Every month we highlight an organization you can support at the register. Thank you to everyone who contributed to our July Round up at the Register for Photography Without Borders.
We raised over $436!
Our Round Up this Month is Vietlead
Founded in 2016, VietLead is a community based organization working with the Vietnamese & Southeast Asian community in Philadelphia and South Jersey. They develop culturally resilient and community driven solutions to improve health, increase sovereignty, and strengthen political power by developing “Vietnamese Leadership in Solidarity” with other working class communities of color. As a community shaped by the trauma of war and displacement, their mission is to:
- HEAL: Restore dignity by reclaiming our ancestral traditions and cultural histories.
- RESIST: Build immigrant and refugee leadership with the capacity to fight injustices.
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GROW: Create thriving working class communities for the ecological well being of Earth and our people.
VietLead is a grassroots community organization in Philadelphia and South Jersey that is creating a vision and strategy for community self-determination, social justice, and cultural resilience. They are staffed and led by community members with collectively over 25 years serving the community and are committed to working from love and solidarity. VietLead's community programs include intergenerational farming, youth organizing, health navigation & healing, civic engagement and community defense.
They accomplish this through a Heal-Resist-Grow framework that focuses a pathway to healing trauma in our communities, contesting for power to make systemic change, policy advocacy/campaign, and growing community-based solutions.
VietLead, founded in September 2015, serves the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian communities in Philadelphia and South Jersey. As descendents of a people impacted by war and trauma, they understand that their community is at different places ideologically, emotionally, and materially, so they seek to meet their community where they are at and commit to direct services, education, advocacy, and organizing in order to build unity towards social justice.
