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Executive Director's Message
By Dr. LoXing Kiatoukaysi
Welcome to our Spring edition and newly revised newsletter, HAC News. I hope you enjoy reading about the work the Hmong American Community, Inc. is undertaking and working on with partners. We are continuing to work toward out mission of helping Hmong become self sufficient. HAC has seen fruitful events take place in the past couple of months and we are grateful to our community partners for their faith and efforts.
In April, we celebrated the groundbreaking ceremonies for the Long Cheng housing development. This project has been in the making the past six years and it is great to see it come this far. Over 100 well-wishers joined our celebration including many hopeful Hmong farmers and their families. We will keep you posted on its development.
At the end of March, HAC representatives along with out Small Farm Resource Training Center (SFRTC) partners from UC Extension Fresno took a three-week trip to Laos and Thailand. The purpose of the trip was to learn how other universities and government entities provide educational training for the improvement of farming by small farmers. Knowledge gathered during the trip will help the SFRTC continue to build a strong curriculum to meet cultural learning and training needs of the small Asian farmers in Fresno County.
The delegation included myself; Keving Lee, Hacs's SFRTC Manager; Dr John Parlink; Richard Molinar and Michele Yang of UC Extension, Fresno and Bakersfield Cooperative Extension. The group met with representatives of Kasetsart University, Maejo University in Thailand and the Laos Ministry of Agriculture.
This trip has established an engagement of professional relationships among HAC, UC Extension, Kasetsart University, Maejo University and the Lao Department of Agriculture. We look forward to implementing new ideas.
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