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Dec 9, 2011

Dear CHAA Friends,

On behalf of the board and staff at Community Health for Asian Americans, I am pleased to bring you the Fall 2011 edition of our newsletter. In the next pages, please join us in celebrating the diversity of API and other underserved communities and our accomplishments in our work in creating safe, healthy and thriving communities in the Bay Area.

'Rhythm of the Refugee: A Cambodian Journey of Healing' Museum Exhibit

Dec 5, 2011

The Following article can be found at CHAA's new blog http://chaaweb.blogspot.com/

" The intense uprisings started in 1972. I spent many nights in the dugout hearing artillery shells. We started to see dead corpses in the rice fields behind our backyard. By 1973, it was no longer safe to stay in Sung Rieng. My mom put me in a helicopter to Phnom Phem". -Sambo Ly, President of Cambodia Community Development Inc.

A Land of Grieving Mothers

Nov 30, 2011

The following article is courtesy of S. Nadia Hussain, originally published on usordinarypeople.blogspot.com. Nyunt Than, the current head of the Burmese American Democratic Alliance (a non-profit organization in the Bay Area that works on democracy and human rights issues in Burma) is a Burmese leader whose activism going back to his days as a student during the 1988 pro-democracy uprisings.

Save the Date! 8th Annual "Youth Stopping Violence Summit," October 15, 2011

Sep 9, 2011

This year marks the 8th Annual Youth Stopping Violence Summit, which will take place at Lovonya DeJean Middle School in Richmond, CA on October 15th, 2011. This year’s summit will explore the ideas of Unity through Diversity. The Youth Stopping Violence Summit promotes diversity and works to bridge the gaps between different cultures, finding that violence is something that has affected us all.