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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 10, folder \"Indochina Refugees - Interagency\nTask Force: Publications\" of the Theodore C. Marrs Files at the Gerald R. Ford\nPresidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nDigitized from Box 10 of the Theodore C. Marrs Files\nat the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nfull\nTHE\nINDOCHINESE\nREFUGEE\nPROGRAM\nQuestions\nand\nAnswers\nINTERAGENCY TASK FORCE\nON INDOCHINA REFUGEES\nIn the past few months, more than\n130,000 Indochinese refugees have\nsought a new life in the United States.\nThousands of these people have already\nfound homes but many continue to re-\nside at six U.S. resettlement centers:\nGuam; Wake; Camp Pendleton, Cali-\nfornia; Fort Chaffee, Arkansas; Indian-\ntown Gap Military Reservation, Penn-\nsylvania; and Eglin Air Force Base,\nFlorida.\nFORCE\nIn order to leave these camps the\nUGEES\nrefugees will need sponsors in the\nUnited States. This pamphlet has been\nprepared to inform the public (es-\npecially potential sponsors) about the\nmost important aspects of the refugee\nprogram.\n1\nHow big a problem will it be for the\nAre the refugees well educated?\nrefugees to find homes? 130,000 refu-\nYes. About 80% of the heads of house-\ngees sounds like a lot of people.\nholds have completed high school and\nWith the understanding and help of\n30% have college or university degrees.\nthe American people, the Indochinese\nwill get off to a good start in America.\nWhat job skills do the refugees have?\nWe absorbed over 600,000 Cuban refu-\ngees and 40,000 Hungarian refugees\nMost of the refugees are willing to\nwhen circumstances in their countries\ntackle any kind of work. However, 30%\nforced them to leave. Each year, we take\nhave held professional, technical or man-\nin about 450,000 immigrants through\nagerial positions, another 25% were in\nnormal channels.\nclerical, sales and service work; 25% in\nauto and aircraft maintenance and re-\nlated work; only 10% were in farming.\nAre the refugees in families, or alone?\nHow many orphans are there?\nHow many jobs will be required for the\nMost Indochinese families consist of\nrefugees?\n\"extended family units\"-grandparents,\nApproximately 25,000-35,000 heads of\nuncles, aunts and cousins. While these\nhouseholds will need jobs. Other family\nfamilies often wish to relocate near each\nmembers may also be employable. Over-\nother, they do not necessarily expect to\nall, the refugees will constitute an addi-\nlive together. The average family in-\ntion of less than .067% of our labor force.\ncludes about 4-5 people although there\nare several hundred single refugees.\nThere are very few orphans among the\nWhat happens to a refugee when he\nrefugees. The vast majority of orphans\narrives at one of the U.S. resettlement\nwere airlifted to the United States sev-\ncenters?\neral months ago and have already been\nAll of the refugees are processed by\nplaced in homes. About 30% of the refu-\nthe Immigration and Naturalization\ngees are children under the age of 12.\nService for security clearances. They are\nAnother 15% are under age 18. The\ngiven health screening and immuniza-\nadult refugees are almost equally divided\ntions and they are assigned social security\nbetween men and women.\nnumbers. Generally they are in good\n2\n3\nhealth and less than 5% are referred for\nfinding a job, in enrolling the children\nmedical treatment.\nin school, and in understanding our\nlaws and customs. Ordinarily, the health\nDo they speak any English?\ncare costs are all the responsibility of\nthe sponsor. However, unemployed refu-\nAbout 40% of the refugees speak some\ngees are eligible for Medicaid coverage\nEnglish already. Others are being taught\nwhich will protect the sponsor from\nEnglish in the resettlement centers in\nunusual medical expense liability.\naddition to learning a little about Amer-\nWhen the refugee becomes self-sup-\nican customs to assist them in making\nporting, the sponsorship obligation is\nthe transition.\nbasically one of continuing friendship.\nOne of the easier ways to sponsor is for\nHow do the refugees find sponsors in\ninterested people to work through a\norder to leave the centers?\ngroup (a church or a club) to share the\nThe State Department has contracted\nsponsorship responsibilities and costs.\nwith several experienced refugee reset-\ntlement agencies (listed on page 7 of this\nWhat happens if the sponsor-refugee\nbrochure) which interview the refugees\nmatch is unsatisfactory?\nat the camps and match them with in-\n(I.e. the sponsor doesn't want to provide\nterested sponsors.\nassistance or the employment of the\nState and local governments may also\nrefugee terminates.)\ncontract with the State Department to\nIf the sponsorship breaks down, the\nresettle refugees. Several state and local\nsponsor should contact the resettlement\ngovernments have already found spon-\nagency which placed the refugee to find\nsors for hundreds of refugees and many\na substitute sponsor. In the interim, the\nmore are planning to do the same.\nrefugee may be eligible for welfare,\nMedicaid and food stamps to assist in\nWhat's involved in sponsoring a refugee\nthe support of his family until they find\nfamily?\nanother sponsor or attain self-sufficiency.\nA sponsor makes a commitment to\nfeed, clothe and shelter a refugee family\nWho can sponsor a refugee family?\nuntil it is self-supporting. The sponsor\nAny group or any person who can\nassists the refugee head of household in\nseriously undertake the sponsorship\n4\n5\ncommitment can be a sponsor. All in-\nVOLUNTARY AGENCIES AIDING\nREFUGEE RESETTLEMENT\nterested sponsors are interviewed by the\nresettlement agency they are working\nU.S. Catholic Conference\nMigration and Refugee Services\nthrough; usually the interviewer is a\n1312 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.\nminister or a social worker. Even though\nWashington, D.C. 20005\n(202) 659-6625\nmany of the agencies are church affili-\nated, they place refugees of any religion.\nAmerican Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees\n1709 Broadway\nRoom 1316\nNew York, New York 10019\nHow do I go about becoming a sponsor?\n(212) 265-1919\nContact your priest, minister or rabbi;\nChurch World Service\nor send one of the agencies listed on\nImmigration and Refugee Program\n475 Riverside Drive\npage 7 of this brochure a completed\nNew York, New York 10027\nsponsor interest card (attached). If your\n(212) 870-2061\nstate or local government is forming a\nLutheran Immigration and Refugee Service\nresettlement agency or if a civic group\n315 Park Avenue, South\nNew York, New York 10010\nwishes to sponsor refugees in your com-\n(212) 677-3950\nmunity, they should contact the resettle-\nUnited HIAS Service, Inc.\nment branch of the Interagency Task\n200 Park Avenue, South\nForce in Washington (202-632-9180).\nNew York, New York 10003\n(212) 674-6800\nIf you are military or retired military,\nInternational Rescue Committee\nyou can call one of the Jerico numbers:\n386 Park Avenue, South\nArmy\nOX 7-5190\nNew York, New York 10016\n(212) 679-0010\nAir Force\nOX 7-5143\nAmerican Council for Nationalities Service\nMarine Corps\nOX 7-5140\n20 West 40th Street\nNavy\nOX 7-5406\nNew York, New York 10018\n(212) BR9-2715\nTravelers Aid-International Social Services\n345 East 46th Street\nNew York, New York 10036\n(212) 687-2747\nTolstoy Foundation, Inc.\n250 West 57th Street\nNew York, New York 10015\n(212) 247-2922\n6\n7\nTM\ncut here:\nI understand the sponsorship commitment and I would like to sponsor a refugee family.\nSignature\nPlease Print: Name\nStreet\nCity\nState\nZip\nOffice Phone:\nHome Phone:\nSize of family you wish to sponsor:\nIf offering a job, nature of job, salary:\nPlease give two references (e.g. your employer, your bank)\n1.\n2.\nComments:\nFrom:\nPOSTAGE AND FEES PAID\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nU.S.MAIL\nSTA-501\nTo:\nLIBRARY\nFORD\n\"y\nGERALD\nfile\nFORD & 03RALD LIBRARY\nAn Organization and Welcome Guide\nfor Groups Sponsoring\nIndochinese Refugees\nWe wish to thank Jane Planck, of Washington, D. C.\nfor preparing this brochure.\nIt is through the efforts of tireless volunteers\nsuch as Mrs. Planck that ideas can become happenings.\nIn all our national periods of stress volunteers have\ncome forth efficiently, capably and compassionately to\nhelp. Many volunteers are coming forth to help with\nthe current Indochinese refugee resettlement program.\nWe welcome them and are grateful to them all.\nJulia Vadala 2aft\nJulia Vadala Taft\nDirector\nInteragency Task Force\nINTERAGENCY TASK FORCE FOR INDOCHINA REFUGEES\nPublication 3\nJuly 1975\nVIETNAMESE RESETTLEMENT VOLUNTEER SPONSOR PROGRAM\nA NEW NEIGHBOR WELCOME TO NEW IMMIGRANTS\nBy Jane Planck\nI. SPONSOR COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION\nAs sponsorship programs are initiated, individual\nlocal needs will develop that are not included in this\nA. Leadership\n\"blue print;\" and conversely, not all of this outline\nwill apply in every case.\n1. Identify an individual, service club, church\nIt is intended to serve as a springboard, underscore\ngroup, business organization, or other known\nlocal source.\nthe need, suggest ideas, save time, and generally pro-\nvide an earlier start for an individual, or group,\n2. Announce an organization meeting via all media.\nwanting to help with Vietnamese resettlement.\nThe experiences developing around the country thus\nB. Organization Meeting\nfar indicate the distinct advantage of group sponsor-\n1. Elect an Administrative Staff\nship. It not only spreads the cost of immediate support\nbut it allows for extended maintenance while the language\na. Chairman and Co-Chairman\nis learned and jobs are located. This will be necessary\nwith about 40% of the New Immigrants.\n-make policy decisions\nIn the face of culture shock affecting some and the\nevidence of close family relationships with all of them,\n-determine local potential to sponsor VN\nit will be well to relocate a minimum of three families\n(including full maintenance where no\nin an area with no other Vietnamese whenever it is\nfamily member has English. Can be several\npossible to do so. An alternate solution would be to\nmonths.)\nsponsor one \"extended family\" when their total number is\ncompatible with the sponsoring group's capability.\n-be available for media interviews\n-appoint Action Group Chairmen (when\nnone volunteer)\n-originate or locate contacts for donated\noffice supplies, and equipment use (type-\nwriters, copier, office furnishings)\nbefore renting them\n-attend all meetings\nb. Coordinator: a vital position - the heart-\nline of the operation. Select carefully.\n-can initiate action, is a two-way\ninformation pipe-line, must be advised\nof all action taken or planned, and\ndispenses enthusiasm\nii\n2\n3\n-coordinates all Action Groups\n-files a typed record of committee\nmeetings and decisions\n-if sponsorship is to be large (50 or\nover) coordinator will need an assistant\n-receives, distributes and answers all\ncorrespondence\n-authorizes large copier use, and\nprinting orders\n-keeps a permanent file of correspondence,\ninvoices, agreements, etc.\nC. Counsel\n-accepts contributions, issues receipts,\n-arranges non-profit status (for an\nrecords and deposits the funds\nextensive sponsorship)\n-maintains a Petty Cash fund and records\nits use\n-provides legal advice\n-writes and mails checks\n-can be one of the chairmen\nd. Treasurer\n-responsible for depositing funds\nf. Public Relations Chairman (See Action Group 1)\n-sets up the bookkeeping system\n-opens bank accounts\ng. Fund Raiser Chairman (See Action Group 2)\n-issues Petty Cash fund to secretary\n2. Estimate early operating expenses\n-provides contribution receipts (copier\na. For office supplies, telephone, trans-\nmade and issued in duplicate)\nportation, printing, utilities\nFORD\n-authorizes someone to sign checks\nb. Discuss donation potential and/or\nalternatives\n(the secretary is the one dependably\nGERALD\nLIBRARY\navailable)\n3. Authorize Fund-Raiser to locate \"first\n-publishes the final audit with a\nexpense\" fund\nwhale of a public \"Thank you for\nyour invaluable support.'\n4. Delegate Housing Chairman to locate a Head-\nquarters Office (free, if possible)\ne. Secretary: The Information Center\na. Can be a vacant office, church room, lodge\n-keeps a daily log for quick reference\nhall, Court House room, private home (!)\non actions and information\nor vacant store, which can double as the\n\"Clothing Center\"\n-sets up a 3 X 5 card filing system first\nthing for supply sources and the all-\n5. Identify Action Groups and provide Chairmen\nimportant contacts. Have the name, address,\nphone number, official title and what the posi-\na. Jobs, Housing, Food, Clothing, Volunteer\ntion includes; also record any agreement\nCorps, Reception, Language Classes, Busi-\nness and Professional Council, Orientation\nb. Solicit volunteers to compose each group\n4\nc. Elect, or nominate, chairman for each\n5\ngroup\nD. Action Groups\nd. Request folder files to be kept by all\nAction Chairmen on projects and contacts\n1. Public Relations\nof each group. It becomes quite valuable.\na. Announces location, phone number, useful\ne. Agree on a permanent name for the committee\nearly donations (office furniture, equipment\nas an entity.\nand supplies) and the purpose\nC. Headquarters\nb. Sends information to all local groups for\nmeeting announcements\n1. Location. Announce it immediately via all\nmedia.\nC. Establishes personal contact with all\navailable communications media, including\n2. Furnishings - desk (s) (can be card tables),\nas many staff members as possible, particularly\nchairs, shelves, long utility-use tables,\nphotographers\ntypewriter table (s), secretary chair (s)\nd. Maintains regular contact with available\n3. Equipment - typewriter (s), phone(s), copier\npublic service announcements on media\nchannels\n4. Office supply check list.\ne. Keeps the media advised of progress at\nIn-out boxes (empty stationery boxes\nall times\nwill serve)\nSpindles (1 long nail through a piece of\nf. Maintains (or oversees) news clip album\n1 X 4)\non local and national new immigrant pro-\nMemo pads (xerox \"discards\", cut up)\ngress\nLarge appointment book (the daily \"log\")\nMasking tape (to use on wall tape-ups)\ng. Arranges early for news coverage of any\nScotch tape (not to use on walls)\nactivity involving the Sponsor Committee\nFlair-tip pens (by the dozen)\nand/or New Immigrants\n3 X 5 file box (can be a woman's shoe box)\n9 X 12 rug, toys, crayons and coloring books,\nh. Prepares press releases!\nplus a play pen so young mothers can volunteer\nStationery\n-include acknowledgments for any contribu-\nLong and short envelopes\ntions and/or donations\nPoster boards\nManila folders\n-watch especially for human interest involve-\nYellow legal pads\nments: community expressions of interest,\nSteno pads\nchildren's letters, VN experiences during\nDaily desk calendar\ntheir transition. Contact Vets with VN\nScissors\nexperience who became interested in the\nStapler and remover\npeople\nPaper clips\nRubber bands\ni. Prepares a fund raising letter\nName and address stamp\nSpecial use stamps and pad\n-if mailing list exceeds typist capacity,\nMarking pens\ntype the form on the office typewriter,\n3 X 5 cards\nusing a \"Dear Friend\" salutation, and\nthe date. Reproduce with copier or photo\nprinting.\n7\n6\n-summer picnic and concert benefit\nj. Prepares \"Thank You\" acknowledgments\n-benefit bridge games\n-if there are many, a form-type letter\ncan be prepared but insert a personal\nd. Organize mailing lists\nparagraph on the specific donation.\ne. Recontact sources\n-include Home Office executives when the\ncontributed effort was through, or from,\n3. Jobs\na branch office.\na. Appoint a job search committee\nk. Submits all publicity and projects for\nChairman and Co-Chairman approval.\nb. Publicize job search in all media. Include\nclub announcements, church newsletters,\n1. Promotes clothing, furniture and house-\nand add the need to be a good New Neighbor\nhold furnishings drive. (Canned goods\ncan be included)\n-450,000 enter the US annually through\nnormal immigration channels\nm. Prepares an article (to use with Fund\nDrive) to advise the public of possible\n-60% of the VN are children or the elderly\nneed for total support until the VN learn\nenough English to be employable.\n-the total of approximately 30,000 jobs\nfor VN will spread out around the country\n2. Fund Raiser\n-the U.S. absorbed over half a million\na. Work with Public Relations to keep the\nimmigrants in the 30's when unemployment\npublic informed of amounts needed:\nranged between 14.3 and 24.9 percent\n-for operating expenses, even if minimal\nC. Identify and list potential employment sources\n-for VN support\n-Chamber of Commerce rosters\nb. Work with Public Relations to send solicita-\n-Yellow Pages telephone directory\ntion letter to local businesses.\n-City Hall business license bureau\nC. Prepare fund drive affairs\n-Manufacturing, assembly plants, food service,\n-barn dances\nother service organizations, maintenance\ncompanies, moving and storage, fabricating\n-street fair and dance\nplants, research (there are many highly\neducated VN with fluent English), farms,\n-lawn party with auction of contributed\nitems: dinner for two, movies, motel\nnurseries, tailors. hospitals, clothing manufacturers,\nweekend, concert tickets for two, greens\nfees, merchandise, pony rides, food and\nd. Divide employment source list and assign to\nbeverage sales, etc.\nvolunteers for personal solicitation\n-special movies\n8\n9\ne. Advise employers that your first effort\nb. Keep the secretary and Coordinator\nto find employment is for Vietnamese\nfully informed of prospects.\nwith English capability (maintenance\nand food service work can be handled without\nC. Check for vacated school buildings equipped\nEnglish with preliminary instruction by\nwith showers, toilets, kitchen facilities,\nan interpreter).\nand convertible rooms.\nf. Keep a file on job offers, required\nd. Contact real estate companies for avail-\nskills, minimum language ability, re-\nable vacancies.\nporting time, salary, available trans-\nportation.\ne. Announce through all media the need to\nlocate available apartments or houses,\ng. Coordinate with housing. Keep them\nfurnished or unfurnished. Include\nposted.\nnotice of a furniture collection storage\ncenter.\nh. For each job offer complete a Sponsor\nForm (Addendum 3) and send to your\nf. Inspect all locations.\ncoordinating Volag at the nearest Recep-\ntion Center listed on the Sponsor Form.\ng. Contact utilities for accommodations about\ndeposits - many VN will arrive without\ni. Call a meeting of bankers, lawyers,\nfunds.\nChamber of Commerce and other interested\ncitizens to consider establishing a farm\nh. Be prepared to arrange for multi-occupancy\ncooperative; handicraft center to produce\nwaivers if they should become necessary.\nlacquer ware, ceramics, hand-weaving and\nembroidery; a restaurant; clothing manu-\ni. Arrange for a volunteer clean-up crew before\nfacture.\noccupancy; otherwise provide cleaning\nsupplies.\nj. Investigate SBA loan availability. They\nare gearing up to work in this area.\nj. Set up Furnishings Collection Center.\nk. Schedule follow-up of Vietnamese to\nk. Make daily announcements on public\nsee that conditions are free of impositions.\nservice media of furnishing needs.\n1. PUSH EFFORTS FOR LOCAL AND STATE\n1. Solicit the use of furniture pick-up truck.\nRE-ACCREDITATION.\nm. For a substitute bed, foam rubber lounge\n4. Housing\nchair pads on the floor make a familiar bed\nto Vietnamese.\na. Prepare an Information Form for 3 X 5 cards\nto record available housing.\nn. China and glass factories have \"seconds\"\nfor a nominal cost.\n-color code cards for temporary private\nhouse offers\n5. Food\n-pin the area wall map as housing is located\na. Schedule free physicals to verify health\nconditions, and identify any malnutrition -\nespecially in children.\n10\n11\nb. Provide a basic supply of groceries and\ngo heavy on the rice. Allow at least\ne. Provide sorters and markers with large\none pound per day per person.\nwall poster of American sizing system\nwith its Vietnamese equivalent.\nC. Provide addresses of any local Vietnamese\nor Oriental grocery store.\n- an apparel metric guide is available\nfrom:\nd. Escort Vietnamese on a thorough\nfamiliarization supermarket tour -\nEd. Smith, V.P. for International Sales\nafter the first-day town tour.\nContinental Building\nDallas, Texas 75201\ne. Introduce the 2-wheel shopping cart.\nPhone: 214 748-5211\nf. Acquaint Vietnamese with U.S. County\nExtension Agent system, especially for\nf. Shoes should be new and properly fitted.\nlocal vegetable-growing advice.\n- plan a Shoe Fund Drive.\n6.\nClothing\ng. Arrange for laundering and self-service\na. Locate a \"Clothing Closet\" Center\ndry cleaning of collected clothing.\n- equipment: long tables, coat hangers,\nh. Notify church news letter editors of the\nclothing racks (can be made with plumb-\nneed for mending volunteers.\ning shop 1\" pipes, or stretched ropes),\nshelving, 1\" masking tape and non-\ni. Contact resale clothing shops. They\nsmear pens to attach clothing sizes,\ndonate end-of-the-season clothes.\niron and board, mending supplies.\n7. Volunteers: The Life-Line\nb. Announce the Clothing Center regularly on\npublic service broadcasts.\na. Regular communication with this committee is\nthe body that holds the heart-line and life-lines\ntogether\n- emphasize small sizes for both men and\nwomen.\nb. Sponsor Committee Chairman makes a public\nannouncement for the following volunteers:\n- be specific on items: men and boys'\nshirts, pants, shorts, and ties, over-\n- interpreters\ncoats, heavy jackets (and light),\nsweaters, underwear and socks;\n- clothing center staff\nwomen and girls' dresses, coats,\nsweaters, skirts, slacks, underthings,\n- mending and alteration sewers\nhosiery, socks, scarves. Rainwear and\ncanvas shoes for all.\n- furnishings center staff. Need some men.\nC. Solicit (or rent) use of sewing machine (s).\n- headquarters staff\ntypists, filing, phoning, messengers,\nd. Curtain off a fitting room, with a long\nresearchers for Action Groups,\nmirror.\nhousing and jobs.\n13\nh. Arrange a meeting for resident Vietnamese\n12\n(or a qualified substitute) to inform\nNew Immigrantsof American do's and don'ts\n- escorts\nof public health laws, social customs, etc.\n- language teachers - especially Laubach\ni. Plan a welcoming party or pot-luck\ntrained.\npicnic, hosted by the Sponsor Committee,\nor an organization, and warm their chilled\nC. Church news letters are a good source for\nhearts.\nvolunteers.\nj. Arrange follow-up home hospitality evenings\nd. Self-adhesive address labels make good\nto introduce the Vietnamese to American\ndaily name tags. Identify the position of\nhomes and families.\neach one for the first week.\n8. Reception\nII. LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES\na. Round up interpreters.\nA. Language Classes\nb. Meet arriving Vietnamese and escort\n1. Pre-arrival arrangements\nthem to their home.\na. Contact local school systems for available\nC. Provide a First Meal arrangement.\nEnglish teaching facility\n- it must include rice, and hopefully\nb. Advertise for local Laubach each-one-teach-\ntheir favorite seasoning: a fish sauce.\none instructor\n- a Vietnamese menu, with recipes, is in\nC. Offer Laubach training to volunteer and/or\nAddendum 2\nretired teachers\nd. Escort to Clothing and Furnishings Center (s),\n- information and a national list of\nand to the new employer.\nWorkshop Teachers is available from:\ne. Show them the nearest grocery and drug store.\nNational Affiliation for Literacy Advance\nPOB 131\nf. Plan a town tour.\nSyracuse, New York 13120\n- residential, business center, and a\nd. Reserve a classroom for Laubach Workshop\nshopping center.\n(15-30 hours)\ng. Become familiar with Social Service\n- one-to-one lessons are usually for\nAgencies and explain them to the Vietnamese.\nilliterates, and group workshops are\nfor others.\n- send for a textbook list for teaching\nEnglish to other nationals:\nAmericanization School\n36th and Prospect Streets, N.W.\nWashington, D. C. 20007\n14\n15\nB. Business and Professional Council\n2. Provide escorts for get-acquainted tours to:\n1. Set up a group of retired business and\nprofessional persons to discuss:\n- City Hall: What it does, how it is used.\na. American business methods and practices\n- Post Office and its services. (In Vietnam\nthe P.O. sends the telegrams.)\nb. Citizen eligibility requirements\n- Banks\nC. Present educational opportunities,\nnursery through college, and continuation\n- Department stores\neducation\n- Shopping centers: supermarket, drug store,\nd. Scholarship and Federal Education Loans\nlaundromat and self-service dry cleaning,\nhardware, variety stores such as Woolworth's.\n- for any problem on education loan\navailability contact:\n3. Arrange How-To sessions on:\nDon Wortman, Deputy Assistant Secretary\n- using American eating tools\nfor Program Systems\nHEW Task Force on Refugees\n- public transportation\n300 Independence Avenue, S.W.\nWashington, D. C. 20201\n- pedestrian rules\nPhone: 202-245-6024\n- paying utility bills\n2. Arrange contact with Manpower Training Program\n- getting a driver's license\n3. Provide alternative evening classes in high\n- finding consignment/resale clothing shops\nschool and/or adult education facilities -\nwith volunteer teachers for:\n- use of Yellow Pages directory\n- dressmaking/tailoring\n- enrolling in schools: pre-enrollment requirements\n- knitting: sweaters, socks, women's\n- initiating an employment search: how to contact\ncoats, afghans, hooked rugs (contact\nagencies, private, Federal or State, and how to\nmills for material source)\nuse classified ads.\n- manual training: carpentry, plumbing,\n- applying for work: resumes and interviews\nelectrician, small applicance and TV repair\n- time consciousness - the American way\nC. Orientation\n- using County Extension Agency services\n1. For \"Adjustment Shock\" pamphlet (primarily for\n4. Religion\nadopted children but generally helpful send to:\n- freedom of worship\nHolt Adoption Agency\nPOB 2782\n- address of local Buddhist society\nEugene, Oregon 97402\n16\n5. Community services and activities\nADDENDUM I\n- public parks and recreation department\nVIETNAMESE SPONSOR RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM\n- public library\nI - ORGANIZATION\n- social services\n6. Leisure time and entertainment\nLeadership. Every community has individuals, or groups,\nquick to respond when there is a civic need for action.\n- television, movies, public parks and concerts,\npublic swimming pools and playgrounds, indoor\nThis is part of the American Way. There is now a pressing\nneed to resettle the Vietnamese who have expressed a\nrecreation centers, special holiday events and\npreference to be called \"New Immigrants\". When the leader-\nyouth groups: Girl and Boy Scouts, Big\nBrother and Sister Clubs, Camp Fire Girls\nship for sponsoring group has been identified locally, plans\nfor helping the Vietnamese resettle in the community can\nprogress to an organization meeting. An immediate public\nannouncement of the proposal and the need for public support\nwill help bring early assistance from businesses and the\npublic generally.\nMany church groups and individuals have been in the\nvanguard of offers for sponsorship. Churches with public\nassistance programs already functioning have been equipped\nto accept these New Immigrants immediately. They also have\nthe advantage of not needing a competency investigation by\nVolags (Voluntary Agencies appointed by the State Department\nto process New Immigrants).\nAs an example, a Northern Virginia ecumenical group of\nchurches organized an assistance program five years ago with\na full-time \"Clothes Closet\" (it is maintained in the base-\nment of one of the churches), with regularly scheduled\nvolunteers who serve two months at a time, provide transporta-\ntion, locate housing, and help to find work for those in need.\nThus they were well established and able to offer immediate\nsponsorship of a Vietnamese family.\nBut ten churches in Grand Rapids, Michigan, moved from\nscratch with equal speed as they united to pool their effort,\nand decided at once to sponsor two hundred people.\nAt the organizational meeting for this sponsorship,\nspecific attention should be given to the following:\nCommittee Staff. The two Chairmen positions do not have to\nbe full-time but they do need to be filled by the kind of\ncitizen whose very presence lends such integrity that the\npublic can respond confidently. The legal counsel and\ntreasurer posts require a minimal time-demand; but the\nCoordinator's day will be long. Consequently, this job\nneeds the full-time and strong, organizational talent of a\nvibrant, enthusiastic individual able to encourage volunteers\nto know their time is well spent.\n3\n2\nJobs. Jobs are all-important and no one realizes this more\nA pleasant, capable secretary can keep any organi-\nthan the New Immigrants, but they have a major problem and\nzation operating smoothly; but for this project especially,\nnow they know this too. It is an unwillingness to break\ncommunication is the keynote and the secretary must be\nup their \"extended families\", a group that can easily be\nkept fully advised at all times. There is much pressure\ntwenty or more persons. They realize it must be done if\nin an emergency-type operation and a well-informed secre-\nthey are to find sponsors and jobs, and get on with their\ntary, along with the Coordinator, can be the balance wheel.\nresettlement. So, with serious intent, immediate families\naccept sponsor offers and plan to relocate but when departure\nHeadquarters. The most important consideration in locating\ntime actually arrives, they cannot bring themselves to go\nan office is to find rent-free space, whether it is an\ntheir separate ways. Often, three to four generations live\nunfinished area in a new building, an unused office, a\ntogether as a family unit.\nwarehouse, or an available family room (with a highly\nmotivated family). The number of phones to install would\nPartly for this reason, and also to help buffer the\nbe dictated by how large the sponsorship is to be.\nsudden removal to a totally new culture, there should be\na minimum of three (immediate) Vietnamese families sponsored\nPublic Relations - Fund Raiser. It would be advantageous to\ninto a community having no other Vietnamese.\nfind a Public Relations Chairman already acquainted in the\nlocal media arena. However, if a regular PR person does\nThis close family devotion may well be the most important\nnot turn up at the organization meeting, an interested\ncontribution of our New Immigrants to their new homeland.\nindividual with tenacity and imagination can soon make the\nVietnamese family love and devotion is too valuable an asset\nnecessary contacts. Attentive and understanding reporters,\nto take apart thoughtlessly, if it can be avoided. Insofar\nannouncers and/or editors will help to continue the project\nas an organized Sponsor Group can provide for an \"extended\nwith the right kind of public communication.\nfamily\", it will be to our benefit to make every effort to\nkeep them together.\nVarying the human interest angles of the whole resettle-\nment problem keeps public attention focused, and offers a\nHousing. Until resettlement is accomplished and families\nbetter understanding of the individual citizen's own place\nhave regained the necessities of work, food and clothing,\nin the overall picture. Part of this picture is that many\nhomes with minimal basic furnishing will suffice. There\nNew Immigrant families will require full support until the\nare some readily available American substitutes for tradi-\nEnglish language has been mastered sufficiently for them to\ntional Vietnamese furnishings as the following would indicate.\nhold down a job. An article, or series of articles, detail-\nThey are accustomed to low beds, and to pallets on the floor.\ning this part of the problem is essential if the public is\nTwo of our foam rubber summer lounge pads (if they are the\nto understand the situation better and be willing to offer\nthinner ones) would make a comfortable approximation of the\nfinancial assistance.\nJapanese Futon bed roll, and will serve until the family\nOnce a group has decided on the number of families, or\nincome can provide regular beds.\nindividuals, it can sponsor; and whether its sponsorship can\nThe Housing Committee will be able to find people\nbe total or partial, a more accurate budget forecast is\nwilling to share their home, if other expenses can be pro-\npossible. Various fund sources, such as area colleges,\nvided by a second sponsor or a sponsoring group. Multi-\nbusinesses, factories, clubs, and a neighborhood canvas, etc.,\nsponsors of individuals, or families, have provided the best\ncan be scheduled by individual members of the group for\nmethod thus far for early resettlement of the Vietnamese.\na concentrated drive in their particular area.\nSome church groups in combination have sufficient means to\ncare for several families.\nAs the need to help the New Immigrants start a new life\nbecomes clearer to a well-informed public, many original\nFood. It would be helpful to include in the orientation\ncontributors will respond with additional financial support.\nprogram a discussion by a Home Economist of the \"basic seven\"\nAs of this writing, Congress has agreed to reimburse States\nfoods considered necessary here for an adequate diet, especi-\nfor funds they use in the resettlement program. With this\nally with the change in climate some of the Vietnamese are\nin mind, local budgets can be planned to meet expenses not\ngoing to experience. Generally, their menu is not too\ncovered by State assistance.\n5\n4\nThere will be a serious need for clothing at first.\ndifferent to our own. Their average daily diet includes\nMany Vietnamese had only fifteen minutes' notice to leave\nvegetable soup, prepared meat or fish dishes, and always,\nfor Tannsonhut airport in Saigon, or to make their way to\nrice. Vegetables are cooked very lightly and meat is cut\nthe boats.\ninto small, thin pieces, smaller than what we call \"bite-\nsize\". Pepper and an ever-present fish sauce is a part of\nWith a sewing machine, volunteers, an instructor,\nmost recipes; and no Vietnamese considers the meal adequate\nand the Vietnamese women to help put it all together, they\nwithout a bowl of rice. Even a four-course dinner can send\ncould soon be re-clothed. They could also learn how to\nthem away from the table hungry if rice has not been\ntailor slacks for themselves, shirts and pants for their\nserved; nor is a table setting complete without fish sauce\nmen.\nfor seasoning.\nThere are still textile factory outlets in this country\nMany New Immigrants at Reception Centers are finding\nwhere fabrics are available from 25¢ a yard and up. A\nit difficult to adjust to our foods, but after several weeks\nsolicitation to the factory by the Fund-Raiser might elicit\nof this strange new diet, it is hoped that their systems\ncontributed materials for New Immigrant sewing classes.\nbecome fairly well conditioned to American foods. Neverthe-\nThe same procedure could possibly find yarn to use for\nless, their New Neighbors should be familiar with a few prob-\nknitting classes to make sweaters, socks, women's coats\nlems. Some children may not be ready for our whole milk\nand dresses, afghans, and hooked rugs.\nand will do better on powdered milk, even thinner than we\nusually prepare it and with honey or sugar added to sweeten\nVolunteers. The strength of this program depends heavily\nit lightly. Those who have been subjected to an extremely\non the continuing support of volunteers. If the Committee\nlimited diet due to war-time conditions will need to have\norganizes soundly it can be alert to maintain full communi-\ntheir systems introduced gradually to normal meals very\ncation with the staff and sustain its interest in the\nsimply prepared.\nproject to a successful conclusion. But for this to be\naccomplished, volunteers must believe their effort is\nIncluding the Cornell Bread recipe with the Vietnamese\nessential. They must be allowed to assume responsibility\nmenu in Addendum 2 does not ignore the fact that the\nand the Coordinator must keep them well-informed on\nVietnamese are not bread-eaters. It is added because of\nactivities in all areas. This information can come directly\nthe high nutritional value it offers to people on limited\nfrom the Coordinator, through the use of bulletin board\nincomes with large families. Two slices of this bread,\nnotices, or by way of the secretary. Periodic meetings with\nalong with butter, a glass of milk, and a serving of\nprogress reports and a solicitation of their ideas rein-\nBoston Baked Soy Beans can provide a substantial, nutritious\nforces their sense of involvement.\nmeal at an average cost of 36¢ per serving. The Bean receipe\nis also included.\nReception. If this group wants to provide a truly welcom-\ning note for a newly arrived family, it can plan for them\nThis menu is not recommended for a steady diet, but it\na first night meal, one that can be eaten with chopsticks;\ndoes offer a healthful alternate meal to supplement a low\nand offer to each member of the family, his own small\nfamily budget caught in the crunch of a high-priced market\nbottle of fish sauce along with a pair of chopsticks. (The\nbasket.\nrecipe for fish sauce is in Addendum 2.) Remember also to\nbe ready with seconds, and even thirds, for the rice bowls.\nIf the Vietnamese are helped to understand the nutritional\nThis gesture will help ease the tension of their first night\nvalue of soy beans for their families, it can encourage them\nin yet another strange location. If it can be managed, an\nto at least give them a try. It can also help to counter\naccompanying gift of a small, stiff bolster (called a\nthe inclination to double the rice bowl for a hungry\n\"Dutch Wife\") for children under six will provide them with\nfamily, especially one with growing children.\ntheir version of a \"security blanket\".\nClothing. Do furnish an explanation of American dress habits\nearly on. No woman, from Asia or elsewhere, wants to learn\ntoo late that she was not wearing the right thing at the\nright time. If introductory talks are given, she will be\nprepared with the right information once she regains a\nnormal wardrobe.\n6\nLanguage. Set up language classes in the quickest way\n7\npossible, whether they are en masse with one teacher, or the\nLaubach each-one-teach-one method. A special appeal to\nquestions are welcome at any time, on any subject, that\nretired persons for help with language instruction could\nmistakes are not fatal and we have only admiration for\ndevelop an on-going teacher corps of the Laubach system.\nthe one who possibly stumbles, but picks himself up and\nArranging for both individual and class instruction may be\nstarts over again.\nthe best way to meet this critical need. The Americanization\nSchool at 36th and Prospect Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.\nJust remember, everything in your town will be strange and\n20007, can provide a list of textbooks they use in their classes.\nrequire time for adjustment. The New Immigrants will be\nA volunteer at Pendleton is teaching English to an enthusiastic\ntoo polite to risk offending you by asking about things\nclass of six hundred.\npuzzling them. It is up to you to anticipate what needs\nexplaining.\nBusiness and Professional Council. For the most part, the\nVietnamese are a proud people. They are gentle, with\nNearly every city will be able to assemble a list of\nbeautiful manners, and most of all they want to be self-\ninterpreters to serve as escorts on introductory tours of\nsupporting. This is not to say there are not among them\nthe town, or to accompany Vietnamese to other necessary\nthe familiar type problem-people. There are, and this\nappointments. If an interpreter is needed but not avail-\nmakes a careful follow-up on resettlement procedures all\nable it can be a difficult but not impossible situation.\nthe more important. It can protect the honorable Vietnamese\nDrawing pencils and scratch pads to illustrate accompany-\nand new employers as well as sponsoring groups. Their own\ning gestures can say volumes.\ncommon knowledge of corruption among officials has tended\nto make them distrustful, sometimes of each other. It is\nHow-To Sessions. It is through these efforts that the strain\nup to us to help overcome this sensitivity.\nof resettlement can begin to ease.\nIt is important, too, to help them understand that\nReligion. There has been considerable misunderstanding on\ngraft and corruption are not an American way of life.\nthe status of Buddhist Vietnamese. Many have believed that\nWe must make them realize that while we, too, have immoral\nto acquire a sponsor, they must convert to Christianity;\nindividuals operating illegally, they do so at great risk.\notherwise, a Christian will not sponsor them. This is not\nAlong with your introduction to available social services,\nso and needs correcting. One way is to provide the head-\nadvise them about legal-aid and consumer help, then out-\nquarters address of the Buddhist Churches of America, at 1710\nline for them some of the \"con artist\" methods.\nOctavia Street, San Franciso, California 94101. That\noffice will send a list of all the Buddhist Churches in the\nOrientation. Like most Asians, Vietnamese tend to couch\nU.S. and their location.\ntheir answers in the affirmative even when they mean \"no.\"\nTheir motive is one of courtesy as they consider it impolite\nAdvise the Vietnamese of complete freedom to worship\nto disagree if it can be avoided. If you ask have they been\nas they choose, that they can meet in homes for their\nto, or have they done, such and such, the answer can be\nservices, if they choose, until such time as they can\n\"yes\". This can really mean \"Yes, I have not been to...\nestablish a church building, or temple.\ndone so or whatever. If you are not aware of this\nearly on, conversations can be puzzling; but remember it and\ntime, added to your hospitality efforts, will solve this\nproblem, also.\nAnother contradiction is our use of a good-by wave.\nTo the Vietnamese it means \"come here,\" and the crook of\na finger is used only to summon a dog. But common need is\nuniversal and it can help the New Immigrant to adjust faster\nhere if you let him know he is not expected to become an\nexpert on our ways and customs overnight. Emphasize that\nADDENDUM II\nMenu\nChicken Soup\nCaramel Pork\nVegetable\nVietnamese Style Salad\nFruit\nTea\nChicken Soup\n1/2\nChicken, or use 4 thighs (Vietnamese prefer dark\nmeat)\n1/2 C.\nRice\n3 T.\nFish sauce\n3\nSpring onions (optional)\n4 C.\nWater\nSalt, ground pepper\nBone the chicken and cut in small, bite-size pieces.\nCombine chopped onion, fish sauce, salt, and pepper. Mix\nthoroughly with chicken pieces and let marinate.\nAdd chicken bones, rice, 1/2 t. salt, 4 C. water to pressure\ncooker. Bring pressure up to 10 lb. and remove from heat.\nLet stand three minutes and cool under cold running water.\nRemove the bones and when ready to serve add meat mixture,\nbring to a boil and cook 5 minutes. Season to taste and\nserve. Can be served in small portions as an appetizer.\nCaramel Pork\n1/4 C.\nSugar\n1/2 C.\nWater\n1 lb.\nFresh pork, picnic or shoulder\n5T.\nFish sauce\n1 T.\nSoy sauce\nlt.\nSalt\n4\nHard cooked eggs\nBlend sugar and 1/4 C. water in a saucepan. Cook until sugar\nturns brown. Keep stirring and watch closely to keep from\nburning. When the sugar has caramelized, add 1/4 C. water\nAddendum II (cont'd)\nAddendum II (cont'd)\n3\n2\nand stir until sugar has dissolved. Set aside.\nNuoc Mam Sauce\nSlice pork very thin and in small pieces. Place in a\n1/4 C.\nFish sauce\npressure cooker, add water to cover, and salt to taste.\n1/4 C.\nWater\nCook under 10 lb. pressure for five minutes. Reduce\n3 T.\nSugar, or more\npressure, add caramelized sugar mix, soy and fish sauce,\n2 T.\nVinegar\nand the eggs. Simmer until liquid reduces to about 1/4 C.\n2\nGarlic cloves, crushed (optional)\nand pork is done. Serve over steamed rice. Serves 4.\nHot peppers\n1 t.\nLemon juice\nVegetable\nSauce can be lightly salty, neither excessively sweet or\nsour. It replaces table salt.\n1/4 lb.\nGround pork\n1/2 lb.\nChinese cabbage\n3\nSpring Onions\nCornell White Bread\n2 T.\nFish sauce\nSalt\n3 C.\nWarm water (80°)\nPepper, optional\n2\nYeast (dry or cake)\n2 T.\nSugar or honey\nCombine onions, fish sauce, salt and pepper and mix\n7 C.\nFlour (more if needed)\nthoroughly with the pork. Add to 2 C. boiling water. Bring\n1/4 C.\nWheat germ\nback to a boil and simmer 5 minutes. Separate meat into\n3/4 c.\nDry milk\nsmall bite-size pieces and continue cooking until pork is\n3/4 C.\nFull-fat soy flour\ndone. Add cabbage and cook until it is barely tender. Sea-\n4 t.\nSalt\nson and serve. Serves four. Pork can be substituted with\n2 T.\nSalad oil\nbeef, or shrimp. Spinach, mustard greens, watercress, squash,\nor other cabbage can replace Chinese cabbage.\nCombine water, yeast, sugar or honey in a large bowl. Let\nstand 6 minutes. Measure and mix together 6 cups flour,\nwheat germ, soy flour, and dry milk in a separate bowl.\nVietnamese Style Salad\nStir the yeast mix, add the salt and 3 - 4 cups flour mix.\nBeat with 75 hand strokes or for two minutes with an\n1 sm.\nHead lettuce\nelectric mixer. Add the salad oil and the rest of the\n1/4 lb.\nBean sprouts\nflour mix. Blend and turn out onto a floured board. Add-\n2 t.\nSalad oil\n1/4 t.\nSalt\ning remaining flour as it is needed, knead thoroughly until\ndough is smooth and elastic 5 to 10 minutes. Grease a\n2 t. Soy sauce\nbowl well, place the dough in it and turn over once to\n1/4 C.\nWater\nbring the greased side to the top. Cover and let rise until\n1/2 t.\nSugar\ndoubled in bulk (about 1 hour). Punch dough down with vigor,\n1 T.+\nVinegar\nfold over the edges and turn over to bring the bottom top side.\nPepper\nThinly sliced onion (optional)\nLet rise 20 minutes more. Turn out on to the board, cut dough\nin half. A small piece for a very small loaf can be cut\nBreak lettuce into 1\" pieces. Toss the lettuce and bean\noff first. Roll out one piece at a time to about 1\"\nsprouts in oil. Mix remaining ingredients together. Pour\nthickness, and slightly longer than the bread pan. Starting\nover salad 1/2 hour before serving. This is sometimes stir-\nwith the far end, roll the dough toward you ending with the\nfried and served hot.\nfold on the bottom. Tuck both ends under and place in a\ngreased bread pan. Cover and let rise until doubled in\nA new source for Nuoc Mam has been established by the major\nbulk, but not much more. Bake 350° for 50 60 minutes.\ndistributor for it in the U. S. and will be available by mid-\nIf the loaves start to brown too much in the first 15 minutes,\nSeptember, 1975. Write to Viet My Corp, 1007 St. Stephens\nreduce heat to 325°.\nRoad, Alexandria, Virginia 22304.\nYield: 2 loaves for 60¢ each (current Washington, D.C. prices)\nAddendum II (cont'd)\n4\nBoston Baked Soy Beans\n2 lb.\nSoy beans\n1 lb.\nShoulder pork, chopped small\n1\nLarge onion\n1/4 C.\nDark molasses\n1/4 C.\nSugar\n2-3 t.\nDry mustard\n2-1/4 t. Salt\n3 C.\nTomato juice, optional\nPick over beans and wash. Place in a large oven-proof pot\nwith a tight cover. Cover with water. Mix seasonings\nwith enough hot water to make a paste and add to the beans.\nAdd chopped pork and bring to a boil. Sink a whole onion\nin the center of the pot, cover and bake for 8 hours at 225°.\n1/2 lb. salt pork can be used in place of fresh pork. If it\nis, trim off the rind, scald for 5 minutes, cut in 1/2 inch\nslices and distribute evenly through the beans before baking.\nThis recipe lends itself well to overnight oven use. Make\na last minute check to be sure the water level is over the\nbeans by 1/2 inch. If the \"juice\" level on the finished\nproduct seems low, add water. The flavor is strong enough\nto take it. Pack in individual or family size servings and\nfreeze.\nYield: 3 quart at a cost of 45¢ per quart (without pork\nand tomato juice) at current Washington, D. C. prices.\nAn Organization and Welcome Guide\nfor Groups Sponsoring\nIndochinese Refugees\nFORD & GERALD LIBRARY\nWe wish to thank Jane Planck, of Washington, D. C.\nfor preparing this brochure.\nIt is through the efforts of tireless volunteers\nsuch as Mrs. Planck that ideas can become happenings.\nIn all our national periods of stress volunteers have\ncome forth efficiently, capably and compassionately to\nhelp. Many volunteers are coming forth to help with\nthe current Indochinese refugee resettlement program.\nWe welcome them and are grateful to them all.\nJulia Vadala Laft\nJulia Vadala Taft\nDirector\nInteragency Task Force\nINTERAGENCY TASK FORCE FOR INDOCHINA REFUGEES\nPublication 3\nJuly 1975\nTHE\nINDOCHINESE\nREFUGEE\nPROGRAM\nQuestions\nand\nAnswers\nINTERAGENCY TASK FORCE\nON INDOCHINA REFUGEES\nIn the past few months, more than\n130,000 Indochinese refugees have\nsought a new life in the United States.\nThousands of these people have already\nfound homes but many continue to re-\nside at six U.S. resettlement centers:\nGuam; Wake; Camp Pendleton, Cali-\nfornia; Fort Chaffee, Arkansas; Indian-\ntown Gap Military Reservation, Penn-\nsylvania; and Eglin Air Force Base,\nFlorida.\nFORCE\nIn order to leave these camps the\nFUGEES\nrefugees will need sponsors in the\nUnited States. This pamphlet has been\nprepared to inform the public (es-\npecially potential sponsors) about the\nmost important aspects of the refugee\nprogram.\n1\nHow big a problem will it be for the\nAre the refugees well educated?\nrefugees to find homes? 130,000 refu-\nYes. About 80% of the heads of house-\ngees sounds like a lot of people.\nholds have completed high school and\nWith the understanding and help of\n30% have college or university degrees.\nthe American people, the Indochinese\nwill get off to a good start in America.\nWhat job skills do the refugees have?\nWe absorbed over 600,000 Cuban refu-\ngees and 40,000 Hungarian refugees\nMost of the refugees are willing to\nwhen circumstances in their countries\ntackle any kind of work. However, 30%\nforced them to leave. Each year, we take\nhave held professional, technical or man-\nin about 450,000 immigrants through\nagerial positions, another 25% were in\nnormal channels.\nclerical, sales and service work; 25% in\nauto and aircraft maintenance and re-\nlated work; only 10% were in farming.\nAre the refugees in families, or alone?\nHow many orphans are there?\nHow many jobs will be required for the\nMost Indochinese families consist of\nrefugees?\n\"extended family units\"-grandparents,\nApproximately 25,000-35,000 heads of\nuncles, aunts and cousins. While these\nhouseholds will need jobs. Other family\nfamilies often wish to relocate near each\nmembers may also be employable. Over-\nother, they do not necessarily expect to\nall, the refugees will constitute an addi-\nlive together. The average family in-\ntion of less than .067% of our labor force.\ncludes about 4-5 people although there\nare several hundred single refugees.\nThere are very few orphans among the\nWhat happens to a refugee when he\nrefugees. The vast majority of orphans\narrives at one of the U.S. resettlement\nwere airlifted to the United States sev-\ncenters?\neral months ago and have already been\nAll of the refugees are processed by\nplaced in homes. About 30% of the refu-\nthe Immigration and Naturalization\ngees are children under the age of 12.\nService for security clearances. They are\nAnother 15% are under age 18. The\ngiven health screening and immuniza-\nadult refugees are almost equally divided\ntions and they are assigned social security\nbetween men and women.\nnumbers. Generally they are in good\n2\n3\nhealth and less than 5% are referred for\nfinding a job, in enrolling the children\nmedical treatment.\nin school, and in understanding our\nlaws and customs. Ordinarily, the health\nDo they speak any English?\ncare costs are all the responsibility of\nthe sponsor. However, unemployed refu-\nAbout 40% of the refugees speak some\ngees are eligible for Medicaid coverage\nEnglish already. Others are being taught\nwhich will protect the sponsor from\nEnglish in the resettlement centers in\nunusual medical expense liability.\naddition to learning a little about Amer-\nWhen the refugee becomes self-sup-\nican customs to assist them in making\nporting, the sponsorship obligation is\nthe transition.\nbasically one of continuing friendship.\nOne of the easier ways to sponsor is for\nHow do the refugees find sponsors in\ninterested people to work through a\norder to leave the centers?\ngroup (a church or a club) to share the\nThe State Department has contracted\nsponsorship responsibilities and costs.\nwith several experienced refugee reset-\ntlement agencies (listed on page 7 of this\nWhat happens if the sponsor-refugee\nbrochure) which interview the refugees\nmatch is unsatisfactory?\nat the camps and match them with in-\n(I.e. the sponsor doesn't want to provide\nterested sponsors.\nassistance or the employment of the\nState and local governments may also\nrefugee terminates.)\ncontract with the State Department to\nIf the sponsorship breaks down, the\nresettle refugees. Several state and local\nsponsor should contact the resettlement\ngovernments have already found spon-\nagency which placed the refugee to find\nsors for hundreds of refugees and many\na substitute sponsor. In the interim, the\nmore are planning to do the same.\nrefugee may be eligible for welfare,\nMedicaid and food stamps to assist in\nWhat's involved in sponsoring a refugee\nthe support of his family until they find\nfamily?\nanother sponsor or attain self-sufficiency.\nA sponsor makes a commitment to\nfeed, clothe and shelter a refugee family\nWho can sponsor a refugee family?\nuntil it is self-supporting. The sponsor\nAny group or any person who can\nassists the refugee head of household in\nseriously undertake the sponsorship\n4\n5\ncommitment can be a sponsor. All in-\nVOLUNTARY AGENCIES AIDING\nREFUGEE RESETTLEMENT\nterested sponsors are interviewed by the\nU.S. Catholic Conference\nresettlement agency they are working\nMigration and Refugee Services\nthrough; usually the interviewer is a\n1312 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.\nminister or a social worker. Even though\nWashington, D.C. 20005\n(202) 659-6625\nmany of the agencies are church affili-\nated, they place refugees of any religion.\nAmerican Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees\n1709 Broadway\nRoom 1316\nNew York, New York 10019\nHow do I go about becoming a sponsor?\n(212) 265-1919\nContact your priest, minister or rabbi;\nChurch World Service\nor send one of the agencies listed on\nImmigration and Refugee Program\n475 Riverside Drive\npage 7 of this brochure a completed\nNew York, New York 10027\nsponsor interest card (attached). If your\n(212) 870-2061\nstate or local government is forming a\nLutheran Immigration and Refugee Service\nresettlement agency or if a civic group\n315 Park Avenue, South\nNew York, New York 10010\nwishes to sponsor refugees in your com-\n(212) 677-3950\nmunity, they should contact the resettle-\nUnited HIAS Service, Inc.\nment branch of the Interagency Task\n200 Park Avenue, South\nForce in Washington (202-632-9180).\nNew York, New York 10003\n(212) 674-6800\nIf you are military or retired military,\nInternational Rescue Committee\nyou can call one of the Jerico numbers:\n386 Park Avenue, South\nArmy\nOX 7-5190\nNew York, New York 10016\n(212) 679-0010\nAir Force\nOX 7-5143\nAmerican Council for Nationalities Service\nMarine Corps\nOX 7-5140\n20 West 40th Street\nNavy\nOX 7-5406\nNew York, New York 10018\n(212) BR9-2715\nTravelers Aid-International Social Services\n345 East 46th Street\nNew York, New York 10036\n(212) 687-2747\nTolstoy Foundation, Inc.\n250 West 57th Street\nNew York, New York 10015\n(212) 247-2922\n6\n7\ncut here:\nI understand the sponsorship commitment and I would like to sponsor a refugee family.\nSignature\nPlease Print: Name\nStreet\nCity\nState\nZip\nOffice Phone:\nHome Phone:\nSize of family you wish to sponsor:\nIf offering a job, nature of job, salary:\nPlease give two references (e.g. your employer, your bank)\n1.\n2.\nComments:\nFrom:\nPOSTAGE AND FEES PAID\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nU.S.MAIL\nSTA-501\nTo:\nVIETNAMESE RESETTLEMENT VOLUNTEER SPONSOR PROGRAM\nA NEW NEIGHBOR WELCOME TO NEW IMMIGRANTS\nBy Jane Planck\nI. SPONSOR COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION\nAs sponsorship programs are initiated, individual\nlocal needs will develop that are not included in this\nA. Leadership\n\"blue print;\" and conversely, not all of this outline\nwill apply in every case.\n1. Identify an individual, service club, church\ngroup, business organization, or other known\nIt is intended to serve as a springboard, underscore\nlocal source.\nthe need, suggest ideas, save time, and generally pro-\nvide an earlier start for an individual, or group,\n2. Announce an organization meeting via all media.\nwanting to help with Vietnamese resettlement.\nB. Organization Meeting\nThe experiences developing around the country thus\nfar indicate the distinct advantage of group sponsor-\n1. Elect an Administrative Staff\nship. It not only spreads the cost of immediate support\nbut it allows for extended maintenance while the language\na. Chairman and Co-Chairman\nis learned and jobs are located. This will be necessary\nwith about 40% of the New Immigrants.\n-make policy decisions\nIn the face of culture shock affecting some and the\n-determine local potential to sponsor VN\nevidence of close family relationships with all of them,\n(including full maintenance where no\nit will be well to relocate a minimum of three families\nin an area with no other Vietnamese whenever it is\nfamily member has English. Can be several\nmonths.)\npossible to do SO. An alternate solution would be to\nsponsor one \"extended family\" when their total number is\n-be available for media interviews\ncompatible with the sponsoring group's capability.\n-appoint Action Group Chairmen (when\nnone volunteer)\n-originate or locate contacts for donated\noffice supplies, and equipment use (type-\nwriters, copier, office furnishings)\nbefore renting them\n-attend all meetings\nb. Coordinator: a vital position - the heart-\nline of the operation. Select carefully.\n-can initiate action, is a two-way\ninformation pipe-line, must be advised\nof all action taken or planned, and\ndispenses enthusiasm\nii\n3\n2\n-files a typed record of committee\n-coordinates all Action Groups\nmeetings and decisions\n-if sponsorship is to be large (50 or\n-receives, distributes and answers all\nover) coordinator will need an assistant\ncorrespondence\n-authorizes large copier use, and\n-keeps a permanent file of correspondence,\nprinting orders\ninvoices, agreements, etc.\nC. Counsel\n-accepts contributions, issues receipts,\n-arranges non-profit status (for an\nrecords and deposits the funds\nextensive sponsorship)\n-maintains a Petty Cash fund and records\nits use\n-provides legal advice\n-writes and mails checks\n-can be one of the chairmen\n-responsible for depositing funds\nd. Treasurer\nf. Public Relations Chairman (See Action Group 1)\n-sets up the bookkeeping system\ng. Fund Raiser Chairman (See Action Group 2)\n-opens bank accounts\n2. Estimate early operating expenses\n-issues Petty Cash fund to secretary\na. For office supplies, telephone, trans-\n-provides contribution receipts (copier\nportation, printing, utilities\nmade and issued in duplicate)\nb. Discuss donation potential and/or\n-authorizes someone to sign checks\nalternatives\n(the secretary is the one dependably\navailable)\n3. Authorize Fund-Raiser to locate \"first\nexpense\" fund\n-publishes the final audit with a\nwhale of a public \"Thank you for\n4. Delegate Housing Chairman to locate a Head-\nyour invaluable support.\"\nquarters Office (free, if possible)\ne. Secretary: The Information Center\na. Can be a vacant office, church room, lodge\nhall, Court House room, private home (!)\n-keeps a daily log for quick reference\nor vacant store, which can double as the\non actions and information\n\"Clothing Center\"\n-sets up a 3 X 5 card filing system first\n5. Identify Action Groups and provide Chairmen\nthing for supply sources and the all-\nimportant contacts. Have the name, address,\na. Jobs, Housing, Food, Clothing, Volunteer\nphone number, official title and what the posi-\nCorps, Reception, Language Classes, Busi-\ntion includes; also record any agreement\nness and Professional Council, Orientation\nb. Solicit volunteers to compose each group\n4\nC. Elect, or nominate, chairman for each\n5\ngroup\nD. Action Groups\nd. Request folder files to be kept by all\nAction Chairmen on projects and contacts\n1. Public Relations\nof each group. It becomes quite valuable.\na. Announces location, phone number, useful\ne. Agree on a permanent name for the committee\nearly donations (office furniture, equipment\nas an entity.\nand supplies) and the purpose\nC. Headquarters\nb. Sends information to all local groups for\nmeeting announcements\n1. Location. Announce it immediately via all\nmedia.\nC. Establishes personal contact with all\navailable communications media, including\n2. Furnishings - desk (s) (can be card tables),\nas many staff members as possible, particularly\nchairs, shelves, long utility-use tables,\nphotographers\ntypewriter table (s), secretary chair (s)\nd. Maintains regular contact with available\n3. Equipment - typewriter (s), phone (s) copier\npublic service announcements on media\nchannels\n4. Office supply check list.\ne. Keeps the media advised of progress at\nIn-out boxes (empty stationery boxes\nall times\nwill serve)\nSpindles (1 long nail through a piece of\nf. Maintains (or oversees) news clip album\n1 X 4)\non local and national new immigrant pro-\nMemo pads (xerox \"discards\", cut up)\ngress\nLarge appointment book (the daily \"log\")\nMasking tape (to use on wall tape-ups)\ng. Arranges early for news coverage of any\nScotch tape (not to use on walls)\nactivity involving the Sponsor Committee\nFlair-tip pens (by the dozen)\nand/or New Immigrants\n3 X 5 file box (can be a woman's shoe box)\n9 X 12 rug, toys, crayons and coloring books,\nh. Prepares press releases!\nplus a play pen so young mothers can volunteer\nStationery\n-include acknowledgments for any contribu-\nLong and short envelopes\ntions and/or donations\nPoster boards\nManila folders\n-watch especially for human interest involve-\nYellow legal pads\nments: community expressions of interest,\nSteno pads\nchildren's letters, VN experiences during\nDaily desk calendar\ntheir transition. Contact Vets with VN\nScissors\nexperience who became interested in the\nStapler and remover\npeople\nPaper clips\nRubber bands\ni. Prepares a fund raising letter\nName and address stamp\nSpecial use stamps and pad\n-if mailing list exceeds typist capacity,\nMarking pens\ntype the form on the office typewriter,\n3 x 5 cards\nusing a \"Dear Friend\" salutation, and\nthe date. Reproduce with copier or photo\nprinting.\n7\n6\n-summer picnic and concert benefit\nj. Prepares \"Thank You\" acknowledgments\n-benefit bridge games\n-if there are many, a form-type letter\ncan be prepared but insert a personal\nd. Organize mailing lists\nparagraph on the specific donation.\ne. Recontact sources\n-include Home Office executives when the\ncontributed effort was through, or from,\n3. Jobs\na branch office.\na. Appoint a job search committee\nk. Submits all publicity and projects for\nChairman and Co-Chairman approval.\nb. Publicize job search in all media. Include\nclub announcements, church newsletters,\n1. Promotes clothing, furniture and house-\nand add. the need to be a good New Neighbor\nhold furnishings drive. (Canned goods\ncan be included)\n-450,000 enter the US annually through\nnormal immigration channels\nm. Prepares an article (to use with Fund\nDrive) to advise the public of possible\n-60% of the VN are children or the elderly\nneed for total support until the VN learn\nenough English to be employable.\n-the total of approximately 30,000 jobs\nfor VN will spread out around the country\n2. Fund Raiser\n-the U.S. absorbed over half a million\na. Work with Public Relations to keep the\nimmigrants in the 30's when unemployment\npublic informed of amounts needed:\nranged between 14.3 and 24.9 percent\n-for operating expenses, even if minimal\nC. Identify and list potential employment sources\n-for VN support\n-Chamber of Commerce rosters\nb. Work with Public Relations to send solicita-\n-Yellow Pages telephone directory\ntion letter to local businesses.\n-City Hall business license bureau\nC. Prepare fund drive affairs\n-Manufacturing, assembly plants, food service,\n-barn dances\nother service organizations, maintenance\ncompanies, moving and storage, fabricating\n-street fair and dance\nplants, research (there are many highly\neducated VN with fluent English), farms,\n-lawn party with auction of contributed\nnurseries, hospitals, clothing manufacturers,\nitems: dinner for two, movies, motel\ntailors.\nweekend, concert tickets for two, greens\nfees, merchandise, pony rides, food and\nd. Divide employment source list and assign to\nbeverage sales, etc.\nvolunteers for personal solicitation\n-special movies\n8\n9\ne. Advise employers that your first effort\nb. Keep the secretary and Coordinator\nto find employment is for Vietnamese\nfully informed of prospects.\nwith English capability (maintenance\nand food service work can be handled without\nC. Check for vacated school buildings equipped\nEnglish with preliminary instruction by\nwith showers, toilets, kitchen facilities,\nan interpreter).\nand convertible rooms.\nf. Keep a file on job offers, required\nd. Contact real estate companies for avail-\nskills, minimum language ability, re-\nable vacancies.\nporting time, salary, available trans-\nportation.\ne. Announce through all media the need to\nlocate available apartments or houses,\ng. Coordinate with housing. Keep them\nfurnished or unfurnished. Include\nposted.\nnotice of a furniture collection storage\ncenter.\nh. For each job offer complete a Sponsor\nForm (Addendum 3) and send to your\nf. Inspect all locations.\ncoordinating Volag at the nearest Recep-\ntion Center listed on the Sponsor Form.\ng. Contact utilities for accommodations about\ndeposits - many VN will arrive without\ni. Call a meeting of bankers, lawyers,\nfunds.\nChamber of Commerce and other interested\ncitizens to consider establishing a farm\nh. Be prepared to arrange for multi-occupancy\ncooperative; handicraft center to produce\nwaivers if they should become necessary.\nlacquer ware, ceramics, hand-weaving and\nembroidery; a restaurant; clothing manu-\ni. Arrange for a volunteer clean-up crew before\nfacture.\noccupancy; otherwise provide cleaning\nsupplies.\nj. Investigate SBA loan availability. They\nare gearing up to work in this area.\nj. Set up Furnishings Collection Center.\nk. Schedule follow-up of Vietnamese to\nk. Make daily announcements on public\nsee that conditions are free of impositions.\nservice media of furnishing needs.\n1. PUSH EFFORTS FOR LOCAL AND STATE\n1. Solicit the use of furniture pick-up truck.\nRE-ACCREDITATION.\nm. For a substitute bed, foam rubber lounge\n4. Housing\nchair pads on the floor make a familiar bed\nto Vietnamese.\na. Prepare an Information Form for 3 X 5 cards\nto record available housing.\nn. China and glass factories have \"seconds\"\nfor a nominal cost.\n-color code cards for temporary private\nhouse offers\n5. Food\n-pin the area wall map as housing is located\na. Schedule free physicals to verify health\nconditions, and identify any malnutrition -\nespecially in children.\n10\n11\nb. Provide a basic supply of groceries and\ne. Provide sorters and markers with large\ngo heavy on the rice. Allow at least\nwall poster of American sizing system\none pound per day per person.\nwith its Vietnamese equivalent.\nC. Provide addresses of any local Vietnamese\n- an apparel metric guide is available\nor Oriental grocery store.\nfrom:\nd. Escort Vietnamese on a thorough\nEd. Smith, V.P. for International Sales\nfamiliarization supermarket tour -\nContinental Building\nafter the first-day town tour.\nDallas, Texas 75201\ne. Introduce the 2-wheel shopping cart.\nPhone: 214 748-5211\nf. Acquaint Vietnamese with U.S. County\nf. Shoes should be new and properly fitted.\nExtension Agent system, especially for\nlocal vegetable-growing advice.\n- plan a Shoe Fund Drive.\n6.\nClothing\ng. Arrange for laundering and self-service\ndry cleaning of collected clothing.\na. Locate a \"Clothing Closet\" Center\nh. Notify church news letter editors of the\n- equipment: long tables, coat hangers,\nneed for mending volunteers.\nclothing racks (can be made with plumb-\ning shop 1\" pipes, or stretched ropes)\ni. Contact resale clothing shops. They\nshelving, 1\" masking tape and non-\ndonate end-of-the-season clothes.\nsmear pens to attach clothing sizes,\niron and board, mending supplies.\n7. Volunteers: The Life-Line\nb. Announce the Clothing Center regularly on\na. Regular communication with this committee is\npublic service broadcasts.\nthe body that holds the heart-line and life-lines\ntogether\n- emphasize small sizes for both men and\nb. Sponsor Committee Chairman makes a public\nwomen.\nannouncement for the following volunteers:\n- be specific on items: men and boys'\n1\n- interpreters\nshirts, pants, shorts, and ties, over-\ncoats, heavy jackets (and light),\n- clothing center staff\nsweaters, underwear and socks;\nwomen and girls' dresses, coats,\n- mending and alteration sewers\nsweaters, skirts, slacks, underthings,\nhosiery, socks, scarves. Rainwear and\n- furnishings center staff. Need some men.\ncanvas shoes for all.\n- headquarters staff\nC. Solicit (or rent) use of sewing machine (s).\ntypists, filing, phoning, messengers,\nresearchers for Action Groups,\nd. Curtain off a fitting room, with a long\nhousing and jobs.\nmirror.\n13\nh. Arrange a meeting for resident Vietnamese\n12\n(or a qualified substitute) to inform\nNew Immigrantsof American do's and don'ts\n- escorts\nof public health laws, social customs, etc.\n- language teachers - especially Laubach\ni. Plan a welcoming party or pot-luck\ntrained.\npicnic, hosted by the Sponsor Committee,\nor an organization, and warm their chilled\nC. Church news letters are a good source for\nhearts.\nvolunteers.\nj. Arrange follow-up home hospitality evenings\nd. Self-adhesive address labels make good\nto introduce the Vietnamese to American\ndaily name tags. Identify the position of\nhomes and families.\neach one for the first week.\n8. Reception\nII. LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES\na. Round up interpreters.\nA. Language Classes\nb. Meet arriving Vietnamese and escort\n1. Pre-arrival arrangements\nthem to their home.\na. Contact local school systems for available\nC. Provide a First Meal arrangement.\nEnglish teaching facility\n- it must include rice, and hopefully\nb. Advertise for local Laubach each-one-teach-\ntheir favorite seasoning: a fish sauce.\none instructor\n- a Vietnamese menu, with recipes, is in\nC. Offer Laubach training to volunteer and/or\nAddendum 2\nretired teachers\nd. Escort to Clothing and Furnishings Center (s),\n- information and a national list of\nand to the new employer.\nWorkshop Teachers is available from:\ne. Show them the nearest grocery and drug store.\nNational Affiliation for Literacy Advance\nPOB 131\nf. Plan a town tour.\nSyracuse, New York 13120\n1\n- residential, business center, and a\nd. Reserve a classroom for Laubach Workshop\nshopping center.\n(15-30 hours)\ng. Become familiar with Social Service\n- one-to-one lessons are usually for\nAgencies and explain them to the Vietnamese.\nilliterates, and group workshops are\nfor others.\n- send for a textbook list for teaching\nEnglish to other nationals:\nAmericanization School\n36th and Prospect Streets, N.W.\nWashington, D. C. 20007\n14\n15\nB. Business and Professional Council\n2. Provide escorts for get-acquainted tours to:\n1. Set up a group of retired business and\nprofessional persons to discuss:\n- City Hall: What it does, how it is used.\n-\na. American business methods and practices\n- Post Office and its services. (In Vietnam\nthe P.O. sends the telegrams.)\nb. Citizen eligibility requirements\n- Banks\nC. Present educational opportunities,\nnursery through college, and continuation\n- Department stores\neducation\n- Shopping centers: supermarket, drug store,\nd. Scholarship and Federal Education Loans\nlaundromat and self-service dry cleaning,\nhardware, variety stores such as Woolworth's.\n- for any problem on education loan\navailability contact:\n3. Arrange How-To sessions on:\nDon Wortman, Deputy Assistant Secretary\n- using American eating tools\nfor Program Systems\nHEW Task Force on Refugees\n- public transportation\n300 Independence Avenue, S.W.\nWashington, D. C. 20201\n- pedestrian rules\nPhone: 202-245-6024\n- paying utility bills\n2. Arrange contact with Manpower Training Program\n- getting a driver's license\n3. Provide alternative evening classes in high\n- finding consignment/resale clothing shops\nschool and/or adult education facilities -\nwith volunteer teachers for:\n- use of Yellow Pages directory\n- dressmaking/tailoring\n- enrolling in schools: pre-enrollment requirements\n- knitting: sweaters, socks, women's\n- initiating an employment search: how to contact\ncoats, afghans, hooked rugs (contact\nmills for material source)\n1\nagencies, private, Federal or State, and how to\nuse classified ads.\n- manual training: carpentry, plumbing,\n- applying for work: resumes and interviews\nelectrician, small applicance and TV repair\n- time consciousness - the American way\nC. Orientation\n- using County Extension Agency services\n1. For \"Adjustment Shock\" pamphlet (primarily for\n4. Religion\nadopted children but generally helpful send to:\n- freedom of worship\nHolt Adoption Agency\nPOB 2782\n- address of local Buddhist society\nEugene, Oregon 97402\n16\n5. Community services and activities\nADDENDUM I\n- public parks and recreation department\nVIETNAMESE SPONSOR RESETTLEMENT PROGRAM\n- public library\nI - ORGANIZATION\n- social services\n6. Leisure time and entertainment\nLeadership. Every community has individuals, or groups,\nquick to respond when there is a civic need for action.\n- television, movies, public parks and concerts,\nThis is part of the American Way. There is now a pressing\npublic swimming pools and playgrounds, indoor\nneed to resettle the Vietnamese who have expressed a\nrecreation centers, special holiday events and\npreference to be called \"New Immigrants\". When the leader-\nyouth groups: Girl and Boy Scouts, Big\nship for sponsoring group has been identified locally, plans\nBrother and Sister Clubs, Camp Fire Girls\nfor helping the Vietnamese resettle in the community can\nprogress to an organization meeting. An immediate public\nannouncement of the proposal and the need for public support\nwill help bring early assistance from businesses and the\npublic generally.\nMany church groups and individuals have been in the\nvanguard of offers for sponsorship. Churches with public\nassistance programs already functioning have been equipped\nto accept these New Immigrants immediately. They also have\nthe advantage of not needing a competency investigation by\nVolags (Voluntary Agencies appointed by the State Department\nto process New Immigrants).\nAs an example, a Northern Virginia ecumenical group of\nchurches organized an assistance program five years ago with\na full-time \"Clothes Closet\" (it is maintained in the base-\nment of one of the churches), with regularly scheduled\nvolunteers who serve two months at a time, provide transporta-\ntion, locate housing, and help to find work for those in need.\nThus they were well established and able to offer immediate\nsponsorship of a Vietnamese family.\nBut ten churches in Grand Rapids, Michigan, moved from\nscratch with equal speed as they united to pool their effort,\nand decided at once to sponsor two hundred people.\nAt the organizational meeting for this sponsorship,\nspecific attention should be given to the following:\nCommittee Staff. The two Chairmen positions do not have to\nbe full-time but they do need to be filled by the kind of\ncitizen whose very presence lends such integrity that the\npublic can respond confidently. The legal counsel and\ntreasurer posts require a minimal time-demand; but the\nCoordinator's day will be long. Consequently, this job\nneeds the full-time and strong, organizational talent of a\nvibrant, enthusiastic individual able to encourage volunteers\nto know their time is well spent.\n3\n2\nJobs. Jobs are all-important and no one realizes this more\nA pleasant, capable secretary can keep any organi-\nthan the New Immigrants, but they have a major problem and\nzation operating smoothly; but for this project especially,\nnow they know this too. It is an unwillingness to break\ncommunication is the keynote and the secretary must be\nup their \"extended families\", a group that can easily be\nkept fully advised at all times. There is much pressure\ntwenty or more persons. They realize it must be done if\nin an emergency-type operation and a well-informed secre-\nthey are to find sponsors and jobs, and get on with their\ntary, along with the Coordinator, can be the balance wheel.\nresettlement. So, with serious intent, immediate families\naccept sponsor offers and plan to relocate but when departure\nHeadquarters. The most important consideration in locating\ntime actually arrives, they cannot bring themselves to go\nan office is to find rent-free space, whether it is an\ntheir separate ways. Often, three to four generations live\nunfinished area in a new building, an unused office, a\ntogether as a family unit.\nwarehouse, or an available family room (with a highly\nmotivated family). The number of phones to install would\nPartly for this reason, and also to help buffer the\nbe dictated by how large the sponsorship is to be.\nsudden removal to a totally new culture, there should be\na minimum of three (immediate) Vietnamese families sponsored\nPublic Relations - Fund Raiser. It would be advantageous to\ninto a community having no other Vietnamese.\nfind a Public Relations Chairman already acquainted in the\nlocal media arena. However, if a regular PR person does\nThis close family devotion may well be the most important\nnot turn up at the organization meeting, an interested\ncontribution of our New Immigrants to their new homeland.\nindividual with tenacity and imagination can soon make the\nVietnamese family love and devotion is too valuable an asset\nnecessary contacts. Attentive and understanding reporters,\nto take apart thoughtlessly, if it can be avoided. Insofar\nannouncers and/or editors will help to continue the project\nas an organized Sponsor Group can provide for an \"extended\nwith the right kind of public communication.\nfamily\", it will be to our benefit to make every effort to\nkeep them together.\nVarying the human interest angles of the whole resettle-\nment problem keeps public attention focused, and offers a\nHousing. Until resettlement is accomplished and families\nbetter understanding of the individual citizen's own place\nhave regained the necessities of work, food and clothing,\nin the overall picture. Part of this picture is that many\nhomes with minimal basic furnishing will suffice. There\nNew Immigrant families will require full support until the\nare some readily available American substitutes for tradi-\nEnglish language has been mastered sufficiently for them to\ntional Vietnamese furnishings as the following would indicate.\nhold down a job. An article, or series of articles, detail-\nThey are accustomed to low beds, and to pallets on the floor.\ning this part of the problem is essential if the public is\nTwo of our foam rubber summer lounge pads (if they are the\nto understand the situation better and be willing to offer\nthinner ones) would make a comfortable approximation of the\nfinancial assistance.\nJapanese Futon bed roll, and will serve until the family\nincome can provide regular beds.\nOnce a group has decided on the number of families, or\nindividuals, it can sponsor; and whether its sponsorship can\nThe Housing Committee will be able to find people\nbe total or partial, a more accurate budget forecast is\nwilling to share their home, if other expenses can be pro-\npossible. Various fund sources, such as area colleges,\nvided by a second sponsor or a sponsoring group. Multi-\nbusinesses, factories, clubs, and a neighborhood canvas, etc.,\nsponsors of individuals, or families, have provided the best\ncan be scheduled by individual members of the group for\nmethod thus far for early resettlement of the Vietnamese.\na concentrated drive in their particular area.\nSome church groups in combination have sufficient means to\ncare for several families.\nAs the need to help the New Immigrants start a new life\nbecomes clearer to a well-informed public, many original\nFood. It would be helpful to include in the orientation\ncontributors will respond with additional financial support.\nprogram a discussion by a Home Economist of the \"basic seven\"\nAs of this writing, Congress has agreed to reimburse States\nfoods considered necessary here for an adequate diet, especi-\nfor funds they use in the resettlement program. With this\nally with the change in climate some of the Vietnamese are\nin mind, local budgets can be planned to meet expenses not\ngoing to experience. Generally, their menu is not too\ncovered by State assistance.\n5\n4\nThere will be a serious need for clothing at first.\ndifferent to our own. Their average daily diet includes\nMany Vietnamese had only fifteen minutes' notice to leave\nvegetable soup, prepared meat or fish dishes, and always,\nfor Tannsonhut airport in Saigon, or to make their way to\nrice. Vegetables are cooked very lightly and meat is cut\nthe boats.\ninto small, thin pieces, smaller than what we call \"bite-\nsize\". Pepper and an ever-present fish sauce is a part of\nWith a sewing machine, volunteers, an instructor,\nmost recipes; and no Vietnamese considers the meal adequate\nand the Vietnamese women to help put it all together, they\nwithout a bowl of rice. Even a four-course dinner can send\ncould soon be re-clothed. They could also learn how to\nthem away from the table hungry if rice has not been\ntailor slacks for themselves, shirts and pants for their\nserved; nor is a table setting complete without fish sauce\nmen.\nfor seasoning.\nThere are still textile factory outlets in this country\nMany New Immigrants at Reception Centers are finding\nwhere fabrics are available from 25¢ a yard and up. A\nit difficult to adjust to our foods, but after several weeks\nsolicitation to the factory by the Fund-Raiser might elicit\nof this strange new diet, it is hoped that their systems\ncontributed materials for New Immigrant sewing classes.\nbecome fairly well conditioned to American foods. Neverthe-\nThe same procedure could possibly find yarn to use for\nless, their New Neighbors should be familiar with a few prob-\nknitting classes to make sweaters, socks, women's coats\nlems. Some children may not be ready for our whole milk\nand dresses, afghans, and hooked rugs.\nand will do better on powdered milk, even thinner than we\nusually prepare it and with honey or sugar added to sweeten\nVolunteers. The strength of this program depends heavily\nit lightly. Those who have been subjected to an extremely\non the continuing support of volunteers. If the Committee\nlimited diet due to war-time conditions will need to have\norganizes soundly it can be alert to maintain full communi-\ntheir systems introduced gradually to normal meals very\ncation with the staff and sustain its interest in the\nsimply prepared.\nproject to a successful conclusion. But for this to be\naccomplished, volunteers must believe their effort is\nIncluding the Cornell Bread recipe with the Vietnamese\nessential. They must be allowed to assume responsibility\nmenu in Addendum 2 does not ignore the fact that the\nand the Coordinator must keep them well-informed on\nVietnamese are not bread-eaters. It is added because of\nactivities in all areas. This information can come directly\nthe high nutritional value it offers to people on limited\nfrom the Coordinator, through the use of bulletin board\nincomes with large families. Two slices of this bread,\nnotices, or by way of the secretary. Periodic meetings with\nalong with butter, a glass of milk, and a serving of\nprogress reports and a solicitation of their ideas rein-\nBoston Baked Soy Beans can provide a substantial, nutritious\nforces their sense of involvement.\nmeal at an average cost of 36¢ per serving. The Bean receipe\nis also included.\nReception. If this group wants to provide a truly welcom-\ning note for a newly arrived family, it can plan for them\nThis menu is not recommended for a steady diet, but it\na first night meal, one that can be eaten with chopsticks;\ndoes offer a healthful alternate meal to supplement a low\nand offer to each member of the family, his own small\nfamily budget caught in the crunch of a high-priced market\nbottle of fish sauce along with a pair of chopsticks. (The\nbasket.\nrecipe for fish sauce is in Addendum 2.) Remember also to\nbe ready with seconds, and even thirds, for the rice bowls.\nIf the Vietnamese are helped to understand the nutritional\nThis gesture will help ease the tension of their first night\nvalue of soy beans for their families, it can encourage them\nin yet another strange location. If it can be managed, an\nto at least give them a try. It can also help to counter\naccompanying gift of a small, stiff bolster (called a\nthe inclination to double the rice bowl for a hungry\n\"Dutch Wife\") for children under six will provide them with\nfamily, especially one with growing children.\ntheir version of a \"security blanket\".\nClothing. Do furnish an explanation of American dress habits\nearly on. No woman, from Asia or elsewhere, wants to learn\ntoo late that she was not wearing the right thing at the\nright time. If introductory talks are given, she will be\nprepared with the right information once she regains a\nnormal wardrobe.\n6\nLanguage. Set up language classes in the quickest way\n7\npossible, whether they are en masse with one teacher, or the\nLaubach each-one-teach-one method. A special appeal to\nquestions are welcome at any time, on any subject, that\nretired persons for help with language instruction could\nmistakes are not fatal and we have only admiration for\ndevelop an on-going teacher corps of the Laubach system.\nthe one who possibly stumbles, but picks himself up and\nArranging for both individual and class instruction may be\nstarts over again.\nthe best way to meet this critical need. The Americanization\nSchool at 36th and Prospect Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.\nJust remember, everything in your town will be strange and\n20007, can provide a list of textbooks they use in their classes.\nrequire time for adjustment. The New Immigrants will be\nA volunteer at Pendleton is teaching English to an enthusiastic\ntoo polite to risk offending you by asking about things\nclass of six hundred.\npuzzling them. It is up to you to anticipate what needs\nexplaining.\nBusiness and Professional Council. For the most part, the\nVietnamese are a proud people. They are gentle, with\nNearly every city will be able to assemble a list of\nbeautiful manners, and most of all they want to be self-\ninterpreters to serve as escorts on introductory tours of\nsupporting. This is not to say there are not among them\nthe town, or to accompany Vietnamese to other necessary\nthe familiar type problem-people. There are, and this\nappointments. If an interpreter is needed but not avail-\nmakes a careful follow-up on resettlement procedures all\nable it can be a difficult but not impossible situation.\nthe more important. It can protect the honorable Vietnamese\nDrawing pencils and scratch pads to illustrate accompany-\nand new employers as well as sponsoring groups. Their own\ning gestures can say volumes.\ncommon knowledge of corruption among officials has tended\nto make them distrustful, sometimes of each other. It is\nHow-To Sessions. It is through these efforts that the strain\nup to us to help overcome this sensitivity.\nof resettlement can begin to ease.\nIt is important, too, to help them understand that\nReligion. There has been considerable misunderstanding on\ngraft and corruption are not an American way of life.\nthe status of Buddhist Vietnamese. Many have believed that\nWe must make them realize that while we, too, have immoral\nto acquire a sponsor, they must convert to Christianity;\nindividuals operating illegally, they do so at great risk.\notherwise, a Christian will not sponsor them. This is not\nAlong with your introduction to available social services,\nso and needs correcting. One way is to provide the head-\nadvise them about legal-aid and consumer help, then out-\nquarters address of the Buddhist Churches of America, at 1710\nline for them some of the \"con artist\" methods.\nOctavia Street, San Franciso, California 94101. That\noffice will send a list of all the Buddhist Churches in the\nOrientation. Like most Asians, Vietnamese tend to couch\nU.S. and their location.\ntheir answers in the affirmative even when they mean \"no.\"\nTheir motive is one of courtesy as they consider it impolite\nAdvise the Vietnamese of complete freedom to worship\nto disagree if it can be avoided. If you ask have they been\nas they choose, that they can meet in homes for their\nto, or have they done, such and such, the answer can be\nservices, if they choose, until such time as they can\n\"yes\". This can really mean \"Yes, I have not been to\nestablish a church building, or temple.\ndone so or whatever. If you are not aware of this\nearly on, conversations can be puzzling; but remember it and\ntime, added to your hospitality efforts, will solve this\nproblem, also.\nAnother contradiction is our use of a good-by wave.\nTo the Vietnamese it means \"come here,\" and the crook of\na finger is used only to summon a dog. But common need is\nuniversal and it can help the New Immigrant to adjust faster\nhere if you let him know he is not expected to become an\nexpert on our ways and customs overnight. Emphasize that\nADDENDUM II\nMenu\nChicken Soup\nCaramel Pork\nVegetable\nVietnamese Style Salad\nFruit\nTea\nChicken Soup\n1/2\nChicken, or use 4 thighs (Vietnamese prefer dark\nmeat)\n1/2 C.\nRice\n3 T.\nFish sauce\n3\nSpring onions (optional)\n4 C.\nWater\nSalt, ground pepper\nBone the chicken and cut in small, bite-size pieces.\nCombine chopped onion, fish sauce, salt, and pepper. Mix\nthoroughly with chicken pieces and let marinate.\nAdd chicken bones, rice, 1/2 t. salt, 4 C. water to pressure\ncooker. Bring pressure up to 10 lb. and remove from heat.\nLet stand three minutes and cool under cold running water.\nRemove the bones and when ready to serve add meat mixture,\nbring to a boil and cook 5 minutes. Season to taste and\nserve. Can be served in small portions as an appetizer.\nCaramel Pork\n1/4 C.\nSugar\n1/2 C.\nWater\n1 lb.\nFresh pork, picnic or shoulder\n5 T.\nFish sauce\n1 T.\nSoy sauce\n1 t.\nSalt\n4\nHard cooked eggs\nBlend sugar and 1/4 C. water in a saucepan. Cook until sugar\nturns brown. Keep stirring and watch closely to keep from\nburning. When the sugar has caramelized, add 1/4 C. water\nAddendum II (cont'd)\n3\nAddendum II (cont'd)\n2\nand stir until sugar has dissolved. Set aside.\nNuoc Mam Sauce\nSlice pork very thin and in small pieces. Place in a\n1/4 C.\nFish sauce\npressure cooker, add water to cover, and salt to taste.\n1/4 C.\nWater\nCook under 10 lb. pressure for five minutes. Reduce\n3 T.\nSugar, or more\npressure, add caramelized sugar mix, soy and fish sauce,\n2 T.\nVinegar\nand the eggs. Simmer until liquid reduces to about 1/4 C.\n2\nGarlic cloves, crushed (optional)\nand pork is done. Serve over steamed rice. Serves 4.\nHot peppers\nlt.\nLemon juice\nVegetable\nSauce can be lightly salty, neither excessively sweet or\nsour. It replaces table salt.\n1/4 lb.\nGround pork\n1/2\nlb.\nChinese cabbage\n3\nSpring Onions\nCornell White Bread\n2 T.\nFish sauce\nSalt\n3 c.\nWarm water (80°)\nPepper, optional\n2\nYeast (dry or cake)\n2 T.\nSugar or honey\nCombine onions, fish sauce, salt and pepper and mix\n7 C.\nFlour (more if needed)\nthoroughly with the pork. Add to 2 C. boiling water. Bring\n1/4 C.\nWheat germ\nback to a boil and simmer 5 minutes. Separate meat into\n3/4 C.\nDry milk\nsmall bite-size pieces and continue cooking until pork is\n3/4 C.\nFull-fat soy flour\ndone. Add cabbage and cook until it is barely tender. Sea-\n4 t.\nSalt\nson and serve. Serves four. Pork can be substituted with\n2 T.\nSalad oil\nbeef, or shrimp. Spinach, mustard greens, watercress, squash,\nor other cabbage can replace Chinese cabbage.\nCombine water, yeast, sugar or honey in a large bowl. Let\nstand 6 minutes. Measure and mix together 6 cups flour,\nwheat germ, soy flour, and dry milk in a separate bowl.\nVietnamese Style Salad\nStir the yeast mix, add the salt and 3 - 4 cups flour mix.\nBeat with 75 hand strokes or for two minutes with an\n1 sm.\nHead lettuce\nelectric mixer. Add the salad oil and the rest of the\n1/4 lb.\nBean sprouts\nflour mix. Blend and turn out onto a floured board. Add-\n2 t.\nSalad oil\ning remaining flour as it is needed, knead thoroughly until\n1/4 t.\nSalt\ndough is smooth and elastic - 5 to 10 minutes. Grease a\n2 t. Soy sauce\nbowl well, place the dough in it and turn over once to\n1/4 C.\nWater\nbring the greased side to the top. Cover and let rise until\n1/2 t.\nSugar\ndoubled in bulk (about 1 hour). Punch dough down with vigor,\n1 T.+\nVinegar\nfold over the edges and turn over to bring the bottom top side.\nPepper\nLet rise 20 minutes more. Turn out on to the board, cut dough\nThinly sliced onion (optional)\nin half. A small piece for a very small loaf can be cut\noff first. Roll out one piece at a time to about 1\"\nBreak lettuce into 1\" pieces. Toss the lettuce and bean\nthickness, and slightly longer than the bread pan. Starting\nsprouts in oil. Mix remaining ingredients together. Pour\nwith the far end, roll the dough toward you ending with the\nover salad 1/2 hour before serving. This is sometimes stir-\nfold on the bottom. Tuck both ends under and place in a\nfried and served hot.\ngreased bread pan. Cover and let rise until doubled in\nA new source for Nuoc Mam has been established by the major\nbulk, but not much more. Bake 350° for 50 - 60 minutes.\ndistributor for it in the U. S. and will be available by mid-\nIf the loaves start to brown too much in the first 15 minutes,\nreduce heat to 325°.\nSeptember, 1975. Write to Viet My Corp, 1007 St. Stephens\nRoad, Alexandria, Virginia 22304.\nYield: 2 loaves for 60¢ each (current Washington, D.C. prices)\nAddendum II (cont'd)\n4\nBoston Baked Soy Beans\n2 lb.\nSoy beans\n1 lb.\nShoulder pork, chopped small\n1\nLarge onion\n1/4 C.\nDark molasses\n1/4 C.\nSugar\n2-3 t.\nDry mustard\n2-1/4 t.\nSalt\n3 c.\nTomato juice, optional\nPick over beans and wash. Place in a large oven-proof pot\nwith a tight cover. Cover with water. Mix seasonings\nwith enough hot water to make a paste and add to the beans.\nAdd chopped pork and bring to a boil. Sink a whole onion\nin the center of the pot, cover and bake for 8 hours at 225°.\n1/2 lb. salt pork can be used in place of fresh pork. If it\nis, trim off the rind, scald for 5 minutes, cut in 1/2 inch\nslices and distribute evenly through the beans before baking.\nThis recipe lends itself well to overnight oven use. Make\na last minute check to be sure the water level is over the\nbeans by 1/2 inch. If the \"juice\" level on the finished\nproduct seems low, add water. The flavor is strong enough\nto take it. Pack in individual or family size servings and\nfreeze.\nYield: 3 quart at a cost of 45¢ per quart (without pork\nand tomato juice) at current Washington, D. C. prices."
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