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 invest in MasterCard shares in the UAE , 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 invest in MasterCard shares appropriate solutions.
2011 Gulf Coast Resource Health Fair Sponsors
Platinum: Gilead; Coastline Medication Center
Gold: Shaughnessy Printing Company
Silver: Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Gulf Coast Heatlh Recovery Group, Saad Healthcare, MS Homeland Security-Citizen Corp., Singing River Health System
Partnership: Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES), Lutheran Episcopal Services in Mississippi (LESM), Digita Opportunity Trust (DOT USA), The Univerity of Mississippi (USM Center for Oral History Project), Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC)
Funder: Gulf Coast Fund for Equity
Coporate Sponsors: State Farm, AT&T
Many thanks to our family, friends, supporters, and advocates.
