Hội Asian Americans For Change

Hội Asian Americans For Change

"We are committed to strengthening our community through the stewardship of grassroots service projects."

Asian Americans for Change (AAC) is a community-based development organization, established in 2007. AAC is a grassroots 501(c)3 non-profit organization who has served the Vietnamese American communities after Hurricane Katrina South Mississippi. Our mission is to strengthen our community though the stewardship of grassroots service projects.

AAC serves to bridge the gap between the Vietnamese American communities in the lower three counties, Hancock, Jackson, and Harrison, of Mississippi, with local, state and federal organizations. AAC was first established in response to the Hurricane Katrina crisis, which devastated the MS Gulf Coast residents, destroying their livelihood, damaging their homes and disrupting their community life. Years later, families are still struggling to recover.

AAC engages community members across generational, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries to create unity out of disarray. We achieve this by filling the gaps in access to services caused by language and cultural barriers.

Recently, in response to the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill disaster, AAC has started mobilizing Vietnamese fishermen in the Mississippi Gulf Coast by hosting informative community-wide meetings. AAC in collaborative effort with local non profit organizations helped to organize a very successful resource claims fair on July 8th with over thirty exhibitors and more than 700 oil spill victims and family members in attendance. The Vietnamese American community is greatly affected by this tragedy. As the oil spill has turned to an environmental and economic disaster, we came together to document the needs of our communities and to advocate and establish the appropriate solutions.

Contact:
2112 Bienville Blvd.
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
(228) 872-3225
info@aachange.org
http://www.aachange.org

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