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Who We Are
The South-East Asia Center (SEAC) is
a community-based, educational and social service organization
building bridges of understanding and cooperation between peoples of Old and New World cultures.
SEAC serves some of the most culturally
diverse immigrant neighborhoods in the United States, with
over one hundred different languages spoken by residents within
its borders. SEAC's uptown-Edgewater home base is also one
of the poorest neighborhoods in Chicago, with some forty-three
percent of Uptown children and twenty-six percent of Edgewater
children living under the poverty line. Many of the immigrants
and refugees served at SEAC come from rural societies where
education and literacy are scarce commodities..
SEAC's 30+ staff and over 100 volunteers
provide material, cultural, emotional, and educational aid
to over 8,000 of the needy each year.
Although the programs at the South-East
Asia Center are funded through grants with city, county, state,
and federal governments as well as through private donations,
but without the 100+ volunteers who work on everything from
office tasks to classroom teaching, SEAC would not be able
to provide the wide range of services to our rapidly expanding
immigrant communities. We hope that you will be able to devote
some time to volunteering in one or more of out programs.
We look forward to working with you and promise that the satisfaction,
involvement, and community connection that is possible with
the people you help will more than compensate for your time.
Our Staff and Languages
South-East Asia Center (SEAC) specializes in building inter-ethnic
bridges. We serve peoples from China, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
& the Philippines, as well as neighboring South Asia,
N.E. Asia, and immigrants from Eastern Europe, the Caribbean,
Africa, Latin America immigrants and native-born Americans
of all ancestries.
South-East Asia Center promotes mutual
understanding and cooperation. Staff speak major Chinese dialects,
Tagalog, Vietnamese, Hindi, Gujarati, Korean, Japanese, Thai/
Lao, Russian, Latvian, German, Spanish, French, as well as
other languages.
- Cantonese: Hien, San, Fanny, Run-Hao, Kitty, Quynh
- Chow Cho: (Trieu Chau): Chung
- Fukienese: Lin
- Hak Ka: Pin
- Indonesian: Pin
- Khmer: Chung
- Malay: Pin
- Mandarin: Hien, San, Run-Hao, Fanny, Dr. Qin, Lin
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- Russian: Lucy, Zuzana
- Slavic Languages, e.g., Czech, Slovak, Polish, Bosnian, Serbian: Zuzana
- Spanish: Lucy
- Tagalog: Gloria, Ofelia
- Tibetan: Tsering
- Vietnamese: Hien, San, Long, Quynh
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Special Thanks...Our
staff at South-East Asia Center(SEAC) would like to thank
Madeleine Kim for the design and development of our website.
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