This Lunar New Year, we welcome the tiger and its offerings of power, honour, and solitude to our homes. 

Below, we’ve included our 門聯 to hang on doors and walls as words of blessing. Our mùhn lyùhn this year reads, 虎嘯祥瑞 (translation: To you and yours, “A prosperous and lucky New Year!”, the tiger roars). Print it out and hang it on your door to welcome the good luck and prosperity of the Tiger to your home for the new lunar year. When you do, tag us on Twitter and Instagram (@huafoundation) to show us where you’ve hung yours!

This past year, with your support, we’ve been able to accomplish so much. 

After 18 months of operations, we transitioned the Chinatown Cares Grocery Delivery Program into the capable hands of Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice. It has been a wonderful experience to work with all of our collaborators, and we are incredibly excited that the program will continue to provide uninterrupted services to elders in our community.

As part of our Race & Equity Program: 

We’ve expanded our anti-racism + solidarities resource collection to include more information and support on the topics of and relationship between the model minority myth and anti-Indigenous racism, in partnership with UBC Asian Canadian Asian Migration students. 

We’ve run a cohort program called Loss in Translation for Asian youth to explore feelings of grief, gratitude, and hope through a series of six art- and community-based workshops, with brilliant youth at the helm of its creation and curation. 

We’ve also begun working with organizers from communities across the Asian diaspora through our Asian Community Convener project to build relationships, share knowledge, and ultimately, support the capacity of communities to respond to systemic racism. 

Currently we’re working hard on designing a mental health program for Asian youth in partnership with specialists that will include group therapy and other supports. 

And soon, based on our learnings as part of the C-19 Response Coalition, we’ll also be launching our new Language Access Project, an advocacy program and resource toolkit geared towards governments and public institutions to do better, in their multilingual public engagement and communications.

Throughout this all, we’ve been shifting our focus as a team, broadening our work beyond the East Asian community to working with contractors, collaborators, and community organizations across the Asian diaspora. We have and continue to learn how to work across Asian communities in ways that support self-determination and centre community needs, and more importantly, we are committed to reorienting how we relate to each other, including fighting homogenization of our cultures and experiences.

So if you can help our small team to continue this pivotal work on anti-racism, systems change, and So if you can help our small team to continue this pivotal work on anti-racism, systems change, and food security, please consider starting a monthly donation or a one-time contribution. Monthly donations not only make it possible for us to keep existing programs running, but also to dream bigger and imagine brighter, more sustainable futures for our work. A special thank you to those who already support our work financially and beyond – it means a lot to us to be in such a generous community.

Thank you 感謝, and Happy Lunar New Year! 恭喜發財!

With care,

Kevin Huang 黃儀軒 on behalf of the hua foundation team:

Kimberley Wong 黄壯慈,, Emily Tsang 曾泳伃, and Christina Lee 李嘉明 

Victoria So 蘇美馨, Suki Xiao 肖斯琦, Rachel Cheang 張伶璘, Olivia Lim, Mimi Nguyễn, Mandy Huynh 黄闵媛, Kayla Isomura, Kathleen Anne Ravalo Zaragosa, Joyce Deng 邓玉书, Joty Gill, Guneet K Pooni ਗੁਨੀਤ, Em Jun Ng-Mittertreiner 伍美利, Daphne Tse 謝皓琛, Carmut Me 米家宓, Brooke Xiang 向伊凡, and Arina Sin

And Miranda Eng 伍文莊, Joyce Liao 廖釆約, Emily Huynh, and Elaine Su 蘇依泠 from the board