HAAPI Food Fair, March 27

Disaster Relief in Southwest Houston

We have partnered with Houston Baptist University (HBU) and other community organizations to host our HAAPI Food Fair providing packaged perishable foods to underserved Houston’s AAPI communities. The first 300 families will receive food donated by the Houston Food Fair. Attendees must enter campus through the main entrance located on Fondren.

***Mark Your Calendars for the next HAAPI Food Fair on April 17th at HBU as well.

 

Houston-based AAPI communities have been hit hard by recent events.

 

Help us raise $25,000 to provide packaged perishable foods to underserved Houston’s AAPI communities. We will be assisting AAPI senior centers and families in the Asiatown/Chinatown area near Bellaire Blvd through coordinated food dropoffs & distributions.

On March 26, 1790, the Naturalization Act was signed into law, prohibiting non-white people from becoming citizens of the United States. Over 200 years later, Asians in the U.S. are still suffering from the effects of the racism our country was founded upon. Join us for a social media campaign to #StopAsianHate THIS FRIDAY, March 26, 2021. Ending this horrific spike in anti-Asian violence starts with people like you speaking up about this growing problem.

Start by posting your message of support for Asian American communities using the hashtag #StopAsianHate on Friday, March 26. If we all join together and raise our voices against anti-Asian racism, we can keep our communities safe.

“Unless we know ourselves and our history, and other people and their history, there is really no way that we can really have a positive kind of interaction where there is real understanding”

~Yuri Kochiyama, Civil Rights Activist

OCA Greater Houston’s HAAPIFEST Committee invites you to a special FREE screening of Part 1 & 2 of the groundbreaking series PBS ASIAN Americans.

Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever. As America becomes more diverse, and more divided while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate personal stories, the series will cast a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 27 @ 3pm CST: Episode 1 – Breaking Through

At the turn of the new millennium, the national conversation turns to immigration, race, and economic disparity. As the U.S becomes more diverse, yet more divided, a new generation of Asian Americans tackle the question, how do we as a nation move forward together?

 

SUNDAY, MARCH 28 @ 1pm CST: Episode 2 – Generation Rising

During a time of war and social tumult, a young generation fights for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture, and claim a new identity: Asian Americans. The war’s aftermath brings new immigrants and refugees who expand the population and the definition of Asian America.