Week of May 9, 2008

 

Korean Quarterly receives CAPM leadership award

Minnesotans rush aid to Burma devastation

McCollum joins SEWA celebration

Copyright Asian American Press 2008

(Minneapolis) Minneapolis-Based American Refugee Committee (ARC) is responding to Cyclone Nargis, the cyclone that ripped through Burma, also known as Myanmar. As of this week, the Burmese government is saying that more than 20,000 people are dead and another 40,000 are missing, in the country with a population of about 48 million. The disaster is being compared to the tsunami that caused so much destruction in South and South East Asia in 2004.

   ARC Team will be headed by Northfield, Minnesota Native Gary Dahl.

  As of Thursday, ARC is intending to respond to the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, which destroyed large areas of Myanmar.  An ARC rapid assessment team will travel to the region later this week PENDING ENTRY VISAS.

  The cyclone caused devastation in the city of Rangoon, though the crisis is more serious in smaller villages in the delta region.

  Gary Dahl will be leading the response.  He is the Northfield, Minnesota native, who is also ARC’s Country Director for Thailand, who spearheaded ARC’s Fishing Boat Project in the wake of the 2004 tsunami.

  ARC has been working in the South Asia region since 1979.  In 2004, ARC’s Fishing Boat Project restored boats for fishermen and their families who had lost them in the tsunami.

(Twin Cities) Minnesota has the highest proportion of Korean Americans in the country, say Martha and Stephen Vickery, co-founders of the Korean Quarterly, yet that community mostly “flies under the radar.” When the couple, along with a small group from their Presbyterian Church, founded the publication over ten years ago, they were recognizing the hunger of the Korean American community to find a bridge between their Korean heritage and their lives in America. A large proportion of that community is Korean born adoptees. MORE...

Indian Family Wellness (AIFW) in celebrating their 5th anniversary at St. Catherine’s College. MORE...

(St. Paul) Congresswoman Betty McCollum joined SEWA-Asian