Comments on: ABA convention leaves hopes http://www.apfanews.com/stories/aba-convention-concludes/ Working for your right to Information Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:03:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: utam http://www.apfanews.com/stories/aba-convention-concludes/comment-page-1/#comment-2695 utam Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:28:18 +0000 http://www.apfanews.com/?p=2575#comment-2695 Mr.T.P ji, Your thoughts about Bhutanese in America and Associatio of Bhutanese in America may be mixed up. This association is not known to all and not approved/recognized by the majority of Bhutanese who have deep root in the refugee camps which means they are a group of people who have not lived in the camp. I will leave for you to understand rest of the reality. I like you to see this report prepared by ABA and their members's activities and services rendered around in Atlanta area. And please varify the truth from this report. Thanks ABA members in Atlanta report facing constraints in organizing events or expanding memberships. They report an unexplainable resistance from the majority of community members in Atlanta to ABA. Given this context, ABA members in Atlanta have focused on participation in interagency and stakeholders meetings and presented the Bhutanese refugees viewpoints. On more specific level, they have assisted new arrivals in shopping, transportation and interpretation services in the hospital and social security offices; assisted some new arrivals in opening bank accounts; assisted at least one new arrival apply for disability allowance; assisted at least one family to advocate for their relocation due to security problem in their neighborhood; assisted in the organization of funeral services to three families; participated in the process of establishment of a funeral fund for the Bhutanese community; consistently networked with other non-profit organizations such as Network Atlanta, which is organizing computer training to the refugees; Mr.T.P ji,
Your thoughts about Bhutanese in America and Associatio of Bhutanese in America may be mixed up. This association is not known to all and not approved/recognized by the majority of Bhutanese who have deep root in the refugee camps which means they are a group of people who have not lived in the camp. I will leave for you to understand rest of the reality.

I like you to see this report prepared by ABA and their members’s activities and services rendered around in Atlanta area. And please varify the truth from this report.
Thanks

ABA members in Atlanta report facing constraints in organizing events or expanding memberships. They report an unexplainable resistance from the majority of community members in Atlanta to ABA. Given this context, ABA members in Atlanta have focused on participation in interagency and stakeholders meetings and presented the Bhutanese refugees viewpoints. On more specific level, they have assisted new arrivals in shopping, transportation and interpretation services in the hospital and social security offices; assisted some new arrivals in opening bank accounts; assisted at least one new arrival apply for disability allowance; assisted at least one family to advocate for their relocation due to security problem in their neighborhood; assisted in the organization of funeral services to three families; participated in the process of establishment of a funeral fund for the Bhutanese community; consistently networked with other non-profit organizations such as Network Atlanta, which is organizing computer training to the refugees;

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