Sandra Oh Urges Support for North Korean Refugee Adoption Act

Posted on 1st December 2011 in civic, organizations

The Topple Hunger in North Korea (THINK) program, organized by the Korean American Coalition, yesterday posted a video of Sandra Oh urging support for the North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011. Express your support by clicking here (http://kacla.org/?page_id=2535) and filling out a short form that will generate a letter of support to your Members of Congress. Although it’s mentioned in the video, ThinkChildren.org is not yet live as of this posting.

If passed, the Act would allow Americans to adopt refugee orphans who have fled the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) to neighboring countries such as Mongolia, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. These children are struggling in harsh circumstances, and run the risk of being sent back to North Korea, a country facing regular food shortages, and where one in three North Korean children under five are chronically malnourished.

Right now, it is extremely difficult to bring refugee children to the United States. One American family on the East Coast is currently working to secure the adoption of two orphaned siblings from North Korea. The adoption process for them could take anywhere from three to 10 years, and approval is not guaranteed. The passage of this Act would reduce the waiting time for families seeking to adopt refugee orphans.

This is not simply an adoption issue, or a Korean American issue. Refugee orphans do not have access to food and clean water, and are vulnerable to human trafficking and deportation. The North Korean Refugee Adoption Act would lessen the burden on parents in the United States who wish to provide a safe and caring home for refugee orphans.

Express your support by clicking here (http://kacla.org/?page_id=2535) and filling out a short form that will generate a letter of support to your Members of Congress.

Topple Hunger in North Korea (THINK) is a program organized by the Korean American Coalition (KAC) to inform the public about famine and humanitarian issues in North Korea, and to increase civic participation in the Korean American community.

Source: KAC

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A Community Unites to “Silence the Violence”

Posted on 15th January 2010 in fundraiser

Sandra Oh, John Cho, Aaron Yoo, Lisa Ling, Archie Kao, C.S. Lee, Joan Chen, Justin Chon, Far East Movement, Kaba Modern and more than 100 other members of the creative community appear in a series of videos supporting the Center for the Pacific Asian Family (CPAF).

Los Angeles-based nonprofit CPAF provides a multilingual 24-hour call center, emergency shelter, transitional housing program, counseling services and community outreach programs that focuses on the needs of victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

CPAF finished in the top 100 out of a half-million eligible groups in the first round of the Chase Community Giving contest on Facebook. As a result, they received $25,000 and a chance to compete for a grand prize of $1 million or one of five runner-up awards of $100,000 in the final round of voting from January 15-22. The winners will be announced on January 23.

Any and all proceeds earned will be used by CPAF to reach beyond the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities by unifying all 24-hour call centers in Los Angeles County. The much-needed funding will be used to create a sustainable joint hotline for 20 domestic violence shelters and six rape crisis centers. CPAF will also extend the hotline services to include online chat to make services more accessible to victims.

Every 15 seconds a woman is beaten in the U.S. Ever two minutes someone in the U.S. is raped or sexually assaulted. One in three women will be abused in her lifetime. It happens too often. The silence is deafening.

If a woman has the courage to call, we must make sure there will be someone there to listen.

To vote, please visit http://www.voteCPAF.org.

Related links:
Chase Community Giving on Facebook – http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving
Center for the Pacific Asian Family – http://www.NurturingChange.org
Watch the Videos on CPAF’s YouTube Channel – http://www.youtube.com/CPAFpsa

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