The Nurse
Malida's journey from Khao-I-Dang refugee camp to serving the needy in Lowell
Malida's journey from Khao-I-Dang refugee camp to serving the needy in Lowell
Malida’s Suong parents fled Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, and escaped to Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai border, where an estimated population of 160,000 refugees was living. Malida was born there in 1981. In 1985, the whole family finally left for a new life in a new country, the United States. After a short period in Maine, Malida’s family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, where South-East Asian refugee families had already settled, among them a big majority of Cambodians. Malida’s parents found jobs easily there, factory works… It’s not until she traveled back to Cambodia in 2004 - the first time since her family had left the country - that Malida envisioned the career she wanted to embrace: public health and nursing. In May 2009, she has graduated with a Masters in Science and received her license to be a nurse practitioner. Malida is now working at LCHC (Lowell Community Health Center), a non-profit organization that started in 1970 to serve the diverse ethnic population of Lowell, with high quality and affordable health care services.
14 comments:
Congratulation Malida's!
" One should not associate with bad friends, nor with
the vile. One should associate with good friends, and with those
who are noble."Lord Buddha
Good for you Malida, your family must be very proud of you and i'm too. however, if possible you could help the poor in your originated country it would be the best for your own people.
Congratulation Malida!! Help other people..
Congratulations Malida! You sure walk the walk. Unlike some individual who can't even talk the talk and is very self absorb. Keep up the good work and you will be inevitably loved and respected in the community and by people all over.
Didn't know that a master degree is required to become a nurce pratitioner. Thought a bachelor degree was enough.
Congratulation Malida. I am not sure what is your relation with Professor Leakena Nou? But the professor is so arrogant and yet she seem to have a mental issue with a metldown syndrom. How on earth she get a teaching job as assitant Professor of Sociology at California State Long Beach? Most of the time, there was a Khmer gethering she seem to show up without invitation, and insulting the group agenda, it does not mater what agenda that is. ASRIC is nothing more than promoting herself. She is so rediculous.
Congratulation Malida! Just don't go around and think you're better than anyone else.
^^^^ a good reminder and congratulations Malida.
she is better than someone lazy and stupid .she work hard
Congrats Malida! you did well. Thanks for serving the needy.
10:52 PM-ur right. the article is wrong, she that was not a masters in science degree.
I will marry her...
I am proud to see one of Lowellians accomplished her goals. Keep up the good work.
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