what I've seen from the outside-
SK:
Lowell Police Department?
TS:
Yeah. UMass and all, they need somebody to sit in, who can
effectively give them a good sense of the community itself.
SK:
They need more people from the community in those leadership
positions?
TS:
Yeah. They, shouldn't just... Like I said, use the same person to
advise them. I have families that I know who sent their kids to
Stanford, Harvard, and many other good schools. They did some
things right. And I think they can say, "Hey, what did you do?
How did you do it?" And I think get back to where I am, I think a
few years ago, they keep saying, "Do you really know what you
are doing?" I think nowadays they start asking me, "Can you teach
me how to do it?" With what I had learned from what I did with
my kids, I told them, I say it wasn't as easy as walking in the park.
We worked hard, and I think I learned something to get them to
there.
SK:
It only took 20 years for people to recognize.
TS:
But end of the day, I remain humble about that. I think the only
thing I can show them is the hard work.
SK:
So is there anything that we haven't talked about that you want to
make sure that... From your experiences?
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TS:
I think in your role, you can do a lot too. Do a lot of integral... We
have all these things. How can we let the kids know in this school?
Reaching out to them, and become their mentor. I think over the
years, the most effective thing that I think that helped a lot of this
kids was by-
SK:
Mentoring.
TS:
Mentoring. And I think if you're like Head of Department... I think
by allowing kids to have access to you. To see that, "Wow, look! I
got a chance to get into this place and I can be there". And I think
that would... The access to all the... It's the lack of access, is how a
lot of kids they... I think this is enough. There's so much more that
they can... And they have potential. They had the same abilities as
anybody else. But I think by advocating them, allowing them to
know about this normal potential, can allow them to go anywhere
... Sky is limit.
SK:
So, that's great. I actually had one more question just in terms of...
For your caseload in the ‘90s, did you... was it mostly from
Southeast Asian Americans? Was it mostly Cambodians, or did
you also have like Laos, Vietnamese.
TS:
I helped everybody. But I think most of them-
SK:
Most of them are Cambodians.
TS:
Yeah.
SK:
What about today, in the 20 teens, right? From 2010 to today,
would you say the number of your Southeast Asian American
cases has changed?
TS:
Yeah, yeah.
SK:
Is it less?
TS:
Yes, a lot less than before. [crosstalk 01:03:05]
SK:
Now you work with just sort of all different-
TS:
Yeah, yeah, all different races.
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SK:
So it's interesting.
TS:
You see the changes.
SK:O
kay, great. Thank you very much.
TS:
I want to show you just a few things.
Interview ends
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<span>The collection draft finding aid, </span><a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml17" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libguides.uml.edu/uml17</a><span>.</span>
The oral history project page, <a href="https://www.uml.edu/Research/SEA-digital-archive/oral-histories.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.uml.edu/Research/SEA-digital-archive/oral-histories.aspx</a>.
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This collection is currently in progress and information will be updated as it becomes available. <br /><br />Read more about the project: <a href="https://www.uml.edu/Research/SEA-digital-archive/oral-histories.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.uml.edu/Research/SEA-digital-archive/oral-histories.aspx</a><br /><br />Part of the collection is accessible on this site. <br /><br />Oral history interviews include: <br /><br /><strong>Maryellen Cuthbert, April 2019, Oral History #19.01</strong> <br />An oral history interview with Maryellen Cuthbert and interviewer Sue J. Kim. Since the mid-1980s, Cuthbert has been a private defense attorney working in the Lowell, Massachusetts, area. In this oral history, Cuthbert shares information about her training as a lawyer and reflects on various cases she’s worked with related to Southeast Asian communities. <strong>Content warning: Mentions of weapons, abuse, assaults, and violent situations.</strong> <br /><br /><strong>Thel Sar, April 2019, Oral History #19.02</strong> <br />An oral history interview with Thel Sar and interviewer Sue J. Kim. In this oral history, Sar talks about his early life: living through the Khmer Rouge, resettling in the United States, and his education; his career trajectory: working at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, working at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, and becoming one of the earliest probation officers of Cambodian descent at Lowell District Court; his other community activities; and his family. <br /><br /><strong>Sivaing Suos, August 2019, Oral History #19.05</strong><br />An oral history <span>interview with Sivaing Suos and interviewer Tyler Sar. In this oral history, Suos talks about her early life in Cambodia and immigrating to the U.S., her experiences pursuing education and holding various jobs, including working in the mental health field and with families experiencing domestic violence, and her family.<br /><br /><strong>Niem Nay-kret, September 2019, Oral History #19.06</strong><br />An oral history interview with Niem Nay-kret and interviewer Sue J. Kim. In this oral history, Nay-kret talks about her early life in Cambodia and during the Khmer Rouge and her experiences holding various jobs in the U.S. related to healthcare, including prenatal care, mental health, and more.</span><br /><br />-------------------------- <br />SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Chornai Pech and Monita Chea.
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Southeast Asian Digital Archive Oral History Project, 2019-Ongoing. UML 17. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.
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Oral history
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Thel Sar oral history transcript, 2019
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Probation officers
Lowell (Mass.)
Oral history
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The transcript of an oral history interview with Thel Sar and interviewer Sue J. Kim. In this oral history, Sar talks about his early life: living through the Khmer Rouge, resettling in the United States, and his education; his career trajectory: working at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, working at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, and becoming one of the earliest probation officers of Cambodian descent at Lowell District Court; his other community activities; and his family.
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Sar, Thel
Kim, Sue J.
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Southeast Asian Digital Archive Oral History Project
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-04-18
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application/pdf; 23 p.
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English
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uml17_19.02_003
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2010-2019
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Cambodians
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Lowell Community Charter Public School
Lowell District Court
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Lowell Sun Photography Collection - Southeast Asian Cultures and Persons
[1983-1990]
Subject
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Restaurants
Supermarkets
Markets
Dancer
Laotian
Khmer
Phillipine
Food
Vietnamese
Harvard University
Cowbells
Musicians
Tourism
Laotian
Indonesian
Princes
Buddhist
Cambodian Photographers
Students
Buddhist Chants
Posters
Intimate partner violence
Laotian
Cambodian
Speakers
College Professors
Carpenters
Family
Brothers and Sisters; Siblings.
Memorial Service
Filipino Americans; Filipino American women
Items, Thailand
Entertainers
Food Industry and Trade -- Employees
Businessmen
Children
Thai
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<p>The Lowell Sun Photography Collection - Southeast Asian Cultures and Persons Collection documents the rich cultural tapestry of Southeast Asian communities in Lowell, including Cambodian, Thai, Vietnamese, Laotian, and people of the Philippines. These diverse images are drawn from the annual National Folk Festival events, as well as from photographs showcasing Southeast Asian children, students, entertainers, dancers, musicians, doctors, entrepreneurs, and women's rights advocates, highlighting their engagement with the Lowell community.<br /><br />This digital collection is only a small sample of the much larger Lowell Sun Photography Collection, owned by the Lowell Historical Society, housed at the Center for Lowell History. The overall collection contains over 20,000 images, most which can only be accessed in person, by appointment, at the Center. These images were originally captured by Lowell Sun photographers to accompany newspaper stories. Photographers frequented local businesses and events to capture what life looked like in Lowell at the time.<br /><br /><strong>Please Note</strong>: The selection of images in this digital collection was primarily based on the probability of featuring members of the Southeast Asian community, primarily determined by their names. In cases where a direct link to Southeast Asian culture was less evident, photos were chosen based on naming conventions specific to their respective cultures. We understand that this method may not always be accurate, and welcome any feedback as to images that may be unrelated. Images include members of the Cambodian, Thai, Vietnamese, Laotian, and people of the Philippines communities, among others.<br /><br />If you are interested in seeing the many other images in this collection that have not been digitized, please contact the Center for Lowell History to make an appointment.</p>
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Digitized from Lowell Sun Collection, owned by the Lowell Historical Society, housed at the Center for Lowell History.
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Bridgeford, Bill
Brow, David
Cauchon, Bradley
Donovan, Dan
Gregory, David
Hunt, Richard
Malakie, Julia
Pigeon, Mike
Whitaker, Robert
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1983-1990
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1st Floor Filing Cabinets 001 - 024, 1B Section 1
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JPEG
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English
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Image
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Lowell (Mass.)
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LowellSun_
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Pere Pen
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Cambodian
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Lowell Department of Social Service, new head of Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, Pere Pen.
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Bridgeford, Bill
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Digitized from Lowell Sun Collection, owned by the Lowell Historical Society, housed at the Center for Lowell History.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1993-07-09
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Item Located in Drawer 10, Folder: Organization -- Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
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JPEG
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Image
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LowellSun_CambodianMutualAssistanceAssociation_001_
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Lowell (Mass.)
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association