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Tel : (508) 454-4286, Fax: (508) 454- 1806
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Ken Harl<ins inspected the group's prospective nf':-11 home site on Merri~~~,t(~J..
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prospective new home ycst.e.rduy.
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Har kins a t the former St. J OSt!ph's High
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&pace for cultural education, EngWh classes,
job training and social events. The group is
now hou&ed on Fletcher Street.
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�Space Radar to Study Khmer Temples at Angkor
ARCHEOLOGISTS, who make a practice
of densifying exotic cultures of the long
ago, had their hands full here last week
comprehending a very modern one that could
be a valuable ally in their investigation of
the distant past
At first, it was one of those awkward
encounters between two cultures - not
across the wide gulf between science and the
humanities, as elucidated by the scientistwriter C.P. Snow in the I 960s, but between
two quite different sciences: archeology and
the technology ofremote sensing from space.
After two days of deciphering each
other' s arcane language, the archeologists
managed to recogni ze how theirneeds could
be met in part by the new technology's
capabilities. The result was a plan for using
space radar to advance the study of one of
th e world ' s most magnificent archeological
sites, the Khmer temples of Angkor in the
remote jungle of northern Cambodia.
The archeolo gists hope that a detailed
ana lysis of radar pictures, taken of th e
Angkor region by an American space sh uttle
last October, will open th eir eyes to more
ruins hidden in the jungle and will give them
a better und erstandin g of the total environment that supported this sacred and
admini strative capital of the Khmer civilizat ion from the 9th throu gh the 13th
centuries. Man y of th e pal aces, temples,
moats and waterworks were constructed at
the time Europe was building its great cathedrals.
" I came here mildly curious, and a little
skeptical, " said Dr. Elizabeth Moor, a University of London archeologi st who is
directing excavations at Angkor. "Now I' m
quite excited. This is a new methodology.
We can develop new research goals and new
ways of looking at the site."
Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasaden a, Cal if. , where the imaging
radar system was developed, came away
from th eir encounter with archeologist with
a greater awareness th at th eir technology
has more potential uses, and eager users,
than they had originally conceived. The
primary purpose of th e experimental flights
by th e National Aeronautics and Space Administration was to test the radar' s abi lity to
monitor natural and human-induces environmental changes taking place on Earth.
Dr. Diane L. Evans, chief scienti st of the
radar project, promised to supply the
archeologists with the raw data from which
th e radar images were produced and adv ise
them on how to filter and ana lyze the data to
extract information not immediately obvious in
the pictures.
If a proposal for another shuttle flight with the
radar is approved, she said, the
needs of archeologists working at many places
around the world would be carefully considered.
Until now, the application of space imaging
radar to archeology has been an afterthought.
"There has been sort of a language and idea
barrier between the radar people and their users," said Dr. Pamela Logan, science director of
the China Exploration and Research Society in
Altadena, Calif., which will be using the technology to search for ruins along the legendary
Silk Road in the desert of northwestern China.
The meeting, held at Princeton University,
was the first formal attempt to bridge the gap
between these two sciences. It was organized by
the World Monuments Fund in New York City,
which specializes in the conservation of architectural monuments, and the Roy al Angkor
Foundation of Budapest, which conducts research at the Cambodian site. The J. M. Kaplan
Fund, a New York philanthropy, supported the
meeting as part of its new effo rts of encourage
the application of new technologies to archeo logy.
Interest in exploring the ruins of Angkor,
covering 125 square miles, has increased after
an interruption of two decades caused by warfare and civil strife. Some of the temples of
brick, sandstone and limestone have fallen into
disrepair, some being overgrown by jungle vines.
Looting has occurred, and gunfire can still be
heard in the hinterlands.
The danger of land mines makes large areas
inaccessible. Archeologists suspect that these
areas contain evidence of settlements where the
builders of the temples lives and also clues to
prehi storic occupation, perhaps go ing back to
5000 B.C. More than 60 prehistoric mounds
have already been identified, and villagers often
dig up stone tools, but few of the mounds have
been scientifically excavated.
The centerpiece of the conference was the
blowup of a color picture, which NASA scientists had just processed from radar data gathered
in a shuttle pass over Southeast Asia. Targeting
Angko r had been a last minute addition to the
mission, after an official of the World Monuments Fu nd read a newspaper account and sent
an urgent req uest to NASA.
Huddling around the picture, arch eo logists
saw all th e old fami li ar places. There was the
principal temple complex, Angkor Wat, as a
large green rectangle. It was surrounded by a
moat in strai ght black lines. Dr. Moore pointed
to Preah Ko, a cluster of ninth-century palaces
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that to her "contai ns evidence of th e moment
of change with the introduction of Indian
culture" by the Khmer kings.
Dark rectangles denoted the large reservoirs that some archeologists think were
reflecting pools to accentuate the temple
splendors, as well as sources of water for the
people and for rice cultivation. A landscape
architect could make out the courses of
ancient rivers, now dry, and other geological features that could be important in
understandin g regional development.
"Angkor is all about water," said John H.
Stuffs, program directorofthe World Monuments Fund. " It seems to be of paramount
importance to understand the old hydrological systems, if they are to be properly restored.
Water in th e old moats separated the outer
world from those sacred precincts. And
waterways were probably necessary to bring
in the limestone for construction."
Some of the archeologists came to the
meeting with unrealistic expectation. No,
Dr. Evans said, the radar could not directl y
expose the presence of buried temple ruins.
In deserts, the microwave signals can penetrate th e arid sand to depths of 15 feet,
which has revealed
ancient ri verbeds and apparent art ifacts in
the Egyptian desert. But radar does not
penetrate moist so ils, although surface textures and variations in vegetation record ed
in the images could provide clue to where
something is buried, especially if the images
are analyzed in conjunction with aeri al or
space remote-sensing surveys in visible and
infrared light
The space imaging radar system, tested
on two shuttle missions last year, transmits
pulses of mi crowave energy in three different wavelengths toward Earth and measures
the strength and time delay of th e energy that
is scattered back to the antenna. The returning signals can be read in ways to sho w th e
shape and nature of the surface. A composite of the data is used to produce
photograph-like images of the terrain and
structures on it.
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Princeton, New Jersey
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�LOOKING BEYOND A BROKEN CULTURE:
Its Legacies and Its Future
eluding our culture in the scheme of things. This requires not only a
vast knowledge, but vision and imagination to move forward in the
making of a culture. Therefore, if we believe ourselves to be leaders,
and regardless of whatever field our experti se belongs to, or whatever
political tendency we may associate with, we must center our energies on the reconstruction of this broken cu ltu ral center, and on the
formation of a "modern" Khmer culture. We will be best served by
opening ou rselves up to learn culture from a WORLD VI EW, and
certainly we must understand fully the cu ltural activities of our immediate neighbors. Otherwise, we will continually run the risk of getting caught in the trap of " cu ltural coloni zation" over and over again.
Khmer culture has flourished and receded many times throughout her
history. This fluctuation in prosperity and in government has helped
to bring about a series of changes within the culture over the centuries. In add ition, different ethnic gro ups have become influential at
different times and there has been a broad scope of interaction with
the peoples of other nations. Cultural richness is a kind of measurement of the happiness and harmony of a people. Each time it is lost,
there is a national need to rebuild it. The people begin to restore, to
preserve and to recollect the past, and moreover, they begin to develop a " new" tradition . This was seen to occur after the decline of
the glorious Angkor Wat period . The outpouring of creative energy
which came forth at this time is often referred to as a "rebirth" of the
culture.
In order to create a " modern" culture, we must first modernize the
minds of our people and educate our children to see beyond the boundaries of the Khmer nation. After all, boundaries are continually changi ng anyway . About 2,000
years ago, the people of Kauk Th loak, an area which
was }pproximately in the southwestern part of Cambodia, l:lecame a well-known cultural center which was in
touch with other thriving cultures. The Chinese
referred to this place as Fou Nan, and recorded
its cultural diversity, invention and adv anced fa. cilities. Perhaps because of their seaport city of
0 Keo they were a center for commercial trade,
_ and most importantly, a place where intercultural
exchanges could take place. But, it should be
pointed out that the people of Kauk Thloak or
Fou Nan, had their own indigenous culture, and
had a strong enough identity to counter-balance
with the various commercial and cultural influences. Was this a " modern" culture which was
begun by the people of Kauk Th loak? And what
about the culture which thrived one thousand years later at Angkor?
And more recently, did we really succeed in implementing intercultural elements in our curriculum structure in the study of world culture, after obtaining independence from the colonial French? Were
we successful in our " open-door" mentality during the Democratic
Kampuchea regime? And what happened to Buddhism during the
reign of this regime? Were the people and our culture recognized
properly at this time? The questions are essential to our healing as a
nation, and necessary if we are to avert the repetition of the same
miscalculations. We can now wonder what might have happened had
we employed some Khmer futurologists, political scientists o r cultural leaders to foresee what has recently transpired in Eastern Europe.
George Crumb, an eminent American composer, ~aid,
" ... there are more people who see culture evo lvi g i~ ti.le:
form of a spiral rather then in the form of an evo- ( · •.
lution along a single line. " Well-known anthro- ll"
polog ist May Ebihara, when addressing the issue
of preserving "traditional" elements of Khmer culture at a conference in Washington, D.C. in 1985,
stated : " One must also recognize that Khmer culture cannot be conceived of as someth ing frozen
in amber like some fo ssil." And, when addressing the issue of Asian traditions at a conference in
Hong Kong, composer/scholar Chou Wen-Chung
said, " We must not think of it as quiescent water
in a self-contained lake, whose immobile beauty
inspires memories of the past and admiration for
what has been created. No, let us see Asian esthetics as a flowing stream, which pushes forward
irreversibly in constant response to an ever-changing environment and in eternal search for the future and in which the
past lives in the present."
Each time after the Khmer people have suffered some kind of cultural
downfall , there has been a period when the people have exercised
creativity and imagination to restore and to in vent new fo rms of tradition . Once again the Khmer people are beginning to interact with
forei gn cultures, even before the nation is stabilized politically or economically. Khmer culture and education will now find new inspiration and energy from many sources both inside and outside its boundaries. We must develop a Khmer cu lture both withou t accepting everything from past traditions or abandoning it. The modern Khmer
culture can be a tool to unify and harmonize a wou nded people, regardless of individual political tendencies, or past traumatic memories, just as it has happened throughout our stormy hi story. Once and
for all , we must support a culture that belongs to our people and the
future generations to come, at any cost. C ultural strength is something that all Khmer people are proud of, and something which has no
boundaries in time, in economics, or in politics. Jfwe will be willing
to stand on the other side of a " closed-door" mentality, we w ill succeed in developing a " modern" Khmer culture that includes everyone.
For example, many of our vi llagers recogni ze and participate in the
Khmer culture with much more sophi stication than many of our intellectuals, educators, arti sts o r politicians. We will successfully lead
our own people on ly once we have succeeded in recognizing and in-
However, we will have to go beyond the search for a thorough knowledge of the Khmer culture, and consequently the search for an " identity". Simply put, once one finds his or her identity, what is next?
Our present position and attitude should include responsibility for the
future generations and its culture. Again, we must direct ourselves
toward the development of an educated Khmer people. This will be
well worth o ur energies.
How should this education take place? Cultivating the knowledge
and interest in Khmer culture does not require that reinventi on of what
had been created in the past. On the contrary, much of the effort
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�would go toward creating within mediums wh ich exist in the current
and interacting with cultural elements which include the rest of the
world . A modern Khmer culture wi ll be a part of a global vi llage,
regardless of ideological pluralism. It will be important to strive for a
curricu lum that is neither Khmer-centric, Euro-centric, America-centric, and so on.
The implementation of the arts, religion and humanities should be a
strong part of the curriculum, whi ch together with the sciences and
technology can propel the Khmer nation into a truly " modern" culture
relatively soon . There must be a balance between cultural education
and knowledge and techno logical expertise. This will provide the
youth ofour nation with a peaceful co nn ection to the rest of the world,
and a basis on which individual economic strength can build. If a
nation is strong on ly from a military or economic point of view, erosion wi ll eventuall y take places, as has been seen on this peninsula,
and in other parts of the wor ld . The culture is a human invention
which nurtures and feeds our people on both physical levels as well as
spiritual ones. A nation which can sustain a state of prolonged unity
through its cul ture, and not through a set of imported ideologies, will
survive many changes and traumas we ll . If leaders insist on ignoring
their nation ' s cu lture and the cu ltures of the world, they wi ll not succeed in obtaining the cooperation and support of their people. It is
our cu ltural hi sto ry which defi nes us, which makes us timeless and
which makes all people a world fami ly. The Khmer peop le have a
strong need to find brotherhood and sisterhood with their own people
and others around them once agai n. Making a com mitment to education in the arts and humanities will help to remind us all how much
beauty and harmony exists w ithin us.
At the turn of this century, the great French scu lptor, Auguste Rodin
saw a performance by the Royal Khmer dance troupe when it visited
France. He was deeply moved by the performance and said: "The
Cambodians have given us everything that the past holds; their own
past whi ch is equal to our own. We have li ved three days out of three
thousand years ago. It is impossible to see human nature brought to
such perfection. It was so only amo ng they and the Greeks."
By Chinary Ung, D.M.A .
Professor of Music, Arizona State University
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�ABOUT BUYING A HOME ...
BayBank has loan officers who speak Russian , Spanish, Cam bodian, Portuguese and Vietnamese.
BayBank said it is also working on making its automatic
teller machines bilingual and will soon have Spanish on the
screens.
BancBoston Mortgaged Corp. said it has been actively
recruiting bilingual loan officers and has on staff those who
speak Spanish. Creole, Haitian, Cantonese, Portuguese and
Polish, said Marian Sullivan, senior vice president ofresidential lending.
It conducts seminars with interpreters and actively advertises those on foreign-language radio stations. It has materials
on home buying in Spanish and Chinese.
BancBoston said it has made its underwriting criteria more
flexible in an effort to obtain more first-time buyers, and since
immigrants are often first-time buyers, these guidelines benefit
them , too. For example, it has changed qualifying ratios to 33 /
38, meaning a mortgage payment can be 33 percent of one ' s
income and all debt can be 38 percent of income. It has also
reduced the application fee to $125 from $350.
Fleet Financial Group said its multilingual staff can speak
Spanish, Chinese, Italian and Hatian. It offers home-buying
seminars in churches statewide, realizing that many immigrants
form roots in their new communities by identifying with their
church , said Meg Pier, a Fleet spokeswoman.
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance. (278-9100.)
This nonprofit, statewide coalition works to promote affordable housing and reaches immigrants through its homebuying workshops said Thomas Callahan, director of MAHA .
Although they are offered only in English, and occasionally in
Spanish, MAHA said it hopes to add more languages soon .
Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency. (854-1020.)
This nonprofit agency helps low- and moderate-income
families obtain below-market-rate mortgages. Consumers are
encouraged to attend a home-buying counseling course and
upon completion, are eligible for below-market-rate mortgages,
said Martha J. Vaananen, spokeswoman at MHFA. Call for
updates course schedules.
Simplifying Home Buying for Immigrants
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BOSTON GLOBE Staff
Although foreign-born newcomers to America are becoming home owner's at a faster rate than US-born Latinos or blacks,
barriers still exist for many who speak English as a second
language .
A recent study by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing
Studies showed that immigrants between the ages of25 and 34
more than double their rate of home ownership- 54.9 percent
owned homes in 1990, up from 24 .2 percent in 1980 ..
Still , a recent national housing survey by the Federal
National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) indicated that
immigrants - more than native-born residents - feel the frustration of navigating through the confusing maze of house buying.
Thirty-five percent of immigrants said " not knowing how
to get started" was a barrier to home ownership, compared to
25 percent in the main sample ofrespondents. And immigrants
were almost twice as likely to consider " discrimination or other
social barriers" as deterrents to buying a house .
The Clinton administration ' s nation housing strategy also
acknowledges that language and cultural barriers can hinder
home ownership. The US Department of lenders, mortgage
insurers and home counseling agencies to increase home ownership . It has suggested that its counseling courses include
information aimed at new immigrants, bilingual materials and
diverse employees.
Local lenders and nonprofit housing groups say they are
beginning to recognize the importance ofreaching immigrants,
a growing pool of potential home buyers. Here's an overview of
what some are doing.
Leaders. The Mortgage Bankers Association, which represents 2,600 members in real estate finance , said it is taking steps
to encourage home ownership among minorities and immigrants . Its strategy includes:
- Producing materials on cultural sensitivity and diversity
training materials for mortgage lenders.
- Promoting minority recruitment within the industry.
- Encouraging the creation of minority-owned mortgage
firms .
- Distributing Spanish-language brochures on mortgage
lending.
- Working with HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to
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cultural differences.
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every week during spring and fall selling seasons, said Roberta
Sydney, senior vice president of BayBank Mortgage Corp.
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growing in Massachusetts, and therefore are important groups
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population that exist and are growing," said Sydney, adding
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LEGAL Issues ...
The children, parents and staff enjoyed celebrating the
Cambodian New Year with a delicious luncheon of Cambodian
food . The parent participation was excellent and the children were
pleased to have their parents vis it them at school. The involvement
of parents is encouraged as part of the Center working with
Department of Social Services.
Presently the Summer Camp type program will go into effect.
The chi ldren will be outside more so please read the following
information so your chi ld can enjoy:
I. Chi ld sho uld wear sneakers, they are less slippery and
cover feet.
2. Wear hat and su nglasses to protect head and eyes from
sun ' s direct rays.
3. Use sunscreen lotion to prevent sunburn.
4. Use insect repellent to protect chi ld from bug bites.
5. Drink lots of water to prevent dehydration
Practice water safety - Chi ldren need to be supervised at the beach,
pond or pool. Don ' t let chi ldren swim alone!
If you have legal problems and cannot afford an attorney, Merrimack
Valley Legal Services, Inc. may be ab le to help. We provide free legal
representation for low income people who have problems with their
landlord, with the Unemployment office, and with the school system.
We also help people who have some types of consumer problems,
problems getting or keeping custody of their chi ldren, who need a
divorce, or who need protection from domestic violence. We do not
handle any type of criminal matter. Although, we may not be able to
help everyone who contacts us due to cutbacks in our federa l funding,
we try to offer everyone at least some advice or a referral to someone
who maybe able to help them. If you would like to see ifwe can help
you with a problem, call us between 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. at 458-1465 ,
or come to our office at 35 John Street, #302 in Lowel l. (As of August
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James Brestlauer, Merrimack Valley Legal Services, Inc.
Kindergarten Registration - Please register your chi ld fo r
public kindergarten if you have not already done so.
PARENT INFORMATION CENTER
77 E. Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA OI 852
937-7674 or 9 37-8986
Komar Day Care Center is open year round , please send your child who is
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MARIO L. ESPINOSA AND
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Our services include:
AUTO, HOME, LIFE, HEAL TH, DISABILITY, RENTERS,
CONDOMINIUMS, BOAT, RETIREMENT, MUTUAL FUNDS,
BUSIN ESS AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
I am sure you will remember Mario . He still goes to the Reg istry to get your plates fo r free.
PHONE: 508 837-3332
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�Here are some of the rights guaranteed fo r all people in the US : The
ri ght to freedom of speech, religion and press; the ri ght to a peace ful march;
the ri ght to a fair judgment in the cou rt of laws ; and the right to eq ual educati on. With these ri ghts guaranteed immi grants and legal residents still have
fewer rights than th at of a citizens.
The Lowe ll Cambod ian constituents are cu rrentl y lacki ng the voting
power needed to demand changes fo r the improvement of the city government. We, as Cambodians, must help to increase the number of reo istered
voters if we are to have an impact on local, state and federal govern~1ent at
all. The research o f last election on Cambodian voter turnout was more th an
disappointing . It is very sad for me to say but the road fo r us to make the
Lowell city government a re fl ective of our Cambodian population seems long
and bumpy. It 1 up to us to change that. And we must start now!
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It is so ironic that we, as Cambodi ans, after having been denied the ri ght
to vote or be a part of our government fo r more than two decades in Cambodia, that when we have the freedom to do so in this country, we still remain
shy and distance ourselves from any government participations.
Illegal and legal aliens are the targets of criticism of today's social
problems. The recent anti-immigrant and anti-minority sentiments have stirred
a lot of attention for all of us. The proposed bill s to cut or e liminate social
programs for legal aliens in the US is very di sturbing for us and fo r our immigrant communities. Lowell is a Cambodi an community and it is also an immigrant community; therefo re, the new laws currently under debate do concern us.
The Lowell Cambodi an community needs government programs to support our refugee and immigrant population . The cuts will certainl y make our
people suffer more. There are certain things we can do to slow down or stop
what government is doing now and maintain these programs and services for
our community .
THE IMPORTANCE OF CITI ZENSH IP
Do yo u know and understand the ri ghts and privil eges of a US res ident
or a c itizen?
The Uni ted States Constituti on guarantees many ri ghts and privileges
fo r all people from all different ethni c and nati onaliti es, so long as they are
residi ng on US soil. There are certain ri ghts th at are guaranteed for immigrants and other legal res idents. The other special category of rights are
reserved for citi zens of this country. It is very important th at we recognize
these special ri ghts.
Most of our fellow Southeast Asians, particularly Cambodi ans, arrived
in thi s country under the status of immigrants or refugees. We ' ve departed
from our homeland to escape war and political persecuti on. Each and everyone o f us trul y crav in g fo r freedom and democracy . When we settl ed in this
country, we wanted the same thing as other groups of immigrants or Americans. We seek and want the oppo rtunity to achi eve the so-call ed " American
Dream".
In the US, Cambodians were scattered all over the states as part of their
resettl ement plan in thi s new land . For a long peri od o f time, people lost
contact with one another.
Bi ological family members were living thousands of mil es apart from
each oth er, neighbors and family friends from the camps were no longer able
to see each other to chat or consult, and unaccompanied minors were placed
wi th Ameri can families and being raised as Americans. Durin g thi s important time, many of us begin to recognize th at the Kluner identity is beg inning
to slip away . Identity crisis started to surface.
T o initi ate a sense of pride and unity, Cambod ians started to network
with each other thro ughout the United States and many o fus moved closer to
our friends and families . Many of us just wanted to be closer to other Cambodians. Like other ethnic minorities living in the US , our gravi tati on toward our Cambod ian compatriots was a natural and comfo rting phenomena .
Whether in Long Beach, Cali fo rnia, Providence, Rhode Island or Lowell ,
Massachusetts, Cambod ian co mmunities were sprouting up in large numbers
and remain ali ve and well today.
. A recent US census indicates that the Lowell Cambodi an popul ation is
a bit over 18,500, with an equal number of families mov ing in as those who
are movin g out. The number of Cambodians are almost a quarter of the total
L_ well popul ation. With our large numbers, we should be able to stop the
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city government from usi ng us as doormat fo r their political agenda. We
must get involved.
Cambodi ans are peopl e with a proud and unique heritage . Our culture
and language must be maintained and preserved but at the same time, we
must be civicall y responsi bl e as a US res ident or citizen. In order for us to be
able to fully participate in the main stream American soc iety, first we must
take the respons ibility of becoming an American citizen.
It does not matter much how many Cambodians are living in Lowell :
10,000, 20,000 or half a million. Neither does it really matter how loud we
can scream or curse among ourselves for the lack of services or because we
don ' t like the new laws being proposed by Co ngress or state leg islature.
Without the ci tizenship and the voting power, one cannot demand changes
from hi s/her own government.
Bei ng a US citi zen means many things to many peopl e. Voting, however, 1 the most common facto r fo r people wanting to be an American citis
zen. Other ri ghts of citizens are the ri ght to travel in foreign countries with
the American passport and if anythin g happen to you, the US government is
responsibl e to get you back. Sponsoring relatives from one's native country
is a_nother ri ght of a c iti zen. Many Cambodi ans are interested in sponsoring
the ir loved ones from Cambodia; without citi ze nship one cannot do that.
C iti zens of this w untry are abl e to obtain a federal or state government job;
illegal or legal altens cannot. But the most recognizable and awesome power
of all guaranteed by the US Constitution fo r a citi zen is the power to cast his/
her vote during elections. This ri ght is the foundation of the term "government by the peopl e".
Immi grants and other legal residents are granted with certain alienable
ri~hts under the laws. These ri ghts and privileges are protected by the Bill of
Ri ghts (the first 10 Amendments ) of the United States Constitutions so that
people can live and work in harmony. The two categori es of res idents, immigrant and legal resident however, does permit to have a voice in the government. But thi s does not mean that they have the ri ght to vote.
I.
We have to become more active in our community- make ourse lves
visib le to the general popul ation (white majority) whenever issues arise th at
concern us and our community.
2.
Become an American citizen- if yo u' re not yet a citizen, reg ister fo r a
citi zenship class; or if your need to poli sh yo ur English ski ll s, sign up for
English as a second language (ESL) classes at the CMAA or at the Adu lt
Learning Center.
3.
Reg ister to vote. This is the most important thing one of us can do fo r
our community in times of drastic changes in governmental policy. To sum it
up, each and everyone of us Cambodian-Ameri can must make every effo rt to
go out and vote during election, local, state, or nati onal.
To ass ist Cambodi ans in the Merrimack Valley to become an American
citizen, the Cambodian-American Voter League (CA VL) si nce it was establi shed in 1990, in cooperation with the CMAA have been ab le to provide
citizenship classes to assistant our fellow Cambodians to become citizens.
We will continue to provide this needed services for man y years to co me.
The Cambod ian-Ameri can Voter League consists of all volunteers members and Board of Directors. We believe that our community is the fou ndati on of our culture and heritage . Community activism is our strength toward
the progress o f our peopl e. We truly would like to encourage Cambodi ans to
become American citizens.
Currently, we have citizenship classes being conducted at the CMAA
on every Saturday from IO A. M. to 12 P.M. Our community needs Cambodians to be citizens. Please stop by and sign up fo r classes. We can make the
city of Lowell a better place to work and live.
by Chuck Sari,
Cambodian-America11 Voter League (CA Vl )
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�busy this quarter. We have brought to you information we feel would
help you in your lives. Kim Monh, who is associated with the Rape
Crisis Services of Greater Lowell has held informative meetings and
distributed literature to our trainees in the classroom. On May 25th,
Pere Pen and an associate from Bay Bank held a classroom presentation on Basi c Banking for our trainees. The presentation was delivered both in Khmer and English. On May 11th, Chi v In organized a
visit to Lowell High School for an instruction to the teachers and the
school system for our trainees. Those who are parents found thi s
meeting of great value. For more information about our programs
please contact: Dorothy Lane, Program Manager or Heang Diep, Job
Developer, Assisted Placement Program at 454-4286 ..
ASSISTED PLACEMENT PROGRAM
The Assisted Placement Program of the CMAA was put in place to
give you the help and support yo u need to make a difference in your
li ves. We, previously talked about Welfare Reform and each and
everyo ne of us needing to become responsible for ourselves through
employment. We, in Assisted Placement, are committed to prepare
yo u and assist yo u in getting what is needed for you to be in control .
We , have many components in our training programs, such as: Job
Read iness, Skills Sharpening, supported Work, Job Placement and
Follow-up. Trainees learn how to find a Job, to write a resume, the
interview, what is expected of employees, safety awareness, benefits
and the list goes on and on. We are ready to address questions during
each and every session. We are ready to assist an employer when he
has a problem needin g our help . (perhaps he needs help with translation). The Supported Work component of APP gives students a chance
to gai n valuable on-the-job work experience. Supported Work is a
paid on-the-job training program that leads to full -time employment
in local area companies. Trainees in APP are offered jobs in the compani es where they do their paid work assignments as assemblers. Employers are pleased with supported work trainees as they are able to
see that th e trainee is able to handle the job before actually becoming
a permanent employee. We have in Assisted Placement, reached and
exceeded our goals for the year. We have also expanded our outreach
to empl oyers and will continue to market the CMAA and our programs. Not only to create new job opportunities for our people but
also to create good will in our community. There have been many
changes in our staffing this past year Management of the program
went from Elma to Nancy and then to Dorothy. APP has been very
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We are proud of YOU!
Nideth Heng
Ry, Neng
Sophea, In
Lang, Khil
Sourn, Kong
Chanly, Koy
Kim, Kroung
Pharann, Long
Yuth, Maph
Monireath, Meas
Sophornrith, Mok
Phors, Mom
Savathay, My
Samsokha, Neang
Koeun, Nhan
Phechara, Nop
Kiry, No.
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Bo, Samborn
Chann, Nheath
Chhoeung, Trav
Duong, Vanny
Keo, Chea
Mann, Chanreunn
Pie, Pileak
Roun, Yeth
Sen, Chea
Sinn, Samoeun
Sok, Kim
Uy, Touch
Vong, Chanthy
Yi, Sothy
Hak, Long
Huon, Bunthan
Khim, Chamnith
Khim, Ean
Ly, Houch
Nol , Sokun
Sam, Pissey
Sav, Phom
Sek, Theara
Sour, Khon
Touch, Chea
Vin, Mon
Chap, Ponn
Pet, Kdep
Ren, Non
Sao, Phollin
Seng, Phon
Soeurn, Sophin
Tounn, Sopheak
Youk, Soma
Young, Deana
Chhor, Kong
Keo, Khon
Kim, Phath
Kim, Diep
Kieng, Bunthoeun
Kieng, Seng
Koch, Alysia
Noy, Saroeuth
Sar, Phoeuth
Soy, Hoeurn
Suon, Kosa!
Taing, Ly
Van, Kha
Vann, Srey
Chhouy, Chhouk
Do, Oat
Lam, Nhung
Lout, Lak
Ly, Boun
Kimpoch Ke
Sophak Keo
Samnang Kem
Phana Lim
Saroeun Mao
Bophoeun Meth
Vicheth Moul
Danny Ouch
Kamsoth Pet
Vanthy Phorng
Vannak Pol
Bobby Rathsombath
Savann Youk
Dr. WANG MIDDLE
SCHQQL
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Sokunthy Chun
Samphas Chuon
Savy Deap
Chhoeun Dem
Chanthy Dul
Sophannara Eang
Kimsrieng Huoth
Chantha Im
jJune Kao
Vichtcha Kong
Rith Lan
Chansophea Moeun
Chansopheap Moeun
Bunthy Pal
Champa Pang
Nath Phann
Narith D. Ros
Vanna Sann
Sorn Sin
Samoeun Soeun
Sem Sok
Thida Soun
Somaly Suon
Kanika Suy
Somaly Sam Thong
Theary Tuoth
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Sok Thida
Sroy Kimly
Seam Borin
Suong Sreymon
Touch Thoen
Uong Pheary
Yang Samnang
Yem Chakriya
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Chhuon Chantha
Dul Chandy
Bo Sokha
Chhim Sopha
Kem Sunly
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Chan Tim
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Duong, Chanda
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Moeun, San
Nhem, Phirak
Pauo, Sophort
Sak, Sit
Som, Lyda
Tak, Saroeun
Vieng, Chanta
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Thyda Bun
Kim Chan
Nhoeum Chann
Andrew Chao
Samneang Chheng
Savouth Dou
Pichchinda Duong
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Setha Heang
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Yorn Uy
Sinell Vann
Daroth Yann
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CONG RA TU LATJON,
I'M PROUD OF YOU!
Sokha Khear
Arl ene Cruz
Lij ia Cedeno
Moni ca Gomez
Maria Martinez
Mari a Vill egas
Wanda Rivera
Tarni a Mackenzie
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Chanra Pang
Van Penn
Chantrea Phan
Erin (Alex) Savary
Sanrann Chea
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Sopheara Huy
Sambeth Kim
Samnang Kong
Sophornrith Mok
Rong Nay
Ponlork Neang
Lyna Nuth
Lina Pheng
Thea Phuon
Sam Tuy
Chama Uch
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DES IGN, LAYOUT & PUBLI SHING
After two years of planning, a proj ect des igned to link two diverse nonprofit agencies, T he Merrim ack River Watershed Council
(MRWC) and the Cambodian Mutual Ass istance Associati on (CMAA)
has co mbined to foc us o n environmental issues affecting th e popu lati o ns in Lowe ll .
T he current goal of the M R WC is to teach the Cambodi an communi ty environm ental practi ces that have a direct impact on their dail y
li ves. Issues of co ntinued contamin ati o n of the Merrimack River and
its watershed need to be taug ht. T here are dangers in eatin g fi sh from
the Merri mack Ri ver and its watershed even th o ug h they loo k fin e!
Rebecca Markey, an Environmental Co nsultant from th e MR WC meets
w ith a g roup of pee r leaders at the C MAA once to three times weekl y.
T he peer leaders, incl ud ing Samoeun Sok, Ya Uy, Roath Ven, So phan
Sok, Salin Nuth, C han Pen, Peuo T uy and Robin Douangchack are
hi gh schoo l stu dents chosen to represent thei r communi ty fo r the
outstand ing exampl e they prov ide. They, along w ith Buntha Path , a
rep resentati ve from the CMAA and emp loyee of the Watershed, meet
with Rebecca to increase their understand ing of local co mmunity invo lvement w ith g lo bal ram ifi catio ns. T he course of study invo lves
river and watershed protecti on, waste water treat ment, safe household cleane rs, tree planting, organic gardening and w ildli fe protecti o n. T hu s fa r, th e peer leaders and environmental educators have
planted three large o rn amenta l trees, ten ro se bushes and approx imately th irty pine seedlin gs at the temple in North Chelmsfo rd. T he
seed lings were planted to provi de a screen and prevent so il eros ion o n
th e hill side.
Ted Diers, the Co un cil s Co mmuni ty Watershed Program Coordinator wants to teach the Cambodi an community how to become
better stewards of the river, enjoy a greater qu ality o f li fe and protect
themselves, as we ll as their enviro nm ent, from possible health ri sks.
A survey w ill be compiled later thi s year to determine the level
of enviro nmental knowledge o f the Cambodi an co mmunity in Lowe ll.
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September 1, 1995
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125 Perry Street
Lowell, MA 0185 2
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Executive Director:
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Editor-in-Chief:
Margaret Tham
Khmer Associate Editors:
Sak Seang and Sarnnang Marn
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Community News Coordinator: Pov Ye
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165 Jackson St.
Lowell, MA 01852
Tel. (978) 454-4286
Fax. (978) 454-1806
Email: cmaa@cmaalowell.org
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CMAA'S COMMEMORATIVE EDITION
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VISION STATEMENT
The CMAA envisions a unified, self-sufficient, economically strong, educated and
empowered Cambodian-American community, which cherishes Southeast Asian culture and values while embracing American mainstream cultures. The CMAA also
envisions itself as a resource center for Cambodian-Americans and other ethnic
minorities throughout the United States for generations to come.
MISSION STATEMENT
The CMAA is dedicated to improving the quality of life of the Cambodian-American community
of Greater Lowell and other ethnic minorities through educational, cultural, social, community
and economic development efforts.
HISTORY AND FUTURE PLANS
In late 1979, the first Cambodian families arrived in
Lowell, resettling in a city where there is affordable housing and plentiful manufacturing jobs. Lowell promised a
new life to these refugees fleeing the horrors and deprivations of war in Southeast Asia. In 1984, a group of
Cambodian community leaders formed the Cambodian
Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) to ensure that
Lowell's growing population of Cambodian refugees
were assisted with housing, English classes, social and
cultural adjustment, and employment training and placement. As the community changed and grew to include
Laotians and Vietnamese, and the needs of the community evolved, CMAA evolved to serve those needs, today providing over a dozen of educational, employment,
health, environmental, economic development, citizenship and naturalization, family support, and cultural enrichment programs. CMAA offers the only comprehensive social services to linguistic minorities in Greater
Lowell area, serving not only Cambodian, Southeast
Asians, but also Latinos and others. The earlier CMAA
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A Message from the Executive Director
Dear Friends and Fellow Cambodians:
October 29-30, 1999 will be memorable days for the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of
Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA) as we the board, staff, as well as community members celebrate our
fifteen years of existence as providers of social services for the population of Lowell, Massachusetts.
The theme "Reflecting and celebrating our past 15 years of success and preparing our community for a better
future" is perfectly suitable for such a special occasion for the agency in its fifteen years of service to Lowell's
Cambodian-American community. The CMAA has sponsored numerous special events throughout the years including the Cambodian New Year celebrations, which take place in mid-April. The CMAA initiated and hosted the first
and second annual Southeast Asian Water Festival, an event that helped the city of Lowell to win the "All-America
City" designation from the National Civic League in late June 1999.
This special event will commemorate and honor the accomplishments of many Cambodian community leaders, board
and staff members, community members, mainstream officials, representatives of funding agencies, foundations, and
corporations who have significantly contributed to the CMAA's growth and progress thus far. For the CMAA to
survive these 15 years of challenges and to be able to attest to the joy of serving the many hundreds and thousands
of members, it is indeed a great time for us all to celebrate this occasion.
Yes, this is the moment we all have been waiting for. Like the Noble Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel said: "Life is not
a compilation of years upon years, but rather a collection of moments upon moments." For those of us who have
been planning this 15 th Anniversary Celebration and who want so much to make it go perfectly, this event will present
a threefold effect. There is the moment to look forward to, the moment to enjoy and, thereafter, the chance to reflect
glowingly on moments past.
Therefore, and on behalf of the CMAA's Board of Directors and staff members, we would like to extend our invitation to you, friends and community members, to join us at our 15th Anniversary.
Once again, we would like to thank you very much for your continued effort in helping the CMAA grow over the
past fifteen years. We look forward to working together to further improve the quality of life of the CambodianAmerican community of Greater Lowell, as well as the Lowell's community as a whole. We could not have possibly
accomplished our tasks without your help!
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ness within the multi-cultural society-America!
Today, Lowell is home to the second largest population of Cambodians in the United States. The largest one is in Long
Beach, California. According to the 1990 U.S. Census, over 23,500 Southeast Asians reside in Lowell: 18,500 Cambodians; 3,500 Laotians; and 1,500 Vietnamese. However, the real numbers of are estimated to be from 30,000 to 35,000,
representing one-third of the entire City of Lowell's population.
CMAA's Board of Directors, comprised of community representatives and professionals, provides the organization
with an awareness of needs, problems, and changes faced by Cambodian and Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants. In addition, the multi-cultural staff would use their knowledge and experiences to develop flexible and responsive programs. Because of this, CMAA is able to assist hundreds of Cambodians and Southeast Asians refugees and
immigrants to reach their full societal and economic potential. CMAA currently manages an annual budget of over
three millions dollars and employs some 35 staff members to provide programs and services which serve about 2,500
people annually.
Building Development: The CMAA is also working on its building development project, called "The Lowell Trade
Center"-a multiuse facility serving Southeast Asian businesses, culture, and community. The Lowell Trade Center
will enhance the thriving South Business District and culminate the achievements of Lowell's Southeast Asian residents, which comprise about 30 percent of the City's population. Now finalizing development plans, the CMAA is
forging a partnership between private and public interests to carry out this economic development project. This development project is guided by a simple philosophy: The CMAA considers itself to be the caretaker of a gift given to the
entire Cambodian community. With due regard for the trust which has been placed in us by the Courier Corp. and by
the Cambodian community to use this gift wisely and for the benefit of the entire community, the CMAA will develop
the building into a center for the Cambodian community, with tenants selected not only on the basis of profitability, but
also based on their contribution to the education, health, well-being and empowerment of the Cambodian community of
Lowell. At the end of the building development, 165 Jackson Street should be fully occupied by tenants who offer a
range of services needed by the community. The CMAA should derive enough rental income from the project to
ensure that it can implement or sustain socially desirable programs for which no private or government funding is
available.
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I lived in the Highlands between 1990-1992. I've always been a "little punk". I didn't listen to anyone.
My parents never had enough money to buy me my favorite sneakers that cost $100 dollars. So, I got involved
with "hangin" with the older guys. They are gang members who I thought were cool because they had money,
girls, and respect. They jumped me into the gang. They taught me how to smoke weed, drink 40's, and snatch
necklaces from people for money. Everyday, I wore new clothes.
In school (the Daley,) the only class that I had problems with was English, because I hated to read. The
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because I swore at him. He said that I smiled at him when he was yelling at the class. While I was suspended I
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One night I got handcuffed by the cops, but was never turned in. Instead, I was put face down on the
ground. I was kicked and harassed. I didn't like it when the officer used profanity and tried to search me. My
mom lectured me about how she brought me up, and how she fled the killing fields.
When I was born, everyone thought that I had died, because I was laying in a refugee hospital for about a
week. My mom cried for me to have a second chance. I have two scars on my neck to prove it. The reason I
was in a coma was because during the escape my mom had to put wine on my tongue for me to go to sleep, so
that the Khmer Rouge wouldn't catch her in the jungle.
In 1994, I was in 8th grade; I was looking for a change. All my boys went to the CMAA when it was
located on Perry Street. There was a van that picked us up to go play basketball. I talked a lot to guest speakers
that had been gang members and had been
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that's how I was when I was 13 yrs old. Lost, and wondering what was going to happen to me now, I succeeded
by doing what I did everyday. I see kids now; they're all hard headed just like I was before. I want to tell them
that they would be like my old friends if they kept that attitude.
My work here at the CMAA in youth services really plays a big change in communication. I have an
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coach. But the thing that motivated me the most was when I looked at the world on the television, in books, and
magazines. I asked the world where the Cambodian minority, representing out culture, sports, politics and
entertainment were. I am very happy now that the CMAA has programs like these. They weren't available
before. I am very honored to have people like
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and Rithy Uong to service the Cambodian
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program that helps them go to college. I have people coming up to me and telling me that they don't know what
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The C.M.A.A: ON THE MOVE
Over the past two years, the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell , Inc. has
grown phenomenally. The Courier Corporation generously donated its former headquarters building,
located at 165 Jackson Street, Lowell, Massachusetts to the CMAA. This building, with over 90,000
square feet of floor space on three floors, is valued at close to one million dollars. We have a vision of
developing this historic mill building into a "one stop" center for Lowell's Cambodian community, offering social services, professional offices, retail shops, a restaurant and a function hall. The CMAA has
made great strides towards making this vision a reality.
With the recent addition of the Community Service Employment Program and the Refugee Self-Sufficiency Program, the CMAA has more than doubled its annual budget to over two million dollars.
ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE OF THE C.M.A.A.
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell , Inc. is a nonprofit social service
agency dedicated to the design and implementation of programs to improve the quality of life for the
Cambodian-American community of Greater Lowell, which numbers approximately 30,000 people.
A fifteen member Board of Directors governs the CMAA. All of the members of the Board of Directors
are elected directly by members of the Cambodian community at the CMAA's annual meeting. The
"owners" of the CMAA are the Cambodian community itself. All persons who register as members of
the CMAA are entitled to vote. Membership in the CMAA is open to anyone interested in the welfare
of the Cambodian community of Greater Lowell. There are no dues or membership fees of any kind
for members, so that all members of the community
can participate in the affairs of the Association.
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�Dear Award Recipients:
Congratulations!
On behalf of the board
Elizabeth Borden
and staff members of the
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater
Lowell, Inc. (CMAA), I am writing to inform you that
you will be presented with an award at the CMAA's 15 th
Anniversary Celebration. This memorable occasion is
scheduled for Saturday, October 30, 1999 at the AmeriLess Chisolm
can Textile History Museum located on 491 Dutton
Street in Lowell. Your roles as active community leaders and your continuous
support, involvement, and generosity towards the Cambodian Mutual Assistance
Association and the Cambodian American community have distinguished you
recipients of the various awards given out for the 15th Anniversary celebration.
Again, congratulations on your nomination. I look forward to continue working
with you to further improve the quality of life of the Cambodian-American community, as well as the community as a whole, in this coming millennium.
Sincerely yours,
Samkhann C. Khoeun
Executive Director
CMAA Board of Directors Election, October 16, 1999
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(l-r) Mayor Eileen Donoghue; Christopher T.
Gates, President of National Civic League;
Samkhann Khoeun, Arn Chorn-Pond of CMAA.
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THOSE IN PUBLIC SERVICE WHO HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTED TO
THE GROWTH OF THE CMAA
Honorable Martin T. Meehan, U.S. Congressman, 5th District, Massachusetts
Honorable Eileen M. Donoghue, Mayor of the City of Lowell
Honorable Mark L. Wolf, U.S. District Judge
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Samkhann C.Khoeun, Executive Director
Sothea Chiemruom, Deputy Director
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Joseph Sexton, Development Director
Sophy Theam, Executive Secretary
Ronnie Mouth, Administrative Assistant
Hoeun K. Tang, Receptionist
VOLUNTEERS
ELDER SERVICES PROGRAM
Holy Khut
Thy Erika Chey, Program Coordinator
Les Chisolm
CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
YOUTH SERVICES PROGRAM
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 Coord.
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT
Sak Seang, Khmer & Peer Leadership Instructor
George Clark, Program Director
Rany Him, Traditional Dance Instructor
Paul Yin, Assistant Program Director/Job Developer
Phan Bin, Traditional Music Instructor
Bora Yi, Case Manager/Outreach Worker
Kamsort Mao, Youth Advisors
MONOROM FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM
Tony Roun, Youth Advisors
Brian B. Chen, Program Director
EMPLOYMENT SERVICES PROGRAM
Maridy You, Case Worker
Margaret Lavyn Tham, Program Director
Samnang Mam, Case Worker
Vincent Bona Un, Job Developer/Case Manager
YOUNG PARENT PROGRAM
Debra Pov Ye, Job Developer/Case Manager
Alison Gervais, Program Director/Teacher
KOMAR DAY CARE CENTER
Lillian Pelletier, Program Assistant
Montha Oum, Director/Teacher
Terry Troutt, GED Instructor
Neda Nou, Assistant Teacher
ENGLISH FOR EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM
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Danny Div
Danny D. Div, Program Coordinator/Teacher
BUILDING DEVELOPMENT MANAGER:
Daniel Bumegin
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FUNDING AND FINANCES
CMAA's revenues are a mixture of grants and contracts from the United States, Massachusetts and
local government and private foundations. In the past year, funding has come from the Massachusetts
Cultural Council, the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants, the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation, the Department of Education, the Department of Transitional Assistance,
the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, The City of Lowell, the Greater Lowell Regional Employment
Board, Elder Services of the Merrimack Valley, Inc., the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation and the
Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation, as well as the generosity of many private individuals.
PROGRAMS
The CMAA offers services to the Cambodian refugee community of Greater Lowell through a number
of programs, including:
Komar Day Care which provides a supervised play and learning environment for children from the
ages of2 years 9 months up to 6 years old. The children have fun, learn self-control and develop their
social skills. Specialized supportive care is provided through the Massachusetts Department of Social Services.
Youth Services Program for at-risk and gang-involved youth provides a safe environment for young
people. Activities include traditional Cambodian dance and music classes, kick-boxing classes, the
Tribal Souls House Dance Troupe, poetry classes, Khmer language instruction, and a homework club.
The program staff offers counseling and crisis intervention services.
The Monorom Program assists families with developmentally disabled children by providing case
management, respite care, counseling, and recreational and educational opportunities.
English as a Second Language teaching spoken English and reading and writing skills. Students are
also provided with support services and a supportive environment to help them attain self-sufficiency.
Young .Parent's Program, both for Welfare to Work clients and young parents.
Citizenship Classes and Assistance providing clients eligible for citizenship with education on American history and government, as well as assistance with preparing and filing the necessary forms to
apply for U.S. Citizenship.
Southeast Asian Environmental Justice Program offers young people training in environmental issues
which they share with the community. The Environmental Justice program recently sponsored a successful regional conference on lead paint poisoning treatment and prevention.
Khmer language and culture classes provide an opportunity to preserve traditional Cambodian culture, as a legacy for future generations of Cambodian-Americans.
Community Service Employment Program provides subsidized employment opportunities, which benefit employer and employee alike by allowing employers to hire a worker while being reimbursed for
the worker's first year's salary or wages. Workers receive training and job skills, and employment
which continues after the one year subsidy, while employers reduce their labor costs.
Employmen~ services, (refugee self-sufficiency) including job-readiness training and resume writing
and job search assistance, and placement services.
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aMessage from t~e President
Fifteen years ago, many Cambodian refugees including Mr. Sunly Sokh, Mr. Socheath Van, Mr.
Chitravuth Hui and Mr. Hom Hun, formed the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater
Lowell, Inc., to help their fellow Cambodians adjust to life in America. They had no money, one office
in the International Institute's offices, and many people who needed their help. Today, the CMAA has a
staff of over 30 people, an annual budget well over two million dollars, and a historic 90,000 square
foot building which is being developed into a one stop cent~r that will be an asset for the whole Cambodian community of Lowell. The road from the office on High Street to the building on Jackson Street
has been a long one, and we have overcome many obstacles to get where we are today. We owe a
great debt to the many people who have worked long and hard to get us where we are today. This
group includes the many community members who have served on the CMAA's Board of Directors,
who worked long hours with no pay to give the organization direction. It includes staff members who
worked long hours to serve their clients. It includes many funders, public officials, and others, both
Cambodian and American, who came forward to help us with our work.
We have made a real difference in the lives of many members of our community. Many people are
working at jobs they found with the help of the CMAA's employment programs. Many young people
have been helped to reject a life of hopelessness and gang involvement, and to choose a life of productive and healthy activities. Many of our older community members have been taken care of by the
Elderly Outreach program. We have helped people become citizens, to get their GED diploma, to
better their lives. Thousands of Cambodian people in Lowell can say that their lives are better because
the CMAA was there.
While we have much to be proud of, there is still much
to do. There are still many Cambodians living in
poverty. There are still Cambodian youth in gangs.
There are still many who have not become citizens, who
are shut out of the political process. During this year,
the Board of Directors and the staff of the CMAA have
devoted a great deal of time and effort to producing a
CMAA Lowell All-American delegation, June 1999
strategic plan to guide us through the next five years.
Through this plan, we will build the CMAA into a
stronger, more effective organization. We will make a difference in many more lives. We will make our
vision of a unified, self-sufficient, economically strong, educated and empowered Cambodian-American
community which cherishes our traditional culture and values while embracing American cultures a
reality.
This success will be a success not of a small group, but of an entire community. The CMAA is truly a
mutual assistance association, in which we all help each other. All members of Lowell's Cambodian
community have a share of the credit for this work. We have all achieved this success together. I hope
that we will all continue to work together, to achieve the goals we have set for ourselves.
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�Reflecting on the CMAA's Work:
Its Existence and Services...
By Samkhann Khoeun, Executive Director
Vision:
The CMAA envisions a unified, self-sufficient, economically strong,
educated and empowered Cambodian-American community which
cherishes our traditional culture and values while embracing American
cultures. The CMAA also envisions itself as a resource center for
Cambodian-Americans and other ethnic minorities throughout the
United States for generations to come.
Mission:
The CMAA is dedicated to improving the quality of life of the
Cambodian-American community of Greater Lowell and other
ethnic minorities through educational, cultural, social, community
and economic development efforts.
July 20, 1999 marks the 15th Anniversary for the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) of Greater
Lowell, Incorporation in Massachusetts. At the same time, it also marks the 19th year that the Cambodian American
community has lived in Lowell. Most Cambodians who came to Lowell escaped from the world's worst genocide,
the Khmer Rouge regime (April 17, 1975- 1979) and the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia in early 1979.
''There is no other refugee who came to America with the fewest possessions like the Cambodians," according to the
studies of the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement. During draconian Khmer Rouge regime, the Cambodian
population were entirely stripped of their cultural milieu: intellect, religion, education, and family values. They were
forced to witness senseless killings of their family members from starvation, diseases, forced labor, massive destruction of their cultural, educational center and marketplaces. Followed by lengthy stays in overcrowded refugee camps,
the Cambodian refugees often received the cruelest treatment. This included beatings, shootings, rapes, and robberies by the drunken Thai soldiers who were hired by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commission to Refugees) to
protect them. The endless endurance of war-torn activities, extreme hardships, and the lack offamiliarity with the
American culture when they first settled further exacerbated the syndrome known as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD ). There has not been any program established to address these issues nearly twenty years after their resettlement in Lowell, Massachusetts. Yet, the Cambodians refuse to give up their dreams and hopes of rebuilding a new
life again here in America.
In the early 1980's, many of them came together to build their first cultural institution called Watt Khmer, or Khmer
temple. Later on, and with much support from non-Cambodian individuals and organizations alike, they came together again in 1984 to establish the CMAA. Cambodian refugees came to Lowell because there were plenty of
manufacturing jobs-jobs that required little English skills, affordable housing, and of course, Lowell has always
been a gateway city for immigrants. The federal office of Refugee Resettlement's philosophy of"Mutual Assistance
Association" (MAA) places emphasis on resettling large refugee families together in American urban and industrial
cities so that they can also establish some sort of support mechanism to help one another. Today, a lot of other ethnic
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Children preparing food for Khmer New Year
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refugee groups have formed their ethnic mutual assistance associations across America. These groups are also referred to as Community Based Organization (CBO), because they have integrated slowly into
communities and take part in many community actions with many mainstream service agencies such as the
YWCA, YMCA, religious congregations, community action agencies, and community development agencies, just to
nameafew.
In the early years, the CMAA focussed on immediate needs such as helping people with housing, enrolling children in
public school, providing English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, employment services, translation, cultural and
social adjustment to their new community. Today, the CMAA provides comprehensive programs and services serving not only Cambodians, but also Laotian, Vietnamese, Latinos as well as other minority groups in the Greater
Lowell area. More than 2,500 people are served annually by the CMAA.
The CMAA has come a long way, from its first small office at the National Institute of Lowell on 79 High Street,
financial assistance of $5,000 from the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants, to its former offices
located at 125 Perry Street in Lowell. With funding coming from federal, state, municipal foundations and corporations, the CMAA today has an annual budget of nearly three million dollars and over 30 staff members.
Today, there is so much to be proud of. Over the past two years, the CMAA has grown phenomenally. The Courier
Corporation generously donated its former headquarters building, located at 165 Jackson Street, Lowell, Massachusetts to the CMAA. This building, with over 90,000 square feet of floor space on three floors, is valued at close
to one million dollars. The CMAA envisions the development of this historic mill building into a "one stop" center for
Lowell's Cambodian community, offering social services, professional offices, retail shops, a restaurant and a function hall. The CMAA has made great strides towards making this vision a reality.
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Lowell experienced a 117% increase in its foreign-born populations between 1980 and 1990. Much of this increase
was due to the large numbers of Southeast Asian and Latino families who were attracted to resettling in a multi-ethnic
city with a promise of economic opportunity.
Today, Lowell, Massachusetts is home to the second largest population of Cambodian refugees in the United States.
According to the 1990 U.S. Census, the Southeast Asian population of Lowell totals 23,500, broken down as:
18,500 Cambodians, 3,500 Laotians and 1,500 Vietnamese. It is believed that these groups were under-counted
due to linguistic and cultural barriers. It is also believed that those figures have increased significantly in the past 9
years. The CMAA currently estimates that there are approximately 30,000 Cambodian refugees living in Lowell and
its immediate suburbs.
The census information shows that the Southeast Asian population of Lowell faces severe economic difficulties.
Twenty-six (26%) percent of Cambodian families in Lowell are headed by a single female. The average size of
Cambodian families in Lowell is 5 .03 persons. Only 46% of Cambodian males and 22.6% of Cambodian females
over age 25 have completed high school. The average per capita income for Lowell's Cambodian population is
$6,250.00, and 42.6% of Lowell's Cambodian population lives below the established poverty level. Only 46% of
Lowell's Cambodian people are in the workforce, in contrastto the national average of 65 % . Nationwide, the 1990
census showed 247,400 Cambodians in the United States, including 140,000 children or adolescents. Further,
72,000 Cambodian refugee adults have had less than an elementary school education, and are able to communicate
only marginally in English.
These economic difficulties are compounded by the trauma that the Cambodian refugees have suffered. Lowell's
Cambodian refugees are survivors of a series of traumatic events, beginning with a civil war that lasted from 1970 to
1975. A communist victory in the civil war resulted in the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of 1975 to 1979, during
which approximately two million Cambodians were killed outright or died from forced labor, starvation and untreated
disease. This period of intense suffering ended with the invasion of Cambodia by Vietnam in 1979, and the ravages
of another war. Those fortunate enough to escape Cambodia when the Vietnamese invaded then endured years of
life in overcrowded refugee camps, before coming to the United States. Lowell's Cambodian Americans are still
feeling the cumulative effects of this series of traumatic events today. Khmer Health Advocates, based in Hartford
Connecticut, estimate that 60% of Cambodian Americans suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. A doctoral
candidate at the Harvard School of Public Health studied the rate of severe depression among Cambodian Americans living in Lynn, Massachusetts. The depression rate for Cambodians was ten times the national average.
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GOALS AND STRATEGIES
CMAA will pursue the following goals and strategies over the next five years.
Program Goals and Strategies:
Continue its social services, educational and economic development efforts:
Preschool Education-Komar Day Care center
Monorom Family Support Services
Youth Services Program
Young Parents Program
Community Services Program
Employment Services Program
Cultural Enrichment & Development Program
Citizenship Education & Assistance Program
Work-base English program
ESL/Adult Basic Education Program
Community Computer Lab and Training
Urban Initiative Project-Fish Farming
Continue the commercial revitalization of the Courier Building into a "One-Stop" Center for business,
cultural, social, educational and community Center:
Access additional sources for building development projects
Pursue the development of Lowell Community Charter School
Pursue the development of West-Meets-East Center
Pursue the development of the S.E. Asian Restaurant
Pursue the development of the multipurpose function hall
Pursue the development of the Youth & Family Center
Pursue the restoration of the historic facades of the building
Engage the City of Lowell government to improve the infrastructure, such as side-walk, Street light, tree, and
parking arrangement.
Develop new programs to serve unmet needs of the community.
Begin a housing advocacy initiative to aid the many community members
now living in substandard housing;
Offer family strengthening services to treat intergenerational conflict
through a holistic, family centered approach;
Move the aquaculture project forward from a demonstration project to a
viable community food project providing jobs for workers with agricultural
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Offer services to prevent domestic violence and to aid victims of domestic violence in our community;
Provide assistance with routine immigration matters, such as applications for travel permits and replacement of
lost alien registration cards;
Expand our existing center-based daycare to include a network of family based daycare providers;
Supporting Goals and Strategies:
Strengthen CMAA's financial base
Development and implement annual fund-raising plans for
operating and program support.
Access additional financial sources for building development
Development and implement capital campaign for Youth and
Family Center
Diversify organizational financial support for social, educational,
economic development and building development project.
Pursue historical tax credit eligibility
Strengthen board and staff development
Implement board and staff training programs
Clarify board committee roles and relationships between staff and
board committee
Review and update personnel policies and benefits program
Implement annual staff appraisal
Implement annual evaluation of board of directors
Organize annual staff and board retreat
5. Organizational Capacity Building
Develop and increase organizational capacity
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Create appropriate mechanisms for organizational growth
Develop communication skills for public relations and media campaigns
Increase organizational visibility
Review the corporate Bylaws and make necessary changes to the composition and method of selecting members of the Board of Directors to strengthen the Board, and other changes needed to make the bylaws
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Educationffraining Program
1999-2000 2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
Young Parents
ESUAdult Education
Citizenship Education
Computer Training
Job skill training
Workplace English
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45
50
200
45
45
75
460
55
75
350
75
90
110
755
65
85
265
90
130
135
770
75
100
275
100
145
150
845
Employment Services
1999-2000 2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
Self-sufficiency program
Comm. Services employment
Total
170
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230
150
380
250
175
425
275
200
475
50
65
235
65
75
90
580
200
110
310
Arts & Cultural Program
1999-2000 2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
Khmer cultural dances
Khmer traditional music
Modern dances
Videography
Media arts
Native language education
Special events
Total
45
15
35
75
30
75
20
30
55
1,750
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110
50
100
30
10
20
35
1,200
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50
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25
45
1,500
1,720
40
80
25
35
65
2,500
2,835
40
75
3,500
3,905
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1999-2000 2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
Urban Aquaculture
Multifunction hall
S.E. Asian Restaurant
Economic development training
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25
0
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0
25
65
5,000
30
50
5,145
80
6,500
35
60
6,675
110
7,500
40
45
3,500
25
30
3,600
70
7,720
Building Development
1999-2000 2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
Charter school
East-West Health Center
Family & Youth Center
Training center
Comm. Computer Lab
Elderly Center
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300
150
0
50
150
100
750
350
250
200
100
200
150
1,250
375
300
250
150
250
175
1,500
380
320
200
150
75
175
120
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300
175
300
190
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Tuft University
City Government Agencies
Community Development Block Grant
Community Enterprise
Lowell Cultural Council
Lowell Community Health Center
Lowell Public School
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Courier Corporation
Freeman Foundation
Theodore Edson Parker Foundation
Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation
Red Auerbach Youth Foundation
Boston Foundation
Greater Lowell Community Foundation
BankBoston
Saint Memorial Foundation
Asian American Unity Fund
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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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�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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Special thanks to the following raffles donors
for our 20th Anniversay Celebration:
1. Keith Sor-Gift certificate for chiropractic evaluation
for 10 people.
2. Louis Haskell-Certificate for "How to get Rich"
3. CMAA's Board of Directors-Free Khmer lesson for 6
months
4. Paige Day Spa Salon-$200.00 Gift certificate
5. Plaza Liquors-Bottle of wine
6. Barbara Zipps Glass-Two hour Feng Shui (Hong Suy)
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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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"Voice of Cambodian American in New England"
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"Koun Khmer Show" Live Show on LTC Channel 8,
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Buntha S. Krouch and Sophea Chum,
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"Khmer Sentimental Show" Live Show on LTC
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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
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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.
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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 -
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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.
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Sovann Kheam, Community Health Educator
Karena Doung, Community Health Educator
Jerusha N. Peterman, Nutritionist
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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
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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
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are a lot of young mothers in my class who have dropped out of high school and
are now coming here for an education. Most of us need to be here also to get
benefits from welfare. For me, this program was a chance to start over and
make sure I got an education. It also helps me with parenting my child. We're
able to relate with each other with many things because most of us are in the
same situation. This program means so much to me because it has not only
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just has one more to go) but, I now have a job that I've been working at for a
year. The Young Parents Program at the CMAA has given me a lot of
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for the better.
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welfare and trying to get their diplomas. This is a great school for me because
when you need one on one attention from the teacher, they can give it to you. In
other schools, they just handed us packets of work and expect us to do it without
knowing any of the work. Another thing is when I have family issues or problems
at home there are very good people to talk to and to ask for advice on what I can
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work. So far I see that this school is the only school that provide us transportation.
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CMAAStaff, Board of Directors and Advisory Boards ....................... . ................................................. 8
CMAA Health Department's News .............................................................................................. 11
Blood Pressure and Health Outreach at Pail in Park ........................................................................... 14
Learning Another Language .................................................................................................... 16
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22nd Anniversary Program ..................................................................................................... 18
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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.
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Phala Chea
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Phala Chea, President
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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mentally disabled children from 3 to 22 years
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interpretation,
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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.
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Community Health Education REACH 2010 , (3)
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awareness and knowledge among Cambodian
refugees and
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importance of
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treatment,
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care services
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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
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cooking
demonstrations
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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
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arrangements
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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
interested in learning more about how to make
the food that you eat healthier, come to the
CMAA to pick up a copy of the Guide .
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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.
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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.
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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
affected by CVD, Diabetes. Osteoporosis, and Hepatitis.
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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 .
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to make sense of English, this new language for them .
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more the students who come before work, those who
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studies while children are at school. Our students
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English learners and their motivation, dedication.
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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
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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. ·
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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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Corporation for their generous donation of our building.
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C■AA
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 ...
The 23rd Anniversary is
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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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,
PhalaChea
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Phala Chea, President
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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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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Mr. Vesna Nuon
Dr. Jeffery Gerson
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Judith Dickerman-Nelson , Education Director
Marion Best , Instructor
Gina Moscato , YPP Administrator
Sak Seang , YPP Bus driver
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CMAA Current Funders:
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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Saints Medical Center
LowellFDC
Mr. Chou Huynh-Broadway Realty Trust
Conway Insurance
Lowell Five Bank
Law Office of Gallagher & Cavanaugh, LLP
Best Fitness
Law Office of Ronald B
Lowell Community Charter Public School
Lowell Community Health Center
Pine Chiropratic
Lowell Adult Education
KK Insurance
Eterprise Bank
Le Petit Cafe
Cheysaravann Driving
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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
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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.
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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
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different sites, such as, the South Common and Pailin
Park, where staff provided educational materials and
free blood pressure screenings.
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May, 2007
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
designed to improve mental
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.
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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
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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
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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
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CMAA LOWELL MAGAZINE
23rd Ann iversary November 3, 2007
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
20, our CMAA/REACH 2010 team trained 14 participants to use a public bus to various destinations. They
went on a bus ride to the Burlington Mall. The outcome of this program is to teach Cambodian-Americans who lack transportation or knowledge about other
sources ofTransportaion and how to use LRTA Public
Transportaion.
Monorom Family S upport Prowam
The Monorom Family Support program assists families who have disabled children. They are currently
assisting clients with the Flex Fund program. The Flex
Fund program is Funded by Seven Hills Community
Inc .. This program assists qualifying clients in filling
out application forms and sending them to Seven Hills
Community Inc. Qualified clients can receive financial support ranging from $500 to $1,000. The process
can sometimes take awhile, so they don't always receive assistance right away. They receive this money
in two payments. The money that they receive is used
for helping them to buy clothing, school supplies, or
any other essentials that their child may need. For the
month of July they have assisted 12 clients with the
Flex Fund applications. This program has been very
successful and has helped a lot of CMAA's clients.
Monorom continues to keep up with all of their appointments and looks forward to another successful
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Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA) would like
to extend our warmest wishes for Happy
Cambodian New Year and good health to
each and everyone of our constituents,
friends, supporters, donors, state and local leaders, neighbors and people across
the nations.
We would also like to express our
most grateful appreciation to our funding
agencies, our state and local leaders for
their support and encouragement. Their
humanitarian assistance is evidenced in our
work of serving the poor, the disabled, the
sick, the elderly, the children, the women,
refugees and immigrants, and the non-citizens to live, learn, grow, and to co-exist
in a multicultural, mixed social and economic society, called "America."
As we celebrate Cambodian New
Year today here in America, it reminds us
all twenty-three years ago in April 17,
1975, when the Communist Khmer Rouge
took over Cambodia just two day after
those joyous holidays. They immediately
started their draconian communist ideology that resulted in two out of Cambodia's
seven million population perishing from the
face of the planet earth and about a million
more fleeing for thier lives to resettle all
over the world. That is the reason why
there are about 25,000 Cambodians living
in Lowell today. As we celebrate our New
Year, this year, we would like to recommit
ourselves to the task of serving these survivors and marginalized people. We vow
to help them to become self-suffiecient
and also to be productive citizens of this
country.
Again, Thank you for your continued support. Our tasks would not be possible without you. May the Year of the Ox
bring you and your loved ones happiness,
good health, prosperity, and peace always!
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�Biggest Angkor loot haul seized after st and-off
BY CHRISTINE CHAUMEAU, Phnom Penh Post
facts from Angkor temples ever
seized was intercepted last month on
THE largest shipment oflooted arti-
. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - , a truck manned
by soldiers, including bodyguards of the
military commander in Siem
Reap.
Ten tons
of stone carvings
hacked off the
Kor Ker templegracirnJlHnJfillL~f~r Bbtun0~rucirwJyrn]nnu1n -located in a zone
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under military
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into pieces were
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found on an army
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police and other
authorities Jan
30, 1997.
Accompanymg
the
truck were 17
heavily-armed
soldiers, including at least five
bodyguards of
General Khan
Savoeun,
a
Funcinpec member and commander of Military
Region
No.4.
Itub~ tel] ell ri 01 trul nun Bb u~ B~Ban t{] BHB~ WU Cl.fib
Savoeun
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Other high-level Siem Reap
sources tell a different story, pointing the finger at Savoeun as the mastermind behind the pillaging and
smuggling.
None of the 17 soldiers has been
arrested.
The artifacts--which were apparently en route to Thailand, neatly cut
into numbered pieces so they could
be reassembled--were recovered
after a 24-hour cat and mouse game
between the soldiers and military police.
The pieces are now at the Conservation d'Angkor in Siem Reap
town. Foreign conservation officials
said they constituted the biggest haul
oflooted artifacts ever recovered in
Cambodia.
The total of nine large Apsaras
and 19 Naga statues came from Koh
Ker temple, roughly between Siem
Reap and Preah Vihear provinces.
According to various sources--all
of whom did not want to be named
for fear ofreprisals--the relics were
found on a military truck traveling
down Route 6 towards Banteay
Meanchey province, which borders
Thailand.
The first attempt to stop the truck
came at a military police checkpoint
outside Siem Reap at Touk Snoul.
The driver flashed his headlights and
drove through the checkpoint.
Forty kilometers away, in Kralanh
district, the truck was made to stop
at another check-point on the border
of Banteay Meanchey province.
According to witnesses in
Kralanh, the 17 soldiers aboard the
vehicle threatened the MPs manning
the checkpoint. "They were pointing
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stop the truck," said one witness.
As well as their guns, the soldiers
showed the MPs a permit signed by
Savoeun allowing them to transport
"wood."
"There was no wood whatsoever," explained one shopkeeper in
Kralanh.
Prevented from going ahead by
the MPs, the soldiers resorted to offering them up to 20,000 Baht ($800)
to allow them to pass, witnesses said.
Despite the threats and offers of
money, the MPs checked the truck
and discovered the statues hidden
beneath an oilcloth on which the soldiers were seated.
The MPs would not let the truck
leave, and telephoned their Siem
Reap headquarters to receive instructions from their superiors.
With a potential confrontation
brewing, an ad hoc committee of
army and military police officials was
hurriedly set up in Siem Reap to decide what to do.
Back at the checkpoint, there was
a three-hour stand-off before the
Siem Reap committee came to a tentative solution--the soldiers were all
allowed to leave but the truck was
impounded and photographs taken of
its haul.
The truck was then sent back to
Siem Reap, and apparently put in the
care ofKhan Savoeun. The next day,
24 hours after the truck had been
stopped, the artifacts were delivered
to Conservation d'Angkor.
Savoeun later told newspapers
that he had been responsible for
catching the smugglers.
But no-one was arrested. MPs
said they knew they could not make
any arrests.
"It is not the first time that such a
situation has occurred, said one MP.
"We often have trouble with the soldiers. The small cannot reprimand the
big ones."
According to several sources and
documents, Khao Savuth, chief of
Savoeun' s bodyguard unit, was
among the escorts on the truck, as
well as at least four of his men.
Savoeun, interviewed last week
at his home in Siem Reap, said he
did not know anyone named Savuth.
But, when questioned further, he
acknowledged that some of his men
had been aboard the truck.
"I gave the orders to some of my
men to dress up and pretend to be
robbers, that is why they were on
the truck," he said.
Savoeun said that he himself had
arranged the second check-point
which stopped the truck--a version
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March 27, 1997, The Board of Directors
of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance
Associaion of Greater Lowell, Inc. met
and voted to accept the donation of
Courier Building located on 165
Jackson Street, Lowell, MA to be its
new Community Center.
The Board of Directors has also
unanimously approved the executive
director's proposals to be submitted to
various funding agencies including the
Lowell's CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) and foundations for
this project.
We would like to extend our invitation
to community members to be part of
this project. We would welcome your
input, expertise, and support. Please
contact the CMAA at 125 Perry Street,
Lowell, Massahcusetts, and talk to
Samkhann Khoeun, Executive Director,
or Mr. Chanrithy Uong, Board President at (508) 454-4286.
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funding to the CMAA' s YPP, and the
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a computer training course. For ten
hours a week, Chath pierSath conducts a class for the young parents
who range in age from 14-22. He
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women at a time, splitting the larger
class. By doing so, each student has
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of events disputed by MPs and other
well-informed sources in Siem Reap
connected with the seizure.
Savoeun said that his 'spies' on
the truck were unable to arrest anyone because the robbers fled. He said
he would rather try to catch the middlemen and the Thai receivers of
looted artifacts, rather than soldiers.
"They are poor and they are offered lots of money. They are not to
blame," said the general.
Asked about the authorization
shown by the soldiers, he said that
he signed many permits and that the
one that they had was exclusively for
wood.
He said that the truck, registered
to another military division, could
have been bought by civilians.
Savoeun declared that he was eager to stop the plundering of Cambodian artifacts, which he had been
told about by contacts in Thailand.
Middlemen had offered up to 2
million Baht for people who smuggled artifacts from Siem Reap temples, he said. No-one had come to
see him and offer money, he added.
Savoeun acknowledged that
some senior officials in Siem Reap
alleged that he was involved in the
robbery. "If they want to file a complaint against me, I will be the winner. I am honest and innocent and I
never receive a bribe. "
He said some Thai smugglers
wanted to kill him.
"I am not afraid of bullets and I
am waiting for the one who wants to
kill me," he declared, removing a pistol from his briefcase and putting it
on his desk.
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seized in Siem Reap had made it to
Thailand, they could perhaps have
Thailand has on ocassion returned
ended up in retai l shops in the Thai
Khmer antiquities--usually with great
capital, perhaps at a River City bouceremony--but has not signed any intique.
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t the Immigrant community
meeting at St. Joseph Hall on
Saturday, I was driven to tears by
the act of one elderly Cambodian
man. I had asked him to sign a petition to tell Congressmen and women
and state representatives to do something about the current welfare benefits cut to the elderly and the disabled. The petition asks the legislature to set aside state funds to ensure a minimal safety net of services
to legal immigrants and refugees. It
asks the state to specifically support
and fund the following five-part Compact to protect Massachusetts Immigrants in the FY 98 budget and
provide:
Cash assistance for the elderly and
disabled losing disability payment
by expanding state funding of
EAEDC
Food assistance for legal immigrants
losing Food Stamps by supporting the Nutrition Assistance for
Families, Elderly, Disabled Act,
sponsored by Senator Norton
and Representative Fitzgerald
Medical assistance for immigrants
losing Medicaid by supporting an
Act to Protect Medical Assistance for legal immigrants, sponsored by Representative Antonio Cabral, Representative David
Cohen and Senator Mark
Montigny
State support for Citizenship programs
Oppose residency requirements on
aid to new immigrants
I thought about this man's life as
he carefully and meticulously wrote
down his name and all the members
of his family on a sheet of paper.
English isn' t his language, but he had
managed to learn how to spell his
name and the names of his wife and
children. He wrote, letter by letter,
those names that he thinks are important numbers on a petition to making sure his benefits remain. He was
afraid that the cut would leave him
starving or homeless. As he was
writing, his hand shook as the other
hand held onto a cane. In Cambodia, this man was a peasant who
plowed rice fields and lived with
whatever yields his fields gave to him
year by year. He gathered vegetables, herbs and fish from nature.
The rain and the seasonal changes,
good or bad, were his connection to
the world and the place in which he
dwelled. His village, his temple, his
neighbors and his family were what
he lived for. Then, when the war
came and the five long years of
Khmer Rou ge occupation , where
millions of people were persecuted
and killed, this old man fled. Through
the fire of war and explosion of mines
and firing squads, he managed to
survive and brought his family across
in one piece. Now, he's old, living in
the city of Lowell, with little or nothing to praise about his past. He tries
to live as best as he can with whatever benefits he receives from the
government because this is a democracy where humane acts of compassion and understanding still exist.
Enraged people are taking action
against institutional acts of injustice- the cutting of benefits to legal
immigrants. The man was one
among thousands who gathered that
Saturday to ask the State of Massachusetts to do something about SSI,
Food Stamps and other benefit cuts
for legal immigrants. The Federal
government is trying to force them
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By Samkhann Khoeun
A
ncient Cambodian astrologers
observed that events on Earth
tend to follow a twelve-year pattern
with each year represented by an
animal. Depending upon which of
those years he or she was born in, a
Cambodian believed that he or she
Well, here is what I learned
from talking to older folks and also
from a little research I conducted for
my own personal enlightenment.I am
pleased to share it with you.
would be closely epitomized by its
salient characteristics after one those
animals. They noticed that those
born in the same year often share
certain basic personality traits. Thus,
symbolically, according to the year
in which each of us was born, we
are either a Rat, a Rooster, an Ox or
a Tiger; a Horse, a Dragon, a Sheep
or a Pig; a Dog, a Hare, a Monkey
or a Snake.
trological zodiac, the Ox is believed
to be steadfast and methodical, and
though some may find this down-toearth practicality routine to the point
of dullness, the Ox deserves high regard for being reliable and sensible.
It is a pity, however, that a desire to
conform often stifles an innate inventiveness, for the Ox is not without
creative imagination. But, suspicious
of anything that is untried and unproven, the Ox fears taking the initiative. Being so thoroughly dependable, the Ox may rise to positions of
authority; but here too, conservatism
prevents promotion to the highest administrative posts where quick-thinking and a flair for making immediate
decisions are essential.
The Ox may be unromantic,
So, what do people think ofyou
if you were born in the year of the
Ox? What would be the general
characteristics of people who were
born in the year of the Ox? If you
were born in following year, you are
theOx: 1901, 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949,
1961, 1973, 1985, 1997.
Occording to Cambodian as-
but there is no lack of affection for a
few select friends . Preferring such
company to a wide circle of acquaintances, the Ox can be both loyal and
possessive. In business, the Ox often brings prosperity - not through
entrepreneurial imagination and risk,
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flair and invention is but a shadow of
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�CMAA - Looking Back, Looking Forward
Joachim Nickerson
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tance Association of Greater
Lowell, which is known by its
acronym CMAA, has gone through
various transitions during its eleven
years of service to the Cambodian
community. When the Cambodians
started coming to Lowell in the late
1980s, they brought many needs with
them. First, they had to overcome
communication barriers as well as
language and cultural differences
they encountered. The CMAA was
formed as a bridge between the city's
service agencies and the newly arrived Cambodians. Some needed
welfare,jobs and education and language training. The children needed
to be enrolled in school and receive
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proper medical and dental attention.
People arrived with only their IOM
bags (Immigration Office of Migration) containing INS documents.
Consistently, the CMAA has been
there to assist immigrants with their
needs.
The CMAA has gone through
three directors . Mr. Samkhann
Khoeun, the current director, is the
fourth. The first director was Teresa
Therbold, who passed away in 1994,
Vera Godley was the second and
Pere Pan was the third. They all
contributed to the growth and the
functions of the organization as a
human service, non-profit organization.
Neda Nou, who lived in Lowell
for 12 years and worked at the
CMAA the longest, recalled Komar
DayCare when they had only three
children because parents didn ' t understand the importance of preschool education. Now, the daycare
is full with beautiful, vibrant and intelligent children. While the parents
are learning English and working to
gain more work skills, these children
are enjoying their own learning exploration with caring teachers. The
daycare is also looking towards expansion when the CMAA acquires
the Courier Building. Vivian Guimond,
the current Director of the Komar
had expressed great delight toward
working with these children. Individual children learn at different
rates, and she helps them to discover
a process oflearning that will enable
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action agency, offers a wide variety of services for incomeeligible residents, including (but not limited to):
Child Care
Food Stamp Outreach
First-Time Homebuyer Counseling
Foreclosure Prevention Assistance
Fuel Assistance
Supplemental Nutrition for Pregnant Women,
Infants, and Children
For further information on Community Teamwork and our
programs, call or visit our headquarters offices, conveniently
located in downtown Lowell at 167 Dutton Street Phone:
459-0551.
�10 Years of Success!
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ebruary was a very exciting
month for the Komar Day
Care Center. It marked the
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10 th year of serving children and
their families in the Cambodian community as well as in various other
ethnic groups in the city of Lowell.
An "open house" celebration on February 19 th
welcomed
many current and
past employees of
the day
care center and of
the Cambodian
Mutual
Assistance Associ ation
(CMAA).
T h e
Komar
Day Care
Center
was first opened on February 17,
1987 by Betty Borden to reach the
child care needs associated with the
influx of the Cambodian immigrants.
It served to help the families adjust
to their new American life, learn
good parenting skills, and become
productive citizens, all while maintaining their own
cultural heritage.
The children
also have shared
expenences
with families of
other ethnic
groups including
Vietnamese,
Laotian, Spanish,
and Portuguese.
On opening day Betty
Borden was fortunate to have a wonderful assistant
and Khmer translator, Neda Nou.
Neda continues her role today and is
the longest employed worker at the
CMAA! Both were honored with
presentations by executive director
Samkhann Khoeun, the guests were
entertained by Cambodian dance and
music. We were delighted with the
delicate moves of Borbara Heng and
Signit Prak doing the Tiva Propey
dance. It is a children's dance that
was done in Cambodia to commemorate Children's Day. Following this,
Am Chom-Pond played songs on the
dulcimer and the bamboo flute. Our
sincere thanks go out to these performers for volunteering their talents
and adding to our festivities.
Some of our guests included
Marina Schell, administrative manager at the Department of Social
Services (funder of the day care),
Vichenny Keo-Sam and Ro Suon,
past counselors in the day care, and
Joan Gendron, Audra Pinkam, and
Elma Vaidya, former employees of
the CMAA. Everyone
enjoyed reminiscing over
photographs and stories
of past years. This socializing continued over
a delicious lunch of various ethnic foods. The
children's playful gaiety and excitement
throughout the day reflected the success of
the gathering.
Thank you to all for
helping to make this
such a memorable
day!
The Komar Staff
corsages and plaques in appreciation
for their many years of service to
the day care. Betty retired last year
in March.
After the opening remarks and
Vivian Guimond
Ancy Kazemi
Neda Nou
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aeaben of tbe Greater Lovell Cubodian coaaunity f or a Happy ,
Rnltby , Peace ful and Pro1perou1 l ev Year . Our arn h blHHd to
have you u • l H dH of thi • region ' • CUlbodhn ca.auni ty .
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enclosed ii our check in t he amount of $27S . 00 representing p.aywient for
a f ull page ad in the Xllller Lowell Magaz i ne. Bncloaed please find our
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fa m ily four ye&.n1 ago. He baa
spent the p ast two au.mmera
playin e oporta and maklnir
friends thr ough the NYSP p,ro-,
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t w o mealo a day and a healthy
serving of aelf--eateem.
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them to survive in the real world
when they are older: When the
daycare expands, she wants to have
toddlers and more children between
the ages of three and four. Vivian
also teaches parents how to help
their children continue learning at
home. The children learn through
love and trust, through patience and
understanding. The rule also applies
to the services the CMAA provides.
Changes in attitude and in process
oflearning are slow. The CMAA is
committed to helping the Cambodians deal with their day to day
struggles and survival.
The Cambodian refugees contribute a lot to the city of Lowell economically. Neda Nou, who came to
Lowell in 1984, remembers Lowell
when it had little to offer the Cambodian community. There were no
shopping places or markets for Southeast Asians. They began to build
many stores and shops. Then, real
estates prices began to go up, and
many old houses were rented. Also,
car dealers increased their sales since
most Cambodians saved up their
cash to pay for a car all at once rather
than leasing it for a period of time.
Even funeral homes made their
money. In the 1980s, Lowell was a
depressed city. Now, itis vibrant due
to the multitude of cultures here. It
is culturally unique to be in this cosmopolitan of immigrants.
For this coming New Year, the
CMAA has much to celebrate. We
have a newly elected board working
h!lfd to set new visions, priorities and
direction for funding sources. The
Courier Building project is under
way. Everybody involved is very
excited about the limitless opportunities the building offers. But no
matter where it is located, the
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to all become citizens. However,
this man probably does not have a
lot of years to live. He can write
only his name and the names of his
family members. He cannot memorize all the answers to the required
questions the INS would ask. There
is one thing that was wanted that
Saturday. Social justice. Like the
Pledge of Allegiance concludes,
" ... justice for all," not just for citizens. Clare Underwood from the
Merrimack Valley Project reminded
us that we were invited in but to find
out at the end that we couldn't sit
down to the same table. This is not
justice, and Father Jaime Loiacano,
from the Nuestra Senora del Carmen
Church, would agree that what the
government is doing right now can
damage a lot of lives. America is a
land of immigrants, and to victimize
these people would contradict all that
this country stands for.
{TJ ou are cordially invited to join us in celebrating our Cambodian New Year
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Celebration featuring authentic Southeast Asian food, live music band,
dances and cultural entertainment throughout the evening.
The proceeds of the event will go into supporting the many different
programs of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell,
Inc.
Saturday April 5. 1997
6:00 PM to 12.-00 alnlght
Park Cafe
Resta1U'811t
246 Ma'ket ll Lawal, MA 01l52
(Parking is free at Leo A. Roy Garage)
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League (CA VL), and the Khmer Cultural Institute (KCI). We
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Cambodian Community Center
April 1999
Issue #7
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Letter from the Executive Director
Dear Fellow Cambodians and friends!
Greetings from Lowell, Massachusetts. For the past several months, the Cambodian Mutual Assistance
Association (CMAA) has been so busy with a few new and exciting projects. One is the
"Massachusetts Self-Sufficiency" Project: employment service and youth service programs. This program is funded for $290,850 annually by the U.S . Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) via the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (MORI) is designed to assist Cambodian refugees and
immigrants whose benefits will be exhausted due to their time-clock running out with employment services. The program emphasizes on helping people to achieve their self-sufficiency. It consists of community outreach and education, recruitment and
intakes; job counseling, coaching, placement, support, and continuous English education.
Another is called the Community Service Employment Program, which provide subsidized employment to about 18 Cambodian
refugees and immigrants to work in any public service agencies and non-profit organizations. Grant money will pay for all salary, wages and benefits for up to 12 months. The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement funds this program in the amount of
$623,000.
Yet another program is the Asian Refugee and immigrant economic and educational opportunities, funded in the amount of
$100,000 annually by the Freeman Foundation based in New Year, New York. This program is designed to assist Cambodian
refugees and immigrants to acquire English language skills, advance in their workplaces, and ultimately increase their economic standard.
These three sources of funding make up more than half of last year annual budget, which was only $850,000. In additional, we
are able to receive a few additional funding from other agencies such as the Theodore Edson Parker Foundation, Gardiner
Howland Shaw Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the City of Lowell's Enterprise Community.
CMAA is experiencing a tremendous of growth within the last few years. Not only that the CMAA has been successful in
fundraising for its various programs and services, but was also able to fundraise for its building development project as well.
Speaking on the building, CMAA was fortunate in receiving a building worth $1.2 million from Courier Corporation of North
Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The City of Lowell has been very supportive to this building development project. This is the single biggest donation from any donor.
Furthermore, the CMAA had initiated the Southeast Asian Water Festival, which brought thousand of people from near and far
to Lowell to celebrate this ancient traditional in the last weekend of August in the last two years. The water festival is the first
of its kind ever celebrated outside of Cambodia, Lao, Thailand and South Vietnam. Looking into its third year of success, the
Water Festival committee has been working so diligently to prepare this coming August celebration even a bigger one.
We all should be very proud of this phenomenon success. Shall it be new social services and programs for our community
members, or cultural initiative for our youth, or economic development for the our community, or even civic education for our
elders, the CMAA is committed to serve our Cambodian Americans and other linguistic minority groups more diligently.
I would like to express my utmost thanks to each and every staff, board members, and volunteers, for the all the hard work they
had been doing to make our organization the best it can be in order to serve our community residents. Most importantly, my
sincere thanks go to all the funders who had entrusted their trust and belief in us to carry out the programs and services. Equally
important is my ardent and profound admiration to our elected officials who support us all along during the most bumpy roads
and difficult time. Yet, among the many people who helped make my work possible are my greatest confidants-Sina Phou,
my wife and my children, Vathana and Kalyannee Khoeun. My parents and siblings have unquestionably supported me along
the way regardless of where they are physically.
Thank you so very much for all your help. Our task of serving the underserved Southeast Asian population is not P.Ossible
without you.
Sincerely yours,
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At first, I would like to give my thanks to the Khmer Lowell Magazine Committee for all of
their hard work in bringing this magazine back to the community. Secondly, on behalf of the committee, I would like to thank the Board of Directors at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, especially the Public Relations Committee, and the Executive Director for providing their support and advice in making this magazine. Last but not least, please allow me to thank friends, Ms. Jacqueline Travers, Bartlett School Principal, Mr. Harry Kouloheras, Butler School Principal, Ms. Carol Sutton, Butler
School Parent Liaison, Ms. Elana Killela, Seton Asian Center Director in Lawrence, Ms. Huy Nguyen,
Saunder school teacher in Lawrence, and Mr. Ngoun Tea, and others for donating their work in this
publication and in supporting the education of our community and our children. The goal of Khmer
Lowell Magazine is to provide knowledge relating to religion, human life, and other important happenings inside and outside of the Lowell community, so that they may be used as tools to deal with life and
business as needed. Furthermore, we would like to strengthen the collaboration in the Lowell community for the use of humanity in the present time as well as in the future.
It has been nearly two decades since the Cambodian Community settled in Lowell. Due to the
cultural barrier, most of them have faced many obstacles. However, they are adjusting well to the opportunities provided to them and are raising their families in the midst of turmoil and uncertainty with no
complaints. One part of the Cambodian Community has already reached their dreams and happiness in
life, while others are still adjusting and working towards improving their situations, such as learning
English, getting their GED, going to college, and finding a job that they like.
The old year has changed to a new one and left us with many wise ideas while the New Year is
bringing many new opportunities and great ideas to the community. Therefore, due to the consciousness in loving and caring for our community, justice, freedom, and education of all of you, sir, madams,
and miss, the Khmer Lowell Magazine will be worthwhile, lively, and interesting. Furthermore, I
deeply hope that this magazine will bring happiness and help to further develop your roots in the New
England area.
I would like to say that it is my pleasure to be a part of this magazine. I am looking forward to
hearing your positive criticisms, so that together we can make this magazine very beneficial and useful
to our community.
At the end of this letter, and especially in the year of Rabbit, may all of you be always blessed
with the five blessings: age, wealth, health, strength, and wisdom.
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fully supported by the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.
Your contribution such as articles, folk tales stories,
modem fictions, poems, news, etc. are happily and gratefull)'
welcomed. Please, limit the document to 1-3 ( 11 x8) pages,
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IMMIGRATIONLAW
YOU CAN BE DEPORTED FOR COMMITTING CRIMES!
Last year, the Immigration and Naturalization Service deported 56,011 people because they had been convicted of
crimes while in the United States. The
number of people deported for that reason has increased each year for the past
five years. Many people do not realize
that they can be removed from the
United States if they are convicted of
many types of crimes. This is true even
for people who have permanent resident ("green card") status.
What types of criminal convictions can
cause a non-citizen to be removed from
the United States? A conviction of any
violation of the drug laws, except for
possession of less than twenty eight
grams of marijuana for personal use is
grounds for deportation. A conviction
for illegal possession, carrying, purchasing, owning, using or sale of firearms makes one deportable. A new
ground for deportation added in 1996 is
conviction of a crime of domestic violence, which includes abusing family
members, stalking, or violating restraining orders, and includes abusing,
neglecting or abandoning a child.
If you have been in the United States
less than five years, you can be deported if you are convicted of a crime
of moral turpitude and receive a sentence of one year in jail or more. A
crime of moral turpitude is a crime
which shows that the person who committed it is a person of bad character.
Crimes involving stealing or lying are
almost always crimes of moral turpitude. Violent crimes which involve the
use of weapons or an intention to seriously hurt another person are usually
classified as crimes of moral turpitude.
Sex offenses are almost always considered crimes of moral turpitude. Traffic
offenses are generally not crimes of
moral turpitude. Whether you have
been in the United States for five years
or not, conviction of two or more
crimes of moral turpitude can get you
deported, even if you do not receive a
jail sentence. There is no time limit on
when the two convictions would count
for deportation.
Two convictions
thirty or forty years apart would count
the same as two convictions in the
same year.
However, if a non-citizen is charged
with more than one crime which occurred during the same incident, convictions on all the crimes which occurred during that incident would be
treated like one conviction. For example, if someone got into a fight with a
group of people and was charged with
separate charges for hitting three different people during the same fight,
those three charges would be treated as
if they were one conviction, because
they were part of one incident.
to return them to their native
country.
There are many crimes which are
listed in the immigration law as
aggravated felonies. The most
common ones are: crimes involving violence or the threat of violence, burglary or housebreaking ,
stealing or fraud for which one
receives a sentence of a year or
more, any crime involving the illegal sale or distribution of drugs,
offenses involving firearms, tax
evasion involving cheating the
government out of more than
$10,000.00 of taxes, failing to appear in court to answer serious
charges, lying under oath, or intimidating a witness in a criminal
case.
This article is only meant to give
you a general view of part of the
immigration laws of the United
States. If you have questions concerning how these laws might affect you or a family member, you
should speak to an attorney.
On the other hand, if someone breaks
into three houses on one day, the time
which he had in between the crimes to
think about what he was doing would
probably be enough to cause the three
crimes to be considered separate incidents.
The most serious crimes which can
lead to deportation are the crimes
which are called aggravated felonies .
Under immigration law, people who
are convicted of aggravated felonies
are treated differently from those who
commit less serious offenses. They are
not eligible for most forms of relief
from removal. An immigration judge
cannot cancel their removal because of
hardship, with hold their removal, or
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celebrated, he agrees with whatever Hue said, because
Vietnamese celebrate their New Year as Chinese does.
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when she tried to get information about it in February,
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(not because of their religion, but they just do not celebrate New Year. If you want to know about these New
Year celebrations, please read the following pages .. .
By Margaret Tham
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Cambodian New Year is a traditional ceremony that originated in
Buddhism in ancient times. The
New Year is celebrated to achieve
the following 6 goals:
To maintain and preserve the
existence of our beautiful
tradition so it will last forever.
2. To strengthen solidarity and
brotherhood, as well as
friendship among our fellow
Cambodians.
3. To wish our nation and ourselves good luck and happiness.
4. To have fellow Cambodians
and ourselves stay awake for
every step of life.
5. To gratefully payback the
favor of our living or passed
away parents.
6. To support our religion
(Buddhism) which we believe is the best way to
achieve peace, security and
happiness for human beings
in this world.
1.
The date and time we celebrate
the New Year is not a fixed date.
It depends on the number of days
in the month of February. If February has 28 days, the celebration
begins on April 13 th . If February
ends on the 29 th , the celebration
has to start on April 14 th . The
time of such celebration is also
varied depending on the availability of each New Year Deva
(angel) predicted by an astrologer
in charge of making our New
Year calendar. The Deva for the
year depends on the day of the
week on which the New Year begins. The Deva will automatically
come down to earth on New
Years day to take care of human
beings for the whole year.
The reason that our ancestors
chose April 13 or 14, for our New
Year celebration is because it is
the dry season in Cambodia and
the crops have already been harvested by the farmers so they now
have free time to join in the celebration.
Generally our fellow farmers finish their harvesting business at the
beginning of March. The climate
then is mild, clear, and free of
fog. Right after their crops have
been harvested men and women,
young and old, clear and clean the
area around their homes and make
their own stands suitable to welcome their New Year Deva. At
that time, children gather together
to play whatever popular games
they wish. Buddhist monks are
then invited to present the
Dharma Citation and to preach to
the people to educate them.
Afterwards, people enjoy shows:
Lakhon, Ayai, movies, dancing
and comedy. Any celebration
done after the 13 th or 14th of April
is not called a New Year celebration.
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When April 13 or 14 is coming,
people in all areas of Cambodia
usually get together and celebrate their New Year in their
own pagoda. Traditionally and
as rule, the New Year celebration has to be done by Cambodian people following a threestep process:
First: New Year calendar
(welcoming New Year Deva)
Second: Vanabat minute
(making sand hill)
Third: Promotion minute
(bathing Buddha's statue)
If the celebration does not contain the three principal processes above, there is no reason
for us to consider it as our traditional Cambodian New Year.
These processes have been set
by our intellectual ancestors and
should be maintained by all of
us, their descendants.
We
should not cut short any of the
processes. Otherwise we will
not be the bamboo shoots that
grow from the bamboo. The
celebration itself these days has
less meaning than it is traditionally supposed to have.
MAY CAMBODIAN NEW
YEAR BE HELD ON THE
DESIGNATED DATE AND
THE CORRECT J:>ROCESSES
FOLLOWED FOREVER.
�Khmer Lowell
1999 A.D.
The Rabbit Personality:
The Rabbit craves company and
needs to belong to an established
crowd. Safely within their social circle,
the Rabbits feel protected and secure;
outside it, they are reserved and quite
possibly withdrawn. However, even
within the groups, the Rabbit maintains
a certain independence and, though
hardly extrovert, can often become the
focus of attention by being visibly on
the edge of events. Thus, a gregarious
and sociable disposition does not prevent the Rabbit from remaining aloof.
The typical Rabbit will be submissive, even humble, in a constant effort
to avoid all confrontations. Happiest
with friends, if somewhat inclined to
gossip, this kind and benevolent lover
of conversation, reading and literary
pursuits may appear rather too meek but
can be remarkably brave when faced
with danger.
Traditionally associated with clearsightedness, the Rabbit is an excellent
judge of character, with an instinct for
recognizing sincerity in others and an
almost uncanny ability for sensing
falsehood.
In personal relationships, even the
most innocent deceptions will be identified almost at the moment they are perpetrated.
Another traditional belief accredits
the Rabbit with the recipe for the divine
elixir of life; and accordingly Rabbit
personalities are often gifted healers,
both of emotional and physical maladies.
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transfer or authority.
In the sphere of politics, this is not a
year for dramatic change. Rather, it is a
period of increased awareness and concern for human rights, the underprivileged and the victims of unjust treatment. Internationally, much will be
achieved to help those in need.
As the possessor of the recipe for
the elixir of life, the Rabbit is credited
with knowledge of herbal remedies and
medicine. The Year of the Rabbit is seen
as a suitable period for expansion in the
field of pharmaceuticals or cosmetics,
and dealings to do with herbs, drugs, or
preparations of vegetable origin. Interest in alternative medicine continues to
expand.
Greater emphasis will be placed on
family life. There is good news for those ·
wishing to expand their families this
year. But for those whose involvement
in illicit liaisons should ponder the Rabbit's procreative prowess.
With regards to health, this should
prove to be a recuperative year. But beware of the dangers of becoming dependent on medication.
By Samkhann Khoeun
What to expect in the Year of Rabbit?
Generally, this is a year for diplomacy and persuasion. It is certainly not
the right moment for trying to barge
ahead, since this will only result in sterile and time-consuming confrontation.
On the other hand, it is an ideal time for
dealing with more agreeable nature, the
exchange of contracts, or the peaceful
On the front page of the January
14, 1999 Lowell Sun~ two .fitccs
of our young Cambodians, ileld
without bail for stabbing and killing
a Laotian boy. A few months earlier, there had been other boys killed
by guns sprayed from rival , PQ.erto
Rican gangs. Our youth are killing
each other!
Like other cities throug!i.out
America, this mill town, ·Lowell 1ias
its share of the violence, which is
reflective of the problems in our
larger society. Guns are cheap and
accessible to children here. Povew
shows a wide inequity between people in a country where the bounty of
its food 'can feed the world. Yet,
people still go hungry everyday.
Tliroughout the urban .. 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 these children with heroes who destroy, bomb and shoot
people for revenge.
America's youth al"C".easily con.;vinced or swayed to fill the meaningless void with hate and rage. Without ·love and positive adult supervision to back and guide them against
all these evils, they will pick up a
gun, and when angered, shoot.
In a city of 100,000 people like
Lowell, when children die of violence, it is very disconcerting to people. The Cambodian communitybas
more than its share of violence. People are plagued with remorse and
sadness of nmltiple losses in addition
to the suffering and the poverty they
experience. It is here, in this iimnigrant city of mills and factories, ·that
mothers and fathers gathered to raise
their children from the war and poverty of their homeland. They came
with only a few things on their
backs, fleeing the refugee
torn in so many directions.
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New Year Festivities in Sierra Leone
The New Year celebration in
Sierra Leone is meant to bring
people together from all walks
of life.
It re-establishes bonds, eases
potential economic, social and
political conflicts between villages and settles former and
present disputes among people.
The celebration also enhances
love relationships and enables
people especially the youth to
form common ties. Religious
activities are also observed
during the festivities.
Sierra Leone is situated on the
West Coast of Africa. It is a
small country with a diverse
ethnic population of about four
million. Early British influence in Sierra Leone started in
1787.
By the early 1800's the country became a British colony.
During this time the English
established their social, economic and political order
among the people.
In 1961 Sierra Leone received
its independence from Britain.
Although Britain no longer
rules Sierra Leone, its social
legacy still remains with Sierra
Leoneans. Our traditional val-
religious ceremonies are performed by all designated religious leaders.
ues and the legacy of British
cultural practices continue to
go hand in hand.
During the months of November and December all the farmers in the country complete
their harvests of rice, coffee,
and cocoa beans. This is usually the time of plenty! Preparation for celebrating the new
year in February are then made
by the village elders (decision
makers ) to host the celebrations in a particular village that
could accommodate everyone.
Word is sent out to all villages
informing the people about the
time and place.
During the religious ritual
offerings are made to the
spirits of all dead ancestors,
the gods and the earth spirit.
The beings are believed to
protect the crops for a good
yield of harvest.
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performed the paramount
chief makes an announcement by welcoming and urging everyone to have fun and
not war.
The event starts with the
sounding of trumpets, beating
of drums, rattling of trinklets,
anklets, and sounding of
bells. Various activities such
as wrestling, marriage ceremonies, fire dance, harvest
display, etc. take place during the New Year celebrations.
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On the day of the New Year
celebration everyone attending
brings food and locally produced wines to share. Each
village also produces its dancers, drummers, and singers.
Before the celebrations start,
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THE CMAA PROGRAMS
THE PRE-ESL/ADULTEDUCATIONPROGRAM
Pre-English as a Second Language/Adult Education Program is an introductory English language course
for beginners. The program's focus is to assist participants in transitioning to the working world. Our
goal is to help them become self-sufficient and economically independent. The course is designed to hel
them learn and understand basic English by focusing on conversation, listening, and reading skills.
Eligibility
Individuals who currently receive public assistance and/or local residents who are interested in learning English are
eligible to participate in the program. Register for classes at the CMAA, Monday through Friday from 1:00 - 3 :00 p.m. Classes
are offered Monday through Thursday from 9:00 to 1:00 p.m at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association at 165 Jackson
Street, Lowell, MA 01852.
For further information, please contact Danny Div at (978) 454-4286 Ext. 28 or stop by our offices at any time. This program is
funded in whole by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance and administered through the
Greater Lowell Regional Employment Board.
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THE CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (CAP)
The CAP program was originally designed specifically to serve the needs of the target population Southeast Asian people who
have limited English proficiency. We have expanded the eligibility of our clients to all that fulfill the INS requirement for citizenship. Under the Fiscal Year 1998 Our client was mainly those effected by the State and Federal Benefit especially the Elderly. At the present time our clients are those who are truly interested in becoming a U.S . citizen. They want to become an active
member of society.
CAP program is still offering comprehensive services:
•Citizenship Application Assistance
•Assist in all aspect of INS Inquiry and Services
•Assist non-naturalized refugees to successfully complete the naturalized process.
•Information and Referral
•Citizenship Preparation Classes
•Transportation to INS interview
Each client is given clear information about the application process. Their questions
and concerns are answers before any commitments are made to the program N-400 Application is filled out with the clients
understanding every aspect of the naturalization process. Intake is properly conducted and finally for those clients needing assistance with passing the U.S. History and Government test, they are assigned to Citizenship Classes.
UPDATE!UPDATE!UPDATE!UPDATE!UPDATE!
As of January 15, 1999 the INS has raised the Naturalization fee from $95 (plus $25 for fingerprinting) to $225 (plus $25 for
fingerprinting). There are exempts and fee waiver for those that qualify, if applicants can demonstrate an "inability to pay". In
determining "inability to pay", the INS Service Office may consider the following situations and criteria:
•Within the last 180 days, he/she qualified for or received a "federal means tested public benefit," such as Food Stamps, Medicaid, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
•Household Income below the Poverty Guidelines: Family of One -$8,050; Family of Two- $10,850; Family ofThree-$13,650
•He / She is elderly (Age 65 or older at the time the fee waiver request is submitted).
•He / She is disabled.
•Substantial hardship.
For further information please contact:
Bora C. YI, Citizenship Assistance Program Coordinator or
Thy Chey, Elderly Assistance Program Coordinator
Vincent B. Un, Program Assistant
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EDUCATIONNEWS
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Diana Baez
Jonathan Casserly
Tony Chadwick
Sophath Chea
Linda Chhay
Kathy Do
Corey Glaude
John Hann
Harry Holland
Kim Hong Huoth
NgoeHuynh
Phallim Ke
Phalla Keat
Khemra Khirv
BofaKim
Savoeun Loeuth
Soscia Long
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Melanie Ortiz
Brandon Oxton
Megha Patel
Nelson Perez
AliciaPhok
Megan Phrakonekham
Chhoeun Proum
Evelyn Santiago
Kakrunna Sorn
Roth Sothy
Nora Tang
An Thai
Thavrith Thao
Racksmay Toun
Grade 7
William Heath
Darith Kong
Reth Run
Phontip Antonaccio
Vannary Chhoy
Katelyn Costa
Ly Duong
Virak Eng
Donald Greenwood
Felicia Hanvey
Linna Hor
Sopha Huynch
KaninaKun
Sary Lim
San Muth
Sareth Nuon
Steven Ostis
Emily Peacock
Corey Pinkham
SomaPruma
Chandara Ros
Dara Santana
Devin Sok
Kevin Tangerife
Kunthea Sothy
Sophorn chum
Brian Higgins
Ana Maria Diaz
Andhi Kim
Jessie Gary
Nemal Chorn
Dorian Dos
Grade6
Sarath Chum
Sarath Sory
Damaris Gomez
Haksea Kang
Kirnleang Mom
Steven Prak
Kevin Sann
Jessica Tanguay
Jeff Veiga
John Huynh
LydaNou
Daniel Brien
Ryan Gleason
Joanne Ing
Jose Neria
Soinoung Phang
Sophanna Sam
Amy Ercolani
Fred Boeteng
Dora Dos
Bunra Hgeth
Lisa Phok
Boynlom Sonthipanya
Sopha! Som
Amanda Roy
Maria Torres
Jasmine Marquez
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SandyCheth
Manivinh Nanthavong
Danica Proum
Bory Run
Stephanie Anstiss
Steven Iem
Punrith Ngeth
Joshua Aponte
VannyNeov
Phillip Tang
High Honors
Nancy Do
Monirina Meas
Mehdi Rahman
Grade 5
Nancy Sor
Amanda Vann
KimsangTom
Paulina Do
Ryan Houle
Christine Lam
Saibo Ndlovu
Lina Mann
Ryan Murray
Sovannoeuth Phuon
Renee Christian
Chris Coutu
Jennifer Fortier
Tanya Hernandez
Daniel Lacourse
HoungNoeuk
Vorachit Photisane
Stephanie Sengkhamvilay
Swetha Shanbhag
Tang Tang
Jennifer Wallen
Sokoeun Chhum
Paul Huynh
Christina Pilgrim
Chhannara Ros
Seila Chhay
RathaLam
Joshua Phrekonekham
Chanthara Ros
Sarun Touch
Phira Chep
Vanna Pen
Savin Thor
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Lina Nguyen
Jim Song
Kendra Santana
Marajely Rodriquez
Chanthra Earn
RanyPor
National Junior Honor Societt
Diana Baez
Sophath Chea
Kathy Do
Harry Holland
Kim Hong Huoth
Khemra Khinv
Stephanie Lak
Monivireak Meas
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Melanie Ortiz
Megha Patel
AliciaPhok
Chhoeun Proum
Nora Tang
Brian Chadwick
Linda Chhay
Corey Glaude
Shane Hubert
PhallimKe
BophaKim
Soscia Long
Stephen Medina
Sokchanthy Nin
Brandon Oxton
Nelson Perez
Megan Phrakonekham
Lisa Tan
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Butler Middle School
Dear Parents,
As you are aware the MCAS, (Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), test results have been released.
These results are from the first MCAS test ever administered to our 4 th grade, 8th grade, and 10th grade students last May. The
MCAS test is a very difficult, comprehensive test based on our new "Curriculum Frameworks." The state curriculum frameworks were used by our School Department this past year, as a guide in helping us to develop our new citywide curriculum
guides. We are implementing our citywide curriculum guides for the first time during this school year. The MCAS test is designed to give each school a clear understanding of our school' s curriculum and instructional strengths as well as weaknesses.
The Butler School plans on using the MCAS test results as a tool for helping our teachers improve and strengthen student's education. All test results, pertinent data, and interpretive pamphlets have been distributed to our staff. We are forming
teacher committees to identify areas of concern and to develop a comprehensive plan for improvement. In May of 1998 the
staff of the B. F. Butler School were honored by the United States Department School for consistently improving our children's test scores over a three year period. I am confident the determined efforts of our teaching staff will address the areas of
our curriculum and instruction which the MCAS determined need improving. In time, thereby, improving. In time, thereby,
improving our students' MCAS performance. Your continued support is essential to help us achieve the educational goals we
have set for your child. If you wish t peruse the MCAS test administered to your child in the 4th or 8th grade you may find a
copy in the Butler School Parent Center or on the web at www.doe.mass.edu.
In closing, I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy, ,prosperous New Year.
Sincerely,
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Grade 7
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Rebecca Konn
Wade Sok
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Saoran Roeuth
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Rancia Phin
Sela Honn
Malika Ly
Vidalyn Kem
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Parent Center Library Open
Tutoring- Teachers are available after school to help students having
difficulty in specific subject areas.
Sport Floor hockey, basketball,
cheerleading and more.
The Parent Center Library is now open. Parents are welcome to stop by and check out
the library. Parents are able to borrow up to two items at a time. Some of the material
available to parents are:
Homework Without Tears : A parents guide for motivating children to do homework and
to succeed in school.
School 's Out-Resources for your child's time afternoons, weekends, and/or vacations.
Parenting Teenagers-Systematic training for effective parenting of teens.
Fatherhood-A touching and humorous book about fatherhood written by Bill Cosby.
Getting Ready for College Early-A handbook for parents of students in middle and junior high.
The Curriculum Frameworks-for History and Social Science, Mathematics, Science and
Technology, and English Language Arts-These are the first state wide guidelines for
learning, teaching and assessment. The 1998-99
Enrichment Activities - Butler
School Newsletter, Outdoor Techniques, Thought Provoking Games,
Cribbage, Scrabble and more.
Butler School Unified School Improvement Plan- Developed by the Principal, the staff,
and the School Site Council, which is composed of three parents, two teachers and a
community representative. The Parent Center Library also has various magazines, a
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Tuesday nights 7:00-8 :00 P.M.
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New Year, or Tet, celebrates the
return of Spring which usually
comes in late January or in the middle of February.
Tet is a very important holiday like
Thanksgiving or Christmas. Tet is
the time for the members of the
family get together. If a member of
the family has to work far from her
(his) family, she (he) should return
to home before New Year's Eve.
The family usually get together on
the New Year's Eve to make glutinous rice cakes and arrange flowers
on the altar.
Houses are cleaned and painted.
The parents try to save money during the year and now it's time to
spend such as buying or making
new clothes for the children and for
themselves, buying flowers, food,
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Food and flowers are very important part of the celebration. People
usually put some kind of food and
fruit on the altar like glutinous rice
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conuts and papayas. Pink cherry
blossoms and yellow plum blossoms
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The dragon is a symbol of luck and
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A dragon dance is performed on
New Year. Most of the children like
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people usually don't get out of the
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They wake up early to pay respect
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parents the best wishes in the New
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with money. On the second day,
people visit the relatives and the
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THE CMAA PROGRAMS
EMPLOYMENT SERVICES PROGRAM
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) via the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants
(MORI) recently the CMAA grant monies with the purpose of implementing the Massachusetts SelfSufficiency Project (MSSP). Based on community need, the CMAA has designed a component called the
Employment Services Program The purpose of our program is to assist individuals in making the transition to the world of work by increasing employability levels through the development of language and
literacy skills and by increasing access to employment opportunities through creative job development.
Program features include Intake/Assessment, Employment Counseling, Job Search/Placement, PostEmployment Training and Support/Retention Services.
If you know of individuals who are in need of employment assistance please refer them to us . Our program is a new and innovative one with a creative, driven staff who desire to assist you. Please contact
Martha H. Burns, Peter S. Nhim or Pov Ye at 454-4286 or stop by our office any time. We look forward
to working with you.
YOUNG PARENTS PROGRAM
The Young Parents Program is funded through the Department of Transitional Assistance and is for people
aged 14 to 21 who are pregnant or have custody of their children and have not yet received a high school
diploma or its equivalent. Women and children who receive public assistance may participate in the program and are expected to work towards completing a GED, and afterwards go on to further education, training or to work.
The program runs from Monday to Friday. Classes begin at 9:00 A.M. and end at 1:30 P .M.
What does the program do?
We provide our clients with:
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* Free transportation.
* Counseling and support.
* Career counseling.
* One on one tutoring on any subject.
* Computer skills training.
* A place to talk to other young parents about the joys and problems of parenting.
ADVANCED KHMER CLASSES
Every Tuesday evening from 5:30- 7:30 pm
INSTRUCTOR: MR. SAK SEANG
At the CMAA, 165 Jackson Street, Lowell, MA 01852
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I, Pol Rik, have had diabetes I had tot worse to the point that my blood sugar was very high, about 220-230 mg/dl. The diabetes I had got worse to the point that my leg was numb with tingling sensation all the time. I had tried several doctors, prescriptions, and methods ; however, nothing helped. I was so depressed. One day, I read in the newspaper about Dr. Long
Mai, so I called. After taking some Chinese medicine that Dr. Long Mai makes himself, now not only my blood sugar is back
to normal (82 mg/d.), but also no more numbness with tingling sensation in my leg. I have a feeling that Dr. Long Mai's
medicine has cured my diabetes.
I am very grateful to Dr. Long Mai, and highly recommend his medicine to all of you. Again, thank you Dr. Long Mai for
helping me.
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February 23th, 1998
Honorable Chairman William V. Irons and Members of the Senate Corporation Committee
Woonsocket, RI. 02895
Room 211, State House
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
(401) 766-9580
RE: Bill# 98-s 2778-"An Act Relating to Business and Professions-Oriental Medicine"
Bill # 98-s-2847-" An act Relating to Insurance-Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine"
Dear Chairman Irons and Committee Members:
I am writing to you to express my support for the proposed legislation currently before your committee relating to Acupuncture
and oriental Medicine. I, Susan Coulbourn, mother of a ten year old boy who was suffered from chronic asthma and cough for years. I
have try a lot of non-prescriptions and prescription drugs for my son. Nothing worked. After discussing to my family doctor and with
his support, my son start taking Dr. Long Van Mai ' s Chinese medicine. Dr. Mai not only cured the asthma but also strengthened my
son's immune system. Now my son is hardly getting a cold, even in the winter. I believe that this 5000 year old healing system should
be included into the main stream of medicine and that every one should have free access to it through their insurance coverage. Many
people consider this as a last resort when allopathic medicine have not been able to provide relief and the majority have improved significantly or was cured. I am sure you would be impressed by the hundreds of testimonials of persons benefited by acupuncture and Oriental
Medicine.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. Best wishes.
Very truly yours,
Susan Coulboum
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�Khmer Lowell
COMMUNITY NEWS
The Lowell Office of Cultural Alf
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Celebrates Ten Year Milestone
The Lowell Office of Cultural Affairs (LOCA) recently celebrated
its tenth anniversary and in so doing chose to honor ten individuals
and organizations for their contributions to cultural development in
and around Lowell. A public reception was held at the Lowell National Park Visitor's Center on
February 9th . The recipients selected come from different backgrounds but all have one characteristic in common - the desire and
drive to make the City of Lowell a
better place to work and live.
"The breadth and spectrum of the
individuals you see here today represents the enormity of contributions made over a ten year period,"
said Otto Erbar, LOCA's Executive Director. "Their vision and
efforts have had an enduring effect
on life in Lowell."
Recipients included: long time arts
patron Nancy Donahue, the City of
Lowell; Samkhann C. Khoeun, traditional artist and Executive Director of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater
Lowell, Inc. (CMAA); the Lowell
National Historical Park; Dr. Kay
George Roberts, UMass Lowell
music educator and conductor;
Rev. John Simson, rector of St.
Anne's Episcopal Church; Marie
Sweeney, LOCA founder and long
time president; Nancye Tuttle,
theater critic for The Sun; George
Behrakis, businessmanphilanthropist and co-owner of the
Lowell Lock Monsters; and the
late Sen. Paul Tsongas and his
wife, Nicola.
The awards ceremony was filled
with many personal anecdotes that
were quite touching. "You knew
this would be a LOCA love fest,"
said Erbar. We, at the CMAA,
were particularly proud to learn
that our Executive Director,
Samkhann C. Khoeun, was among
the honorees. Ruth Page, Director
of Angkor Dance Troupe, presented his award. She made refer-
"The CMAA
Executive Director,
Samkhann C.
Khoeun, was among
the Honorees."
ence to his recent four year anniversary serving the CMAA and
also to the organization's recent
move from Perry St. to the Courier
Citizen building of Jackson St.
"Samkhann's plans for the building
are nothing short of visionary and
include developing it into a world
class center." Samkhann, as founder of the Southeast Asian Water
Festival, spoke eloquently of looking at the Merrimack River and
finding a bond - "a source of
life" - significant to both east and
west. He made reference to his
love for the water, the Mekong
River in Cambodia and the irrigation system which was introduced
by the Angkor empire during the
9th through 14th centuries. It is fit22
ting then that a festival with boat
races, art and music was then
spearheaded by Khoeun.
Khoeun thanked the CMAA's
Board of Directors and staff for
their tireless efforts expended on
a daily basis in helping to move
the organization forward. He
also profusely thanked the City
of Lowell for their efforts in assisting the Cambodian people by
helping to make them feel comfortable in a new society completely different from the tropical
world from whence they came.
"You have treated us as neighbors, friends and colleagues,-"
said Khoeun. "I thank you."
Each recipient was awarded a
plaque and a heart-shaped box of
chocolates. The significance of
the heart relates to the unveiling
of LOCA's new logo and design - "Art is the heart of the
community." It features the image of Mona Lisa on a Queen of
Hearts playing card.
Congratulations from the CMAA
to all of you for your wonderful
contributions to our community!
By Martha H. Bums
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POETRY CORNER
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Continued from page 10
When a young child dies of violence here, it is even more difficult for
the parents already mourning their earlier losses because they all had hope
that America would provide them with
the safe refuge from the violence they
had run from.
America, as many later discover, is
not the safe haven they had sought.
They cannot stand alone to resist violence or the hurt and pain that they experience in their lives. Without proper
physical and psychological nurturing,
they will run to fight evil on their own
terms even when it means hurting themselves. Instinctively, this is how the
world works.
Growing up in this country is not
easy for most Cambodian children.
Their gentle nature is divided and tom
between two different cultures and their
identity is fractured. They experience
racism in our society. Many live in
poverty, where they are shoved into a
one-room apartment with two or three
other brothers and sisters. At the age of
ten, a Cambodian child is expected to
care and become responsible for other
younger siblings. Parents are struggling to make ends meets by working
double shifts, late night shifts, and do-
"Oi.ildren, when physically or
emotionally broken and neglected
to their own demise, will seek out
gangs as a way of banning together for emotional support and
a sense of belonging.... "
ing what they can to support their children.
Some parents self-medicate
themselves against the pain by leaning
on gambling and alcohol. Like all communities in Massachusetts, some Cambodian families face family violence
and abuse in addition to other social
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problems.
A healthy child requires good parenting, emotional nurturing and caring
as well as ongoing communication.
Not every family is capable of becoming whole and healthy, and it is critical
that we assist families in reaching their
potential. The level of education, culture, and how we are socialized to see
and interpret things around us determine who we are and what we become.
Our environment is critical in our development. It is not simple to place
blame on the victim or the perpetrator.
Everything is connected, 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 reflective of all of us. When a youngster
commits a murder or an improper act
of violence against his fellow beings,
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The Feasibility Study Of the CMAA
The Cambodian Mutual
Assistance Association has just
undergone a monumental change
that effected the entire service of
the community. The CMAA completed its Feasibility Study that
examined the structural development of its current occupied building. The historic rehabilitation of
the Hamilton Countinghouse and
Storehouse is part of a comprehensive economic development
program with the goal of establishing a Cambodian Business and
Cultural Center in Lowell 's South
Economic Opportunity Area. Development of this largely vacant
structure of substantial size is an
important step for the refugee
community to anchor the Cambodian Business and Cultural Center.
Originally built as the
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the Lowell Trade Center.
The Project will help to promote business opportunities, expression of Cambodian cultural, and a
stable home for CMAA operations.
An important partner in determining
the CMAA's ability to develop and
operate the project is the city of
Lowell. They will need to assembly a
capable Development Team, making
sure that the Board is equipped to
guide a project of this scale and complexity, utilizing management for
operating the building, and forming a
working partner with the city of
Lowell.
Once completed the 93,000
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commerce, (retail stores) function
hall, restaurant and most importantly
a family and youth center for our
Southeast Asian Population.
gift to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, a non-profit social
service organization dedicated to the
aid of the significant Southeast Asian
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jTHANK YOU TO THE TOWER GROUP STAFFj
Dear Tower Group Staff,
On behalf of the CMAA and Monorom's staff, we would like to thank all staff from the Tower Group for organizing
the Christmas Party for the Monorom's kids. Your generosity and kindness will be remembered throughout the child's life.
The gifts you provided on December 17, 1998, to Cambodian children with developmental disabilities will be imprinted in
every child's heart. Our community in Lowell will never forget you.
Traditionally, in Cambodia, children with developmental disabilities are looked down upon and parents may feel
that they are being punished for some past sin. If the family is well off, the children will be kept at home, out of the eyes of
the public and cared for with little expectation for their future. For less fortunate families, children are left for the street or
relegated to state run institutions. These facilities are literally dumping grounds for societies unwanted. Beyond food and
shelter, little else is provided.
CMAA's staff has worked diligently to help these children and their families to seek appropriate services as well as
to eliminate isolationism. We want to provide positive reinforcement for them, so that they do not feel left out in our community. By doing that, Monorom's staff has created many social/recreational activities after school hours, to integrate these
children into the mainstream. We have literacy training, computer training, classical dance, and we meet three days a week to
implement these activities.
We have seen many improvements in every child's life through these activities. They have eliminated many barriers such as, shyness, language barriers, loneliness, and limitations due to physical disabilities. Now, they have opportunities
to explore the real world through our organization. Their participation in our activities will help them to prepare for selfproficiency and self-independence in the future.
We're looking forward to working with you cooperatively in the future. You are always welcome to tour our facility in
Lowell, at 165 Jackson Street at your convenience.
Sincerely,
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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 leave children with
few options to develop into healthy individuals.
We confuse them with
mixed messages of our own as to what
is right and wrong. Some of them are
living in a state of paranoia, in their
gang code of ethic and law, they see the
world as an unfriendly place, with suspicion, and plans of vengeance against
those whom they perceive are against
them.
When found guilty, the two boys,
both age fifteen, will be jailed for the
rest of their lives. Four young lives are
now lost. Without adult guidance and a
positive role model, these children are
not able to know how to deal with all
that they are going through. Images of
enemies invade their hearts and souls,
thinking that they would be free to commit a murder in revenge of their friend's
death.
There is a whole world out there,
which most adults do not understand.
The adults may not have the skills or the
patience to listen. They may be the enemies these children see in the world.
Some are abusive, drug addicts, alco-
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may themselves be the children of the
adults who had also abused and neglected them. And yet many of our
families develop incredible resiliency in
an environment that is infested with
drugs, substance abuse, poor housing,
and gang-related violence. Many of our
parents struggle hard to understand their
children and provide for them But parents cannot do it alone in the presence of
strong external influences. As a community it is our obligation to understand our
youth, support them, foster their learning
and development, and cherish them For
in the end the youth are our future leaders, they are the most valuable resource
that we have.
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affect the Cambodian people living in the Lowell area and to explore the causes of these problems. Once we have a list of the
problems of our community members, and the reasons for these problems, we can begin to create programs to help people suffering from these problems.
We are inviting all members of the community to participate in this project. We want to hear from as many people as
possible. Do you see a problem in the community? Do you have an opinion about why the community has a problem? We
want to hear what you have to say! We have survey forms for anyone interested to fill out.
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In Appreciation of Lester Chisholm
Francis Lester Chisholm (Les), a volunteer at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) since 1989, has
assisted me as a volunteer in my English as a Second Language class for the last six years. As he approaches eightyeight years old he is still coming to the CMAA two days a
weeks from nine o' clock to one o'clock.
He has an excellent way with my students, who are all
single mothers, and they love him very much. Les is a quiet,
intelligent gentleman and a generous human being. He has
been helping the Cambodian people for over ten years. Everyday during our break from class he visits our Komar Day
Care to see the children and play with them. He loves these
children and loves to play Santa Claus at Christmas time.
His generosity to the teachers at the daycare helps them buy
mittens, socks, and other things for the children at Christmas.
Recently, I spoke with one of Les' first students. This
student came to the United States with his family in 1989.
He came to the CMAA to learn English. He was assigned a
teacher, Mr. Francis Lester Chisholm. Twice a week, Les
would pick the student up at the CMAA and they would go to
Les' house in Tyngsboro where they would practice English
lessons. After awhile, they became good friends. In fact, as
time went on, the student became more like a member of Les'
family. They adopted each other as father and son.
His first lesson with Les took place at a restaurant. After
they ate, they had food left over and Les told the student to
ask for a "doggie bag." "But I don't have a dog," the student
said. Les explained to him how people in this country ask for
"doggie bags" in this country for their leftover food. His
second lesson at Les' house was to learn how to spell the
word "rhododendron." However, to this day the student still
has trouble spelling that word.
This former student has become part of Les' family and
describes them as nice, helpful, warm, caring, and loving.
Les also has four daughters, and one of them has helped this
student change careers from being a farm worker to being a
community organizer. He is very thankful to the Chisholm
family. They are his family.
Les, we thank you for all of your dedication and commitment to the Cambodian people-may you be here at the
CMAA for many more years to come.
CMAA always welcomes volunteers.
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CMAA have our eyes on the future. Over the next several months, the CMAA will be making its
: plans for the next five years. We will be seeking the opinions of all parts of the community about the
problems which our community faces, and about what the CMAA can do to serve all of the community better in the coming years. I am inviting every reader of Khmer Lowell to assist the CMAA in
: this work. If you have any suggestions or ideas on how the CMAA can be improved, or can change
to help the community more effectively, please write to the Board of Directors, Cambodian Mutual
Assistance Association, 165 Jackson Street, Lowell, MA 01852.
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CMAA's Special Events 1999
Date
Events/Activities
Comments
~an 1999
Planning for various events
Feb 12 & 13
bpen House for Day Care Center
Promote our day care center program and activities.
March 1999
Strategic Planning" Kick-off', first workshop,
staff retreat
Launch a long-range strategic planning based on Tom
Hurley Recommendation
April 10
!Khmer New Year Celebration
May28 &29
IBenefited Play:" Children of War"
June
butdoor Event: Picnic
Traditionally, Cambodians celebrate their holidays
and festival all year round. The widely celebrated
holidays are Chau/ Chhnaim (New Year), Phchum
'Benn (Memorial or Ancestor Day), Bonn Phka
Flower tree ceremony), and Bonn Cheat (National
Day)
Sell tickets; organize special event by involving celebrities such as Ms. Yolanda King and other Hollywood
stars to help promote our causes, to raise fund for
iYouth & Family Center project, to make awareness of
Cambodian children flights.
Clients, staff, board, volunteers and community members gather together to enjoy each other companionship
July 30 & 31
Lowell Folk Festival
Sat. August 21
Water Festival
[hursday & Friday
19-20
September
Cambodian National Convention, Lowell
bctober 2
Annual Board Election/ 15 th Anniversary Celebra- !Annual event to elect new board members; also to
~elebrate our achievement after all the hard work, ention
ergy, and spirit that we all have put into our organization throughout the whole year.
Sell ethnic food, drink. Every year in Lowell, folk festival was celebrated where hundred of people came
!from all over the New England area to enjoy the di~ersitv of ethnic food, music, arts, and dances, etc.
Sell ethnic food, T-shirts, souvenir items as we celebrate the importance of water through cultural dances,
music, boat races, boots of information, and others
!November
December
~hristrnas is a new version of celebration as we come
to adopt as part of our assimilation into American so~iety. It is also fun to celebrate the holiday season and
raise some money for our agency.
IX-Mass Party - Dance Party
Note: CMAA reserves the right to change dates of all or any of these events at any time based upon the approval of the
Board of Directors
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Reservation Form
For Advertisement
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Please, check one or more :
I would like my advertisement to be
Price per Quarter
Size
Back Cover
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Inside Back Cover
$ 100.00
Inside Front Cover
$ 100.00
Full Page
$ 80.00
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Quarter Page
$ 40.00
Business Card
$ 25.00
Our Ad is:
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translated and designed for an additional cost of $75.00
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*** Deadline for submitting your advertisement:
Feb. 19, May 21, Aug. 20, and Nov. 19 of each year
Please, send your advertisement (s), and make the check payable to:
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
***ATTN. Timothy Mouth
165 Jackson St.
Tel. (978) 454-4286
Lowell, MA. 01852
Fax. (978) 454-1806
Business/Organization:
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The CMAA Board of Directors and Staff
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Chanrithy Uong, President
Bophany P. Beiferrnan, 1st Vice President
Sunny Leang, 2nd Vice President
Thomas Stylianos, Secretary
William Tith, 1st Treasurer
Bopha Mey, 2nd Treasurer
Thysan Sam
Michael Vann
Thel Sar
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ADVISORY BOARD
Ken Niceweiz
F. Nelson Burns
Mark E. Goldman
Venerable Sao Khon
Venerable Ly Yorn
Michael Ben Ho
TemChea
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Narong Hul
Susan Beaton
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Director:
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Case Worker:
Margaret Tham
Case Worker:
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Danny D. Div
Komar Day Care Center
Director/Teacher:
Counselor:
Teacher:
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Environmental Health Project
Community Liaison:
Vincent B. Un
Martha Burns
PeterNhim
Pov Ye
Pre. E.S.L. Program
Coordinator/Teacher:
Community Service Employment
Director:
George Clark
Outreach Worker:
Paul Yin
Sak Seang
RanyHirn
Samath Moung
Employment Services Program
Director:
Job Developer:
Outreach Specialist:
Citizenship Assistance Program
Coordinator:
Bora Yi
Asst. Coordinator:
Vincent B. Un
Instructors:
Chuck Sart
AngPheng
Chhorvy Chhay
Hong Net
Lorraine Cordeiro
Arn Chorn-Pond
Sayon Soeun
Picheath Kirn
TonyRoun
Instructors:
Khmer Language & Culture:
Traditional Dance:
Khmer Kick-boxing:
Elderly Outreach Services
Coordinator:
Thy Erika Chey
Asst. Coordinator:
Sak Seang
Rosemary Z. Costello
Youth Services Program
Director:
Youth Assistant Director:
Case Manager:
Youth Worker:
Youth Worker:
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Sothea Chiernrourn
ThirithHut
Joseph Sexton
Ronnie Mouth
Hoeun K. Tang
Montha Um
Bora Yi
Anzy Khezarni
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Simeon Zorokong
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Young Parent Program
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Alison Gervais
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Khmer Lowell
Issue 6
WHAT IS YOUR
NEW YEAR 'S
RESOLUTION?
I WANT TO STAY
HEALTHY,
HAPPY •••MAYBE
HIT A LOTTERY
JACKPOTRONNIE MOUTH,
ADMINISTRATOR
I WISH ALL CAM·
BODIANS HARMONY AND PEACE
-TIMOTHY
MOUTH, DIRECTOR
OFMONOROM
FAMILY SUPPORT
PROGRAM
GET FAMILIAR
WITH MY NEW JOB
-MARGARET
THAM, MONOROM
CASEWORKER
CONTINUE TO EM·
BRACE DIVERSITY
-SIMEON
ZOROKONG, YPP
TEACHER AIDE
BE HAPPY AND
HEALTHY WITH MY
FAMILY AND MYTO
BEHUSBANDROSEMARY
ZALESKI, ESL
TEACHER
TO BE INTHE
COMPANY OF
GOOD, HONEST
AND TRUSTWOR·
THY FRIENDS ARNCHORN
POND, DIRECTOR
OF YOUTH
PROGRAM
I WANT TO
LOSE A
FEWPOUNDSTHIRIT HUT, DIREC·
TOR OF FINANCE
April - June, I 998
An Interview With Tooch Van,
An International Honor Student
uate with an Associate DeVan Tooch, like many
gree. Most importantly, that
Cambodian children who
student must be involved in
surv ived the Khmer Rouge,
bui ld ing bridges and forg ing
is now an orphan. His parpartnerships with each other
ents were killed and all his
and members of his or her
sib lings died from starvation. He was r - - - - - - - ' - ' - - - - - - ~ c ommunity
to
make
only ten years
knowled g e
old when that
applicable
happened . He
and useful
marve led at
in the real
what a miracle
world.
it was that he
W h a t
survived at all.
Tooch
is
Today, Van
l e arnin g
Tooch is an
from M idinternational
dlesex Comhonor student
Tooch Van, international
munity Co lat Midd lesex
honor student
lege
will
Com mun ity
greatly
enhance
and
College. He was honored
strengthen the kind of work
on April 3, 1998 as one of
he has already been doing in
the students inducted into
the last two years in Cambothe Phi Theta Kappa Interdia. Prior to his arri val in the
national Honor Society.
United States in 1996, Tooch
Among one hundred and
was working fo r an internaeight students honored, he
tional non-governmental orwas the only Cambodian.
ganization , PACT ( Private
To become a member of
Agencies Collaborating Tothe international honor sogether) as a trainer and conciety, a student must have a
(Please see Tooch/next page)
GPA of 3.7 or higher and
have earned half of the
total credit needed to grad-
Moved To 165
Jackson Street
On March 9, 1998, CMAA
relocated from 125 Perry
Street to 165 Jackson Street.
Thanks to all the Staff who
worked very hard to pack
things into boxes and load
and unload them into and
from the U-Haul Truck. It
took a few days and a few
evenings from regular work
hours to finish the move.
There were more things we
had a1,:cumulated than we
thought.
We had some
computers dating back
twenty years. There were
many books and magazines
we no longer could use. The
move gave us a chance to
sort things out and start
anew. Files of services provided to people back in
1984, when CMAA was
founded, were still around.
It was· amazing how things
piled up over the years.
Now, with the new building,
we have enough space to
accumulate even more
things. Hopefully, the director will be able to keep
things at a minimum level.
The more space, the better
for all of us.
In this issue...
An In terview With Tooch Van, An International Honor Student
Year ofthe Tiger: Hopes and Challenges
Southeast Asian Water Festival, A ugust 1998
Through Our Children, Our Culture S urvives
Internet A ccess: Techn ology at Your Fingertips
Th e 14th Dalai Lama: The Way of Compassion
A Prayer for the Millenium
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Year of The Tiger: Hopes and Challenges
Year of the Tiger, according
to Cambodian astrology, is the
year of dramatic and often dangerous change. For some, there
will be success and great adventure. For others, this year
may mean disaster and
calamity. Just within our community so far, we are experiencing both sides of the spectrum .
For starters, death this year
has plagued our community. A
recent shooting of an innocent
13 year-old boy, Khedy Leang,
was a shocking reminder that
there's no safe place in the
world. Violence follows us
wherever we may be. The
shadow of the Khmer Rouge
still haunts us . One of our
staff's relative was shot and
killed along with two daughters
in their Seattle apartment. The
man who killed them shot himself. He was considered to be
the woman ' s old friend. The
daughters were in their teens.
A month earlier, a man in Lowell hung himself. He never
shared his problems with anybody. He suffered alone and
when too many things were left
unresolved, he decided to take
his own life. Silence was his
way to death. Then, there was
the death of Pol Pot. He was
on the front page of the Lowell
Sun. Many of us thought that
it was one of those political
jokes. But it was true. This
leaves us with the question,
"How come he got off so
easy?" Those of us who went
through those horrible five
years will never know the
whole truth. We were hoping
for a sense of closure and that
he would be brought to the
international tribunal court and
be questioned until everyone
involved in the murdering of
more than two million Cambodians were punished. Now,
that will never happened. His
death leaves some ofus feeling
incomplete and in disrepair.
Many of our relatives, parents
and siblings were starved or
murdered without proper
burial. They were left scattered all over the fields . Their
skulls and bones were strewn
along banks of rivers and
swamps. Some were shoved
into mountain holes and
crevices to rot. For over forty
years, Cambodia was at war.
As Cambodian Americans,
we live with these memories
always in our minds. However, we plan to go on with
where we are now and try to
create permanent improvement in the lives of all people
in the city of Lowell. We
must look at the past in order
to shape our future, our community and ourselves. There
are many hopes and challenges. One of those hopes is
to make Lowell a place to root
ourselves and to establish our
importance to the city's whole
economic, social and political
development. Part of our success is the Courie,,-----------•
building where the
We must look at
Cambodian comthe past in order
munity can make
many positive conto shape our f utributions to the city
ture, our commuof Lowell. Through
nity and ourthe development of
the Courier buildselves.
ing as a social and
commercial center,
Cambodians will be·- - - - • - - - • - able to access more
economic opportunities to better their chances in this country. A feasibility study of the
building is now in process.
With the development of
the building, the CMAA can
look forward to organizational
growth and expansion in its
(Please see Tiger/Page 6)
Van Tooch ...
sultant
to
local
nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs). He also worked for
the American Embassy on a
variety of US AID projects.
Most of his work experience
has been to help train and build
the capacity of local NGOs to
implement and fundraise for
their proposed social, educational and community develop-
ment programs. One such organization is the Cambodian
Volunteers for Community
Development (CVCD). This
organization works with street
children and mobilizes thousands of young people around
free of charge English classes
to do city and neighborhood
clean-up, tree planting, HIV/
AIDS prevention outreach and
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human rights education. Tooch
worked with this organization
to provide technical assistance
and needed funding for their
programs.
PACT, an organization that
has largely been funded by US
AID, was very instrumental in
helping newly formed NGOs
in Cambodia to do the work
(Please see Toochlnext page)
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Southeast Asian Water Festival, August 22, 1998
Mark your calendar and
reserve August 22 for a dance
in the sun on the bank of the
Merrimack River. The Southeast Asian Water
Cambodia and Laos Festival is coming
to its second wave
hold boat races to
of family fun and
festivities .
The
celebrate water and
Southeast
Asian
life as well as to
Water
Festival
honor spirits in
Committee is currently working dilinature
gently to make this
year' s festival even
better than the first
one. If you want to
get involved, call
Chath pierSath at the CMAA
or Rassany Khakeo at the Center for Family, Work and
Community. The Committee
welcomes your support and
enthusiasm as well as your
knowledge and expertise. We
want your contribution to this
great annual event.
The first festival received a
very large tum-out, which was
more than we expected. People came from as far as France
to see it and be with family and
friends . Others came from
Washington D.C., Pennsylvania and New York. This year,
with your involvement and
support, we expect even a
greater number of out of state
visitors. This is a wonderful
way to bring people into our
Lowell hub.
Many people who attended
the festival last year really
liked it. They praised the
event as a way of bringing
people together to celebrate
the environment, each other
and cultures. It was the first
time that Southeast Asians had
ever done anything together on
that grand scale. We can certainly do it again and again.
For last year's festival, we
had to borrow boats from the
Chinese community. Now, we
have two boats of our own
shipped from Cambodia, along
with agricultural tools, handmade baskets, musical instruments and a variety of fishing
nets and fish traps. They will
be a part of this year' s festival
as display items.
The two boats can hold sixteen people: one cheerleader in
the front, one drummer in the
back, and fourteen rowers in
the middle. The boats were
especially painted with the allseeing eye by builders from a
temple in Siem Reap. They
were named last October by
Buddhist monks from the
Trairatanaram Temple. One
was named Maha Vichey. The
other has been named Bopha
Meanrith, the all-powerful sheboat of spring's blossom. She
will be competing with the all
powerful he-Maha Vichey.
Those who are interested in
forming a team and participating in the race should attend
regular water festival committee meetings and choose between these powerful boats to
make them champion of this
year. Last year, the trophy
went to a Laotian team. One of
the Cambodian teams received
second place.
Women teams are encouraged. If you get a few women
teams, then there can be
women's competition and a
separate trophy will be given to
whoever wins.
Boat teams can come and
three years.
Non-governmental organization was only a recent phenomena in Cambodia when
Tooch started working for
PACT. After the Khmer
Rouge, during communism,
people were not allowed to
organize and assemble to make
changes in their society.
Today, one of the most
effective ways to achieve
changes in Cambodia is via local NGOs and grassroots community development efforts.
Tooch hopes, after he finishes
college here, to go back and
continue his work with local
NGOs, helping to strengthen
them and their capacity to deal
with larger societal issues such
(Please see Festival/Page 7)
Tooch Van ...
that Cambodian government
was not able to do after the
1993 democratic elections.
There was a growing number
ofNGOs in Cambodia after the
Paris Peace Accord was signed
in 1992. These NGOs were
vital to the many social, economic and political changes
and improvements made in
Cambodia in the last two or
3
(Please see Tooch/next page)
�Khmer Lowell
Through the Young, Our Culture Survives
They bend
and stretch their
Americanized
hands and feet
to chant-like
music instead
of rock ' n roll.
As celestial Apsara dancers,
they bless the Cambodian New
Year, open religious ceremonies and cultural festivals.
They are the CMAA's children
from the Cambodian community of Lowell. Every special
holiday such as the Cambodian
New Year, these children perform various Khmer cultural
dances. Dressed in their bright
and colorful customs they
demonstrate the beauty of their
cultural heritage. These amazing children keep the Cambodian traditions alive while they
are very integrated into the
American mainstream culture.
During rehearsal time at
CMAA, we see them wearing
bell bottom jeans and T-shirts
like regular American kids .
When they perform their folk
or classical dances, they are
transformed back to being
Khmer. This is how Cambodian adults help their children
establish a sense of Khmer
identity in America. Through
various art forms , the children
learn to mirror and reflect
Khmer gentle nature and kind
attributes.
Cambodian New Year is one
of the most important celebrations in Cambodian culture.
The children always have a lot
of dances to prepare for. They
often work very hard after
school and on weekends to
rehearse these dances. Their
dance teacher, Rany Him, was
a former staff member of
CMAA, who continues to pass
on these dances she learned
while living in the refugee
camp in Thailand. She takes
time from her own children
and devotes it to teaching these
dances to keep Khmer culture
alive. Her efforts are greatly
valued .
Cultural activity like this
keeps our children safe and off
the street away from the violence of gangs. It helps our
children build self-esteem and
bridges between old and new
cultures. For us, these dances
are intricately woven into our
hearts and souls. They are our
cultural icons, what we have to
show others about ourselves.
Outside Cambodia, these
dances provide our only link
for our children to see themselves as Khmer and not be
ashamed of it.
It is through our children
that our culture survives. The
CMAA owes it to community
leaders like Mr. Am Chom
Pond and Rany Him, who care
enough about Cambodian culture to pass on what they know
to our children. While Rany
teaches dance, Am teaches
Khmer music. He has been
able to gather several Cambodian master musicians in the
city of Lowell to come and
work with gang and at-risk
youth. They provide opportunities for our children to learn,
through dance and music,
about themselves and their
culture. Their efforts and contributions are greatly appreciated.
reading. His eyes get very red
from fatigue.
To Tooch, education is a
source of food for his brain as
well as a way out from being
dependent on others to being selfreliance and independent. When
he was young, after the Khmer
Rouge, he had to rely on others
for his survival even though the
adopted families he lived with
often beat and abused him.
Tooch struggled throughout
his life so he takes education
very seriously. For him, being
able to come and study in the
United States was an opportunity for a lifetime.
Thanks to the United States
Information Agency (USIA)
for providing him with the
(Please see Toochlnext page)
Tooch Van ...
as the effect of HIV/AIDS and
landmines on Cambodia's future and those already in dire
poverty.
Right now, Tooch is determined to get his associate degree and hopefully a bachelor
from a four year college or a
university here. He studies rigorously. Sometimes, he stays
up until two in the morning
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�Khmer Lowell
Internet Access: T echno[ogy at Your Fingertips
On April 18, 1998, UMass
Lowell hosted a "Town Meeting" to launch its new internet
site "The Flowering City Forum. "
Nancy Keniewski , Dean of
Arts and Sciences at UMass
Lowell welcomed the guests,
telling those present that this
internet site is an example of
UMass Lowell ' s and the city' s
ability to stay on the cutting
edge of technology.
Guests were treated
The Internet address is
to a demonstration
Http:/!valley. uml.educl of the new site. The
Internet address is
/cf.
Http : // val... if you have access to
ley . um I. educ / fcf.
the Internet, go ahead
Once at the site, the
and find this new site.
person browsing
You'll discover an oncan go to various
line community netplaces within the
work devoted to Lowsite. For example,
ell.
there is a virtual
version of the Hellenic Culture Society ' s
museum
exhibit
"Acropolis of America: The
Greek Community of Lowell ,
1930-1940"; a site devoted to
the Angkor Dance Troupe; a
new on-li ne magazine The
Bridge Review, featuring poems, stories, photographs,
paintings, videos ; and much
more.
Paul Marion, who is the
editor of The Bridge Review,
led a discussion regarding the
new site and how Lowell can
benefit from the site. Thousands of people have already
logged onto the site and thousands more will click on each
day.
Then two poets featured in
The Bridge Review each read a
poem as the audience viewed
the poem on a large screen.
These two poets both work at
the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association: Chath pierSath and Judith DickermanNelson. During the day, they
work to help the people of
Lowell, and when they can
they both write in an effort to
share their thoughts, their discoveries.
So, if you have access to
the Internet, go ahead and find
this new site. You' II discover
an on-line community network
devoted to Lowell. Here people exchange information,
ideas and creative expression.
The following are two samples
of poems featured in The
Bridge Review written by our
very own staff poets of
CMAA. Judith Dickerman-
Nelson 's poem is titled Inside
The Zone; Chath pierSath's
poem is titled The Day It Rains.
Tooch, Cambodians can see
themselves in the spirit of their
own survival and be able to
become great agents of many
possibilities and change. With
hard work, determination, selfconfidence, self-respect and
self-love and esteem, every
Cambodian will be able to
achieve another millenium of
Angkorean pride that is of
peace, understanding, charms,
beauty and compassion hidden
behind the faces of those hiding
smiles of Taprooms. Congratulations to Tooch on his many
achievements and accomplishments.
Inside The Zone
Danger Seabrook Nuclear Zone
No Evacuation Possible
(Billboard on /-95 by We the People)
We arrive
with packed bags:
towels, suntan lotion,
and children toting buckets,
shovels, matchbox cars,
and tiny plastic dinosaurs.
We carry lunch, drinks, snacks,
and think we are prepared.
White kites, birds,
and bathing caps
dot the landscape,
and a lone swimmer
slices through waves
in deep waters
while seagulls scavenge
this stretch of land.
Rocks jut into the sea
where we search for treasures
at low tide - hermit crabs
retract and hide when held
in our palms, starfish
scraped from stones are tossed
(Please see Zone!Page 6)
Tooch Van ...
scholarship to study at Middlesex Community College. He is
now in his second year, earning straight A' s in all his
courses. In May, when his
summer vacation starts, he will
return to Cambodia to work
for PACT, again as a trainer
and technical consultant to local Cambodian NGOs.
In honoring and recognizing
s
Tooch
look-
ing on
�Khmer Lowell
Internet Access Continued ..
in pails and we watch snails in
shallow pools
making road maps, trails in
sand.
ing,
reminding myself of how I had
feared and how I had survived
the war.
Judith Dickerman-Nelson
In it, it's either you or me, your
children or mine.
Who will be left among the
ruins to pick up the pieces and
bury the dead?
The Day It Rains
On the battleground of the
common streets,
inside the city walls where
bombs have dropped,
bodies of children were scattered about
while the rain battered upon
them
like a hail of bullets showered
from heaven
to mop away the anguish and
blood,
helping to calm the nerves of
those who are still alive,
to silence the crying children.
In a war, I am trembling
among the dead,
crouching and whimpering
prayers as a soul
without shelter, while the rain
keeps battering on,
putting rage in its proper
burial ground,
forgiving and forgiving.
In the rain I'd stand listening
to the sound of my own weep-
Chath pierSath
My name is Simeon Zorokong.
I am originally from Sierra
Leone, in West Africa. I immigrated to the United States in
June, 1990, and currently reside in Lowell with my mother,
and my sister. My immediate
family, my three children,
Claudius,
Joseph
and
Sandenya live in Ithaca, upstate New York with their
mom, Cindi.
Before I came to the United
States, I worked as a community developer in my home
country. I assisted families
and individuals improve their
living conditions and to alleviate poverty. I provided services mostly to the rural communities. I taught health care,
literacy and income generation
activities from small businesses. I helped people acquire the necessary skills to
better their lives and their communities.
I attended Cornell University
in Ithaca, where I pursued a
B.S. degree in Rural Sociology
with a concentration in community and international development. Upon completion
at Cornell, I devoted myself to
working with low-income families and individuals. I am interested mostly in working with
young people, especially young
parents, to assist them in finding more meanings to their
lives. This is why I came to the
CMAA.
I came to Lowell in February
and was happy to find a job
with the CMAA working with
young parents as an assistant
teacher to Judith DickermanNelson.
Year ofthe Tiger continued
services to the community.
New programs are being created to fit the changing needs
of the Cambodian population.
There's a lot of room for collaboration with other organizations to support expansion and
change. The Praxis Group,
Inc. is working with CMAA to
bring technology and ESL
training that will give South-
east Asians a better opportunity to compete for jobs. Another possible strong link we
will have 'is with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to start
an urban and suburban farming
project within the Southeast
Asian community.
The CMAA Board is a
strong, committed team, working to incorporate into a strate-
6
gic plan the essence of social,
and grassroots community economic development. This includes looking at existing programs within the CMAA, their
strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and seeing how they all fit into the
whole development of the
Courier building. Also, what
(Please see Tiger/Page 8)
�Khmer Lowell ·
Southeast Asian Water Festival continued
see the boats. They are being
stored at the CMAA. Ask
Chath pierSath for further information .
If you have any questions
regarding the festival planning
committee and the meeting
time, you can also ask Chath at
978-454-4286 or Rassany at
934-4677.
Why do we have a Southeast Asian Water Festival? In
Southeast Asia, water plays a
very important role in the lives
of agrarian people. Once a
year, Cambodia and Laos hold
boat races to celebrate water
and life, as well as to honor
spirits in nature that give and
protect their chain of sustenance. In Asia, they say that
where there 's water, there 's
life and food in abundance to
reap and give thanks for.
The Water Festival in Cambodia and Laos is full of fun
and games. People don ' t just
boat race, but they dance, sing
and worship . In the capitol
city of Phnom Penh in Cambodia, people come from various
provinces to participate in the
boat racing event. Teams, often sponsored by temples, represent their home village or
town. Winners will not only
take a sum of money back
home, but a sense of pride and
fame. Many teams take winning very seriously. Prior to
the actual event, people often
practice at least two or three
months ahead. They prepare
the boat, bless and name it.
The spiritual energy of every
team member must be in sync
with that of the boat. They
must be unified in strength and
in mind as well as in soul.
Southeast Asian Water Festival is very ritualistic in nature. Boat teams are often
sponsored by a temple. The
head monk can take the role of
a trainer or a spiritual fi gurehead . The boat is usually
named to capture the essence
of the supernatural power.
They are given names based
on mythical monsters, witches
or sorcerers that tend to project
great power and strength. The
team members must embody
this power and strength and be
able to become as one when
they row in competition with
the others to win.
Last year's festival in Lowell had similar spiritual
themes, especially those which
relate to the environment and
the use of water. The Merri-
year's festival. There will be
many more things to see as
well as to have fun and learn.
Check out our environmental
booths. Come and taste our
food, listen to music, dance
and see the boat races. There
will be fishing demonstrations,
using the agricultural tools
shipped to us with the two
boats. There will be poetry
readings and a small stage theater for your entertainment.
August will be hot, and you
may just want to doze out in
the sun and feel the breeze on
the bank of the Merrimack
River. Don ' t miss it!
If you would like to get
involved in the planning process, please contact Chath and
Rassany. We need volunteers!!
Our next Water Festival
Committee meeting is on May
19, 1998 at 5:30 P.M. at the
Mercier Center.
7
mack River has been the artery
of various states throughout
New England. She is especially important to Lowell just
as the Mekong is important to
Southeast Asian countries. The
Merrimack River in the past
was used mainly as an industrial dump, whereas, the
Mekong in Southeast Asia was
used, even to this day, to transport things from one place to
another. The river provides a
great source of food, fish, and
fertile si Its to rice fields .
The. water festival weaves
aspects of nature, environment
and culture as well as beliefs
into the lives of Southeast
Asian people. It is a colorful
and traditional event for Cambodia and Laos. Dressed in
their best clothes, people huddle around the bank of the river
to watch boat teams competing
for the trophy, pride and money
for their village or their sponsored temple.
In Lowell , Massachusetts,
the celebration carried the
same flavor. It was festive and
fun . Some attendees felt very
nostalgic and thought the celebration was actually taki ng
place in their homeland.
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CMAA Programs and
Their Directors:
Komar Daycare
Coreen Guivan
Young Parent Program
(GED)
Judith
Dickerman-Nelson
ESL (Adult Education)
Rosemary Zaleski
Youth Peer Leadership
Arn Chorn Pond
Elderly Outreach
Thy Chey
Monorom Family
Support
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development.
ther seventy percent is deThe opportunity is limit- oted to commercial use.
less considering the plan that
The future for CMAA
has already been drawn by nd the Cambodian commuthe Architect. The envi- ity it serves looks very posisioned one-stop cultural, so- ive, though there will be
cial and commercial center
any challenges and obstahas a very unique appeal in les to overcome.
bringing people to learn and
Year of the Tiger is a year
be with each other. There's f exciting change and selftalk of creating a library that xploration. The CMAA can
will house books on a broad ook and plan ahead to selfrange of Cambodian culture, valuate as well as to take the
social and political life. In pportunities to make better
working with the Praxis ·mprovement in the way it
Group, Inc., there will be a erves community members
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financial resources into this
development process to
make it successful.
The Courier building is
of best interest to the city
government as well as to the
community at large. It is a
historical site, and the development of the whole Jackson Street will bring more
social and economic activities to the now depressed
area.
Without the support
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It will take everyone, Cambodian and non-Cambodian,
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Sak Seang
millions of other Cambodians, I lived and endured five
Citizenship Assistance years under the Khmer
Rouge regime. All fifteen
Montt:ha Oum
members ofmy family were
forced to abandon our home
and evacuate to the countryside. I was separated from
my family during those five
years . After it was all over I
was the only one left. The
rest of my family members
were either killed or died of
starvation. I was lucky to
survive and live through the
harsh life of refugee camps
for two years. Today, I am
living in Lowell, Massachusetts as an American
citizen. It was a miracle that
I am now alive as I look
back at those years. Right
now, I am focusing on building my own family and educating myself so I can live
freer of those torments.
I have lived in the United
States for seventeen years,
mostly on the West Coast in
Fresno, California. I received
my B.S. in Health Science
from CSU of Fresno in December of 1994. I could not
have done this without the
support from my husband.
Before coming to CMAA,
I have been working closely
with the Cambodian community in Fresno. I taught
Cambodian literature
and English. I published a
bi-lingual CambodianEnglish book in 1996. I am
also an author of two Cambodian folk tales, which have
not been published. I hope to
publish them one day. I was
also an executive director of
Environmental Justice
Chath pierSath
8
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I am glad to be at
CMAA, working
closely with my people
and helping the children we serve within
the Monorom Family
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am open to learning
and helping the Cambodian community in
Lowell become more
successful in mainstream American culture and at the same
time, help promote our
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�Khmer Lowell
The 14th Dalai Lama: The Way of Compassion
The auspicious, rai ny
morning of May 9, 1998 His
Hol iness, the 14th Dalai Lama
of Tibet, spoke at Brandeis
University in Waltham . There
were over 7000 people who
attended. The Brande is stadium was packed with fami lies, fr iends and chi ldren. Everyone li stened with their
mouths agape as His Holiness
delivered His message of
peace and non-violence.
His smile was full of radiance and love. "Please, don't
expect any kind of wisdom,"
he said. " I have nothing to
offer to you," the audience
laughed. " I am j ust a human
being."
To many people, He may
be more than a human being.
He is a super human because
He is very wise with a very
big, super heart to offer the
world . Hi s solution to the
world 's pain, violence and
causes of suffering is very
simple, and it's the only thing
that may save us fro m ourselves and our own destruction. That solution is the
achievement of peace th ro ugh
compassion and non-violence.
His Holiness, the Dalai
Lama, who is recognized as
the leader of the Ti betan nation and people, fled T ibet
om Chinese aggression into ex·1e in 1959. He hasn ' t been able
o return home since. In the tradiion of Martin Luther King and
ahatma Gandhi , he has become
ne of the world 's great advoates of non-violence. For this,
e has won the admiration of the
orld and was awarded the Nobel
Tibetan people have not been
allowed to practice Buddh ism
freel y. Over 6,000 monasteries were desecrated and destroyed by the Communist
Chinese. Today, news of torture, rape and imprisonment
hit the world 's newspapers'
headlines. Nuns are often
raped and tortured at the hands
of Chinese so ldiers and many
monks who try to resist Chinese rules by continu ing to
practice their religion are con-
stantly being harassed and
many are taken into prison
and beaten.
In spite of these harsh and
inhuman rules and domination
by China, His Holiness the
Dalai Lama continues to advocate non-violence and compassion. At Brandeis University, His Holiness spoke of
patience and offering love toward the Chinese. Though
freedom for Tibet is urgent for
the survival of the Tibetan
culture and environment, His
Tibet is roughly the size of all
estem European countries comined. Like Cambodia, it is a
Buddhist country, with serene,
eautiful mountainous landscape.
ive of Asia's great rivers including the Indus, Mekong, and
rahmaputra start out from Tibet.
Tibet's high plains, forests and
ountains form a unique eco-
10
system on the planet and are
home to many rare wildlife,
including the snow leopard,
blue sheep, and Tibetan wild
ass. This ecosystem, and
many of its species, are now
endangered.
Tibet was a disti:1ct nation
and maintained its own government, religion, language,
laws and customs. Over the
centuries, some countries,
including China, Britain, and
Mongolia have sought to exert control over Tibet, with
periodic and partial success.
International legal scho lars
agree that, from 191 1 unti I
the Chinese invasion of 1949,
Tibet was a fully independent
state by modem standards.
Since then, Tibetans have
struggled to regain their freedom and keep their culture
intact.
The Tibetan culture, like
the cultures of Southeast
Asian countries like Thailand,
Cambodia and Laos, is centered around Buddhism.
Buddhism was embraced
by the Tibetan peop le in the
8th century AD . Since the n,
the life of the Tibetan people
has been to cultivate a good
heart and a calm, clear mind .
In the wake of China's repressive occupation, however, the
Holiness feels that only patience and compassion will rid
our world of further hatred and
war. He emphasized that all
beings, plants and animals as
well as man are interconnected
and interdependent on each
other. Therefore, we cannot
build peace alone. Those who
oppress and commit violence
against others are the ones who
we need to love and give peace
to the most.
�KIimer Lowell
A Prayer for the Millenium
I think of
my motherland,
like an
invocation
I'd give to
the world,
dreaming that by the year
2000,
peace will truly come to this
wounded nation of mass genocide and violence.
I think of her as a land of gardens, a rain forest of air and
life for all,
a country of forgiveness and
compassion.
She is understanding beyond
borders,
peacemaker of neighboring
conflicts and historical hatred
with the Vietnamese, the
Thais and themselves.
All her children will have a
childhood, a generation with
both parents alive and siblings
to play with.
All the land mines would have
been destroyed from where
her people farm to eat.
All land mines banned from
the world.
No child would be forced to
hold a gun for someone else's
political rights or economic
to pay her debt.
Every country like Cambodia,
big or small, rich or poor, will
meet under the same sun,
gather for the same prayer,
experience the same hope and
dream,
live for the same peace,
and love for the same reason.
In each ofus, we will find our
common suffering,
our hunger and thirst for life,
reed and power.
here would be playgrounds intead of war zones.
here would be more schools intead of brothels and nightclubs.
he children will sing songs of
·oy instead of terror.
hey will learn how to read love
·nstead of hate.
nd each child will have enough
o eat and clean water to drink.
ambodia is greening again,
prouting seeds of peace into
pring blossoms of love and joy.
II her tropical trees are left unut.
er abundant fruit is shared.
er vegetation's an earthly
aradise.
he is serene, beautiful and full of
harms like the statues carved on
er temple walls,
Illed with peace and hiding
miles.
er people are made strong and
ise from all the suffering
hey have endured.
he world will look upon her
ith admiration because she has
earned to overcome the war in
er blood, the rage in her eyes,
he darkness in her midst.
er people united to end all
gonies, all bloods to be spilled
n her land, to stop all killings of
our desire to be free from all
harms to our bodies, our spirits and our souls.
I think of Cambodia as one
nation loved;
one nation healed and freed
from war and hate.
Imagine earth with all nations
loved and treated when sick or
diseased.
Imagine families of people
willing to share,
to understand and learn from
each other.
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lives and make all violations
of her innocence a crime
against humanity.
The bigger and more wealthy
countries will stop selling her
arms to kill her own people.
They will become good role
models of her socioeconomic, political and
spiritual development.
They will respect her as an
equal and love her as their
own sister.
My Cambodia will join a
band of other impoverished
nations to acquire needed
knowledge to solve her own
poverty,
to lessen all injustices,
to protect her rivers and forest from capital slaughtering,
and provide opportunities for
all her children so they won't
have to sell their bodies for
foreign currencies.
Those nations with skills to
share,
friendship to gain and love to
give will sincerely come to
help her,
give her encouragement and
provide her with some infrastructural support needed to
keep her people growing trees
instead of cutting them down
Imagine all the wisdom and the
experiences that we could
gather to make our planet one
home and ourselves one
people, united in our diversity.
Imagine ...
Chath pierSath
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Executive Director:
Samkhann Khoeun
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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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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
Bunrith Lach, Acting President
Chuck Sart, 1st Vice President
Michael Vann,
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William Tith, 1st Treasurer
Sokhary Chau, 2nd Treasurer
Thomas Stylianos, Jr., Secretary
Chantha Bin, Social Worker
Mark E. Goldman, Public Policy Researcher
ADMINISTRATION
Alex Keenan-Gallagher, Student Affairs
Samkhann C.Khoeun, Executive Director
Sara Khun, Legislative Assistant
Sothea Chiemruom , Deputy Director
Samuth S. Koam, Health Educator
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Ken Niceweiz, Farmer/Associate Professor
Joseph Sexton , Development Director
Michael Ortiz, Asst. District Attorney - Middlesex County
Sophy Theam , Executive Secretary
Bophany Pheng-Beiferman, Juvenile Probation Officer
Ronnie Mouth, Administrative Assistant
Hoeun K. Tang, Receptionist
CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
YOUTH SERVICES PP.OGRAM
Samuel Sok, Program Coordinator
Lorraine Cordeiro, Program Director
Instructors: Ang Pheng, Chhorvy Chhay,
Hong Net, Timothy Mouth
Arn Chorn-Pond, Coordinator of Arts & Culture
Sayon Soeun, Criminal Justice & Peer Leadership Coard.
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT
Amy Fortner, Employment & Education Specialist
George Clark, Program Director
Sak Seang, Khmer & Peer Leadership Instructor
Paul Yin, Assistant Program Director/Job Developer
Rany Him, Traditional Dance Instructor
Bora Yi, Case Manager/Outreach Worker
Phan Bin, Traditional Music Instructor
MONOROM FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM
Kamsort Mao, Youth Advisor
Brian B. Chen, Program Director
Tony Roun, Youth Advisor
Maridy You, Case Worker
EMPLOYMENT SERVICES PROGRAM
Samnang Mam, Case Worker
Margaret Lavyn Tham, Program Director
Vincent Bona Un, Job Developer/Case Manager
YOUNG PARENT PROGRAM
Debra Pov Ye , Job Developer/Case Manager
Alison Gervais, Program Director/Teacher
Lillian Pelletier, Program Assistant
KOMAR DAY CARE CENTER
Terry Troutt, GED Instructor
Montha Oum, Director/Teacher
Sak Seang, Bus Driver
Sajada Syed, Teacher
ENGLISH FOR EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM
Neda Nou, Assistant Teacher
Danny D. Div, Program Coordinator/Teacher
Kimeng Monh, Daycare Counselor
AQUACULTURE PROJECT
BUILDING DEVELOPMENT MANAGER:
Danny D. Div
Daniel Bumagin
ELDER SERVICES PROGRAM
VOLUNTEERS
Thy Erika Chey, Program Coordinator
Holy Khut
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Les Chisolm
Andy L. Kim
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The Royal Embassy of Cambodia presents its
Compliments to the
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
On January 7th and 8th of this new millennium,
the CMAA and the Lowell community were fortunate
to have two special visitors amongst us. The first being His Excellency Ouch Borith, an Ambassador from
the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia
to the United Nations and the second being His Excellency Eng Roland, also an Ambassador, from the
Royal Embassy of Cambodia located in Washington,
D.C., it was definitely an honor for the CMAA to be
host to these two special guests.
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Presented to the CMAA at the "New Millennium Dinner Gala"
by His Excellency Eng Roland
The first day consisted of consecutive meetings with members of the community whose interest in investing in the Cambodian economy brought them to do presentations to the two Ambassadors, but not before the two Ambassadors had a chance to
meet with Congressman Martin Meehan of the 5th District, MA.
The following were a list of presentations before the two Ambassadors. They took place in the co nference room of the CMAA and
was open to the public :
-Mr. Raul Raudeles & Associates
The MesoAmerican Development Institute,
Solar/Biomass Coffee Drying System
-Ms . Susanne Beaton, Director
Lowell Enterprise Community
-Mr. Thomas F. Galligani, Economic Dev't. Officer
Lowell Division of Planning and Development
-Steve Fitzgibbon and Michael Bouchard
Third Rail Wireless Communications
- John Cardozo
Spike Technologies
The Head Table at the Dinner Gala
L-R : H.E . Ouch Borith, H.E. Eng Roland; Dancers Dyana Hak, Sary
Roeuth , Sokny Kim; Mayor Donoghue, and John Donoghue
"A New Millennium Dinner Gala"
On Saturday, January 8, 2000, the CMAA hosted a dinner
gala at the Lowell American Textile History Museum to celebrate
our entrance into the new millennium , Rithy Uong's position as the
first Cambodian American to sit on a City Cou ncil in the United
States, as wel l as to benefit the newly created "Community Emergency Assistance Fund" . This new fund wil l be financially supported by members of the community and go to aid Cambodian
families in cases of unexpected tragedy such as fire , sickness, death,
and homelessness.
The evening began with the VFW Honor Guard performing the opening ceremony, presenting the colors. After performances by the CMAA Friendship Dance Troupe and youth group,
staff, and remarks by Mayor Eileen Donoghue and the two Ambassadors, all the guests danced into the night with the Golden Horse
Band.
Overall, the night was a success, with almost three hundred people in attendance . Special thanks to the following local
businesses for their initial contributions to make thi s event possible: Pail in Supermarket, Battambang Supermarket, Phnom Penh
Supermarket, Safeway Insurance, and Asia World Enterprise.
We would like to wish everyone
the best of luck in the new millennium.
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Walker-Rogers Post, Lowell, MA
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Coffee and juice was also served. A large number of clients from
the elderly program attended and brought food for the staff and
monks. The monks gave a blessing. The event was enjoyed by all
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by talented CMAA youths. More than a handful of significant
individuals attended the celebration, including our new city councilor, Mr. Chanrithy Uong, who has been involved with CMAA
during it's early stages of development and was one of the presidents of the Board of Directors. Mr. Uong started the party with a
warm welcome to the people attending and quickly commented on
the outstanding achievements accomplished by CMAA durin g the
years. The night was accented with positive remarks by Congressman Martin T. Meehan and Advisor and Community Leader, Mr.
Tern Chea. Awards were presented to the prominent members on
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Over the past fifteen years, the CMAA has worked
hard to establish a Youth Services Program (YSP).
Initially, the CMAA offered Khmer classes to youth
and gradually increased services over time. The
Monorom Program for children with disabilities initiated the traditional dance classes for youth. During
the early nineties the YSP grew significantly with a
service population of at-risk youth. The youth were
involved in basketball tournaments and other sports
programming. In 1994, due to the lack offunding the
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Ca mbodian youth performs Khmer tradition a l mu sic for guests.
Saturday, October 30, 1999
In 1996, the CMAA received funding for the youth
program and one part-time coordinator was hired. The
Youth Services Program focused on at-risk youth and
activities centered on leadership development, cultural
and arts classes, and media programming. The YSP
coordinator brought significant resources to the
CMAA such as computer donations and additional
funding. By 1998, the YSP had hired a new director
and case manager with funding provided by the Massac husetts Office of Refugees and Immigrants
(MORI). In December of 1998, the YSP was serving
approximately 30 youth.
The CMAA recognizes our youth as a vital resource
for our future. Cambodian youth have experienced
many stresses beyond the normal challenges of adolescence. Our youth need emotional support, educational support, health education, safe and wholesome
recreation which provides challenges, the opportunity
for artistic self expression, guidance, and clear alternatives to at-risk behavior.
The Year 2000 goal of the YSP is to develop a comprehensive program using the arts, cultural understanding, counseling, employment, sports, multi-purpose
instruction, and criminal justice support to meet the
needs of at-risk and other youth. These additions will
strengthen the current services, increase staffing, provide opportunities for staff development, and develop
new initiatives. The YSP staff will invite board members, parents, youth, and youth providers to work together to develop an effective youth program.
Today, the YSP showcases youth performances, art,
peer leadership educational series, community service,
gang prevention, internship opportunities, job readiness training, a well-renowned Future Stars Sports
Leadership Summer Camp, among many other initiatives. The YSP currently receives funding from the
Red Auerbach Youth Foundation, the Massachusetts
Office of Refugees and Immigrants, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, BankBoston, the Enterprise
Community, Shaw Foundation, and other sources. The
YSP has expanded to include five full-time and several part-time staff. Furthermore, the YSP served
more than 250 youth between the ages of 6 through
20 since December 1998. Youth and their families have
received assistance on re-entering the school system,
employment, homework, housing, mental health services, college applications, and other services.
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All dressed up for Trick or Treats
October 28, 1999
The Young Parents Program has been running at the CMAA for
over eight 'years. During that time we have seen many young parents pass
through our doors . The Young Parents Program is an altemati ve education
program, which leads in most cases to a GED. The goal is to move young
parents from receiving Transitional Assistance for Dependent Children
(TAFDC) to work. The program is open to individuals aged fourteen to
twenty-one who are either pregnant or a parent and did not graduate from
high school. The class is very diverse and the language of instruction is English since this is the language everyone has in common. Classes are held
Monday to Friday from 9:00AM to 1:30PM. Guest speakers are invited to
give presentations on a regular basis and we have taken a number of field
trips this year. These included a trip to the circus in Boston, a picnic at Shedd
Park, a visit to Lowell Historic Parks and a fun day at Canobie Lake.
The students work very hard in class, they realize
the importance of getting their GED. Being a parent and a
student is very demanding. We understand the problems
and difficulties associated with this and work closely with
each student to overcome any obstacles. So far this year,
seven students have passed their GED, five students have
gotten jobs, two students have entered training programs
and two students are now attending community college.
WALSH&CO.
ACCOUNTANTS AND CONSULTANTS
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higher may retest at any timeno waiting period.
2. Total standard score of 210 to 218,
two months waiting period before
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3 . Total standard score of 200 to 209,
four months waiting period
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MEN 18 - 25 YEARS
Must Register with the Selective Service System
What Happens If I Don't Register?
Young men convicted of failure to register may be fined
up to $250,000, imprisoned for up to five years, or both.
In addition to being subject to prosecution , failure to
register may cause you to permanent] y forfeit eli gi bili ty for
certain benefits. NOT REGISTERING IS A FELONY.
What is Selective Service Registration?
Registration is the process by which the U.S. government collects names and addresses of men age 18
through 25 to use in case a national emergency requires rapid expansion of the armed forces .
What Are The Benefits?
Regi stering with Selective Service can open doors for
you. For example, Selective Service registration is often
required for Federal Job Training. A man must be
registered before he can get Federal (and some state)
loans, grants, and scholarships. Also, Selective Service
Regi stration is required for eligibility for U.S. Citizenship
and other government jobs.
Will I Be Drafted? ·
Registration with Selective Service does not mean you
are joining the military-And registering with Selective
Service does not mean you are signing up for the all
voluntary Armed Services. The fact that a man is
required to register does not mean that he will be
drafted. No one has been drafted since 1973. No
one can be drafted into the military unless ordered by
Congress and the President. A draft would most likely
occur only in the event of war or national emergency.
Registration forms can be picked up at the Cambodian MAA
office or at the Post Office in Lowell. For more information,
please call 978-454-4286 Extension 41.
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Free Physical Examinations
Are you in need
Provided by the City of Lowell
of a Al/ammogram?
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WHEN:
Thursday Mornings
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35 John Street, 1st Floor
Lowell, MA 01852
visit by the Mobile Mammogram Unit on:
Wednesday, February 2, 2000
WHO:
ALL AGES
(including well-baby visits)
Am I eligible?
All women over the age of 40 who are in
need of a Mammogram are eligible.
How much is it?
If you have an insurance card, please bring
HOW DO I SIGN UP?
You must call the Health Department to set up
an appointment. All City of Lowell residents
are legible. Please note this is only a general
physical examination, follow-up appointments
are not available. However, if necessary,
referrals will be given.
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Once upon a time, there was a poor family. They
had one son. The son often went out to steal
thin9s. Every time he brou9ht somethin9 home,
his mother was happy. She didn't ask him how
or where he 9ot it. She just said, "That's very
9ood."
Many years passed. The little boy 9rew
up and became a full-time thief. One day the
police cau9ht him and took him to jail. The court
said that he must die for his crimes. But before
dyin9, he could have one wish.
The son asked for his mother. He said that he wanted to see her ton9ue.
The mother came and stuck out her ton9ue. Then the son cut his mother's ton9ue
until it was bleedin9. Everyone was surprised. They wanted to know why he hurt his
mother.
The son answered, "My mother did not tell me it was wron9 to steal. And so
I am here now."
The court jud9e decided that the son should not die. The jud9e let the son
90 free. The son became an honest man and lived to an old a9e.
30
Parents: Your children do listen to you. It is what you say to
them that matters, even if it
doesn't show at the time you are
saying it. Your words have more
impact on them than what you
think. So please be careful with
what you say to them, even it you
had meant no harm but on the
contrary would like the best for
your children. In the long run,
you will see what type of affect
you have on them.
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Khmer Lowell, Edition 10 January 2000, CMAA Quartertly Magazine. This magazine has 32 pages. Titles of topics covered in the magazine include Letter from the Executive Director; Editor's Quote; CMAA's 15 Anniversary; CMAA Programs and services; For Your Information; Literature Corner/Pleasure Reading; Children of War Film & Theatre Project; and more.
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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
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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.
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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!
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Bunrith Lach, Acting President
Chuck Sart, 1st Vice President
Mark E. Goldman, 2nd Vice President
William Tith, 1st Treasurer
Sokhary Chau, 2nd Treasurer
Thomas Stylianos, Jr. , Secretary
Chanrithy Uong, Lowell City Counselor
ADMINISTRATION
Chantha Bin, Social Worker
Samkhann C.Khoeun , Executive Director
Alex Keenan-Gallagher, StudentAffairs
Sothea Chiemruom, Deputy Director
Sara Khun, Legislative Assistant
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Samuth S. Koam, Health Educator
Jenny Lee, Accountant
Ken Niceweiz, Farmer/Associate Professor
Joseph Sexton, Development Director
Michael Ortiz, Asst. District Attorney - Middlesex County
Sophy Theam, Executive Secretary
Francis Dawson, Liaison Officer for the VA
Ronnie Mouth, Office Manager
Kanika Suthy, Receptionist
CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
YOUTH SERVICES PROGRAM
Samuel Sok, Program Coordinator
Lorraine Cordeiro, Program Director
Instructors: Ang Pheng , Chhorvy Chhay,
Arn Chorn-Pond, Coordinator of Arts & Culture
Hong Net, Timothy Mouth
Sayon Soeun, Criminal Justice Coordinator
Amy Fortner, Employment & Education Coordinator
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT
Sak Seang , Khmer & Peer Leadership Instructor
George Clark, Program Director
Paul Yin, Assistant Director
Rany Him , Traditional Dance Instructor
Bora Yi , Case Manager/Outreach Worker
Phan Bin , Traditional Music Instructor
Siphann Touch , Art/Mural Instructor
MONOROM FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM
Tony Roun , YouthAdvisor
Brian B. Chen, Program Director
Maridy You , Case Worker
EMPLOYMENT SERVICES PROGRAM
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YOUNG PARENT PROGRAM
Vincent Bona Un, Job Developer/Case Manager
Alison Gervais, Program Director/Teacher
Debra Pov Ye, Job Developer/Case Manager
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KOMAR DAY CARE CENTER
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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
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games, dance and si ng. At the time of the changing of the animal
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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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- 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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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.
In follow up to the forum, aud iences an d panelists, both agreed that
th ere should be more rol e models fo r the you ng ge neratio n to look up to.
There sho uld he more communicatio ns among you ng and o ld. The gap should
cl ose if the future of our community is to thrive es pe cia ll y in the area of
edu cation and co mmuni cation.
NOTE: T he Cambodian Am e rica n Scho larship app li cat ion material s (applicati on fo rm , essay, two letter of recomm e nd ation , and o ffi cial tran sc ript) must
he postmark ed hy July 3 1, 2000. To obtain th e application plea se drop hy the
CMAA omce or e- m ail Li ght of Cambodian Childr en at lcc(ll lccwch.org. If you
have any question s regarding the scholarship such as criteria for applying and any
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CMAA Programs and Services
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All articles published represent the views of the authors; they do not
necessarily represent the views of the CMAA or its funders. Your contribution
such as articles, folk stories, modern fiction , poems, news, etc. are happily
and gratefully welcomed. Please, limit the document to 1-3 (1 lx8) pages ,
and make sure to include the author's name, address, telephone, and signature of the responsible person.
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articles shall become the legal property of the Khmer Lowell Magazine.
Besides, we would like to ask for your good heart to help us by subscribing to, or advertising in the magazine. Your generosity is needed to help us
continue in publishing this KL Magazine. The subscription rate is $14.90 per
year, including shipping and handling. Thank you!
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
ISSUE #12 July 2000
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSA&E
W
elcome again to another edition of the Khmer Lowell
Magazine, a quarterly publication published by the
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA)
of Greater Lowell, Inc. In each and every issue, we try to communicate
with our community members, supporters and friends about the different things that we at the CMAA are working on and/or plan to do in the
near future.
On the building development aspect, we
have been making more progress as well.
We have just finished the first phase of
the facade improvement with a $200,000
grant from the Massachusetts Historical
Commission and the City of Lowell 's
CDBG. Now, with another $260,000 loan
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Fund, Inc., we are in the midst of reno vating approximately 3,800 square feet space on the first floor in an area right
behind our Komar Day Care Center into a "West-Meets-East", or known as
the "Metta Health Center" for the Lowell Community Health Center, which
already secured additional funding from the federal governmental agency to
provide health and mental health services for the Southeast Asian community
in the Greater Lowell area. The Metta Health Center will be operational and
providing services to the community by September 2000.
For the past several months, we have been quite busy with numerous
projects at the CMAA. One project that I'd like to share with you is our
Community Services Employment Program (CSE), which is being
funded by the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Because of the tremendous success of this program, the federal government has increased the funding from $623,000 to $1.5 million a year.
There are over 150 people who have benefited from this program.
Another program is the Massachusetts Self-Sufficiency Program
(MSSP), which is also funded by ORR through the Massachusetts
Office for Refugees and Immigrants (MORI). The MSSP has been
helping hundreds of Cambodian and Southeast Asian people in getting
meaningful jobs with livable wages and excellent benefits. More than
350 people have benefited from this program and a lot more are on their
way to achieving economic self-sufficiency, which is really the main
goal of the program as well as a much-needed achievement for our
com munity members. Yet another successful program is the Youth
Services Program, which is serving more than 450 youth through a
wide range of activities, from social services, educational, cultural,
recreational, multimedia, to employment and community services. One
of their most recent activities was with the U.S. Census 2000 bureau in
the effort to promote awareness through the Community Outreach and
Educational Program. Our Youth Peer Leaders and adults walked
every streets in Lowell and knocked on hundreds and thousands of
doors to encourage people, particularly those of Cambodian, Southeast
Asian and Latino descents, to respond to the U.S. Census 2000 questionnaires . Now, they are involving in the CMAA's Summer Camp
better known as the Future Stars program, which use sport, educational and recreational activities as ways to counterattack negative
influence and gang involvement. There are close to 200 youth ages 7
to 16 enrolled in this summer program. Many thanks to the Red
Auerbach Youth Foundation, the City of Lowell, United Way of
Merrimack Valley, Theodore Edson Parker Foundation, Stevem Foundation, and many more generous individuals who helped make thi s
summer program become a reality for our youth.
Also, the CMAA is in the midst of a Capital Campaign with our goal of
raising $1.5 million to renovate approximately 20,000 square feet of space on
the second and third floors of the CMAA's building on 165 Jackson Street
into a Southeast Asian Family and Youth Center. Much of the work will be
into building a new service core that include a passenger elevator, stairway,
lobby, restrooms, offices, arts and dance studios, music recording studio and
performance stage/multi-functional hall that will allow youth and elders as
well as community members alike to have access for social and cultural
gatherings. The Capital Campaign is scheduled for completion by June
2001, while the Center itself will be completed by the end of 2001.
Step by step, we will be able to complete the entire building development
project as a "One-Stop" Center for the Cambodian community, offering
social, educational, cultural and economic development programs and services. And together, we will make a big difference for our community.
Once again, thank you for your continuous support and guidance. We would
like to invite you to get involved in our Capital Campaign Project so that we
can physically develop the Family and Youth Center for the Cambodian and
Southeast Asian community in Greater Lowell. If you have a chance, please
stop by for a chat and enjoy our humble exhibition of different instruments
and artworks from Cambodia. Enjoy your summer!
Sincerely,
Samkhann C. Khoeun, Executive Director
Other significant achievements worth mentioning here also are 1) a
new five-year funding from the Massachusetts Department of Education to provide Bilingual/Native Language Literacy; 2) a two-year grant
from the Freeman Foundation to continue the Project LEAD (Leami ng
English to Advancement), which is a workplace English program targeting Asian refugees and immigrants to access to education and economic opportunities; and 3) a three-year Community Technology Center funding from the Federal Department of Education to expand the
CMAA's Computer Lab/fraining Center that will be further equipped
with computer systems, multi-media capacity, and connected with DSL
Internet that will allow staff, youth, adult students and community
members alike to learn new technological skills, surf the World Wide
Web, and access the Superhighway information. The CMAA is committed to help bridge the digital divide by working closely with the
Lowell Telecommunications Corporation and the Lowell Technology
Consortium, to expand and establish between 8 - 10 computer centers
throughout the Lowell community.
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It seems like yesterday; but we are already half way into the year 2000. Time is
really flying fast and just like everything else around, we have to move along
accordingly, or else, we will be left far behind.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you and friends for supporting and
making the Khmer New Year Festival at the Tsongas Arena a big success despite
a short time spent on organizing the event itself. Of course, I did not get the
actual count, but reliable sources indicated that there were about 6,000 people
attended this event on April 8, 2000. We hope to have yet another successful
event again in April 2001.
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We have been, thus far, blessed with good board and staff members who have
been working very hard on different projects, from social services to cultural
celebrations, to hosting distinguished visitors and dignitaries, to receiving
awards and recognition . Our organization has been visited by high profile
guests such as His Excellency Eng Roland, the Ambassador of the Royal
Government of Cambodia to the United States; His Excellency Uoch Borith,
the Ambassador of the Royal Government of Cambodia to United Nations; His
Excellency Sam Ramsey, member of Parliamentary of the Royal Government
of Cambodia; His Excellency Veng Sirivuth, minister of Tourism of Cambodia;
His Excellency Thong Khon, Secretary of State of Cambodia; His Excellency
Sambo Chey, Under-secretary of state of Cambodia; Prince Norodom Sirivudh;
His Excellency John Kerry, US Senator; Maha Ghosananda, the author of
"Step-by-step" and the leader of Dhama Yeatra; Ms. Yolanda King, the daughter of Civic Right leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other important dignitaries and individuals, just to name several in the past six months .
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exciting projects, including the Lowell 's Folk Festival, which is scheduled for
July 28-30, 2000; the Southeast Asian Water Festival; which is scheduled for
August 19, 2000; the CMAA's 16th Anniversary Celebration in late October
2000; and other activities to promote our cultural heritage as well as to celebrate our community achievements.
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Clearly, we cannot achieve these milestones without your continuous support
and guidance as we are now moving forward in leading our community into
the 21" century. We still have a Jong way to go, but we are committed to
learning, listening, and serving our community the best way we possibly can.
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Once again , thank you so much for your generosity and collaboration in
helping the Cambodian American community of Greater Lowell and others.
Sincerely,
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On behalf of the committee of the Khmer Lowell Magazine, I would like to give
my respect, thanks, and love to all of Khmer Lowell Magazine supporters. There
are many of you out there who are so generous and have a good heart toward
our work-CMAA's work. We are not only honored by having your advertisement in our magazine, but some of you even go further by giving your donations
to the Khmer Lowell Magazine and, especially, to the whole CMAA organization.
Ju st to name a few at this time are Attorney At Law- Thomas Stylianos,
Superwash Laudromat- Marty Conley, and Lowell Walk In Medical CenterDr.Tamarin
The Editor,s Word
As part of life, everyone has his/her own duties to accomplish. Parents try
their best for their children's sake; civic leaders work hard to improve the
condition of their community's life; business owners think all day and night
searching for ways to bring profit in; not to be out of the living society, birds
travel thousands of miles just to fill up their tiny stomachs.
Because of a combination of the above reasons, the CMAA staff, paid or volunteers, full-time or part-time. work hard from Sunday to another Sunday without any complaint. They want to provide a good start to their next generation. They want to give prosperity to their community. They want to bring
profits to their own society, and they also want to feed themselves so they can
be alive and continue doing all of the great works. They do all of these not only
for their Cambodian community, but also for the rest of the community living
in the United Sates and outside of the country as well.
Once again, thank you to the Committee and the supporters for bringing this
Khmer Lowell Magazine to serve the community. Please, keep up with the great
work.
May you all have a very good and safe summer!!!
Margaret Tham
Editor in Chief
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ISSU E #12 July 2000
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Bunrith Lach , Acting President
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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Sayon Soeun, Acting Program Director ft Crimiool Justice C(X)(diootor
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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Prince Rollins, Instructor
ELDERLY OUTREACH ft ASSISTANCE Chanbopha Hay
CONSULTANTS - iil'itfWbl'iG~Gl.5
Daniel Bumagin, Building Development Manager
Michael Schaaf, Financial Consultant
Donald Lang ft Associates, Architect
Walsh ft Co. , Certified Public Accountant
LeMay Company, Constructor
Muckel ft Associates, Historical Building Constructor
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Vincent Bona Un, Job Developer/Case Manager
Debra Pov Ye , Job Developer/Case Manager
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Danny D. Div, Program Coordinator/Teacher
Les Chisolm, Volunteer/Tutor
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Venerable Ls, Yorn
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Pere Pen
Susanne Beaton
James C. Dragon. Esq.
Sambath Keo. D.M.D.
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Thy Erica Chey, Case Worker
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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
store.
Modern fashions designed by Jean-Timmi Lach; Photo by Rady Mom
Once again, we would like to thank the following individuals,
organizations, and companies that have made a huge difference in the turnout of the Khmer New Year Festival 2000:
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Look at that, t he food and merchandise vendors as well as the informat ion booths were com peti ng for customers and guests t o go t o thei r
respective booths. The seats were arranged in a semi-circle, the usual
arrangement for such a place. At one end of the seating was one large
stage. On t he stage was a decorated background consisting of doors
of a prasat t hat were painted by the staff and volunteers of the CMAA,
with Mr. Kim Sok Koam as the leading artist. This beautiful stage was
made even more lively by t he colorful dancing stage lights.
CMAA's New Year Celebration
Tsongas Arena on April 8, 2000
What is unusual is amazing. S
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one cannot rea lize of accomplishing is different. CMAA"s organization of t he Water Festival t o helping the City of Lowell gain the
recognition of All-America City are a couple
of things that have gotten the attention from
the community at the end of this past twentieth century. But in the beginning of this
second millennium, the CMAA has accomplished
yet another feat, that is the Khmer New Year
Festival. Doesn't the Water Festival and
Khmer New Year Festival sound like they are
related? I will leave it up to the readers to
find out what kinds of activities took place
at the Tsongas Arena.
About a week and a half before the 8th of April, 2000 , there were
rumors that there will be mishaps at the arena that would cause chaos
and insecurity, causing some people to be afraid of what may take place
at the New Year Festival. At this time, the staff of CMAA tried the best
they can to ensure safety for the community. In a short time, April 8th
arrived. Then, both staff and board members of CMAA met at the
Tsongas Arena at 9 o'clock in the morning to set up for the festivities
and make sure that everything will proceed smoothly. The police were
standing guard in just about every corner that may be considered a
dangerous place. And both the police and staff held walkie-talkies for
communication purposes.
The backstage area consisted of numerous rooms where all of the performers and artists were getting ready for their acts and shows. In
front of the stage were arranged between four and six hundred seats
for those who had purchased VIP tickets. Behind these chairs was a
place for the young
children to play
along with the accompanying music .
More people, young
and old, continued
to come into the
arena. Some saw
each other for the
first time in a long
time and stopped to
see how the other
was doing . some
walked around, looking at what was available at the booths while others bought delicious
food from the vendors to eat or searched for good seats in the arena.
At this point, I noticed there were some minor problems. That is, the
chairs infront of the stage were not set up on time causing some to not
be seated. Because of this, I would like to apologize on behalf of the
staff of the CMAA, and would like to ask for the forgiveness from those
who felt inconvenienced.
Each staff member paid attention to their own duties during the set up
process. The truck drivers such as Vincent Bona Un and Mr. Paul Yin
and I tried not to slow down the process of setting up. As for the
At the same time, boys and girls played traditional games like Chaul
Chhoung (throwing a cloth), Leak Kanseng (hiding a handkerchief or
scarf), and Tort Sey (Khmer hackey sack made with bird feathers) until
3:40 p.m. On stage, the Chhayam group beat their drums loudly so that
everyone would know the ceremony has started. Just about a minute
after, Chhayam dancers came out. In their colorful traditional costumes, the dancers dance along the sound of the drum. The combination of the chorus , the music, and the movement of the dancersshaking their body, shoulders, and their head, made the performance
very lively. The audience watched without blinking; some even forgot
to eat the popcorn that they were holding in their hands . As well,
uncles and aunts who are vendors at the booths up on the second level
no longer took notice to their customers; all they cared at that moment
was to watch the Chhayam performance.
vendors of merchandise and food , they proceeded with their booths
with smiles and laughter as things got better and more people entered
into the scene.
Events were supposed to begin at 2pm. However, they were delayed a
little because the police department and security wanted to check
that all the people who had entered the arena were clean of weapons
and any harmful items. At this time, the outside had a cheery atmosphere. Everyone approached others to see how they were doing.
"Are you OK?", 'Which state are you from?"' Some said they were from
Maine, while others said they came from New York, Rhode Island, Florida,
California, and Canada. Just a bit further, young girls and boys or
young men and women held hands, walking or sitting together with
their partners or friends in enthusiastic crowds. How appropriate of
an atmosphere to the weather outside. Young children on the other
hand were chasing each other all around , making me remember of the
time long ago when I used to do the same thing.
When the Chhayam
ended,
Samkhann
Khoeun, the Executive
Director of the CMAA,
came onstage to give
a warm welcome to the
audience. Then, he
asks four monks, the
Venerable Sao KhornKerth Sambo - Kun Sen
Socheat- and Path
Sophal , along with
Muth Song to ascend
onto the st age and do
As I was still trying to think of the old days, the doors to the arena
suddenly opened for the public at 2pm, a sign that the security crew
has finished making sure things were safe inside the arena. The people
squeezed into the doors to get in. Those who did not purchase tickets
yet went to the ticket lines while those who had tickets in their hands
went to the entrance area at the st airs to find seats. But before they
can proceed to the seating areas, they had to be checked with security wands that wou ld detect any weapons. Let"s leave the lobby area
of the arena and go to t he inside where t he activities were happening.
What kinds of things were taking place?
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a blessing for this new year. After the monks had provided the audi ence with thei r blessing, the Angkor Dance Troupe and the Friendship
Dance Troupe performed the following dances: the Blessing Dance and
Robam Phoung Neary. These in turn were followed by dignitaries' remarks, including words of welcome by Mr. Rithy Uong, Lowell's KhmerAmerican City Councilor. As for the rest of the special guests that were
on stage, one at t ime they expressed their enjoyment wholehearted ly
that they even tried to say "Suosdei Chhnam Tmey" (Happy New Year).
The exiting of the dignitaries offstage
brought the Friendship Dance Troupe
once more onstage where they performed Bopha Lokei, a dance consisting
of beautiful young girls, and a folk dance
called Robam Kaen.
After the dancers left the stage, the
Lakkaun Basaak , a type of Cambodian
Opera, was presented. The actors and
actresses performed one act that
showed a prince bidding farewell to the
hermit, his master, to be on his way to
the Royal City. The prince met his love
with the daughter of the great Yak, the
cannibalistic people who can turn into
giants. The Yak came just in time and
fought with him in a great battle until
the Yak accepted his defeat. At the beginning just the Yak's footsteps caused one side of the sky to rumble.
But when the Yak cried that he was the CMAA Yak, the audience were so
enthralled that some exclaimed that the CMAA Yak was not only just big
in size and small in heart. As for Ah-Kang, the hermit's boy, he is not big
in size for nothing. Before leaving, he applied for 551 for his master. To
conclude the one
act opera left
the
audience
with something
unusual but impressive in their
minds.
Friendship Dance Troupe waiting to perform "Bopha Lokei"
When the Basaak
Opera was over,
other performers
came on stage to
entertain
the
guests with poetry reading, an educational comic act, more traditional
dancing, and a fashion show displaying clothes from different eras and
for various occasions, until the Sava band began playing music for the
guests to dance until 11 o'clock at night, when the entire event came
to a close. But when you turn to watch the
staff of CMAA you will see that they tried very
hard to fulfill their responsibilities for the event
without end and without taking a rest. Even
when the event ended, the staff stayed in order to break down and clean up the arena until
1 am when everyone was sure everything was
in place and that there was no need to worry
anymore.
Bara Loeum in
Farmer's Clothes
Left Top Comer:
San Phanith
Above right:
Arn C.P. and
Miss Sek Sereyrath
Left Bottom:
Sophea Davit
written by Sak Seang
translated by Sophy Theam
Right:
Annie Sek in costume
for the Angkor Era
Fashion Show.
Right: Miss Sek Sereyrath
Photos by
Rady Mom
Left:
Ms. Bopha Neang
in Wedding Dress
Photos by
Rady Mom
Many thanks to the Board of Directors,
Staff members of CMAA, and Volunteers
for making this Khmer New Year
Festival 2000 a success!
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As an update for the community, Light of
Cambodian Children (LCC) is still accepting
donations to fund the Cambodian American
Scholarship Program for Khmer high school
seniors who plan to continue their education
within one year of graduation .
Sopheap Theam
womanning the LCC
info table at the
Sports Tournament
4/29/00
Light of Cambodian Children (LCC), a nonprofit and non -govern mental organization, hopes to bridge the gap betwee n
the different Khm er generations so that we can be a part of the healing
process in the aftermath of ci vil strife . LCC will build a future based on non violen ce, caring , and understanding among Cambod ian you th in the Uni ted
States as well as providing humanitarian relief for children in Cambodia.
Photo by
Sophy Theam
LCC, as part of our mi ssion statement to assist Cambodian children in Cambodia who are victims of landmine and civil strife, was able to send $300.00 to
Cambodia. Through Arn Chorn Pond , a fou nder and a member of Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development (CVCD) in Cambodia, the
$300.00 made an impa ct in the
ch ildren of the Cambodian Street
Children Assistance. The money
assisted street children in obtaining their basic needs such as food
and shelter. It also assisted in purchas ing sc hool su ppli es such as
books and book bags.
Last but not least, LCC members
would like to thank all the team s
for their participation, good sportsmanship, and volunteering efforts in the soccer tournament. We are looking
forward to seeing everyone at the Water Festival on August 19, 2000.
LCC members meet with UYCAF (United Young Cambodian Americans Foundation)
in Maryland for Khmer New Year, 4/16/00
Light of Cambod ian Children (LCC) have just recently finished the electi on
process for 2000-200 I. Announcement of the new o fficer s will be made
public at an Awards Banquet, to be scheduled for August. Please look out for
information regarding this eve nt. Aside from that, many members worked
very hard on preparations for the Upward Bound (UB) Workshop for July 4,
2000 at Umass Amherst. The committee worked intensively to research and
do a two hour presentation on Cambodian cu lture and tradition s, educating
the 80 Upward Bound Program students who range from the eighth through
the twelfth grades and who come from Lynn, MA. The workshop was a great
success! And on July l 8th, LCC wi ll present a similar workshop, but this time
on our organi zation fo r the Fall River Upward Bound students. On July 7-9,
a group of LCC members and several high schoo l age students attended the
National Landmine Conference in Washin gton D.C.
Pov Deborah Ye, Chair
Cambodian American Scholarship Program
Light of Cambodian Ch ildren
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LCC also held o ur first (hopefully it will be o ur annu al) successful Soccer
Tournament at the South Common Soccer Field in Lowell , MA. Thi s event
brought many teams together to play for the same goal which was to raise
money that will contribute to our mission. Everyone had a great time even
the organizers. Thi s experience will defi nitely be a plus for LCC members in
the future.
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poss ible through fundrai sing activities and individual in-kind donations. We
LCC members cannot reiterate enough how much we appreciate any kind of
donati on. The (2) two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) will definitely assist
Khmer student s in so me of their edu cational expenses such as books and
suppli es. We hope to increase the amount given out in the coming years.
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
Completion of the Parenting Skills Class
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conn.cction 10 the hea.lm c-.a:re system is impott:mHor the continuity of care for acute and
chronic bea1th ca:r1: checkups a1Kf treatment, p:revent.ativ·e cate, and d.e\-aelopmental
assessment. lro.migrnnt children are highly likely to Jac.k a t-.gular conoocti.on 1.0 tbe
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na1 children to rcceh·e medical care. This means that immigrant. chi!d~n ~ tess likely
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to re.cei ve timely care for acute and chronic condilioo!i-, and are unU.kel)' t.o nxciv,e
presemi:iri>,·e t.:are. M!ll1ly i.tudies have suggested that fear ofde.1>0rt.1rio11 or other
immigration-related consequences may be deterring many immig:r:un (}are.nu from
applying for Medka.id and Children.· t< H~
ealtb :Imsuronce Program.
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wdL For many of these adtlllts, lad of E.nglhib proficiency results in llmlted employnumt
· opportumti~ and evnings. This partially explai.~ why immjgrants are
disproportionately poor and much more likely than citizens to re.iy on wiges f:rom lowwage work ai5 thek primary source of incmu.e~ lmmigr.mu are more likely than citizens 10
bnve "low-w.age" jobs that na,v less than. $7.50 aft hour.
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Tbe foreign•born jX1f!nlation 3CCOWJIS for 12 percent oftl!e U.S. talx;!r f ~ (U.S.
Ccns1.JS Bureau, 1.999).
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and janitorial &.mi'. ces (U.S. Census Bureau, I999}.
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been to translate for Dean Proeung Chhieng,
one of the award recipients, who had been asked
to write up an acceptance speech. But it turned
out that his English speaking ability was great
and that he didn't need me to be up with him to
translate. Nonetheless I enjoyed the event in its
capacity and was able to translate conversations for Dean Proeung Chhieng and a very
young dancer that were both seated at the same
table. The young dancer, So Vannary Sao, came
from Siem Reap only a month ago. While he
was performing in Cambodia, he was seen by
the President of the U.S. National Ballet Association, who was thoroughly impressed with
his dancing capability. She decided to sponsor
him over to the States where he is currently put
into a dance school in New York City to learn
ballet. With him being fairly young, only about
15 years old, I can only imagine how he feels
being brought over from his family and friends,
and knowing almost no English. But he is one
lucky young man to be the chosen one among
his peers in the dance troupe back in Siem Reap.
Sitting at the table amongst such prominent individuals and hearing the President of the ACC
Board open the luncheon with words about
two Southeast Asian nations that are hardly
• An filinois Sur'i'C:Y found duu :refugee women movl.ni from welhre to work were
mentioned in the arts and culture sector, and
co.ncen.trntcd.in low-w.a.ge job'S-·33 pemml earned Jess than $6.00 per hour and 88
Cambodia being one of them, I felt proud, not
percent ea.med less tl!an $8.00 pc:!'." oonr. Oniy eight.percem oomed inore tlum $?.00
only for Dean Proeung Chhieng but for the
per hour (lllinois Refugee Social Savka Com,crtium, 1999),
people and culture of Cambodia itself for being
recognized for such a prestigious award. Dean
• Thirteen pc:rcan 'Of non--citiz:en work. ts are low wage workers who live in low-incom.e Proeung Chhieng of the faculty of choreoe
graphic arts at the Royal University of Fine
families with.,c.hildten c ~ to 4.3 per,cwt ofwru. es and 9.9 peroe.nt of black&
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Arts in Phnom Penh has been instrumental in
(U.S. Census Bomru, 1999),
the preservation and conservation of Cambodian classical dance ever since the Genocidal
• Even though onJy 51.WeD percent of all '/lrorkers are non..,cifi~s., almost 20 perce.n.t of
Khmer Rouge regime that terminated the lives
all low•W;llgC- w ~ who li. e in a low-income family ~ith children are t1on<itiz.ens
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of about 90% of the dance artists and masters
(U.S. CellSlil:S Bw:cao, l999).
of Khmer music and dance. Alongside his work
at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Mr. Chhieng has been leading artists and masters
CAMBODIAN ARTIST/SCHOLAR RECEIVES
to record the history and background of Khmer classical dance to be passed
on to the future dancers and musicians, has organized numerous perforJOHN D. ROCKEFELLER 3RD AWARD
mance tours in the United States, France, Europe, and Asia, captivating both
written by Sophy Theam
international and Cambodian audiences. In addition, he co-directs the CamOn June 5, 2000 I had the privilege to attend the John D. Rockefeller 3,d
bodian Artists Mentorship Program, is a senior consultant to the Dance
Notation Project that's funded by Japan, and serves as an advisor to H.R.H.
Award Luncheon, held at the Rainbow Room of Rockefeller Centre in New
Princess Bopha Devi , Cambodia's minister of culture. Mr. Chhieng briefs
York City. This event was organized by the Asian Cultural Council, an
the five priorities that he uses in his hopes to increase excellence in art
entity that supports cultural exchange, in the area of the performing and
achievement: "l. to stop the present erosive process of culture, 2. to safevi sual arts, between Asia and the United States. Serving both as a grantguard the Cambodian cultural heritage, 3. to restore Khmer cultural values
making foundation and a service organization for cultural exchange, the
and norms, 4. to benefit and promote the artistic creation, and 5. to diffuse
Asian Cultural Council (ACC) presents the John D. Rockefeller 3,ct Award
culture and promote international exchanges."
to an individual from Asia or the United States who has in a significant way
contributed to the understanding, practice, or study of Asian art and culture.
The other recipient of the John D. Rockefeller 3,ct Award is Dr. Nguyen Van
Each award recipient receives $25,000.00 for their professional achieveHuy, director of the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, which opened in Noment and continuation of their practices in the arts of Asia, whether it be
vember 1997 in Hanoi. A leader of ground-breaking field research projects
through international research and/or travel, and with affiliation with an
on Vietnam's highland ethnic groups, Dr. Huy worked with Vietnam's govinstitution or working individually.
ernment-run social science institutions, the Musee de )'Homme in Paris, the
French government, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Ford Foundation
In this event, I sat amongst a group of about forty-five people, consisting of
to establish and construct the museum, exhibiting various crafts traditions
ACC Board of Directors and prominent funders and supporters of Asian art
and ritual performance forms of Vietnam.
and culture, including Mr. Stephen Rockefeller. My role in the event had
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Forty ~ t of all fomp. bom persons work in lhe 1ruumfiic1Uring .apd 5.ervice
industries compared to JO pcrc.entofnauves (Fix, et.
1994).
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The Violence Reflective of Our Society
By Chath pierSath
Like other cities throu ghout Am er ica , thi s mill town, Lowe ll has its share of the violence, which is ren ective of the problem s in our large r society. Gun s
are cheap and accessible to children here. Poverty show s a wide in e9uity between people in a country where the bounty of its food can feed the world . Yet, peopl e
still go hungry everyday. Throughout the urban slum s of America, drugs and domestic violence turn the innocent into murderers. In addition, raw footage of
Hollywood movies and video games fill the minds of th ese children with heroes who destroy, bomb an d shoot peo ple for revenge.
Ameri ca's youth are easily convin ced or swayed to fill the meani ngless voi d with hate and rage. Without love and positive adult super vision to hack and guide th em
again st all th ese evil s, they w ill pi ck up a gun, and when angered, shoot out of control.
In a city of I00,000 people like Lowell, when children di e of violen ce, it is very disconcerting to people. The Cambodian commun ity has more than
its share of violence . Peopl e arc plagued with remorse and sadness of multipl e losses in addition to th e suffering and the poverty th ey experience. It is here, in
this immigrant city of mi ll s and factori es, that m other s an d fath ers gathered to raise their children fro m the war and poverty of their ho m e land. They came with o nly
a few things on their backs, neeing the refu gee cam ps, torn in so many direction s. When a you ng child di es of violence here, it is even mor e diffi cult for the parents
already mourning their earli er losses becau se they all had hope that Am erica wou ld provide them wi th t he safe refuge from the viol ence they had run fr o m.
America, as many later discover, is not the sa fe haven they had so ught. C hildren , w hen physically or emotion ally broken and neglected to their own
demi se, will seek out gangs as a way of handing together for emotional support and a sense of bel onging. They cannot stand alon e to resist viol ence or the hurt and
pain that they experi ence in their lives. Without proper physical an d psyc hological nurturing, th ey w ill run to f\ght evi l on t hei r own t er m s even w hen it m ean s
bein g evi l th emselves. In stin ctively, this is how the world works.
Growing up in thi s co untry is not easy for most Cambodian children . Their gentl e nature is divided and torn bet ween two different cultu res and their
identity is fractured. They exper ience racism. Som e live in poverty, where they are shoved into a o ne- room apartment with two or three other brother s and sist ers.
At th e age of ten , a Cambodian child is expected
to care and become responsible for other younger
siblings. If the paren ts are struggling to make
ends meets, they may neglect their children in
order to work at odd shifts . Some tim es th e
father or th e mothe r has a gambling habit to
feed. Th ere may be a history of family violen ce
and abu se in addition to other social problem s
crow ding th e children 's mind s.
A hea lthy c hild re9uires good
parenting, emotional nurturing and ca ring as
well as ongoing communication. Not every fam ily is capabl e of becom ing whol e and healthy
because diffe rent people experience the world
in different ways . Level of edu cation, culture
and how we are socialized to see and interpret
things around us determin e who we are and
w hat we become. It is not simple t o blam e ,
w hether it is the victim or the perpetrator. Ev er ything is con nected , just as we value the idea
behind the African proverb, "It takes a village to
raise a child," which implies that all of us have
the responsibility toward every child in addition to the children we raise.
The so-called 'bad child' is renective
of all of us. When a youngster commits a murder or an improper act of violence again st hi s
fellow beings, we tend to think that it is because
he is bad or the parents did not raise him right.
That is why he has become so violent. Yet,
through our labels and our prejudices, we make
that child violent, in the images w e see them to
be . We confu se them with mixed m essages of
o ur own as to what is right and wrong. There is
a lot of confu sion out there that young peopl e
face . Som e of them are living in a state of para noia, in th eir gang code of ethic and law, they
see the world as an unfriendl y place, with suspi cion, and plans of vengeance agai nst those whom
th ey perceive are against them.
When found guilty, the two boys ,
both age fifteen, will be jailed for the
rest of their lives. Four lives are
now lost . Murder is an act
of in stant pass ionate rage ,
anger, and bottled hatred.
Without adult guidance
and a positive role model,
these children are
not abl e to know
how to deal with all
ages of enemies invade their hearts and
soul s, thinking that they would be free to com mit a murder in revenge of th ei r friend's death.
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Quality childcare is oft.en -critical lQ ensuring low•lncome lrrunigrn.nt frunilies can :achieve
and maintain self•wffideru:..-y. A s welfare ~form bas .i~.ISOO efforts to move welfare
recipients into the workforce.. the cost, avIYlability, quality, and accessibility of childcare,
' ho1vc become map issues among ma:n-y :populations, i:ncludiog im.o:11gr:ants and refugees,
Childcare Cl'm play a key role in facililatin8 lhe nrlju~c.1n of new immigrant families to
I.he U.S. f'-or mnny new immigrants.. ehlldc:are serves as the :as di~ primary point of
,e11rafamH.l.a.l co11t11ct and can help ease the fatroduction to a new culture aod alleviate
oro:blems of social isol.aiion_
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ln a :ma.tional survey of fomALe adults who were interested in taking E!SL dMSC&., but
four out of every 10 ncmpartkipants ci!ed lack of child care or
triirupruiation a$ their primary barrier to parucipation (Child W dfllro League.. 2000).
no:t ct.11Tenll y ~nroUed,
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ChUdcare was an e\•en rnore s:igniiic<IDt b~meJ: for nonparticipants ·who did not re!ld
EngJisb at aU or not, well (Chlld Wd.fm-c Le!iguc, 2.000),
ln an Illinois report, 63' pc;rwot of non-working women '-1tt.d cbildc~ IQ ~ numbu
one re.a.son for why they did not work {lJJioois Refugee Social S en ·ices Consortium,.
1999).
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A Fl--oritt. Sn® trlli.vffllity stu.d.y fon:od that Spanb~ing penans puti. ipating in
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WAGES, A.orlda'.s TANF program, re_f)Ol1ed the following:
► Almost 60 percent of Spanish-speaking participants reported I.hat ohil.d can: wg oot
available when they started v;•wkio,g, compared to 18 percent of En,glish~speaking
pmicipan~.
► Fiftml pc~nt of Spanish.. & t t s reporu:d having been givan the opportunity to
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meet wilh a childcare counselor compared with 30 pemml of£°0'3lish-speaoo
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According to an Illl.nois refugee W0111en s.vrvey:
► Only two pe. cenl of W<Y.tn.ei11 ~ being happy with their cru.ld-care
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(Crew and Eyerman, l99S).
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► T~nty-one percent of working
women rely on oldct children tr;, provide childcare
.md 32 peroent rely on ~lative.s.
► Twenty•si.x pc:rccnt or working w-0m.en said they have no one to clil'C f« thclr·child
while they a.re wort:ing (D]inois Refugee Social Services Consortium, 1999),
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There is a whole world out th e re ,
which most adults do not under stand. The adults
may not have the skills or the pati ence to listen.
Th ey may be th e enemies these children see in
the world . So me are abu siv e, drug addicts, al co hol ic s , and mi sogy ni st s. The s~
people may them selv es he the
children of the adults who had
al so abu sed and negl ected
them. The cycle of h~te and
violen ce passes down from
the oppress ors to th e op pr essed. It is what we
know and learn, and they
are images of ourselves on
white h'orses toward hell.
We will never be free our
own darkn ess and the suffering we cau se each
other. Once inno cen ce is lo st it is harder to
correct or restore. The innocence of those boys
being arraigned in court has probabl y been violated many times. Th ey do not seem to have any
remorse fo r the deaths they cau sed. They are so
numbed by the despair, outrage, and se nse of
their own losses that they do not seem to care
anymore.
For tho se of us who re mem ber April 17, 1975, we know too well of
these fa ces , with gun s as th eir shields , as they
marched other s to their death. Young men fill ed
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with inh uman hate.
Their eyes showed
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Orgruiizations :s.uch as t1u:: National Orgim11.ation for Women (NOW) report that
:i.rtuni&
rruol women are particularly vo.tnerablle to domestic vio!ence sim:c language
ba.r.ri.e:rs .md fear of imnligriation authorltleS often p~v1mt these women from se~k:ing
assista.nc,e from police or victim advocates. Cllltural factors ma-y '31.so discourage tllCffl
from assertit:lg iheir legw rights, For some undocumented fi::mi!le immigrants,. ma:in.taining
the ~lationsbip with their abuliCI i~ som. times the only way they avoid deportatloo and
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re:JlUQll in the U.S.
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Sixty-one pe;roent of respcm~ m ~ lha'I the}• were sobjccted lQ woekly
pl:ryi;icaJ or emotional abuse;
► Thirty-t!ne perc~ot of te pondents reported an ioorcase of abuse with. immigration
imothc U.S.;
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Nine percent reported that abuse began with :imrnigrr1tion;
► One fifth of respo.tirlcnts :rcpormd that their spouses used.threats of deportation. of
not filin_g inunigration papers, or of withdrawing these papers as .a po'N(3' aod
eiootrol tact:k in abusive rcl.adonsbiips:; mi
► Otie foorth of respondent;s m~ that fear re!.nting to their immigration stall'.15
prevented !.heni from leavilli the abusive remtfonship (Orloff, May 1999).
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Between 1994 and April J 999 over 9,.500 birttcm;i immigran(S filed petitions under the
Violence Against W m:oo.n Aot. (VAWA Sec. 40701 8 USCA 1l S4 )..
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A 1mrVCy oom.ucted by me .l:t:nmigrant WOlllm's: Task For-ce of the Not:1hcm Califomi.a.
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Cool:ltion for lmmignml Rig:hls reve:aled that 34 perecnt of UIUDas and 25 permit of
Fillpi.nas SJtin•eyed had e;1;perienced domes.tic , •roleoee either in their country of origin;
io tlle U.S•• or both (FnmUy Viole~ Pl:ie'ven1ion Fund. 2000).
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A m:.<-mt ~ Y fouod that nearly 83 percent of baMr¢d immignum did not oon'l:a(:t
the police for help dospite J.engthy histories of domestic ..,,foJc~ {Orloff and Dave.
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passion. We would
nev e r under stand
wher e all that o ut burst of violen ce is
coming from, but it
is in a of us, the
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way our societ y
portrays it, and how
we judge children based on their externa l ex pression s. When we see others as different from
ourselves, we make excu ses for our own hatred,
our prejudices , and our in d iffer ence to each
other. All we have to do is look in sid e to find the
an swer to these probl ems of gangs and murder.
ln a su:rv,ey o:f tr.i.lt:ered immigrant women cooducted by AYUDA;
1999).
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In a ~urvey coodm:ted in San Francisco, 64 po:rcent of undocumented b.atttmJ women
said that fear of deportali.oo was the primary reason why they did not seek social
$eMCeS: (Hogeland and Rosen. l99l).
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�Upon arriving in the United States in late 1979 and early I 980's, either alone
or in decimated families, the Cambodian refugees were generally resettled in
economically disadvantaged inner city areas such as Lowell's Acre and
Highland neighborhoods. Negotiating their way amidst gangs, drugs, urban violence, inadequate housing, and poor schools, many felt they had
been transported from one war zone to another.
A Capital Campaign
The Southeast Asian Family & Youth Center
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The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) of Greater Lowell,
Inc. is in the midst of conducting a capital campaign to raise $1.5 million to
su pport the physical development of the Southeast Asian Family and Youth
Center, scheduled for completion by June 2001. When completed, the center will be able to serve as many as 5,000 individuals and family members
a year through its various social , educational, cultural, and recreational
activities.
Moreover, these refugees were among the least prepared to adapt to such an
environment. Not only were they suffering from post-traumatic stress
disorder and physical ailments which resulted from their ordeal, but they
tended to be from rural backgrounds, with little or no education, frequently
illiterate even in their own language.
These challenges continue to affect the Cambodian American community
today. According to the U.S. 1990 Census: 26% of Cambodian families in
Lowell are headed by a single mother. The average size of a Cambodian
family is 5.03 persons. Only 46% of Cambodian men and 22.6% of Cambodian women over the age of25 have completed high school. The average
per capital income for Cambodian population $6,250, and 49% of Cambodian families live below the established poverty level, constituting the second most economically disadvantaged Asian American group.
The proposed Southeast Asian Family and Youth Center will be located on
the second and third floors in the former Courier Corporation building at
165 Jackson Street in Lowell. The Courier Corporation generously donated
its former headquarters building, with over 90,000 square feet of floor
space and worth approximately one million dollars, to the CMAA in August
1997. The center will be occupying about 20,000 square feet in the unusable space of the Mills building. Therefore, the much needed works will go
into an infrastructure improvement and construction of a new service core
that will include a passenger elevator, stairway, lobby, entrance, new roof as
well as office space and a performance stage for traditional dance rehearsal,
after-school youth program activities and for community social and cultural
gatherings.
Cambodians came to Lowell to build a new life. Despite their social and
linguistic isolation, many were able to find work in Greater Lowell's factories. Factory work was ideal , as it required only technical ability or manual
labor; fluency in English might not be necessary. Cambodians got together
and built two temples -one located in North Chelmsford and one on Cambridge Street in Lowell. In 1984, the Cambodian community leaders came
together to establish the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater
Lowell , Inc., whose mission is to assist Cambodians and Southeast Asians
to achieve self-sufficiency in their newly adopted country-America, while
at the same time trying to promote and preserve their native cultural heritage.
The Family and Youth Center project has been and will be involving many
youth, families, volunteers, CMAA's staff and board members, elected
officials, governmental officials and representatives from various funding
agencies and foundations who are committed to working together over a
period of 18 months to make plans, carry out those plans to raise enough
funding, and to complete their ideal Center for the Southeast Asian American community in the Greater Lowell.
Programs and Services to be housed in the proposed
Southeast Asian Family and Youth Center
The Family and Youth Center will empower the Southeast Asian youth ,
young parents, parents, adolescents with development disabilities, and the
elders to build positive self-esteem, learn a new language and vocational
skills that would lead them to achieve self-sufficiency in their newly adopted
country-America. In addition , the center will be a pivotal point in helping
to foster and strengthen good relationships, fill the intergenerational gap
between family members and build a strong and healthy community.
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The Monorom Family Support Serv ices Program provides comprehe nsive services to families that have children with developmental disabilities. The program name came from the Khmer word " Monorom"
which means "peace or harmony", which reflects the program's origins
as a respite care services. Se rvices available include Case management,
translation, and tran sportation to assist families in accessing other services providers, cri sis intervention, coun se ling services, special education and advocacy; parent support gro up to assist parents of di sable
children in coping with the unique stresses and difficulties of caring for
children with special need s; American sign language classes for those
whose principal language is Khmer; and soc ial and recreati o nal programs for disabled children , includin g traditional Cambodian dance
troupe which integrated di sab led and non-disabled children.
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Youth Services Program offers a safe and supportive environment and
an alternative to gang involvement for the " at-risk" and gang-involved
youth between the ages of I 0-22. Program activities include peer
leadership development, Khmer language instruction, Cambodian traditional dances, music and arts classes; employment training and placement, health education and training; computer training, and homework
club; sports and recreational activities, summer camp. The youth have
been involved in numerous activities including an annual Water Festival , Khmer New Year, Lowell Folk Festival, and other special events
throughout the year. Over 400 youth are enrolled in this program.
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Young Parents Program aims at reducing welfare dependency among
young parents , ages 14 - 21 , who have not achieved a high sc hool
diploma or its equivalent. YPP espouses a model of employability development to successfully prepare an individual to obtain a job as quickly
as possib le in the primary labor market. CMAA's YPP attends to the
whole person, recogn izin g that basic educational and job specific skill s
are important to young parents in the acquisition of and advancement in
the work environment. More than 50 young parents have been enrolled
in this program.
Statement of Needs for Lowell's Cambodian-American Community
Lowell has the second largest Cambodian population in the United States,
numbering 30,000. The largest Cambodian community is in Long Beach,
California, with an estimated number of 60,000. Many of the Cambodian
residents of Lowell are refugees who fled from war-tom Cambodia and
now live in poverty in the United States.
In April 1975, the Maoist communist Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot,
evacuated the cities and systematically killed over two million people-a
quarter of the population--especially targeting the wealthy, educated, or
professional people. Doctors, nurses, clergy, teachers, business owners,
artisans, city dwellers and even those who wore glasses were singled out
for execution since they were seen as bourgeois or contaminated with Western influence.
The Khmer Rouge maintained control by mass public torture, executions,
and dismantling the social order of Cambodia. Men, women, and children
were sent to labor camps and forced to do strenuous work. Famine and
disease became epidemic while medicine and medical care were non-existent.
When the Khmer Rouge regime was overthrown in early 1979, thousands
of Cambodians fled on foot to refugee camps on the Thai border, where they
waited for up to twelve years to be resettled in a third country.
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The Elderly Outreach & Assistance offers older Cambodian Americans
transportation , family and psychological support, translation , hospital
visit, ci tizensh ip ed ucation , case manage ment , health education, emerge ncy assistance, crisis intervention, cultural and reli gious activitie,s,
exercise and recreational activities. Traditionally, elders are part of the
extended family, which provides for heir need s. As a result of the war,
the Killing Fields under the Maoist co mmuni st regime, the refugee
episode, di sruption and dislocation of families that accompanied them ,
man y elderly Cambodian refugee s do not ha ve surviving children , or
may have been unable to locate and reunite with their survi ving children or relatives. In Lowell , Cambodian senior citizens are often isolated. They often do not speak English. They have limited access to
social services because of lan guage and cultural barriers.
The Children of War Theater and Film Project is a collaboration of artists
working toward the creation of a theater piece that addresses ethnic conflict, its
effect on the world's young people,
a nd the power of compassion to
heal and inspire change. It is based
on the inspirational work of the
Children of War organization
founded by Judith Thompson and
Arn Chorn-Pond. Over the past
several yea rs, the project artists have
traveled to Cambodia; Dharamsala,
India; Zagreb, Croatia, and Sarajevo
to conduct interviews with survivors, refugees, and leaders which formed the basis of the text. The artists were
filmed by Barbara Kopple, an Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose footage will be used both in the theater piece and in her own
documentary about the behind the scenes creation of the project.
Objectives. Goals & Measurements
I.
2.
3.
4.
5.
To conduct a capital campaign with a goal of raising $1.5 million to
support toward development of the Southeast Asian Family and Youth
Center at the CMAA's headqu arter building on 165 Jackson St.
To construct a service core that includes a fire rate stair, an ADA
compliant elevator, lobbies, wheelchair lift/ramp, and an entranceway
at a point 432 feet from the East end of the building at 165 Jackson St.
To renovate and obtain occupancy permits fo r approxi mately 20,000
square feet of second and third floor space for use as the Southeast
Asian Family and Youth Center that include performance stage and
multifunction facilities.
To serve 500 at-ri sk youth, 250 children/adolescents with development disabilities and their families, and 350 elders in th e Southeast
Asian Family and Youth Center.
To provide multi-function faci lities to the Southeast Asian community
in Greater Lowell at an affordable costs serving up to 7,500 people a
year. At least 75% of the persons served in the Southeast Asian Family
and Youth Center will be low-i ncome families.
The Children of War organization
devotes itself to supporting the emotional, psyc holog ical, and spiritual
development of young leaders who
have experienced war, violence, injustice, and oppression. Many young
people growing up in these difficult
circumstances have a desire to devote themselves to social transformation. Children of War has worked
with young leaders from 22 countries, including U.S. inner cities, homele ss
shelters, Native American reservations, and farm labor camps. These youth
leaders have traveled to 60 U.S. cities and over 450 high schools to share their
stories and insights with U.S. youth, building partnerships between inner city
youth a nd international "war" survivors, utilizing their common bonds of
suffering as a doorway to a deeper joy of compassion for each other.
Key Personnel
The CMAA will use outside consultants for the capital campaign, fund
raising, legal services, building development, architectural designs, engineering, and construction of the family and youth center. In addition, CMAA
will put into good use its own management team that consists of an executive director, Mr. Samkhann C. Khoeun , who brings a history of successful
administration of community organization to CMAA; a fiscal manager, Mr.
Thirith Hut, who hold an accounting degree from Northeastern University;
a development director, Mr. Joseph Sexton, who is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and Suffolk University Law School;
plus staff members from the CMAA's Youth Services, the Monorom Family Support Services, the Elderly Outreach Progra m, the Young Parents
Program and also the youth, clients and its dedicated volunteers. Yet, the
CMAA's board of directors, wh o represents a broad variety of professions,
will bring an important array of experience and training to the CMAA's
policy-making, leadership body, and community relations and connections.
Sign of Appreciation:
Mr. Samkhann Khoeun presents
souvenirs to Children of War actors
and actresses. L-R: Lorraine
Cordeiro, Sarnkhann Khoeun,
Yolanda King, Priya Ayyar,
& Daniel Carlton
Kick-Off for Capital Campaign
Thus far, the CMAA's Youth Services Program has raised about $25,000 in gross income from the "Children of War and Theatre
Play", held on March 4, 2000 and which featured Ms. Yolanda King, the daughter of the
civic right leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The
event was the CMAA's kick-off and was made
possible by the generous contribution of the
River Arts Repertory and the Children of War
organization. The play brought several hundreds of audiences to Lowell Memorial Auditorium to support the capital campaign initiative of the youth and fam ily members.
At a time where violence touches every society and hurts our children, the Cambodian
Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc. and its proud sponsors bring to
Lowell a play about children of war-torn countries.
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Timeline for the Capital Campaign and the Family & Youth Center
Janu ary 2000
February 2000
March 4 , 2000
A pril 8, 2000
May 2000
June 2000
July 2000
August 2000
Sept - Oct
Nov 2000
Dec2000
Jan 200 1
Feb - Apri l
May 200 1
June 2001
* Planning that involved youth , family members, staff, volunteers and board members
* Prepare proposal to City of Lowell under its Consolidated Plan-CD BG
* Kick-off event with "Children of War Theatre and Film Project" at Lowell Memorial Audit orium
* Khmer New Year Festival - Tsongas Arena
* Capital C ampaign - In progress
* Capital Ca mpai gn - Ongoing
How YOU can support the CMAA Capital Campaign?
* C apital Ca mpaig n - Ongoing
* Starting new fi scal year
If you are interested in supporting the fundraising efforts for
* 4mAnnual Water Festival
* Finalizing on design and constructi o n pl ans
the development of the Southeast Asian Family and Youth
* Bidding & selecting constructing company
Center, you can send donations to:
* CMAA's 16th Anniversary Celebration,
CMAA's Capital Campaign
* Startin g on demoliti o n
* Constructi on begins
C/o Southeast Asian Family & Youth Center
* Constructi on continues &
165 Jackson Street; Lowell, MA 01852
furni shing the Family & Youth Center
* Construction co mplete
* Perm it & Occupancy
For further in fo rmation, please contact the CMAA's Executive Director, Samkhann C. Khoeun at (978) 454-4286, or Email:
skhoeun @c maal owell .org
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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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The Community Service Employment Program
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Office of Refugee Resettlement in Washington
D.C. as a program announcement
called"request for applications
for projects to provide Community Service Employment opportunit ies
for refugees w h o
have experienced
long-term difficulties
in assimilation".
As broad as this statement is, it opened many new opportunities for
the Southeast Asian population, especially the
Cambodian Community of greater Lowell. In
the first year grant the CMAA was awarded
$623.000 for refugee assistance followed by a
$ 1,500,000 grant for fi scal year 2000. The CSE
program for the first year provided the impetus
for a true set of guidelines for those affected by
unemploy ment, low levels of work readiness.
Refu gees are also affected by an inadequate suppl y of jobs for th eir skill level and some may
have been impacted by job exclusion.
The Community Service
Empl oy ment program is
sponsored by a grant
from th e Offi ce of
Refu gee Res ettl e - ·
ment. and is maintai ned by the Cambodi an Mutu al Assistance Association of Greater Lowell. In the first year, CSE
was able to service 115 clients wh o came to the
ce nter. Of these 11 5 intakes, 42 were placed in
subsidi zed empl oy men t th rough the program.
In fiscal year 2000 the CSE program increased
the outcome by placi ng 62 refugees in the CSE
program wh ile taking in over 89 new clients.
The Community Service Employment program
is now entering its third year with another$ l .5 m
continuation grant to assist additional refu gees
· with subsidized pl acement.
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Khmer language every Monday and Friday from 4-5pm and every Saturday from 9-1 I am.
Traditional music Monday to Thursday from 4-5pm.
Traditional dance every Tues ., Thurs. and Fri . from 5-6pm.
Arts and culture every Mon ., Wed., Thurs. & Fri. from 3:30-5pm.
Modern English songs and dance from Mon.-Fri. from 3:30-5pm.
From 5-7:30 or 8pm, the program provides transportation to youth
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The youth program provides education through social and historical discussions, short folk story telling, sports, employment assistance, help with finding schools, help with homework, study about strategies of leadership, lead
youths to do other Buddhist ceremonies, bring youths to perform different
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Connected to the Khmer proverb: youth are future in keeping our
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These benefits don't come by themselves! They came because of efforts of
youth staff, leadership of CMAA and funders who face many challenging
problems to provide funding for the program. But these benefits are truly not
enough. There are two other main problems that cannot be solved yet. First,
youth have not received incentives from the community (especially Khmer
community). Second, youth staff and parents have not established a good
relationship to create confidence with each other.
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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.
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the work that I used to do with the old car. 1 have to be careful with my daily
driving . I instruct the youth to understand that this car is also belong to them
so they should help to take care of it (not to break things or mess it up) . I have
noticed this instruction works very well. It is important to instruct them,
because if they do not understand about the importance of the van , it is hard
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
I would like to take this opportunity to extend our warm invitation to you and your loved ones to
attend the agency's 16 th Anniversary Celebration & Dinner Banquet to be held at Double Tree Hotel
on the 21 st of October 2000, from 7:00 PM to 12:00 mid-night. I would also like to welcome you again
to another edition of the Khmer Lowell Magazine, a quarterly publication published by the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA) of Greater Lowell, Inc. Each and every issue, we try to
share with our readers about the different activities that the CMAA has been working on and/or
planning to do in the future.
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Some important activities worth mentioning here are that the CMAA received, hosted and held meetings with a number of high
profile and dignitary guests including the Unites States Attorney General Janet Reno on September 7'h; the President of
Cambodia's National Assembly, Prince Norodom Ranariddh on September 3rd; the Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen on
September 8 th in New York; the Friends Without Borders on August 20th as well as other individuals and groups with different
important projects benefiting to the CMAA and our community. In addition, I participated in testifying on behalf of the Cambodian American communities at a Town Hall Meeting as part of the White House Initiative on Asian Pacific American Islanders
on September 18'\ just to name a few here.
I am very pleased to share with you also that we have completed the renovation of the "Metta Health Center". The word Metta
is derived from the Cambodian word for "loving kindness" which fits perfectly for this health center that will integrate both the
traditional healing and also western methods of treatment, all combined to provide a full range of health and mental health
services to cure sickness with a holistic approach touching the body, mind and spirit of any patient seeking alternative medicine.
The Metta Center will be staffed by professional bilingual and bicultural medical specialists, traditional healers and also Western
doctors, nurses and other health specialists. The Metta Center will be administered by the Lowell Community Health Center, a
nonprofit community health center agency with combined experiences of more than thirty years in providing health care services
to the Low-income community residents in Lowell area, particularly those of Southeast Asian refugee and immigrant backgrounds and also Lowell's large Hispanic community.
I am proud to say, our commitment to developing a Khmer National Arts and Cultural Center, the first of its kind outside of
Cambodia, at the CMAA's 165 Jackson Street headquarters as an integral part of the overall transformation of the former Courier
Corporation Mill building in the "One-stop" Center for social, cultural and economic development Center has been making more
headway lately. After we made presentation to His Royal Highness Norodom Ranariddh during his royal visitation to Lowell in
early September, the prince was very impressed with the CMAA's plan and His Royal Highness promised to help with Cambodian
cultural artifacts including paintings, sculptures, and other items for this Arts and Cultural Center.
Other significant contribution to the CMAA and the Lowell's Cambodian community is the gift of two long traditional racing
boats called Touk Ngor (9Fi ~), or curved boat from Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia forour Bonn Oum Touk (tHl..flfH9fi),
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or better known as the Southeast Asian Water Festival we have been organizing here in Lowell for past four years. And four
additional boats will be also donated by the Lowell's Cambodian American businesses for this event as well. These six boats will
be carefully and ritually built and made from Cambodia's virgin wood called Taki (ffi ~g Fi) strictly followed the ancient formulas
just like many traditional racing boats built in Cambodia for this kind of special occasion. Each boat is about 75 feet in length and
four feet wide and can accommodate 40-45 rowers. The boat is colorfully decorated and spiritually named to give life to the boats
to represent their village, temple, and community. For Lowell, it is our diverse community.
The CMAA and its Water Festival partners will be responsible for shipping these boats from Cambodia to Lowell, Massachusetts
for its water festival on the Merrimack River at t he Lowell National Historical Park. Of course, shipping these 75 foot-long
boats will be a big challenge for us, but we are committed to do whatever we can to get them here in perfect condition for the
races, enjoyment, and adoration.
The Boat Committee will be looking into raising enough funds to pay the cost of shipment and other related expenses in bringing
these boats from Cambodia to America. We would like to invite you to be part of this cultural exchange and preservation of this
unique Southeast Asian heritage by making contribution to the CMAA's Traditional Boat Shipment Fund. Please send your
donation to CMAA- 165 Jackson Street, Lowell, MA O1852. Please join us as we celebrate our agency's 16th Anniversary on
the 21st of October 2000 at the Double Tree Hotel. And thank you for your continuous support. Our tasks would not be possible
without your help.
Respectfully yours,
Samkhann C. Khoeun, Executive Director
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This is an exciting time to be the President of the CMAA. This month, the CMAA will celebrate its 16th year
of service to Lowell's Southeast Asian community. At times like this, we are inspired to look back over the
past, and one cannot help but be amazed by the changes and progress in Lowell's Cambodian community over
the last 16 years. Who would ever have imagined in 1984 that the year 2000 would bring a CambodianAmerican city councilor in Lowell? Who would have foreseen that Cambodian-Americans would own many
businesses, from markets to jewelry stores, to employment agencies? Who would have dreamed that there
would be Cambodian lawyers, teachers, engineers and other professionals in such numbers? Looking at the
CMAA itself, who would imagine that it would grow from a small group of people in a small office at the
dollar a year
International Institute into a multi-million
multi-service agency with its own historic
building?
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business owners, and many more wage earners and professionals, there are still many people in our community who live below the poverty level. There
are still many Cambodian-Americans who cannot speak English well enough to find work. There are still
many families experiencing pain because of conflict between parents and children. There are still many people
suffering from the trauma of many years of war and killing in Cambodia, still feeling the loss ofloved ones to
senseless violence.
In the past few months, the CMAA has begun English classes funded by the Massachusetts Department of
Education, which are open to anyone who wants to learn English. It has received a grant to begin a family
strengthening program to help families in distress through a program that will understand and respect Cambodian culture and values. CMAA has expanded its computer and soldering classes to help more people have
access to good jobs that will allow them to support themselves and their families. With the opening of the
Metta Health Center, the CMAA has made important progress in turning its mill building into a true center for
the community. We will continue to develop programs and projects to help our community become stronger
and more successful. I hope that 16 years from now, we look back on the next few years, and the projects we
are working on now, and say, "Who could have imagined that we could have accomplished that?"
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS - 5i~:5iU-.,~ffii~W5i
Bunrith Lach, President
Chuck Sart, Vice President
William Tith, Treasurer
Sokhary Chau, ABC Financial
Thomas Stylianos, Jr., Secretary, Attorney at Law
Chanrithy Uong, Lowell City Councilor
Chantha Bin, Social Worker
Mark E. Goldman
Sara Khun, Legislative Assistant, Congressman Meehan
Sarnuth S. Koam, Health Educator, LCHC
Ken Niceweiz, Farmer/ Associate Professor, Umass Amherst
Samnang Siv, Researcher
Francis Dawson, Liaison Officer for the VA
Chheang K. Ngor, Senior Administrator
ADMINISTRATION . G~n~i5~€~Gm
Samkhann C.Khoeun , Executive Director
Sothea Chiemruom , Deputy Director
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Jenny Lee , Accountant
Joseph Sexton , Development Director
Ronnie Mouth, Office Manager
Kanika Suthy, Administrative Assistant
AQUACULTURE PROJECT Danny D. Div
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CAMBODIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH 2010 - G~n~m~~ru
Sovann Kheam, Community Health Educator
CITIZENSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - G~m:~W¥fliGl.5~~
Samuel Sok, Program Coordinator
Instructors: Ang Pheng, Bunrith Sath ,
Hong Net , Van Chey
YOUTH SERVICES PROGRAM - G~nt~WW5t~
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Sayon Soeun, Acting Program Director & Crimirnl Justice Coordirntor
Arn Chorn-Pond, Coordinator of Arts & Culture
Arny Fortner, Employment & Education Coordinator
Sak Seang, Khmer & Peer Leadership Instructor
Rany Him , Traditional Dance Instructor
Phan Bin, Traditional Music Instructor
Siphann Touch, Art/ Mural Instructor
Tony Roun, Youth Advisor
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Paul Yin , Interim Director
Bora Yi, Senior Case Manager/Job Developer
Ny Ma, Understudy Case Manager
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Prince Rollins , Instructor
Holy Khut, Network Administrator
ELDERLY OUTREACH & ASSISTANCE Chanbopha Hay
VOLUNTEERS· ~nt~W~~S~
Dan McNeil
Denys Meung
Janice Porkorski
Lorraine Cordeiro
Hai Chheng Andy L. Kirn
Samuel San
Cheryl West
Ammarith Oum
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Daniel Bumagin , Building Development Manager
Michael Schaaf, Financial Consultant
Donald Lang & Associates , Architect
Walsh & Co. , Certified Public Accountant
LeMay Company, Constructor
Muckel & Associates, Historical Building Contractor
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EMPLOYMENT SERVICES PROGRAM . G~nt~Wfflimi~Gm
Margaret Lavyn Tham, Program Director
Vincent Bona Un , Job Developer/Case Manager
Debra Pov Ye, Job Developer/Case Manager
ENGLISH FOR EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM - G~ni.5G~~8nMii~G~Gl.5
Danny D. Div, Program Coordinator/Teacher
Les Chisolm, Volunteer/Tutor
KOMAR DAY CARE CENTER - G~nG~m5i~G~€ ~€
Karen Stairs, Program Director/Lead Teacher
Betty Borden, Founding Director
Neda Nou, Assistant Teacher
MONOROM FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM Brian B. Chen , Program Director
Maridy J. You, Case Worker
Thy Erica Chey, Case Worker
George Murphy, Esp., Legal Counsel
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CMAA's ADVISORY BOARD
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Michael Ben Ho
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Venerable Sao Khon
Venerable Ly Vorn
Saly Pin-Riebe
Pere Pen
Susanne Beaton
James C. Dragon, Esq.
Sambath Keo, D.M.D.
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Vanthan Un, Esq.
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Judith Dickerman -Nelson , Program Director
: atherine Martin -Loew, GED Instructor
;ak Seang, Bus Driver
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�The Editor's Word
This is the second time the Khmer Lowell
Magazine (KLM) is honored as a special publication, because it is time to celebrate the
16th anniversary of our organization.
The
main goal is to dedicate this whole issue to
our readers.
We would like to provide as
much information regarding our services to
all communities so that they can learn more
about the CMAA - as much as they like.
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As the CMAA comes up to her "sweet 16" birthday, the KLM also comes to her 4 th one.
Before 1996, this newsletter was known as the
Cambodian MAA Newsletter of Lowell. The reason we changed the name to Khmer Lowell is
just to make it short so that it is easy to
say and remember - from Cambodian to Khmer,
and just take the words MAA Newsletter out
and the word Lowell is still there.
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the meaning and purpose in serving the community are still the same.
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Light of Cambodian Children (LCC) is established on the universal concepts ofpeace, love, compassion,justice, and forgiveness.
LCC has a unique quality in that every member volunteers his or
her time. As a non-profit and non-governmental organization,
we hope to bridge the generation gap within Khmer families so
we can start the healing process in the aftermath ofcivil strife. In
addition to providing humanitarian relieffor children in Cambodia, we will build a future based on non-violence, caring, and
understanding among Khmer descendants. We believe that education is an essential part of that healing process, thus we support and strongly encourage Khmer descendants to pursue and
complete higher education.
The Great Success of MSSP at CMAA
Funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) via the
Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (MORI),
after two years of hard work, the Massachusetts Self-Sufficiency
Program (MSSP) has ended its mission very successfully.
The MSSP focuses on many important services helping refugees to reach self-sufficiency. It is the combination of two programs, the Employment Services Program for adults ~nd ~he
Youth Services Program for at risk youth. These services mclude, but are not limited to, enrollment in ESL and or native
language class, support services, employment placement, and
obtaining self-sufficiency.
In furtherance ofourmission, on August 12, 2000 Light of Cambodian Children set a new standard for reaching out to the next generation of Cambodian Americans. Light of Cambodian Children on
that Saturday night awarded two individuals two hundred fifty
($250.00) dollar scholarships that will go toward their educational
expense.
The staff has worked very hard regardless of bad time or
weather; they work
day and night, weekends and holidays, and hot or cold. They
always take turns to be with the training classes held on Tuesday
and Thursday nights and almost all day on Saturday.
Out of many deserving applicants, two were chosen to be our first
Cambodian American Scholarship LCC's Scholars. Congratulations!! The recipients were Savuth Phann and Sokunna Thay. Both
recipients are recent high school graduates from Massachu~etts.
Savuth Phann graduated from Lowell High School and he will be
attending the University of Massachusetts at Lowell in the fall,
while Sokunna Thay, a graduate of Cathedral High School will enter
her freshman year at Emerson College in September.
This unprecedented event culminated from many efforts in encouraging our youth to reach their potential as an individual. _Through
our scholarship, we will promote and encourage Cambodian youth
to set high goals for their education and to attain those goals. Light
of Cambodian Children will do our part by reaching out to our
youth to educate them as well as by serving as a motivating for~e
for our next generation. Besides celebrating our first Scholarship
Awards, LCC had a chance to recognize many individuals recognized as role models by our youth. These individuals were chosen
by nominations from youth throughout New England area.
Outreaching to the community and other community services
providers is also done without any complaint. Whenever a cultural event is held, like Cambodian New Year, Water Festival, or
Folk Festival - and mostly they fall on holidays and weekends
- the MSSP staff is always there passing out brochures or flyers to people. The staff attends as many public meetings and
trainings as possible regardless of where they are held - temples,
churches, restaurants, schools, or even on public streets. The
local public media like Lowell Telecommunications Corporation (LTC), Media One, and the Cambodian media (CLPTV,
CCN, KLTC, KCN) are the right hand of the MSSP in terms of
spreading the word about the services to the community.
Following are just some examples of successful activities of the
project. Keep in mind that there are two more months to go
before the project year is ended - so, more numbers should be
added onto each outcome. Most of the areas of the program are
outstanding in terms of reaching the goals. For the whole two
year project, the goal for enrollment is 430, and the outcome ~s
already 653; the job placement goal is 128, and the outcome 1s
312; obtaining self-sufficiency is 76, and the outcome is 122.
With our assistance, some of those employed clients even earn
more than $18.00 per hour with full benefits.
This is our first time in creating and awarding scholarship. Many of
our members are very hopeful that we can increase both the number of recipients and the dollar amount in coming years. Through
intensive, vigorous fundraising and support from individuals, Cambodian American Scholarship will definitely become a fixture of our
organization. Light of Cambodian Children will be not only a place
where our next generation get scholarship money, but another resource for Cambodian youth.
However, the main concern area in the project is to help in reducing/ terminating people from public assistance (the goal is
96, and the outcome is 45). About 100 clients who were placed in
employment by the MSSP were just one short step away from
public assistance programs such as Welfare, Mass Health, or
Food Stamp; without our help, they would be in need of these
services.
As a Chairperson for Cambodian American Scholarship, I would
like to take this opportunity to thank all the individuals, companies,
and agencies that made our scholarship possible. Thank you for
making a difference in our youths' lives. Your time and donations
go a long way for our youth.
Moreover, besides receiving needed services such as legal, education, medical, and many more for their families and them-
Deborah Pov Ye
Chairperson of Cambodian American Scholarship Committee
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selves, the MSSP clients also receive job skills training which is reaIJy in demand at
the present time. From October 1998 to July 2000, about 100 clients were enroIJed
in the computer and electronics/soldering class; 82 had been exposed to the training,
and 79 of them were awarded a certificate of achievement or perfect attendance.
Right after they finished their classes (and some were stilJ in the middle of their
training) many of them already have job offers paying from $11.00 to $15.00 per
hour.
Now, there are about 85 names on the waiting list for the next training. They
had been calJed for a screening test, just to see how much they can read and
write English; 56 showed up for the testing because some of them either moved
out of the state, got a job, or their phone was disconnected. According to the
plan, in the migdle of September 2000, another 30 to 50 clients wiIJ be enrolJed
in the next training cycle. Hopefully, in the beginning of the 200l's, in answering the need of the community in job skilJs training, more classes wiIJ be added.
Then, more students will be enrolJed and class size is reduced so that the quality of learning could be better.
While the activities of the project make the MSSP a successful program in the
state, they also elevate the status of the CMAA among private sectors, with companies ranging from manufacturing to secretarial. Through our program and especiaIJy in terms of employment services, the CMAA is one of the leading agencies
attracting many companies to seek our services while at the same time attracting
Cambodians from alJ walks of life. This in turn puts CMAA on the national map as
welJ as earning respect from local employment agencies.
Last but certainly not least, the MSSP has become a regular program in terms of
training clients regarding rules and regulations of a safe
working environment. The collaboration with the
Merrimack ValJey Project (MVP) has been as successful as the MSSP organization itself.
Therefore, on behalf of our MSSP clients, I would like to
give many
thanks to the funding provider and also to al) hard working
ESP and YSP staffs at the CMAA.
Cen9r1t11f1tlons!
MSSP-ESP Staff
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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
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August 2000
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Dec 2000
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June 200 1
* 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
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those affected by unemployment, low levels of
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afternoon snack. Our staff is made up of very dedicated
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with the educational needs of the children in their care.
The children have a variety of activities to do during
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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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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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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.
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follows:
I)- Studying Khmer language every Saturday from 9-11 am.
2)- Studying Khmer language for the summer, Monday to Friday
from 9- I Oam.
3)- Practicing traditional dance everyday from 5-7pm.
4)- Participating in selling food during the Lowell folks festival of
July 29-30, 2000.
5)- Participating in traditional dance, rap, and modem dances during the Southeast Asian Water Festival of the August 19, 2000.
Continued Education.
6)- In year 2000, seven CMAA youth successfully completed High
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It was a gloomy day when my two younger sisters and I stepped out
of the car of a friend who dropped us off in front of City Hall. It was
about noontime. There was not a sign of the sun in the sky as it was fully
cloud-covered. Nontheless, the Plaza at City Hall was bustling with
activities. There were people walking around, vendors trying to attract
customers, children with their parents and siblings, and music playing
from somewhere. This was the scene of the Lowell Folk Festival 2000.
At the CMAA booth where I spent all of my time that day were
filled with staff, members of the board and young volunteers calling out
for people to come and purchase the lemongrass-flavored beef sticks,
freshly grilled chicken wings, lomein, fried rice, crab rangoons, and egg
rolls on sale. Everything was laid out on two adjacent tables under a
tent. Just behind the servers were the treasurer of the Board, Mr. William Tith and a Youth Services Program staff, Mr. Seang Sak, who were
keeping track of the cash flow.
About ten feet away from the tent were three or four CMAA men
tending to the grill. Some had their hands burnt from the high heat of the
flam es, but all were good sports until the very end of the day. Even when
at about I :30 in the afternoon, the sky began to pour rain as if someone
was very upset and decided to drench humanity with pails and pails of
water.
I happened to enjoy rain, so while everyone was cuddling underneath the tent, I walked and ran to Sothea's van to bring back about 30
ya rds of plastic film to go around the entire tent. Lucky my hair were in
to tight braids. Otherwise I would have probably resembled a drenched
dark sheep dog!
After the plastic was put up, the servers were calling out to the
people in the rain to come in, be sheltered, and of course to have some
warm food as well. Ths worked pretty well , especially when we let our
customers stay sheltered in our tent as they were eating.
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children with disabilities and their family members. It provides
services such as case management, crisis intervention, counseling, special education advocacy, transportation, translation and
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"The field trip that was my favorite would be to the Hampton
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So thank you everyone who help and brought us to go and have a
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This past summer Monorom had organized three successful fun
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the field trips as following:
"My first field trip was going to the Hampton Beach :twas cool and
Ny gave me his clam I kept it for three days until it died and it was
fun when everybody swam and the food tasted good too. When it
was our second time going to Hampton Beach when everybody
went swimming the water was colder than our first fieldtrip. When
we went to the beach and when I swam again I swam farther than
last time. When I swam the second time then I got tired then I
wanted to catch some crabs but it as too long to walk so I went
back. I went to ask Ming Thy ifwe could play game with the ball.
Everyone wanted to play Dodgeball. We played for a long time
then we had to go home."
By Sophanny Trate
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like Hampton Beach. I like
"This was the first day of my life to go to the beach with CMAA.
It was really fun that I went to the beach with them I had fun
there. Almost every Monday I always go to the beach with CMAA.
But now were not going to the beach no more because its gonna
be school so we can't go any more. Well now I think I finish
writing this letter."
By Merry Lam
Monorom staff will keep up with good works and build
good relationship with kids with and without disabilities forever.
Hampton Beach because you can catch crabs and starfish. What I
don ' t like about Hampton Beach water, the water was salty. I like
it when the waves come because I sit down the waves come and
splash me over. In Hampton Beach there were two persons giving out the ice cream. The ice cream flavor was vanilla and it was
tasty. Hampton Beach is the best beach I ever went to."
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
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Dear fri ends!
Already we are a few weeks into the New Yea r 200 I . I hope that you and your loved ones have had
a wo nderfu l holiday season. T he yea r 2000 was a memorabl e yea r for us and we are looking forwa rd to many
more wonde rfu l things in the yea r 200 1. And welcome again to another edition of the Khmer Lowell
magazi ne, a quarterl y publi cation of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Associati on of G reater Lowell , Inc.
In early November 2000, and for the first ti me in the history of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance
Association since its inception in 1984, we we re abl e to go back and help out more than 2,000 fa mili es with
55 pounds of rice plus about $5 cash for each fa mil y who we re left devastated by the worst disastrous flood
in Cambodia. The flood had claimed ma ny people and animal li fe and had also caused tremendous damages
to their rice paddies and crops as well as other essentia l elements of Cambodia's sustenance. We thank you
so ve ry much for helping to make our humanitarian effort become a reality.
Now, back in Lowell , Massachusetts, there are sti ll many thi ngs to do to further assist many more
individual s within the Cambodian-American and the Southeast Asian community of Greater Lowell to
reach their full est potential in the Ameri can's society. There are a few new and exciting projects that we are
working on . One is the Refugee Family Strengthening Project, newly funded for two years by the federal
governmental agency known as SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), where we will be focusing
on a number of components such as helping to strengthen the relation ships within the fami ly unit, family and surrounding community,
family and domestic issues, family hea lth and mental issues, and intergenerational group. With thi s new program, we will be able to
furthe r assess and study the dynamics of the refu gee fam ily and come up with al ternative ways to help the refugee families to achieve
harmonious relationships.
Another exciting project is the Adult Basic Education, funded for five years by the Massachusetts Department of Education.
This project is designed to provide a comprehensive adult education for the refugees and immigrants from beginning to advance levels
by using the best practical Eng lish in struction taught by professiona l bi lingual teac hers and support staff.
Yet, another program is the Asian Refugee and immigrant economic and
educational opportunities, newly funded by the Freeman Foundation for the next
two years. T his program is designed to assist Cambodian and Southeast Asia n
refugees and immigrants, parti cularl y those who are already working, to further
improve their English language and computer skills so that they can advance in
their workplaces, get better paid jobs, and ultimately increase their family economic standard.
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In addition , we are receiving addi ti ona l funding to support our different
initi atives for the Youth Services Program as we ll. The State Department of Public Health awa rded a four-year funding to impl ement th e Youth Action Alliance
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Project that will be foc using on yo uth leadership development and policy the advocacy that are tobacco control related objectives.
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Furthermore, the C MAA is process of organizing the Khmer New Year
Festival 2001 . The last event at the Tsongas Arena was a big success and we are
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our Khmer New Year celebrati on. We are look ing for arti sts, arti sa ns, musicians,
and people with different talents to help make our ce lebration more appea ling and
enjoyable. So if you know of someone, or you yourselves want to participate in
different activities of the New Year Festival 200 I, pl ease do not hesitate to call
and stop by at the CMAA's headquarter.
On behalfof the Board of Directors and staff members of the C MAA , we
would like to express our sincere thanks for your continued support, guidance,
encouragement and, best of all , the memorable year 2000.
Our task of servi ng the undeserved Southeast Asian popu lati on is not
possible without you. May the New Year spirit b ring you and your loved ones good health, wealth and much happiness!
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A Letter from the President
We also received promises that
when the CMAA is ready to open
its Cambodian Arts and Cultural
museum, we will receive donations and assistance in locating
valuable and culturally significant artifacts for display. The
Cambodian Arts and Cultural
Center will become an important
part of Lowell's cultural scene,
and will help the entire city, and
its many visitors, to appreciate the
rich cultural heritage that the
Cambodian people bring with
them to this country.
As President of the Board of
Directors of the Cambodian
Mutual Assistance Association, I am proud to present
this issue of Khmer Lowell
magazine. Through this
magazine, we hope to share
with you some of the rich
cultural heritage of Lowell's
Cambodian community, and to
invite you to learn more about
the many interesting aspects of
our community and also of the
CMAA's programs and services.
During the same trip, we brought
over $2 0,000 from t he people of
G reater Lowell to help relieve the
suffering of the people affected by
the disastro us fl oods in Cambodia.
The money that was so generously
given by t he peo pl e of Grea t er
Lowell was used to purchase rice
and other necessities of life and distributed to flood victims. There
were more than 2,000 families were being assisted
with 55 pounds of rice plus abo ut $5 fo r each family.
Certainly, in the last 16 years,
CMAA has come a long way,
j ust as Lowell 's Ca mbodian
community has. As I write
this, CMAA has a staff of close
to 40 dedicated people serving
the people of Lowell. Through
the generosity of the Courier
Corpor ation, the CMAA has
its own building. In coming years, the CMAA
building will be developed into a professional and
commercial center for the entire Southeast Asian
community to be proud of.
However, as much as we enj oy our present success,
the Board of Directors and the Staff of the CMAA
have our eyes on the fu ture. If you have any
suggestions or ideas on how the CMAA can be
improved, or can change to help the community
more effectively, please write to the Board of
Directors, Cambodian M utual Assistance Association, located at 165 Jackson Street, Lowell, MA
01852.
This past Fall, I went to Cambodia, with the
Executive Director, Samkhann Khoeun. We had
many meetings with important governm ent and
NGO officials. Through our efforts, we received a
promise from the Royal Government of Cambodia
that they will donate two authentic racing boats to
the CMAA for the Water Festival. A number of
local business people have agreed to pay for the
building of additional boats. We must now meet
the challenge of raising the funds to transport
Sincerely
Bunrith Lach, President
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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
Samuth S. Koam, Health Educator, LCHC
Ken Niceweiz, Farmer I Associate Professor, Umass Amherst
Samnang Siv, Researcher
Francis Dawson, Liaison Officer for the VA
Chheang K. Ngor, Senior Administrator
Stephen Thong
ADMINISTRATION - G~n~i~e~mi
Samkhann C.Khoeun , Executive Director
Sothea Chiemruom, Deputy Director
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Jenny Lee , Accountant
Joseph Sexton, Development Director
Ronnie Mouth, Office Manager
Holy Khut, Network Administrator
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Arn Chorn -Pond, Coordinator of Arts & Culture
Amy Fortner, Employment & Education Coordinator
Sak Seang, Khmer & Peer Leadership Instructor
Rany Him, Traditional Dance Instructor
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Paul Yin, Assistant Program Director/Job Developer
Saloeun Kong, Case Manager/Recruiter
Voeun Mao, Job Counselor/Case Worker
Janice Pokorski, Skills Training Director
Ny Ma, Administrative Assistant
COMPUTER LABffRAINING Prince Rollins , Instructor
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Ret Meach, Outreach Worker
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Betty Borden, Founding Director
Neda Nou, Assistant Teacher
Lianne Lemonte, "Grammy"
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Maridy J. You, Case Worker
Thy Erica Chey, Case Worker
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Walsh & Co. , Certified Public Accountant
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Thysan Sam, Progra°m C~ordi~at"or
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The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association celebrated its sixteen-year anniversary on October 21 , 2000 at the
Doubletree Hotel. Participating Board of Directors and staff considered the event a great success. Represented at the function
were many members of our community 's non-profits and businesses. Over 350 people attended.
Highlights of the event include the H20 band, guest singers from Cambodia and speeches from representatives of city and
state governments . Mr. Bunrith Lach, Board President, congratulated staff for a job well done in the last sixteen year. Mr. Lach
came in as Board of Director two years ago and has worked diligently with the organization to improve its services and to bring
further social and economic development to the Hamilton Mill
building that the CMAA currently occupies. Supporters and allies of his endeavors include our State Senator Steven Panagiatakos
and Mayor Eileen Donoghue, who provided encouragement and
congratulations for the CMAA's roles in providing needed services to Cambodians and other minorities in the city.
Sophath Pheang, one of our star youth shared his experience as a freshman at Brandeis University. He represents the
success that the Youth Service Program is trying to achieve. The
goal is to provide cultural , social and academic enrichment activities that work to encourage more young people to go on to
college. Sophath Pheang is an exemplar to other young people.
He received a full scholarship from a special program called Transitional Year Program (TYP) to attend Brandeis.
In most Cambodian community's function, a cultural performance is an essential part. Performance at the event included
the CMAA's Friendship Dance Troupe and the Angkor Dance
Troupe to bless the celebration and to bring new hopes and wishes
for the future. Dances are a reflection of our characters, cultural
attributes and social and religious values.
In the past sixteen years, there have been many community members who have contributed to the work ofCMAA . Their
contributions, whether it is money or moral support, had made a
big difference in the way the organization has been able to reach
people who need its services. The CMAA takes the opportunity to
show its appreciation by publicly recognizing them. Community
members awarded recognition include Mr. Andrew C. Bailey, Esq .,
of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, Mr. Donald Washburn of
Massbank, Ms. Monica Am of Amara Fashion Boutique, Ms. Maly
Thai of Pailin Supermarket, Mr. Srun Sry of Battambang Market,
Mr. Samouen Lek of Asia World Enterprise, Inc., and Mr. Kanara
Loeu of Safeway Insurance Agency. CMAA thanks them for their
many contributions toward social and economic development in
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From hell and back: A Cambodian returns
One of hi s missions on the trip was to create programs with Cambodian arti sts and schools. The CMAA and other American agencies are funding art classes and other instructional projects in
Cambodia .
More than 20 years after fleeing horrors, Lowell
activist has an emotional homecoming
" We want to teach the younger generation about art and experience music or dance or puppetry," Khoeun said. "The hope is to
continue the traditions, which are more or less dying traditions."
By JASON LEFFERTS
Sun Staff
Khoeun and other CMAA offici als such as Skills Training Director Janice Pokorski visited small vill ages and schools around the
country. In some temples, they met with teachers and admini strators as they tri ed to forge new relationships.
LOWELL - More than 20 years after he left the horror of the
Khmer Rouge, Samkhann Khoeun returned to a Cambodi a very
different than the one he knew.
" We want to rai se money here and allow others to teach them,"
Pokorski said. "There's a lot of hope there, and what's happening
here will help."
The streets are full of men, women, and very often children, selling everything from silks to bracelets. Most people seem to put in
grueling hours of back-breaking work with little reward .
During their trip, Pokorski and Khoeun also coll ected arti fac ts
for a cultural and hi storical museum they pl an to create at the
CMAA's building on Jackson Street. Statues. Other items, enough
to fill more th an a halfdozen crates, are sitting in
Cambodia and waiting to
be brought to Lowell.
" It has changed tremendously. It is more complicated than I remember, and the peopl e seem to be getting poorer," Khoeun said.
"Everywhere there are signs of poverty and it seems peopl e are working
and working and working and aren't
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than $ I a day."
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and $5 fo r each family. One
U.S. doll ar is worth about
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Cambodia.
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Eve n though hi s homeland has changed significantly, the memori es of what he left still affect him.
" At least it helped them address their immediate needs," Khoeun
sa id .
" It was really emotional prior to goi ng home . I didn 't think I
would be able to face it," Khoeun said. " I was so scared. The bad
memories of the Khmer Rouge were really in my mind. I didn 't
want to be reminded of the bad time . But also, I knew I needed to
close that chapter in my mind."
In some villages, children thronged around as the group passed
out rice and money. Khoeun said the flooding devastated much of
the country, and left many families struggling to survi ve.
" It is one of the worst floods in 75 years. Sixteen out of 21 provinces in Cambodian were flooded, especially where rice patty fields
are," Khoeun said. "The damage is so incredible, it's really terrible."
While the atmosphere and the work in Cambodia have changed,
it still holds for Khoeun many of the elements of home. Once
settled in, he found many of the same comforts he knew more
than 20 years ago.
From Lowell Sun December 4, 2000
"I broke down when I was there," Khoeun said. "When I was
there I was completely at home with the sights and the smell s and
the rooster screaming at 3:30 in the morning."
Khoeun wants to preserve the traditions and hi story of Cambodia.
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�CMAA WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A
SUCCESSFUL NEW VEAR
AND EXPRESS OUR APPRECIATION TO:
ACTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
CHRIST UNITED CHURCH IN LOWELL
WOMAN'S FELLOWSHIP OF THE CHURCH
COUNTRY SIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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For hosting a Christmas Party for Komar Day Care,
Monorom Family Support
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needed families whom are
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Happy New Year and Thanks to all of the CMAA
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Cultivating and Flowering a Multi-racial
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physical attributes that we posses, such as skin colors, facial features, our ethnicity, beliefs, cultures and social norms and values.
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of many flowers. One can compare members of the human race to
a garden . With our physical features, our complexion, our mother
tongues, our value and belief system, we represent a
garden of many flowers. This is what makes us unique
and beautiful. If one only imagines a garden with only
one type of flower, it would be dull. The fa scinati on
lies, in this case, in our differences as peopl e and respecting those differences in ourselves wi ll bring us
closer together because every flower is beautiful in its
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human prejudice and racism begi n. Such fee lings will onl y destroy the beauty of our multi-racial garden. We do not want to
infect our children with vi rus of intolerance, prej udice and hatred. How we are to each other, as adults will transmit to our
children. To assure a better future for our children, we must help
our chi ldren to truly see the beauty in themselves and in others.
Diversity is a human asset that we can learn to effectively use to
our human survival.
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Like other living beings, we are part of the natural rhythm, as
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G reater Lowe ll, Inc. is in the midst of conducting a capital campaign to ra ise $ 1.5 milli on to support the ph ys ical development
of the Southeast Asian Famil y and Youth Center, sc hedul ed fo r
completion by June 200 1. When co mpl eted, the center will be
able to serve as ma ny as 5,000 indi viduals and fa mi ly me mbers
a year th rough its vari ous social, educati onal, cultu ral, and recreati onal ac ti viti es.
T he proposed Southeast As ian Famil y and Youth Center will be
located on th e seco nd and third fl oors in the for mer Couri er Corporati on building at 165 Jackson Street in Lowell. The Couri er
Corporati on ge nerously donated its form er headqu arters buil ding, with
over 90,000 squ are feet of fl oor space and worth approx imately one
mi llion doll ars, to the CMAA in August 1997. The center will be occupying about 20,000 squ are feet in the unu sabl e space of the Mills building. Therefore, the mu ch needed work will go into an infras tructure
improvement and constructi on of a new service core th at will include a
passenge r elevator, stairway, lobby, entra nce, new roof as well as o ffi ce
space and a perfo rm ance stage fo r tradit ional dance rehea rsal, a ft ersc hool youth program acti vi ties and for com munity social and cultural
ga therings.
When the Khmer Rouge regime was overth row n in early 1979, thousands of Cambodians fl ed on foot to refugee camps on the Thai border,
where they waited for up to twelve years to be resettl ed in a third country.
Upon arri ving in the United States in late 1979 and earl y I 980's, either
alone or in decimated fam ilies, the Cambod ian refugees were generall y
resett led in economi cally di sadvantaged inner city areas such as Lowell's
Acre and Hi ghl and neighborhoods. Negotiating th eir way amidst gangs,
drugs, urban violence, inadequ ate housing, and poor sc hools, many felt
they had been tra nsported from one war zone to anoth er.
The Fami ly and Youth Ce nter project has bee n and wi ll be involving
many yout h, fami lies, volunteers, C MAA's staff and board me mbers,
elected offic ials, governmental offici als and representat ives from various fund ing agencies and foundations who are co mmi tted to working
together over a peri od of 18 months to make plans, carry out those pl ans
to raise enough fu nding, and to complete their ideal Center fo r the Southeast Asian Am erican commu nity in the
G reater Lowell.
Moreover, these refugees were among the least prepared to adapt to such an
environment. Not onl y were they suffering from post-traum atic stress
di sorder and physical ailments whi ch res ulted fro m their ordeal, bu t they
tended to be from ru ral backgrounds, with
little or no edu cat ion, fre quentl y illiterate even in th eir ow n language.
The Famil y and Youth Center wi ll empower the Sout heast Asian youth , young
parents, parents, ado lescents with development di sabi lities, and the elders to buil d
positive self- esteem, learn a new language
and vocational skill s th at would lead them
to ac hi eve self- suffi ciency in thei r newl y
adopted country-A merica. In addi tion,
the ce nter wi ll be a pivotal point in helping to fos ter and strengthen good relati onships, fi ll the intergenera ti onal ga p between fa mi ly members and build a strong
and healthy co mmun ity.
These challenges co ntin ue to affec t the
Cambodian Ameri ca n co mmunity today.
According to the U. S. 1990 Census: 26%
o f Ca mb odian fa mili es in Lowell are
headed by a single mother. The average
size of a Cambodian fa mily is 5.03 persons. Onl y 46% of Cambodi an men and
22.6% of Cambodi an wo men over the age
of 25 have completed high school. The
average per capital inco me for Ca mbodi an popu lati on is $6,250 , and 49 % of
Cambodian fami li es live below the establi shed poverty level, constituting the second most eco no mic all y d isad van taged
Statement of Needs for Lowell 's Cambodian- Ameri can Community
Asian Ameri can group.
Lowell has the second largest Ca mbodi an popul ati on in the United States,
numbering 30 ,000 . The largest Cam bodian community is in Long Beach,
Cali forni a, with an estimated number o f 60 ,000. Many of the Cambodian residents of Lowell are re fu gees who fl ed from war-torn Cambodia and now li ve in poverty in the United States.
Ca mbod ians came to Lowell to bu ild a new li fe . Despite their social
and lingui stic isolati on, many were able to fi nd work in Greater Lowell's
fac tories. Factory work was ideal, as it required onl y techni cal ability
or manu al labor: fl uency in Engli sh mi ght not be necessary. Cambodi ans got togeth er and built two te mples - one located in North Chelmsford
and one on Ca mbridge Street in Lowell. In 1984, the Cambodi an community leaders ca me together to establish the Cambodian Mutu al Assistance Assoc iati on of Greater Lowell , Inc., whose mission is to assist
Ca mbodi ans and Southeast Asians to achi eve self-suffi cie ncy in their
newly adopted co untry-America, whil e at the same time tryin g to promote and preserve their nati ve cultural heritage.
In April 1975, the Maoist communist Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot,
e vac uated the cities and syste mati cally kill ed over two milli on people-a
quarter of the popul ati on--es peci ally targeting the wealthy, educated, or
profess ional people . Doctors, nurses, clergy, teachers, business owners,
arti sans, city dwellers and even those who wore glasses were singled out
for execution since they were seen as bourgeois or contaminated with Western influence.
Prog rams and Serv ices to be housed in the proposed
Southeast Asian Family and Youth Center
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The Mo norom Family Support Services Program provides comprehe nsive
se rvi ces to famili es that have c hildre n with development al disabilities. The
program name came fro m the Khmer wo rd " Mono rom" which means "peace
or ha rmony", which re flects the program 's origins as a respite care servi ces.
Services availab le include C ase manageme nt , translation, and transportatio n
to assist fa milies in access ing other services providers, c risis inte rve nti o n,
coun se ling services, special educati on and advocacy ; parent support group
to assist pa re nt s of di sabled c hildre n in copin g with the unique stresses and
di fli c ulties of caring for c hildren w ith special needs; American sig n lan g uage
classes fo r those whose principal language is Khme r; a nd soc ial a nd recreati onal programs fo r disabled c hildre n, including traditional Cambodian da nce
tro upe w hi ch integrates di sabled and no n-disabled c hildre n.
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Youth Serv ices Program offers a safe and supporti ve e nvironment
and an alternati ve to gang invo lvement fo r the " at-ri sk" and ga nginvolved yo uth between the ages of 1022. Program acti vities include peer leadership develo pment, Khmer language instructi on, Cambodian traditi onal dances,
mu sic and arts classes; empl oy me nt tra ining and placement, health educati on and
trainin g; compu ter trainin g, and ho mework club; sport s and recreati onal acti viti es, summer ca mp. The you th have been
involved in num erous activiti es including
an a nnu al Wate r Festiva l, Khm er New
Yea r, Lowell Folk Festi va l, and oth er special eve nts thro ug ho ut the year. Over 400
youth are enro lled in thi s program.
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Key Personnel
The C MAA will use outside consultants
for th e capital campaig n, fund rai sing,
legal services, building devel opment, architectural designs, engineering, and constructi on of the fa mily and youth center.
In add itio n, CMAA will put into good use
its ow n manage ment tea m that co nsists
of an execu ti ve director, Mr. Samkhann
C. Kh oeun, who brings a hi story of successful admini stration o f community organization to C MAA ; a fiscal manage r,
Mr. Thirith Hut, who holds an accounting degree from Nort heastern University; a development director, Mr.
Joseph Sexto n, who is a grad uate of the Uni versity of Massachu setts at
Lowell and Suffolk University Law School ; plus staff members from
the CMAA's Youth Services, th e Mo noro m Family Support Serv ices,
the Elderly Outreach Program, the Young Parents Program and also the
youth , clients and its dedicated volunteers. Also, the CMAA's board of
directors , w ho re present a broad variety of professions, will bring an
important array of expe ri ence and training to the CMAA's policy- makin g, leadership body, and community relati ons and connections.
Young Pare nts Program aims al red ucing welfare depende ncy among young parents, ages 14
- 2 1. w ho have not ac hieved a hi gh sc hool diplo ma or its eq ui valent. YPP
espo uses a mode l o f e mpl oyabil ity developme nt to success full y prepare an
indi vidual to obtai n a job as quickly as poss ible in the primary labor market.
C M A A's YPP atte nds to the who le person, recogni zing that basic educatio nal
and j ob specifi c skill s are import ant lo youn g parents in the acq uisiti on o f
a nd advance me nt in the work e nviro nme nt. More tha n 50 young pare nts have
been e nrolled in th is program .
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The Elde rl y Outreac h & Ass istance o ffers o lde r Cambodi a n Ame ricans transportatio n. fam il y and psychological suppo rt , tra nslat ion, hos pital visit , citi zenship educati on, case ma nagement. health education , e mergency assistance,
c ri sis inte rve ntio n. cultural and reli gio us activities, exercise and recreat ional
acti vities. Traditio nall y, elders are pa rt o f the ex tended fami ly, whic h provides fo r their need s. As a result of the war, the Killing Fields unde r the
Maoist communist regime , the re fu gee episode, di sruption a nd dislocatio n o f
fa milies that accompanied the m, ma ny elderl y Cambodian re fu gees do not
ha ve survivin g c hild re n, or may have been unable to locate and re unit e w ith
their surviving childre n or re lati ves. In Lowell , Cambodian senio r citi zens
are o ft e n isolated . They o ft e n do not speak E ngli sh. They have limited access
to social se rvices because o f la ng uage and c ultural barriers .
Ki ck-Off for Capital Campaign
Thus far, the CMAA's Youth Services Progra m has raised about $25,000
in gross inco me from the "Children of War and Theatre Pl ay", held on
March 4, 2000 and whi ch featured Ms. Yolanda King, the daughter of
th e civi c ri ght leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The event was the CMAA's
kick-off and was made possible by the ge nerous contributi on of the Ri ver
Arts Re pert ory and the C hildren of War organi zati on. The play brought
several hundreds of people to Lowell Memorial Auditorium to support
the capital ca mpaig n initi ati ve of the youth and fa mil y members.
Objec ti ves, Goal s & Meas ureme nt s
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To construct a service core that includes a fire rate stair, an ADA
compliant e leva to r, lobbi es , 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 noor space for use as the Southeast
Asi an Family and Youth Center th at include pe rfo rmance stage
and multifunction fac ilities.
To serve 500 at-ri sk youth, 250 c hildren/adolesce nts with development disabilities and their familie s, and 350 elders in the Southeast
Asi an Family and Youth Center.
To provide multi-functio n faci lities to the Southeast Asian community in Greater Lowell at an affordable cost serving up to 7,500
people a year. At least 75 % of the persons served in the Southeast
Asi an Family and Youth Center will be
low-inco me fa mili es.
To conduct a capital campaign wi th a goa l of raising $2.5 milli o n
to support to ward development of the Southeast As ian Family and
Youth Center at the C MA A's headqu arter building o n 165 Jackson
St.
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ner at the CMAA. American people always celebrate Thanksgiving on November 23 rd to remember their ancestors and the Pilgrims who came to America for their freedom . We, Cambodian
refugees and immigrants, celebrate Thanksg iving to remember
our walking of life and reflecting our past experi ences.
We, the survivors of the communi st regime, had continued our li ves through hardships to find freedom for our fa mili es.
From 1975 to the late l 990's, many Cambodians escaped from
our country to America under desperate conditions. Along the
way of escaping,
b a ndit s,
landmin es,
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seas,
starvations, and
sicknesses killed
many ofus. Fortunately, many
of us arrived at
the
United
States safely. In
thi s new country, we have
freedom and more possibilities for our li ves th an in our nati ve
country. But we are still disturbed by emotiona l and psychologi0 l confli cts. However, we are stil l thankful that we are ali ve .
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Therefore, we ce lebrate Thanksgiving to honor our past experiences so that we can keep our hope to bui ld up our bri ght future.
At the event,
our Monorom , Elderl y, Youth, BASI CS
cli e nt s and many of
th e C MAA staffs
came to celebra te the
CA MBODIAN
THANKSG I V IN G
w ith joy an d g rea t
courage. We strongly
believe that we will
have better li ves by
next year and many yea rs to come, for we have been through a lot
of diffi culti es in the past and we are doing great . We would like
to express our gratitude to St. Memorial Medical Center and Food
Bank that donated food for Cambodian Thanksgiving dinner. Also
we really appreciate El iot Chu rch for letting us use their ovens,
and thanks to the CMAA' s staffs and our friend s from different
agencies who helped us in this event. There were about 150 people,
ranging from children to elderly, showed up in the late afternoon,
and most of us felt very enthusiastic.
We fee l very grateful that all of us could work together to
make this Thanksgiving celebration happen. So, we hope to see
more people in the community come to celebrate this Thanksgiving wit h us agai n next year. We all believe that every individual is
equally important. Therefore, the more numbers of people show
up, the more fun and more peace we have.
By Janice J. Pokorski
My very first visit to Cambodia was a trip of a lifetime! My journey began in Siem Reap, which was very beautiful and relaxing.
I visited children 's orphanages, hospital s, art centers, restaurants
and I rode moto 's everywhere. I met a moto driver named Pha
that I helped understand how to read a map of Siem Reap. It took
a few minutes and we were off into the countryside. I asked him
to take me to hi s fami ly's home, which took twenty minutes from
the center of town . His family invited me in fo r a visit, they we re
so nice and happy to see me. They had no electricity, no furniture, had a few pieces of clothing, they cooked on an open fire in
front of the house, they had one pig, one cow and the children
didn't go to school. The only source of income was from Pha 's
moto dri vi ng job. Pha tell s me that he dri ves into the center everyday and looks for touri sts to drive around. He spoke enqugh
Engli sh to convince me he could take me where I wanted to go.
Pha helped me the entire time I was there.
On one of our moto drives, we were being approached by a Hugh
elephant, dri ven by a vill ager. Thi s villager had a great sense of
humor I quickly noticed. I was standing in the middl e of the road
trying to get a photo and I noticed the vill ager was making the
really big elephant chase me down. I ran the fastest that I have
ever ran in my life into a group of peopl e who were laughing
really hard at the whole scene. I grabbed onto two peopl e and we
all laughed for quite some time. You just don 't have that kind of
fun in Lowell.
It seemed like such a short time in Siem Reap and in no time we
were on the fast boat traveling on the Toni e Sap goi ng to Phnom
Penh . This ri ver was very swoll en from the recent flooding and it
was so big. Most of the time that was all you could see was water.
As we were approaching land you could see so many huts, people
in boats fi shing and the tree and mountain range we re unbeli evably beautiful. Every mil e we traveled there was someth ing differe nt to see.
As we app roached the shore at Phnom Penh there were hundreds
of people, mostly moto drivers and transportation services asking
us if we need rides. We did have some of our crew meeting us
there but I decided to take a moto. It's quicker and you see more
street life. On our route to our hotel the streets were so crowded
with travelers. The city was so busy with markets, food vendors,
school children and workers of all sorts. We got to our hotel and
everyone was so tired we called it a day.
There is so much adventure to tell you about, please check the
next issue of Khmer Lowell fo r the next chapter.
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By Thysan Sam
On November 21 , the Monorom Progra m, Elderl y, Youth
and BAS ICS Program organized a Cambodi an Thanksgiving din-
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Good-Byes
We would like to give best wishes to Pov Ye, Vincent Un, Bora Yi ,
Terry Troutt, and Sam Sok who has left CMAA to persue other
opportunities and education. We will mi ss all of you!
CMAA would like to welcome the following staff
on board:
Van Chey
Van worked as Co-Therapist for Family Continually Program
(FCP) a collaboration with DSS. As of December 2000, Van is
our new Coordinator for the Citizen Assistance Program (CAP).
She will be handling all aspect of Citizenship/ INS cases.
Thank You
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Lianne Lemonte,
or as the children call her "Grammy Lianne". She is a Foster
Grandparent from Community Teamwork Inc. She volunteers
Monday - Friday 8 a.m. to 12 noon down sta ir in our Komar
Daycare Center. All the children love her very much.
Janice Pokorski
After two years of devoting her time and effort as a volunteer,
Janice decided to join CMAA as the new Director of Skill Training in the Community Service Employment Program. She will be
the director as well as Soldering Instructor. Janice have immeasurable amount of resources and connection in the field of electronics/technical manufacturing. With her background and enthusiasms and willingness to help others, CSE, and CMAA are
very fortunate to have her. CMAA, with Janice's help will be the
destination organization for employment, job training, and placement for Cambodian community and other minorities.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Danny who received an early Christmas gift
from his wife. She gave a birth to their healthy baby boy named
Darrin Phannarith Div on Dec. 23 , 2000.
Young Parent Program
By Judith Dickerman-Nelson
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association's young
parent program is an alternative education program for young
parents ages fourteen to twenty-one. Our program is for parents
who have dropped out of school and still want to continue their
education. We offer GED education, Pre-GE D, EOSL, life skills
and job skills.
Often a young parent has problems that the average
middle school or high school student hasn't encountered. We
offer a program that addresses and understands their problems.
All of the students in our class are young parents, and they understand the unique difficulties of the young parent-student. Besides
our education component, we also focus on parenting. Here, the
students feel comfortable to discuss what it is like to have an infant or young toddler. We help each other explore issues surrounding health, nutrition, discipline etc.
The primary goal of our program is self-sufficiency; we
want the young parents to be able to care for their children and
themselves. Often, after the students receive their GED, they go
on to further education through a skills training class or college.
Most students then go on to a full-time job.
Our classroom boasts a di verse student body, and we learn
from each other about our backgrounds and culture. During the
past few months we have had many visitors to our classroom. We
had health educator address the students about the health risks of
tobacco use to themselves and their children. We even had a
student begin the process of quitting smoking as a result of that
presentation. We have support groups twice a week that are facilitated by Alternative House and Rape Crisis Center. In these
groups, they focus on issues of safety and self-esteem. We had
guest speakers from Lowell Community Health who discussed
drug and alcohol abuse. And recently, we had a career specialist
from Umass Lowell come in to talk with the students.
We feel that it is important to provide the students with a
variety of activities to keep them involved in their class. Everyone here at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association has
the young parents' best interests in their hearts . We always wish
them well. May their educations take them far.
Holy Khut
As of November, Holy became the Network Administrative for
CMAA. Holy not only kept our computer running accordingly
but kept us in tune with today 's technology. Such as the latest email network system, Internet, and many new software. Welcome
aboard!
Pitou Phat
Before accepting a position as the Youth Outreach Specialist at
CMAA, Pito had worked in many setting which were related to
children and youth. He also worked as a camp counselor for the
Future Star Camp, which was funded by Red Auerback Foundation and the City of Lowell. CMAA welcome his energy and commitment with youth and families .
Voeun Mao
We would like to congratulation Voeun on the birth of her new
baby girl Maia, who was born on July 6, 2000. Voeun worked as
an intern for the CSE program, but as of October Voeun officially
became a full time staff as Job counselor/ Caseworker for CSE.
Judith Dickerman-Nelson
We would also like to welcome back Judith to CMAA as the Director for Young Parent Program (YPP). With two hours commutes from Maine, Judith still made it here on time everyday.
Judith, with her experience in dealing with young parents, will
continue to provide support services and amongst.
Catherine M.-Leow
Catherine became a teacher in Young Parent Program since October 2000. Catherine is having a wonderful time educating and
counseling young mothers to obtain their GED and higher learning .
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Year of the Snake, 2545 BE. Also, I would 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.
At the CMAA, we have been working very hard to organize the Khmer New Year Festival 2001 to be held at the Tsongas Arena
on Saturday,April 14, 2001, starting from 2:00 to 11 :00 pm. With a theme of"Celebration of Khmer Music, Arts, Cuisine and Dance In A
New Millennium", we are featuring many different aspects of Cambodian cutural performances, from the traditonal Mohori music essemble
to modern live band, traditional dances to pop concert on stage, comedy acts and musical sets highlighting the once popular era in
Cambodia, along with food, arts/craft, and informaiton booths throughout the day for visitors to sample, purchase, and enjoy. We
anticipate between 8,000 to 10,000 people to circle throught the event on that day.
I would also like to acknowledge our sponsors and supporters such as the Fleet bank, Sovering bank, Massachusetts Culrual
Council, Lowell Cultural Council, City of Lowell, Department of Public Health, Angkor Dance and Friendship Dance Troupes, Lowell
Telecommumunications Corporation, the Merrimack Valley convention and visitor Bureau, O' Sullivann Communications, the Tsongas
Arena and many more individuals and businesses to help make this Khmer New Year Festival becoming a reality again this year for many
to enjoy.
May the Year of the Snake bring you and loved ones much happiness, good health and prosperity for many many years to come!
May Cambodia and her people find true peace prosperity.
Happy Cambodian New Year!
Samkhann C. Khoeun
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better event. We have received word that Prom Manh has
been approved for a performer's visa to come to the United
States to perform at our 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 14, 2001 at the Tsongas Arena to share in our celebration of Cambodia's rich cultural heritage. For Lowell's
Cambodians, this is an important way for us to keep our
culture alive. Forour non-Cambodian friends, this is a great
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Our Khmer Lowell Magazine is always happy to serve al 1
of you as the readers, supporters, and the community as a
whole. We love to learn new things that are beneficial to us
as a Cambodian Organization in Lowell and especially for
our young generations. In every issue, we try to include
other subjects, besides the events and programs offered at
our organization, as many as we could. The main purpose
is to provide as much information as we have to the community, local and national. Therefore, if you have any good
information you would like to share with the community,
please forward it to us.
Planning is already underway for the next Water Festival.
The government of Cambodia has donated two seventyfive foot racing boats, built in Cambodia, and local Cambodian businesses have generously donated four additional
smaller racing boats to the CMAA. We now have the challenge of raising the funds needed to transport the boats from
Cambodia to Lowell. We want this to be a true community
effort. Anyone interested in helping the effort to bring these
new boats to their new home in Lowell can contact the
CMAA at (978) 454-4286. I look forward to working
with all of you to make this year's Water Festival the best
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William Tith , Treasurer
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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
Samuth S. Koam, Health Educator, LCHC
Ken Niceweiz, Farmer I Associate Professor, Umass Amherst
Francis Dawson , Liaison Officer for the VA
Chheang K. Ngor, Senior Administrator
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Samkhann C.Khoeun , Executive Director
Sothea Chiemruom, Deputy Director
Thirith Hut, Fiscal Manager
Jenny Lee , Accountant
Joseph Sexton , Development Director
Ronnie Mouth , Office Manager I Book Keepe
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graduation ceremony, to celebrate the achievements of our dedicated students. Our graduating class consisted of students from
ESOL, citizenship, computer and soldering class. This marking term
the graduating class had 86 students combined. There were 50 from
Citizen Program, 12 from the CSE Soldering class, and 24 from the
LEAD/ABE program(24 in ESOL and Computer Classes).
We are very pleased to see the outcome of this graduation, over 100 people attended to support their family members and
friends to celebrate this joyous occasion. Aslo presents were our
members of CMAA board of director, including Bunrith Lach, Chuck
Sath, Thomas Styllinos, William Tith, Samuth Koam, and some of
the CMAA Staff and instructors.
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Happy New Year
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In FY2000. the CMAA's Young Parent program enrolled 23 students . These students were between the ages of 14 and 22; all were
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enrolled 15 students and will enroll 5 more by the end of June . The
goal of the young parent program is to improve their education and
make positive steps towards self-sufficiency. To that end, students work on ESL, Pre-GED, GED, parenting, and computer skills.
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ISSUE #15 APRIL 2001
KOMAR DAY CARE CENTER
This report info rmation cove rs the period
fro m Jul y of 2000 thro ugh February 200 I.
Since becoming director of Komar Day Care
Center on Jul y 26, 2000, many changes have
taken place. We have successful been renewed through OCCS for our li cense. Our
capacity is now at 20 children . During this
past yea r, our Komar Day Care Center has:
I )-Renewed our contract with the Department of Education/Nutrition, which allows us to
provide nutritious breakfast and snacks. We also
provide lunches from a satell ite kitchen (Head
Start).
2)-Contracted with a very well managed
transportation company that transports our
chi ldren to and fro m the day care, brings our
lunch from a sate llite kitchen at the Head Start
Program and transports our children to the park
3 days per week.
3)-Begun to use a new curriculum along with
every other preschool in the City of Lowell.
The curriculum is developmentally appropriate
for preschool children.
4)-Rearranged the classrooms to better meet the
needs of the children in our care.
5)-lnstalled new carpets for the entire Day Care
Center and new lighting.
6)-Staffwho speaks English, Cambodian, and
Spanish.
Our Center is in the process of becoming an accred ited Day Care Center through the National
Association for the Education of Young Children.
The Komar Day Care Center celebrated our 14
years of service on February 17 th . We honored
Betty Borden, the founding Director and eda
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Monorom staff have achieved a number of
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to the children and their families . Monorom
children performed traditional dances in
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T ha nksg ivi ng 2000
families applying for respite care funds in the amount ranging from
$5 00 to $ 1000 per famil y per year. Families can use this money to
hire someone to take care of their disable child once in a while when
they need to go out, or it can be used for emergency needs or
buying educational materials and clothes for their children.
During this fiscal year we had organized all day cookedout field trip two times . Once to Hampton Beach State Park and
Monorom tr ip to New
Pawtuckaway State Park in New Hampshire. The purpose of the
Hampshire State Park,
J uly 2000
trips was to bring the parents and their children together to get to
know each other, share ideas and experiences, and socializing.
We have collaborated with other CMAA Programs to organize Thanksgiving party for clients and staff. The party had
been made possible by the supports of Food Bank and St. Memorial Hospital, which donated turkeys, and varieties of can foods .
There were 50 Monorom clients and total at least 120 people from
elders, youths, parents, children with and without disabilities and
other guests who seemed to have enjoyed the slices of turkey as
well as other foods and some even went for the second round.
Monorom Christmas Party,
December 2000 Monorom organized Christmas gifts dis2000
tribution. The members of the First Congregational Church, and
the Country Side Elementary School, which is associated with
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LEAD-ABE Program
Started from July 1, 2000, the LEAD-ABE Program at the
CMAA provides four main areas of educational services to the
community as a whole, especially to the Southeast Asian population. Those four areas are English for Speakers of Other Languages
(ESOL), Computer Skills, Workplace English Leaming, and General
Educational Development (G.E.D.).
Through the LEAD-ABE Program, and with English as
the core study, we are able to make all nine classes available to all
members of our community, emp loyed and as well as unemployed.
Our students are taught through reading, writing, and speaking
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also offer field trips so that students our students are not just
learning the language, but also getting their exposure to the mainstream environment, and an opportunity to practice their English.
Also, we schedule guest speakers from the public and private sectors to speak subjects such as worker's rights, the availability of
other social services, job readiness skills, and other subject matters
that are of interests to our students
Since its inception, the LEAD-ABE program has provide
services to almost two hundred clients with our Southeast Asian
and Spanish speaki ng communities with the Greater Lowell area.
Despite of many of the challenges for our students, such as lack of
transportation and childcare , 75% of our students have continued
to attend their classes at 80% rate of attendance. Along with the
hard working, dedicated, and experienced staff, the LEAD-ABE
Program continues to grow and increases our services more community members in general.
Our LEAD-ABE Program is made available through
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CMAA'S KHMER LOWELL MAGAZINE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSA.GE
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llappy Cambodian !Yew Year-2002
Year of the llorse-2546 B.E.
The month of April is a very special month for Cambodian-American communities across the
country because April 13th through the 15th are the Cambodian New Year days of celebration. The Khmer people look forward to celebrating their Cambodian New Year in April with
all of the joy, hope and anticipation as traditional January New Year celebrations in mainstream societies.
The Cambodian New Year is a time of renewal and Cambodians celebrate the new opportunities by spring cleaning their
homes, making offerings at the pagodas and chanting with Buddhist monks. They are also known to sing songs of praise and
thankfulness as well as play traditional games, make music, and dance to welcome the new Tevoda (Guardian Angel and the
Animal Protector), which happens to be the Horse for this year.
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association's (CMAA) main activities for this New Year's celebration will be take place
at the Tsongas Arena at 300 Arcand Drive in Lowell, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 13th, from 2:00 PM to 11 :00 PM.
This year's festival begins on the actual day of the first day of the Cambodian New Year. Internationally, Cambodian communities throughout the world-from Cambodia, across the U.S. and other nations will be commence their New Year celebrations
on the same day. Those in Cambodia will celebrate for three days while Cambodians around the globe will probably choose one
day due to timing and other technical issues. Most importantly, the spirit of the New Year will be honored.
With 2002's New Year's theme "A Celebration of Khmer Arts, Music and Dance in the New Century", we are featuring
different aspects of Khmer cultural performances, form the traditional Mohory music ensemble to modem live band, traditional dances to pop concert on stage, comedy acts and musical sets, Bassack Opera, Ayai singing, fashion shows highlighting
the once popular era in Cambodia along with food, arts and craft, and information booths throughout the day for people to
sample, purchase and enjoy. Artists include those from around the country, Cambodia and local area. We anticipate between
8,000 to 10,000 people attending this event.
I would like to take this special opportunity to thanks the Manager's office of the City of Lowell, the Tsongas Arena, the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Lowell Cultural Council, Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell Telecommunications Corporation and all of the local businesses and individuals who have helped to make the 2002 Khmer New Year Festival a reality
again this year.
May the New Year Tevoda and the Year of the Horse bring you and your loved ones good health, prosperity and much
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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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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people have built around the temple grounds . People wash
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luck, long life, and happiness. The washing of the statues
also symbolizes the hope for sufficient rainfall during the next
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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
been knocked down or when the Angkunh stops in the tri-
At homes, families begin preparing for the New Year weeks before the festival. Houses are
cleaned and scrubbed thoroughly
to remove bad or unclean spirits
still lingering inside the household
and causing mischief. During the
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.
The classes are very
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This collection includes digitized issues of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.’s bilingual magazines <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em>. <br /><br />The collection is completely accessible on this site.<br /><br />View the collection finding aid for more information, <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml19" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libguides.uml.edu/uml19</a>.<br /><br />Note:<br />Additionally, digitized issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> from the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection have been added to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007 Omeka collection so that issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> may visually appear together when browsing in Omeka.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------<br /><span>SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.</span>
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Khmer Lowell, Edition 16, April 2002
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Khmer Lowell, Edition 16 April 2002, CMAA Quarterly Magazine. This magazine contains 28 pages. The topics covered include Executive Director's Message; A Message from the President; Khmer (Cambodian) New Year; Adult Basic Education Program; Young Parent Program; New Year Festival Program; Monorom Family Support Program; Monorom's Certificate of Recognition; and more.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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2002-04-16
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Khmer
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Khmer Lowell Edition 16
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Lowell, Massachusetts
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
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New Year
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writing, or tell the tenant in writing that he does not agree
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When you rent an apartment or a house, the landlord will often ask you to pay a security deposit. Asecurity deposit is an amount of money that the landlord
holds until the end of your tenancy. It is intended to
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you understand these rules, you will be protected against
a landlord who does not follow the laws.
The first rule has to do with the amount of the
security deposit. When you move into an apartment, the
landlord may ask you to pay the first month's rent, the
last month's rent, which cannot be more than the first
month's rent, a security deposit, which cannot be more
than the first month's rent, and the cost of installing a
lock and making keys. No other fees are allowed by
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per month. When you move in, the landlord can ask for
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for a security deposit, and the actual cost of a lock and
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because that is more than the first month's rent. The last
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receipt must say how much is last month's rent and how
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The CAP program was originally designed specifically to serve the needs of Southeast Asian people
who have limited English proficiency. We have expanded
the eligibility of our clients to all that fulfill the INS requirement for citizenship.
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those affected by threat ofloss of State and Federal Benefits especially the Elderly. At the present time, our clients are those who are truly interested in becoming
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N-400 Application is filled out with the clients
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project initiated in Lowell. The intention is to investigate
viability and test possibilities which will culminate in long
term operation of a successful farming enterprise.
URBAN AQUACULTURE
INITIATIVE
The City of Lowell experienced a tremendous increase
in its foreign born population during the 1980s and early
1990s. According to the US 1990 Census statistics, the
number of Asian Pacific Americans living in the city increased by nearly 450%. Cambodians accounted for
over one-half of the Asian Pacific American population.
Other groups represented in the city including Vietnamese, Laotians, Chinese and Asian Indians.
GOALS
The goals of the project are as follows:
To create jobs;
To promote sustainable economic development;
To assist minorities to become entrepreneurs;
To utilize agrarian skills with current technologies and
techniques;
To promote public, private, and university partner
ships for economic development.
When immigrants and refugees came to America, they
brought with them different cultures, religions, languages,
skills, diets and needs. Most Southeast Asian Americans came from an agrarian background and are now
facing new challenges in the work place. They have to
learn new language, skills, and how to work in a new
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FUNDING SOURCES
Funding for the project is funded by the US Department
of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA has approved
$5,000 for the initial start up. The CMAA and UMASS
are trying to get more funding from different sources.
In response to the changing needs of our communities,
the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association (CMAA)
and the University of Massachusetts Lowell are exploring a new Urban AquaCulture Initiative. The Aqua Culture Initiative would utilize agrarian skills of the people
and would provide economic development opportunities. The project will raise tilapia fish in a closed recirculating culture tank in the basement of the CMAA building. The CMAA has already agreed to serve as a major
community partner through providing space to support
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ENGAGING YOUTH IN
CITIZENSHIP ACTIVITIES
Lowell is home to the second largest Cambodian community. Out of the 30,000 Cambodians, 1000 are citizens and 300-400 are registered voters.
I.OVERVIEW
A very small percentage of this number are youth. They
are crucial people of the future.
The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of
Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA) has been helping Cambodians and other people from different countries, who
are in need, make the transition into the American culture, economy, and environment. Initially, the agency
focused on providing recent refugees with English langµage training, cultural and social adjustment, housing,
and employment assistance. Today, the CMAA, serving Lowell, operates a full range of programs for education, economic development, employment, social services, health and environmental health, and cultural awareness. Among CMAA's program activities are:
II. ISSUES FACING OUR YOUTH
Jail time - non citizens - education lack ofparent involvement - lack of
communication/education - never renew
their green card.
Culture plays a major role in citizenship
Girls feel that they are not prioritized. They are pressured by their parents to be a certain way. (Expectations
of girls are to be housewives and they are not considered keep figuring in the society; double standard because of society and culture.
1. Komar Day Care Center
2. Young Parents Program
3. ESL/Adult Education Program
Youth don't understand the importance of being a
citizen
4. After-School Youth Program
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6. Environmental Health Project
7. Elderly Assistance & Outreach Services
8. Monorom Family Support Services
9. Citizenship Assistance Program
10. "Self-Sufficiency" Employment Services
Program
11. Community Service Employment
12. Community & Economic Development
The CMAA not only serves the Cambodian population,
but also Laotian, Vietnamese, Latino, and other minority
groups in the Greater Lowell area. The CMAA is the
only social service agency within the Merrimack Valley.
It provides comprehensive assistance to low-income
Southeast Asians and other minority groups in an atmosphere where their languages and cultures are valued.
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They assume they are citizens because they have
been here for many years.
Fear of authority (INS and Police goes hand in
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• Many parents believe that:
1. Green card equals citizenship, so their children
also believe in the same.
2. Fragment in the community- no spirit
3. A Driver's License is important but citizenship
is not.
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to the youth and tell them stories. We want to show that
if the elderly can do it, so can the youth. The elderly tell
the youth about their struggles and challenges.
• Second workshop: We are using Interactive
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citizenship. We got the idea from Judge Wolfe
when he brought them into the JFK courtroom and
assigned them roles.
• Theater Project: The youth will be acting out
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Security Deposits:
What Tenants Need to Know (continued from pg 6)
statement of condition. Ifthe landlord deducts
any money for damage, he must give the tenant a list in
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statement must include copies ofbills, receipts or
estimates proving that the landlord actually spent the
amount ofmoney claimed for repairs.
3. If the lease calls for the tenant to pay for part of the
real estate taxes for the property, the landlord may deduct for unpaid taxes.
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the tenant the amount due to the tenant within 30 days
after the tenant moves out, the landlord must return the
entire security deposit to the tenant. If the landlord did
not put the money in the bank, did not transfer the money
to the new landlord, or did not pay the tenant within 30
days, a judge can order the landlord to pay the tenant
three times the amount of the security deposit, and tell
the landlord that he must pay all of the tenant's court
costs and a reasonable fee for the tenant's lawyer.
Example: The tenant moved in and paid the landlord a
$600 security deposit. The landlord did not put the money
in the bank. Ifthe tenant takes the landlord to court to
get his deposit back, the judge will order the landlord to
pay three times the deposit, or $1,800, plus whatever
fees the tenant paid the court for his case, and a reasonable fee for the tenant's lawyer.
E~ample: You rent an apartment for $600 per month,
with a $600 security deposit. When you move out, you
owe $50 in rent because one month you only paid $550.
The landlord can keep $50 from your security deposit,
and must return only $550.
Example 2: The tenant moved in and paid the landlord
E~ample 2. You rent an apartment for $600 per month,
a $600 security deposit. The tenant moved out. The
landlord did not give the tenant back his deposit, or a list
of damages with the bills and receipts. Ifthe tenant takes
th~ landlord to court to get his deposit back, the judge
will order the landlord to pay three times the deposit, or
$1,800, plus whatever fees the tenant paid the court for
his case, and a reasonable fee for the tenant's lawyer.
with a $600 security deposit. When you move out, the
landlord must spend $200 to fix things that were broken
and were not on the list you got when you moved in.
~e landlord must give you $400 from your deposit, and
a hst ofthe things he fixed, with receipts and bills for the
$200 he spent to fix them.
Example 3. You rent an apartment for $600 per month
Example 3: The tenant moved in and paid the landlord
with a $600 security deposit. When you move out, th;
landlord must spend $200 to fix things that were broken, but some ofthem were on the list you got when you
moved in. Only $100 was for fixing things not on the list.
~e landlord must give you $500 from your deposit, and
a hst of the things he fixed, with the receipts and bills.
Ifthe landlord sells the building before the tenant
moves out, the security deposit has to be transferred to
the new landlord, and the new landlord must give the
tenant a letter within 45 days stating that he has the security deposit, the name of the bank and account number
for the new bank account, and the name, address and
business phone number of the new landlord. The old
landlord continues to be responsible for the security deposit until it is transferred to the new landlord.
What if the landlord does not follow the law? If
the landlo:d does not put the security deposit in the bank,
does not give the tenant the itemized list ofdamages within
30 days after the tenant moves out, asks the tenant to
sign a lease giving up any rights under this law, doesn't
transfer the deposit to the new landlord, or doesn't pay
a $600 security deposit. The tenant moved out. The
landlor~ gave the tenant back $200 from his deposit,
but no hst of damages with the bills and receipts. If the
tenant takes the landlord to court to get his deposit back,
the judge will order the landlord to pay three times the
part of the deposit the landlord kept, or $1,200, plus
whatever fees the tenant paid the court for his case, and
a reasonable fee for the tenant's lawyer.
As you can see, the rules about security deposits are complicated. If you are a landlord, you should
have a lawyer advise you on how to set up security deposit accounts and how to keep proper records. The
cost of this advice is probably a lot less than the cost of
being sued for even one mistake. If you are a tenant,
and you have questions about whether your landlord has
handled your security deposit properly, you should speak
to a lawyer. You may be entitled to the return of your
deposit, or more.
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its annual New Year Celebration on April 9, 1999
at the beautiful historical building on 165 Jackson
St. The event was a great success and approximately 700-800 people attended the day event. In
the evening approximately 300 people attended the
Khemara Restaurant where we hosted dinner and
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created a fun filled day of activities.
The celebration began at 9:00 A.M when many city
officials, community members, board members and
CMAA staff gathered for the raising of the American
flag. This ceremony signified the official opening ofthe
CMAA building. Many city officials offered words of
kindness and generosity. Then at 9:30AM. guests were
greeted into the building and were showcased to the
many different displays that depicted the programs at
CMAA.
Thereafter, they were lead to the great hall where they
offered food to the monks. They accepted the blessing
of the New Year. Afterwards everyone was treated to a
feast of traditional Cambodian food, which I might add,
was very tasty!!!!!
Around noontime, the Chay Yam group paraded our
guests out onto the CMAA' sparking lot, where a stage
was set up for traditional dancing and a modern band.
Guests were entertained by the Friendship Dance Troupe
the performers were the CMAA' s youth group. Among
the dances were the "blessing dance" and the "coconut
dance". In between the traditional dances, the live band
entertained the crowd with "rom vong" and "ma re zone".
The day events ended with the Buddha Power and the
Next Generation cheering the audience in their rendition
of break dancing. A closing remark was given by the
Executive Director, Samkhann Khoeun. He invited everyone to join the evening celebrations at the restaurant.
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Lowell Community Charter
School
In September 2000 many of our school children
will be able to choose a different and new unique school.
Parents will be able to give their children a different form
of education that is sensitive to their unique culture.
Lowell will be among many other cities that have recognized the importance of a charter school.
In January 1999, the founding coalition of the
LCCS was awarded a charter by the State of Massachusetts to design and operate a K-8 elementary school
in Lowell, Ma. Their goal is to focus on the academic
and social needs of immigrant students and families; and
dedicated to validating and incorporating the strengths
ofhome cultures and languages within the curriculum.
The idea of this school grew out of community
meetings which brought the Southeast Asian and Latino
community members together. On several occasions last
spring, they discussed a community solution to local concerns including inter-ethnic youth violence, the breakdown of the social fabric of the family networks and
mutual support, and difficulties in community-school relations.
Their mission is to prepare a diverse cross section of Lowell's children for success as students, citizens
and workers by providing them with an ambitious academic program in a supportive and challenging,
multicultural learning environment. Their highest priority
is the promotion of academic achievement for all students in each of the areas addresseed by the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks including: English, reading & language arts, and writing; mathematics, science,
character & ethics, health & fitness, world languages,
art, and music.
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will be demonstrated in measurable terms to parents,
students and the community at large.
Their ultimate goal is to give Lowell youth an
opportunity to have a choice in which they can obtain a
better education.
WE THANK YOU
BOSTON FOUNDATION
for making
our Big Apple Circus trip possible.
The Boston Foundation kindly donated $3,200 to the
CMAA to purchase tickets for our clients to attend
the Big Apple Circus in Boston . We were able to buy
195 tickets for our clients. On three different dates
clients from the Young Parents Program, the ESL/
Adult Education Program, Monorom Program, Youth
Services Program, Citizenship Program, Elder Program and English for Employment Program went to
the Big Apple Circus. We took school buses from
The Lowell Community Charter School will place
special emphasis on the history of immigrants in America
and on the culture, language and experience ofthe Southeast Asian and Latino people who comprise a substantial portion of Lowell's present day population. The
School will actively promote discovery and creativity in
the learning process, and will integrate the use of technology into all aspects ofinstruction. There will be longer
school days and extended year. Student achievement
the CMAA to Boston. The young children and adults
thoroughly enjoyed the performance. We were entertained by the Liaoning Acrobatic Troupe, canine
capers, equestrian display and a tight-wire dancer,
the amazing budgies, a stunning rendition of Bolero
and a clown that did bungie jumping. All in all it was
very entertaining .
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�Attention Cambodian Community!!!
Did you know that family child care is a thriving home based business in the state of Massachusetts and across the country?
Family childcare providers are women that are licensed by the state to provide childcare services
for the families and children in the providers' own home.
Family child care is a professional service available to assist the efforts of working parents to
improve their families quality of life by providing quality child care services.
Each day, 10, 000 licensed family child care providers across the state ofMassachusetts provide
culturally sensitive and affordable childcare services to local families.
Licensed family child care provides many Cambodian women the opportunity to open their own
small business in their own home and earn as much as $12.00 per hour. There are also many
opportunities for professional and educational development.
Clarendon Family Day Care is a family day care agency with over 20 years experience working with
providers across the state: Licensed family child care providers working with Clarendon receive the support and
technical assistance from bilingual (Khmer/English) staff to help providers operate a successful small business.
The training and support will insure quality child care programs for the community. Clarendon invites all interested
Cambodian women, who would like to learn more about family childcare to attend a free training (Date to be
announced.)
The training program includes 6 weeks of 3 hours Saturday morning classes held at the CMAA
in Lowell. Classes will include the following:
Running a business, record keeping, taxes, and insurance
Health and safety in the day care home
Communication (working to meet the needs of children, parents, and providers)
Participating in the USDA Child Care Food Program
Developing an educational curriculum for children in family day care
Are you interested in becoming a licensed family childcare provider? The cities ofLowell and Lawrence need
many more Cambodian Providers to serve the needs of the community.
If you are interested in the training to become a Clarendon Provider please contact Angeline Lee(Cambodian
Outreach Worker) at 454-3026 Ext. 17. We are located at the CMAA building at 165 Jackson St. Lowell, MA
01852.
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held at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance
Association(CMAA) building. The conference was regarding the summer camp, known as " Future Stars Sport/
Leadership Camp." It will start its second year on Monday July 12, 1999.
At the press confrence, many main supporters
showed up to express their appreciation. Many of the
supporters of the Future Stars Sport Camp include the
following: Eileen Donahue, City ofLowell Mayor, Christine Cole, Police Community Liaison, Judge Wolf whose
son is Matt Wolf whom will be one of the main counselors of the camp. Also, the CMAA and the Future Stars
Camp was funded by the Red Auerbach Youth Foundation and the City of Lowell.
Many of the supporters believe the camp will be
a big hit and all are hoping that it will be a year round
event and not just a summer program in the future. The
camp also could take a great leap in the future, of making this first Southeast Asian camp into a camp of mixed
minorities. This would be a great idea, for it will bring
the community closer together. But right now at the
moment, many of us, especially the peer leaders who
have been counseling the camp are hoping that the limit
of 50 campers would increase because many want or
had signed over the limit already and it is pretty hard to
discharge them from the camp.
The camp will start on July 12, 1999. The hours
are from 10:00am-3:00pm. Thereisalimitof50campers. The camp will be going on for three weeks. During
the three weeks, the campers will be participating in many
sports including swimming, playing soccer, and many
other sports. They are not only building up their health
but also their leadership at the camp. There are special
guest speakers such as Michael Ortiz of the Middlesex
County Disrtict.
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Fun and Education are all in the package of this camp.
Thank you to all the supporters and many others that
helped make this camp possible.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS/ ~m~:,iijffiimW:i
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Chanrithy Uong, President
Bophany P. Beiferman, 1st Vice President
Sunny Leang, 2"d Vice President
Thomas Stylianos, Secretary
William Tith, Treasurer
Thel Sar, Assistant Treasurer
Chantha Bin
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Michael Vann
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Samkhann C.Khoeun
Pahim Kay
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Ken Niceweiz
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F. Nelson Bums
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Mark E. Goldman
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Bunrith Lach
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Sayon Soeun
outh Worker:
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outh Worker:
Elder Services Program
Lorraine Cordeiro
Tony Roun
Coordinator:
Asst. Coordinator:
Coordinator:
Pov Ye
Hong Net, Timothy Mouth
Community Service Employment
Director:
Montha Um
Community Liaison:
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Director:
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Samath Maung
Maridy You
Case Worker:
Sak Seang
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Brian B. Chen
Case Worker:
Danny Dy Div
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Samuel Sok
Monorom Family Support Program
Neda Nau
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Paul Yin
Environmental Health Project
Bora Yi
quaculture Project:
George Clark
Outreach Worker:
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Instructors: Chuck Sart, Ang Pheng, ChhorvyChhay,
Vincent Bona Un
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Asst. Coordinator:
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Sak Seang
Citizenship Assistance Program
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Samnang Mam
Young Parent Program
YPP DirectorITeacher:
Alison Gervais
YPP Assistant:
Lillian Pelletier
English for Employment Program
outheast Asian Water Festival Project:
Coordinator/Teacher:
Khan Chao
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the All-America Cities Competition!
On Saturday night June 24, 1999 at 9:30 PM Lowell
was named one of the ten All America Cities. The
CMAA was among the many delegates that attended
the competition in Philadelphia, PA. When the announcer said the words "Water Festival" we knew
that Lowell had won. Everyone hugged each other
and some people cried with joy and amazement that
we had actually won.
take notice. We are not a perfect city but we are an All
America City. Lowell is a city that is still working very
hard to improve the quality oflife for the community.
"Water is life and there is a lot to like about Lowell" and
as our theme says, "We 're in this boat together."
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We were very happy to be a part of something that was
larger than ourselves. We were part of a proud community that represented ourselves with pride and dignity.
The judges saw for the very first time in the three years
that Lowell had been a finalist, that we were really a
united group and not merely a collective community.
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They recognized our three main components in the competition; Community Policing, Joint Youth Commission
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The CMAA is now making plans for improving itself
over the next five years. Our goal is to make the CMAA
a better and stronger part of the Lowell Cambodian
community. The first part of our plan is to make a list of
The following people were part of the delegation
that the CMAA sent: Board member, Rithy Uong
and his son Ravy Uong. CMAA Executive Director, Samk.hann Khoeun. Staff members, Sak Seang,
Bora Yi, Pov Ye and Arn Chorn-Pond. The youth
from the CMAA's youth program included, Sophath
Pheang, Sarath Rem, Kon Poev, Phea Kim, Sary
Roeuth, Roeun Hak, Heng Chhay and Nora Tang.
All of those who attended were grateful and thankful for the wonderful experience.
the problems which affect the Cambodian people living in the Lowell area and to explore the causes of
these problems. Once we have a list of the problems
of our community members, and the reasons for these
problems, we can begin to create programs to help
people suffering from these problems.
We are inviting all members of the community to
participate in this project. We want to hear from as
many people as possible. Do you see a problem in
the community? Do you have an opinion about why
It was such an honor to meet the other twenty-nine
city finalists from across the United States. It was
the community has a problem? We want to hear what
you have to say! We have survey forms for anyone
a learning experience to know that we shared a
common goal of serving and improving the community. In our eyes, they are winners because they
opened their hearts and shared their cities with us.
interested to fill out.
If you want to fill out a form, please call the CMAA
at 454-4286 and ask for Joe Sexton, Development
Director, or come to the CMAA office at 1 65 Jackson
This is a great accomplishment for the CMAA and for
the city of Lowell. Our future goal is that the Nation will
Street.
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which had been injured and natured
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quite comfortable wrapping them
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rabbits? A baby falcon and chicks
complete the cute category. Sun
and box turtles contributed to the
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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.
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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
United States citizens allowed to
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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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�FAIR HOUSING
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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
impairment; or
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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
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Advertising or otherwise
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?
Continue to page 26
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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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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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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
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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
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won't ever feel alone, especially
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single mothers I've listened to," he
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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.
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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.
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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
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in the Lowell
Sun .
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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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call Andrea
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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)
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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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dolls, and various toys. The
children color, paint, cut, and paste.
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games while developing their
physical skills. Sometimes, we go
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
(508) 454-4286.
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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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love our fellow beings and to look
upon each other as equals.
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ahealthy, happy and productive
life by understanding myself, my
unique gifts and purpose in this
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myself and other people. Human
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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
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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
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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
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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
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replication of
a Water Festival
that
takes place
every year m
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In
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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.
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Senior Editor ( Khmer )
Vuthy Vann, PahimKay and Savy Suth
Senior Editor ( English )
Joe Nickerson, Judith D. Nelson and Chath pierSath
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Khmer Lowell magazine is a monthly publication of the Cambodian
Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc . (CMAA), the
Cambodian American Voter League of Lowell (CA VL), and the Khmer
Cultural Institute (KC!). We welcome your contribution. Send us your
articles, poems, short story, opinion column, political and social commentary or any kind of art work such as cartoon that you wish to be
published. All articles should be limited to 800-1200 words. Please
include your name, address and phone number. We reserve the right to
edit any materials for space. No part of Khmer Lowell may be reprinted or reproduced without our written permission. Subscription
rate for the first year (10-12 issues) is $25.00 (USA); $30.00 (Canada)
and $45 .00 for all other countries. All advertising inquiries should be
directed to Samkhann Khoeun, Vuthy Vann, or Thirith Hut. Copyright
(c) 1996 by Khmer Lowell Magazine.
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Advertising and Marketing Director
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Production Manager
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Board of Directors
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President
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]st Vice President
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2nd Vice President
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Secretary
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2nd Treasurer
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1st Annual Water Festival in Lowell
Traditional Boat Builder Recipe
Rite and Rhythm of Water Festival
Above, the Tradtional Water Festival in Cambodia when French naturalist Henri Mouhot visited in I 860
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DSS Testimony .......................................................... 7
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Our Children Need Praise & Recognition ............... 9
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Phom Penh Silenced Once Again ............................ 10
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Rites and Rhythm .................................................... 11
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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
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Volume 3, 1997 published by Ministry ofTourism, Cambodia)
When Chang'hann Hoy broke
in to two pieces, people
thoug ht it was because the
rowers were too strong. They
said the rowers paddled the
long, sleek racing boat so fast
it just split apart-the bow end
sped away from the stern, leaving one half in Siemreap and
the other half far down river
in Kompong Chhnang.
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
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crisis reached their young children in
Cranston, Rhode Island. The children
are very worried about their parents.
Phone lines in Cambodia are cut. Everything has been shut down. Phnom Penh
is silenced once again by flying bullets
and looters who trash everything and
take whatever they need home. There's
so much social and economic disparity
in Cambodia. The top ten percent are
filthy rich and the rest are at the bottom
pit of society. Due to the war and the
long history of massacre and human violence, people have learned not to trust
each other for anything. Most people
are marginalized by the loss of compassion and lawlessness. Cambodia is now
a jungle of human rage and anger.
Within this jungle there is isolation
and pain. Another CMAA staff knows
about this pain because of his own family; a sister may have ovarian cancer. She
lives in an impoverished countryside as
a widow with four little children who have
never seen the light of peace. They were
born to run from violence and the sound
of bombs and grenades exploding, the
sound of AK-47 spraying the sky, day
and night at odd hours. Every time war
comes, she has to gather her children
and run. Now that she is sick in bed, she
might have to stay put with her children
in the house; some soldiers might come
along and bum down her house. This is
how bad and lawless these soldiers are.
As a result of this lawlessness and a
belief that there is little that can be done
to help Cambodia, the humanitarian organizations are in the process of pulling
out. Also, it is likely that international
aid will dry up. The chaos in Cambodia
brings fear for people's safety: the Thai
government has loaded their people and
brought them back home, and other
countries are looking at ways to get their
people out. The Cambodian in Lowell
are in despair. Some withdraw into their
complacency. Some are angry about the
situation. Most people worry about
their family members they left behind.
Another war means a step back into the
Dark Ages. Cambodia will be isolated
again from the international community.
To survive, Cambodia needs peace. If
peace does not come, there will be no
Cambodia left for the world to visit. ■
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(Excerpt from a Magazine, Cambodia: the Legend Co mes to Life; Volume 3, 1997)
L
ong and sleek, brightly colored, with curving prows
pointing high, the fleet of racing boats looks from
the bottom of the sea to come and play in the water.
Light glints off paddles plunging in unison into the river.
Drums beat time. The arms of dancers undulate gracefully in
the bows. Along the shores of the
Tonle Sap river, crowds cheer while
ministers, ambassadors and other
dignitaries surround the King in his
pavilion. Villagers gather from far
and wide-for many, their only occasion to visit their capital- to encourage their boat to victory. It is
the Water Festival, Cambodia's biggest and most gala celebration: three
days in November when the nation
puts aside work and care, and honors the great naval warriors and accomplishments of the past. The celebration also marks a unique natural phenomenon: the changing of
the flow of the Tonle Sap, the river
and lake system which is the heart
of Cambodia. From Phnom Penh to
Siemreap, this land of water turns
into one grand party- Cambodia's
Mardi Gras.
Hundreds of longboats, propelled
by precision-trained crews, compete
for honor and glory in two-and three
boat heats along a 1,000-meter
course to the King's Pavilion in
Phnom Penh. In Siemreap, smaller
boats race in the more confined waters of Angkor Wat' s moat.
The Festival comprises three celebrations-a tribute to water, the ceremony of Ok Ambok (the
pounding of the Rice), and Sampeah Preah Khai (the full moon
Prayers).
The Pounding of the Rice stems from Buddhist mythol
ogy about a female giant who can predict the weather. Farmers
honor her power each year. The Full Moon Prayers are dedicated to the power of a rabbit that took its own life in a fire to
serve as food for a god who visited Earth as an emaciated old
man. According to Khmer mythology, the rabbit symbolizes
fidelity, justice, and honesty. Many celebrants say they can
see its form traced in the full moon by the god. As night falls
and the full moon rises, showers of fireworks light up the sky,
exploding with booms and pops that mix with cheers of awe
and hoy. Enormous balloons are "fed to the moon" and a
flotilla of"fairy boats" outlined by lights slips gracefully through
the dusk.
At midnight, flatted rice, called
ambok, b ananas and coconut
juice are offered to the moon,
which returns the thanks with a
bright smile from heaven. In a
Buddhist ceremony, a line of
candles is gingerly rotated three
times on a rod: their falling wax
reveals the future.
The Phnom Penh festival is the
largest, with more than one million people crowding the banks
of the capital's riverfront, but the
Siemreap celebration is growing
in popularity. Celebrated in the
early 1960s at Angkor Wat, presided over by King Norodom
Sihanouk, the festival was revived at the temple in 1994, with
fishing boats racing. Two years
later the boats were replaced by
special, smaller versions of classic longboats. The Siemreap festival offers spectators the splendid sight of racers competing as
dusk falls while the setting sun
transforms the towers of Angkor
Wat to radiant spires- as cicadas and birds hum in the forests.
The Water Festival commemorates an era when naval forces
fought for control of a land dominated by water, dating as far
back as the Funan era (3 rd to 6th century). King Jayavarman VII
hailed his armada's victory over a Cham fleet in 1181, a battle
vividly depicteQIOn wall carvings at the Banteay Chmar temple
in Banteay Meanchey provinces and Bayon temple in Siemreap.
During the 16th century, King Ang Chan I moved the capital to
Lovek in southern Cambodia.
Today, these and other victories are reenacted in the
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inally, the decision has been made.
There has been a lot of anticipa
tion and excitement around acquiring the
ownership of
the Cour i e r
Building
on Jack-
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where everyone in the community has a
voice and a sense of ownership in the
process. Mr. Rithy Uong kept stressing
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.
It is at this time that the final and
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Building, painting, naming, racing, and
funding the boats-which can cost
over $2,000-all of these things involve a great commitment by communities. The boat usually represents a Wat where it is stored in a
place of honor during the year-revered with incense, flowers and offerings- under an open-air rooftop
which respects the spirit guardian of
the vessel. The Whole villages typically accompany the boat to the
Water Festival to cheer it on with
great pride and honor.
The full-sized racing boat is 20 to 25
meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It
carries 40 rowers or more, plus a
Normally, five to ten people build a
boat. Producing a finished vessel
caulked with a special mixture of
resins and chopped hemp sack, can
take five months or more. Strict rules
and spirits influence the naming process which is done under consultation with elders and monks; and it is
not uncommon for a name to be born
of a dream. "Olden Garuda", "Tiger
Descending the Mountain", "Powerful White Woman", "Powerfu
Black Woman", and "Magic-eyed
Woman": many of the names resonate the female spirit of the vessel.
The building of a boat is accompanied by ceremony at each stage-
most significant feature is put in
place: the eyes. For it is the eyes,
which awake the boat's spirit and
give life to the racers.
Making a racing boat, says Sok, who
has been a boat builder since the age
of 18, takes a lot of thought, patience
and work. But look at the sleek boats
as they race past you on the river or
the moat-look at the high deer neck
at the bow and the snake's tail at the
stern, see the eyes that embody the
spirit, and the light flashing off 40
paddles, listen to the _
beat of the
rhythm, you will know the work was
well done. ■
�Lowell Community Health Center
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June 2, 1997
Dear Fellow Cambodians and Friends:
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC will be hosting an unprecedented
exhibition of Khmer Art from June 29, 1997 to September 28, 1997. This is the first and possibly
the last major exhibition of Cambodian sculpture to be shown in the United States. There will be
over 99 pieces of sculpture of Angkor and ancient Cambodia on display at the exhibit in a setting
that is uniquely designed to bring to life the splendor and richness of Khmer arts artd culture.
I wouldlike to take this once in a life time opportunity to showcase the togetherness and
support of the Cambodian-American community for this important function of great significance
and visibility to us . Your assistance and support in helping to promote the exhibition to the
community is very much needed . I also urge you and your family to make plan to attend the
exhibition. The Cambodian-American community in the greater Washington, DC metropolitan
area will provide a Khmer traditional dance and music presentation at the two main opening
functions pmviding our community with tremendous exposure at the international level. The
exhibition will also featured a publication, Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia:
Millennium of Glory, which is a 419 page catalogue with color and black and white illustrations
of every object of the show as well a comprehensive account of Cambodian history, religion, and
architecture. These types of initiatives will have an everlasting effect on our community and CNC
on-going efforts to further develop, promote, and advance the Cambodian community and people
in the United States and abroad .
I thank you for your continuou s support . If you have any questions about the exhibition
or any of the programs and/or membership with the Cambodian Network Council, please do not
hesitate to contact ~e by telephone at 202-546-9144, fax at 202-546-9147, or Email to
CNCnet@aol.com.
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The children I talked to at Rogers
School were very mature in reflecting on
the hardship and the struggles of their
parents. Although it's still hard for them
to grasp and understand everything that
their parents told them, they listen and
take their parents' lectures as their words
of love. Most children would flourish
with success with the support of a community of caring people. They include
teachers, neighbors, government officials, friends and family members to urge
and support them on and to let them
demonstrate the beauty of their customs
and their connection to their cultural
heritage. A fundraising event is sponsored and organized by these children,
with the help of teacher like Mr. Seng
Prum, to make this New Year's celebration possible.
Another teacher is Mr. Thy Oeur,
who came to the U.S. in 1982 as an orphan under the Lutheran Service as an
unaccompanied minor. He was one
among thousands of Cambodian orphans brought to the New England area,
and who have succeeded in life in spite
diced," one said. "Love not hate," another said sort of like the 60's motto "Make love not war." "Don't do drugs,
and follow Nancy Reagan's "Just say
no" advice. "Don't join gangs, go to
school everyday to make your parents
proud, get along with others and stay
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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
508-454-4286. ■
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know that they are valued as a human
being.
The bi-lingual teachers at Rogers
School have been an important link to
these children's learning motivation.
These few Khmer teachers are working
hard to provide models of good behavior, and they are determined to pass on
Cambodian traditions and values to their
students. They don't want them to forget their roots and where their parents
are coming from. One of these Khmer
teachers is Mr. Seng Prum. He teaches
math, science and Khmer literature to
fifth graders. He addresses his students
as his children. Mr. Prum works very
hard every year to organize a New Year's
celebration, at which the children dance,
of the various difficulties he faced in his
process of social, physical and psychological adjustment to this country. He
now teaches math and science, and he
gives a lot of his -time to tutoring students who need it.
A few months ago, Rogers hired a
new guidance counselor, Mr. Hai Cheng,
who was also, one of the Cambodian
orphans came as an unaccompanied minor and placed in a foster family in
Amherst. In his foster family, he's the
first to have a Master's degree.
When asked what they would like to
advise other young people to do, the
students at Rogers Middle School all
had good advice and good intentions
for the next generation. "Don't be preju-
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
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he end of the Khmer
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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bodians do
not like to talk about the past. In fact,
there's no mention of the Khmer
Rouge in the current school curriculum in Cambodia. Unfortunately, this
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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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Theodore Edson Parker Foundation, Lowell Cultural Council, Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, UMass Lowell Center for Family, Work, and Community, City of
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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
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the standing rowers, the second wave of any sea-born attack:
all storming towards victory.
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home, which in fact didn't allow us
to meet any of the above factors.
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is to support and strengthen families,
keeping families together whenever
possible. DSS provides a full range
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counseling, day care, and parent
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area. When a child needs a foster
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found. We try to place children in
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the teenagers waiting to be placed.
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night. They might have just had a
tough time in court, may be the court
ordered them into a foster home,
they have no idea where they will
end up. An even tougher situation is
that we might only be able to get them
a foster home for one night on an
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Speak: an interview
with Sara Im and
Chantha Bin.
Cath pierSath and Joachim
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C ara Im,
Ul rather
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and soft
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articulate
woman,
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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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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mother. The mother can't forget.
parents she found that they trust and
She had difficulty relating to her
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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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will sleep that night. This is totally
unfair to any child, but this is reality.
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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
part of an ancestry that was gentle
he Department, statewide is try
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within the next year. The Lowell
feel proud and relieved of self-conoffice has a target number of 48 new
demnation and shame.
foster homes. We do not ask people
At the moment Chantha is workto have a large home or to take large
ing with the school system as a comnumbers ofchildren into their homes.
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If you have room for one child, this
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children and caring for the home.
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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.
Those who danced pumped their
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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Chath pierSat/,
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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There are hundreds of foreign
cigarettes in Cambodia. One cannot
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
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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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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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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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States. They have congregated here
system doesn't work properly. The
work. However, the building was
since the early 1980s.
never purchased.
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The Cambodians brought a
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unique cultural heritage to the city
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utilized both as an office and as a
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many centers within a center. The
board and the executive director
alive. The newly elected board
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the former St. Joseph High School
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possibility. Each staff has already
located on 760 Merrimack street.
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begun to design their office and
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for $50,000.
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programs. These rooms include a
The city government of Lowell
real estate building is located at 165
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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
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Lowell.
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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
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Music, Dances, Games
Stories, Fortune Telling
Food and Crafts.
Boat Races End - Award Ceremony
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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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Linda K. Carlisle, Commissi~ner
Department of Social Services
(House Ways and Means Committee Hearing)
February 25, 1997
G
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and members of the committee.
I am pleased to be here today as we
begin the next budget cycle. This
hearing is an opportunity for me to
update you on the significant progress
we continue to make at the Department of Social Services. I also view
this as an important opportunity to ask
you to join with the Governor and the
Department as Massachusetts continues to chart new territory in child
welfare nationally, and help me prepare the agency to meet the demands
and challenges confronting the children and families of the Commonwealth into the next century.
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our years ago I spoke before this
committee for the first time as the
new commissioner at DSS charged
with the enormous task of restructuring the agency, restoring credibility and moving the Department forward. At that time I referred to the
agency as the Humpty Dumpty of
state government; it had fallen off the
wall and shattered into a hundred
pieces. The agency and its staff were
at rock bottom. But I had the best
gift a new commissioner could have:
the recommendations of the Foster
Care Commission ably chaired by Attorney Gael Maghony. That document
has guided much of our work for the
last four years.
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Lresentatives and senators, as well
as members of the administration, met
for several months to develop a consensus around additional changes and
funding for DSS, particularly focused
on foster care and new options for
out-of-home placement. We have
been diligent in our efforts to achieve
those bi-partisan goals, all of which
are consistent with the recommendations of the Foster Care Commission.
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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.
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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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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
Cambodians there resembled the Cambodians of today, when allowance is
made for Chinese and Vietnamese influences on the race.
It is thought the prehistoric
peoples of Cambodia were mainly fish
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descendants who lived
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figure prominently in those times.
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fortified villages, laid out in circular
fashion, sharing them with domesticated pigs and water buffalo. Rice
and root crops were grown.
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early Cambodian history, although it
is not known how the process was
triggered or operated at different
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theon, meters for poetry, a social hierarchy system that differed from
caste, and fresh perspectives on everything from politics to architecture
and aesthetics. As academic David P.
chandler describes it in A History of
Cambodia: "Without India, Angkor
would never have been built, yet
Angkor was never an Indian city, any
more than medieval Paris was a Roman one."
The first few centuries AD in Cambodi a are known almost entirely from
the accounts of Chinese historiansthat is from the first century to the
middle of the sixth century. The late
eminent historian Geoge Coedes described the Cambodia of this time as
the center of a Hinduised kingdom
which controlled a large part of the
peninsula and which the Chinese called
"Funan". This word was a transcription of the Khmer phnom, meaning
mountain, according to Coedes. "The
title of these kings was significant,
'kings of the mountain', and it was
after this title that the Chinese named
the country."
More recently, historians such as
Chandler and Paul Wheatley have suggested there is stronger evidence that
the site of "Funan" was in fact a cult
site rather than a major unified kingdom. While it is possible that
chiefdoms in Cambodia occasionally
banded together and called themselves
a kingdom so as to send tributary
goods to China, Chandler says: It is
possible that Funan was thought to
be a major kingdom because the Chinese wanted it to be one and later because French scholars were eager to
find a predecessor for the highly centralized kingdom of Angkor, which developed in the ninth century."
One of the real achievements of
the so-called Funan era is said to have
been systematic irrigation. Buddhism
from India also flourished during this
time, and many of the Chinese sources
describe commodities of trade, local
custom and centralization. In the seventh and eight centuries AD, coastal
trading
states like
Fun an
dwindled
or changed
into settlements further inland,
w hi Ch
Chandler
says were
known in
the Cambodian
case by the
collective
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of these
kingdoms
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wet-rice
agriculture
and manpower mobilization,
and
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subsistence agriculture or
trade.
Cambodia's great Angkorean age
is usually dated between AD802 and
1431, although these are not hard and
fast "beginning and end" pointers. The
word Angkor comes from the Sanskrit word nagara meaning town and
the state known today as Angkor,
which arose in north-west Cambodia
in the ninth century, had been the
homes of Khmer speakers for several
hundred years.
In the eighth century, Cambodia
was divided in two, suggests George
Coedes. Java had probably invaded
and annexed part of the territory. In
the dying years of the century, a prince
with distant links to a past Cambodian regime returned from Java and
proclaimed the independence of Cambodia from Java. He also forged the
cult of the god-king which was to be
the hallmark of Khmer civilization.
This great king, known as Jayavarman
II (802-850), installed himself over
time in four capitals north of the
Grand Lake Tonie Sap. After 48 years
of a rocky reign, during which time
he unified and pacified Cambodia,
Jayavarman II died near Rolous in 850.
He had paved the way for a line of
kings in the Angkor region for the next
600 years.
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and his nephew Indravarman (877889) remained at Rolous. Later,
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calling it Y asodharapura and having th~
vast Baray Oriental basin dug in the
vicinity. King Jayavarman IV abandoned this site in 921 and returned to
Angkor. He built a new capital at Koh
Ker, distinguished by towering, decorative monuments. But in 944, Coedes
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Rajendravarman consolidated Angkor
as the site of the royal court and it
remained the home of Khmer kings
from then on.
After the reign of Jayavarman V
(968-1001 ), the builder of Banteay Srei
and Takeo, the Cambodian kingdom
passed to a dynasty that was, almost
exclusively, of foreign blood. The
work of Coedes reveals these to be
Suryavarman I (1002-1050), a "conquering king from the valley of
Menam", UdayadityavarmanII (10501066), the builder of the Baphuon,;
and Harshavarman III. In the year
1080, Jayavarman VI, unrelated to
previous kings of the same name, installed himself with the aid of Brahman Divakara as a king of a new dynasty---one which was to survive until the 14 th century.
One of the undisputed great kings
of Cambodia was Suryavarman II,
ruler from 113-1150, who was responsible for the building of Angkor Wat
and whose image appears there on the
bas-reliefs. "His reign lasted 40 years
and was full of daring conquests,
which led for a time to annexation of
part of Champa. There followed a
period of fresh troubles during which
the Chams revenged themselves by
invading and destroying Angkor. They
were finally driven away by
Jayavarman VII, the last great king of
Cambodia, who was crowned in
1181, and who not only reconstructed
the capital but added an astonishing
number of buildings," Coedes writes
in his book Angkor.
Crowned in 1181, Jayavarman VII
devoted himself to the teaching of
Mahayana Buddhism- the form still
practiced in a great part of northern
Asia. But after his death, subsequent
Cambodian kings were threatened by
the Thais, who had established themselves in the Menam valley. This was
the beginning of the end of an era for
Cambodia. The Khmers' decline was
not rapid, however, and it was not until
the 15 th century that the court left
Angkor for Phnom Penh. The present
capital is near what some believe to
have been the ancient capital ofFunan,
and ofpre-Angkorean Cambodia.
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youth issues, problems and successes
within our community. We are very
greatful for the constant support of
the Office of Refugees & Immigrants (ORI), especially in the youth
aspect. With the leadership of Mr.
ARN CHORN-POND as a youth
partner and coordinator for the
CMAA, the Youth Corps / Peer
Leadership Program has now began
to be very active again, and we are
very thankful !
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Cambodian youths
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their commitment, skills and willingness to volunteer to help their community. Peer Leaders are involved
in organizing, planning and educating their younger peers and
the community as a whole
about health issues, youth
issues, and other activities
including : Peer Counseling
and Environmental Project,
Pregnancy Prevention Educ a ti on and Conferences
Workshop Planning. Recently we has just began the
Cambodian Traditional Music Class for the 'at risk'
youths. The Peer Leaders are also
helping in organizing events like
fundraising parties for youth projects
and helping to plan the Summer
School for the CMAA in the hope to
keep the Cambodian youths busy,
having fun and become productive
citizens to their community. If you
like to be involved, please contact
Mr. ARN CHORN-POND at the
CMAA. Tel # is
( 508 ) 454-4286. Thank you !
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cause our phones are so antiquated
that we lose a large number of calls
each day, but it is also a service issue
as teachers, therapists, doctors and
foster parents find it nearly impossible
to reach their social workers. Often
it is thought that DSS staff is unresponsive, when in fact there is no
good system for even receiving calls
or taking messages. The equipment
we have in most DSS offices is not
even made anymore. We have been
relegated to snapping up phones no
longer used by other state agencies
that have upgraded their systems in
order to augment our supply of
phones. We need to invest in something that sounds mundane, but is the
lifeblood of our work. Please support a new telephone system for DSS.
Professionalization of Staff
he work DSS social workers do
is one of the most difficult jobs in
the Commonwealth. All of the most
horrific societal issues from domestic violence and substance abuse to
chronic neglect and child abuse converge at DSS. It is essential that staff
have the most up-to-date training to
deal with these problems. In the past
year we have totally revamped the preservice training program for new social workers, implementing a competency based training program. This
pre-service program will form the
basis for licensing all DSS social
workers in the future as required by
the Legislature.
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Child Welfare Training Institute beginning in September of 1997. The Institute will oversee all in-service training for staff and foster parents, including credentialing, at sites throughout the state and work in conjunction
with other schools of social work-both
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Sihanouk Hospital Center for HOPE opened on December 10, 1996 in Phnom
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situation.
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emergency services.
We need your support and financial assistance to begin inpatient and surgical care
by mid-1997. Those in Cambodian who have suffered so much and still so desperately
lack the medical care they need will benefit directly from your donation.
An international staff of doctors, nurses and technicians have been assembled by
HOPE worldwide. The plan of hiring and training 25 Cambodian physicians and 200
other hospital staff has begun.
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has been completed and outpatients are being served. HOPE worldwide will provide the
administrative experience to run this landmark training facility and needs $1.5 million
annually to fund on-going hospital expenses to allow equal access to health care for all
Cambodians.
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cation program for social workers
who wish to obtain their MSW; and
the field placement program for all
students doing internships at DSS.
T
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hance the training we will be able
to do, increase the number of social
workers with advanced degrees and
allow us to receive federal reimbursement for the project. Although this
program is federally reimbursable, we
need the commitment from the Legislature to move forward. In addition
to the work we are doing with Salem
State, I have convened a task force to
work with the schools of social work
throughout the state to strengthen the
relationship between DSS and the
schools, thereby improving the job
readiness of our clinical staff. It is
expected that this work can also help
us undertake additional research to
better understand how we can assist
families. This task force, chaired by
Loretta Kowal, will provide me with
great insight into how we can enhance
collaboration with the public and private institutions that prepare staff for
this line of work.
FamilyNet
amilyNet, our major technology
initiative will completely revolutionize the way we do our work and
allow workers to spend more time
with families as opposed to pads, pencils and desks. DSS has not upgraded
from its monster mainframe system
that was developed in the early 80's.
Thanks to Rep. Angelo Scaccia and
Speaker Finneran, we are well on our
way to implementing a new computer
system that capitalizes on 75 percent
funding from the federal government
for a limited period of time.
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records stored in green three ring.
binders with an online, interactive system. It will streamline casework, dra-
matically reduce paperwork and speed
efficiency of document transmittal
between offices. The system will help
match waiting children with prospective foster and adoptive parents as
well. Part of the design also includes
interfaces with other state agencies,
which will result in better service to
our families. For example, we will be
able to link up with Medicaid's computer system to find out if a child is
already enrolled in an HMO and who
is his primary physician. This project,
in development since 1994, is set to
become operational in August. It is
one of the most exciting technological advances in state government today. This project has been in large
part funded through a federal match
program. the Governor's House One
includes $3 .21 million to operationalize
FamilyNet. This funding is critical to
our ability to keep the system going
once the federal match expires. The
federal dollars support development
but not ongoing costs of running the
system.
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Share in the excitement of the
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Saturday, August 23 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
$5.000 Includes:
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• A half page in the day's Program Guide distributed to
more than 10,000 visitors.
• A half booth at the Festival.
• Sponsorship of a two-person racing team.
Sponsorship of our traditional racing boats.
Recognition as a primary sponsor in all publicity.
A full page in the day's Program Guide.
A full booth at the Festival.
Sponsorship of a two-person racing team.
$2,500 Includes:
• Sponsorship of the Program Guide for the Festival
and a full-page ad on the back on the front cover.
• Recognition as a primary sponsor in all publicity.
• A full booth at the Festival.
• Sponsorship of a two-person racing team.
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Sponsorship of one of the Festival's major performers.
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A full page ad in the Program Guide.
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Sponsorship of a two-person racing team.
• Recognition as a sponsor in the Program Guide.
• A quarter page ad in the Program Guide.
• Sponsorship of a two-person racing team.
The Southeast Asian Water Festival
Saturday, August 23, 1997
YES! I would like to be a sponsor of the Southeast Asian Water Festival.
Enclosed is my contribution of:
$2,500 _ _ $1,000 _ _ $500 _ _ $250 _ _ $100 _ _ Other _ _
YES! I would like to offer the following goods or services to the Southeast Asian
Water Festival:
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Please make checks payabl.e to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association.
Please return this form to the Southeast Asian Water Festival c/o
UMass Lowell Center for Family, Work & Community; One University Ave. in Lowel~ MA 01854.
�Dear Friends and Colleagues,
How would you like to subscribe to our bi-monthly magazine, "Khmer Lowell"? Would you like to put out an
a ds to more than 45,000 of our r eaders.
We offer low subscription and ads rate. Please call now for a quote of your ads. The yearly subscription is only
$25.00. Your subsription and a dvertisement mqney not only helping us to produce this bilingual m agazin e,
but also supporting our work of serving the Southeast Asian community m embers who may oth erwise be left
out of the syst em and have no place to go for h elp. If you haven't subscribed to " Khmer L owell", please call
and subscribe now! "Khmer Lowell" provides compreh ensive information about community issues, progress,
economic, education, recreation, and more! It also provides you information about Cambodia as well.
"Khmer Lowell" is a m onthly, bilingual magazine published collaboratively by the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA), the Cambodian American Voter Lea gue (CAVL), and the
Khmer Cultural Institute (KCI). The magazine is widely distributed to Cambodians and non-Cambodians
throughout the N ew England areas and the United States.
We will be delighted to serve your n eeds! Please call us at (508) 454-4286; fax # (508) 454-1806, or r each us
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Lowell, Massachusetts 01852
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Your communication of April 11, 1997 regarding the establishment of the
Cambodian language as part of the world language program at Lowell High
School was presented to the members of the Lowell School Committee at their
regularly scheduled meeting of April 23, 1997.
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discussion with the Headmaster.
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to legal immigrants and its impact on Southeast Asian communities at
the State House, Boston, MA.
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Executive Director of CMAA, Pa him Kay, CaseworkerofF amily
Support Program of CMAA, Dr. Jeff Gerson of Umass Lowell, Thy
Chey, Elderly Program Coordinator at CMAA, Judith DickermanNelson, Director/instructor of Young Parent Program at CMAA, and
Chuck Sarth, Chairman of Cambodian American Voter League.
Feb. 27, 1997
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legislators at the State House, Boston, MA
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Greater Lowell, Inc. (CMAA), the Cambodian American Voter
League (CA VL), and the Khmer Cultural Institute (KCI). We
welcome your contribution. Send us your articles, poems,
short story, opinion column, political and sociai commentary
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Please include your name, address and phone number.
We reserve the right to edit all materials for space and
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no responsibilities and/or are responsible to send them back
to the writers if writer names and address are not provided.
No part ofKhmer Lowell may be reprinted or reproduced
without our written permission. Subscription rate for the first
year (6-7 issues) is $25.00 (USA); $30.00 (Canada) and $45.00
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007
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This collection includes digitized issues of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.’s bilingual magazines <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em>. <br /><br />The collection is completely accessible on this site.<br /><br />View the collection finding aid for more information, <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml19" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://libguides.uml.edu/uml19</a>.<br /><br />Note:<br />Additionally, digitized issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> from the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection have been added to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007 Omeka collection so that issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> may visually appear together when browsing in Omeka.<br /><br /><br /><br />--------------------------<br /><span>SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.</span>
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007. UML19. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.
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Khmer Lowell, May-June 1997; Issue No. 4
Subject
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Cambodia--history
Nonprofit organizations
Description
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Khmer Lowell, May-June 1997; Issue No. 4. This newsletter has 36 pages. Titles of topics covered in the newsletter include the Southeast Asian Water Festival; Testimony; King of The Mountaing; Khmer Traditional Music for Youth; New Hospital Provides Free Care; Lowell News From D.S.S.; and more.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications
Publisher
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
Date
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1997-05
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application/pdf; 36 pp.
Language
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Khmer
English
Type
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Text
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Khmer Lowell Issue 4
Coverage
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Lowell, Massachusetts
1990-1999
Cambodian American Voter League of Lowell
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
Cambodians
Khmer Cultural Institute
Periodicals
Southeast Asian Water Festival