Lowell Sun (Massachusetts, USA)
09/10/2006
LOWELL -- The Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell has been awarded a three-year, $448,000 federal grant to fund four agency programs.
U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan announced the award on Friday. It comes as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement's ethnic community self-help program.
The money -- nearly $150,000 per year -- will allow CMAA officials to conduct depression screenings of its clients, many of whom suffer from post traumatic stress disorder related to their years under the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge communist regime, which ran Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
It also will allow the CMAA to undertake a community healing project that will incorporate gardening and other stress-reduction techniques, launch a series of awareness campaigned focused on the three major health problems in the Cambodian-American community (hepatitis, cancer and osteoporosis) and have a series of Cambodian health fairs in partnership with Saints Medical Center.
Michael Lafleur's e-mail address is mlafleur@lowellsun.com.
U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan announced the award on Friday. It comes as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement's ethnic community self-help program.
The money -- nearly $150,000 per year -- will allow CMAA officials to conduct depression screenings of its clients, many of whom suffer from post traumatic stress disorder related to their years under the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge communist regime, which ran Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
It also will allow the CMAA to undertake a community healing project that will incorporate gardening and other stress-reduction techniques, launch a series of awareness campaigned focused on the three major health problems in the Cambodian-American community (hepatitis, cancer and osteoporosis) and have a series of Cambodian health fairs in partnership with Saints Medical Center.
Michael Lafleur's e-mail address is mlafleur@lowellsun.com.
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