What are we trying to do? We are trying to find host families to temporarily host Afghan refugee families for a period of 3-7 days after they arrive at SeaTac. This is a temporary arrangement and will allow time for resettlement agencies to find permanent homes for these refugee families. Where do I sign up […]
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Amazon Donates $1 Million to Groups Supporting Communities of Color in Seattle’s Central Area
Amazon announced today that it is donating $1 million to 13 community organizations in Seattle that support communities of color
Connecting Seattle’s Vietnamese Community to Mt. Baker Station Area Development
Opportunity to share your feedback on Friday, June 4th! LeVinh Tran is a familiar face in the Vietnamese community in Seattle. She first became involved in community work over 30-years ago as a volunteer for the Vietnamese Catholic Church. LeVinh had only just arrived in Seattle as a refugee from Vietnam, but wanted to help […]
Story behind The Paper Tigers
Julie Pham Seattle-based Tran Quoc Bao’s film, The Paper Tigers was released last week in 69 different theaters across the nation. The film is about three friends who studied kung fu when they were in elementary school. When their master dies for mysterious reasons, they reunite to honor their kung fu teacher and find out […]
Eric Nguyễn writes debut novel, “Things We Lost to the Water”
Beyond the fact his parents fled Vietnam in the 1980s as boat people, Eric Nguyen knows very little about who they were or what they lived through before he was born. “They always had their eye on the future,” the 33-year-old author said in a recent phone call from his home in Washington, D.C. “There’s […]
Remembering Kim Phạm, a voice for Washington’s Vietnamese community
By Stacy Nguyen I initially made the acquaintance of chú Phạm over the internet in 2008. I was about 23 years old and started a job as editor of Northwest Asian Weekly, not too long before he contacted me through his AOL email address. He wrote me because he noticed my name is Vietnamese. I […]
