VAHSA Camp 2013 is coming up on August 23rd through the 25th this year! VAHSA Camp staff is excited to begin planning for our local youth’s annual summer leadership camp, and we can’t do it without your help.

This year, UVSA will be selling fireworks to raise money for camp. We will be out at our booth from Monday, July 1st to Thursday, July 4th at the following location:

12521 Harbor Blvd

Garden Grove, CA 92840

What is VAHSA Camp?

Hosted by the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California, leadership camp aims to provide Vietnamese American High School students with the knowledge and tools to become more effective leaders in their schools and in their communities...

In 2003, VAHSA Camp was founded by a dedicated group of UVSA members in order to provide participants with the knowledge and tools to become more effective leaders in their schools and communities.

Realizing that there was tremendous potential for the bigger brothers and sisters of the UVSA colleges to teach and mentor their younger VAHSA siblings, these original founders took it upon themselves to create an institution where sharing and community building would be encouraged.

Focusing on cohesion and unity, VAHSA camp provides a networking opportunity for youth to share ideas and promote collaboration. Perhaps most importantly, the camp instills an appreciation for culture and one’s heritage.

Many former VAHSA campers are now a part of the staff, reciprocatin...

Sign the VELI Petition!

Volunteer for VELI event   

There’s a great petition going on called the Vietnamese English Language Immersion (VELI) spearheaded by Anh Bảo Nguyễn, Board Member of the Garden Grove Unified School District. The purpose of this petition is to ask Garden Grove Unified School District to add in VELI to all the schools. Please help them by clicking here to sign.

If you’re not convinced… watch this video! I’m sure those kids will change your minds.

On Saturday, May 4th from 2PM to 4PM, UVSA will be at GGUSD’s Community Forum to petition for inclusion of the immersion as well as speak in support. Nina Tran, current UVSA External Vice President, will be one of the speakers representing the youth. UVSA encourages you all to come and speak up as well...

The Tet Festival Press Conference this past Sunday has finally wrapped up Tet Festival for the year 2013 for us. To remember the special moments that occurred throughout the 3-day weekend, our IT/Media Director Bao Pham has completed a highlight video for this momentous project for UVSA. This video features a lot of beautiful footage that our IT/Media was able to capture throughout the weekend, so we hope that you not only enjoy it but become inspired by the multitude of things that go into Vietnamese New Year at the Tet Festival.

Tet Festival 2013 – Highlight from Bloop on Vimeo.

A total of $86,238.83 will be donated to the Southern California community through the UVSA Community Assistance Fund. Community Assistance Fund applications will be accepted from today until Sunday, May 26th, 2013. Click on the following links to download the application:

English
Vietnamese

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Our UNAVSA CORE reps Kenny Tran and Ken Le go on a mission in the Windy City:
On October 5-7th, UVSA SoCal’s very own Kenny Tran and Ken Le had the opportunity of attending the UNAVSA CoRR Assembly in Chicago, Illinois.





You may ask, what does UNAVSA and CoRR stand for? UNAVSA is the Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations or Liên Hội Sinh Viên Việt Nam Bắc Mỹ in Vietnamese. CoRR stands for the Council of Regional Representatives. UNAVSA consists of twelve regions all located in North America and Canada. Kenny and I are pleased to have the privilege of representing UVSA Southern California in the 2012-2013 term...