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Karen Organization of San Diego

Karen Organization of San Diego advances educational, civic, & economic opportunities for ethnic groups from Burma (Myanmar) while honoring cultural heritage.

 

About Us

Established in 2009, KOSD supports Karen and other refugees from Burma in San Diego. We help refugees navigate social service systems, access leadership and employment opportunities, and stay connected to their community and culture.

Refugees from Burma
Our History
Our Team
Our Board
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Programs

KOSD’s programs are informed by community input and needs assessments, and are conducted through a Community-Self Help model:

We support the community and empower them to help themselves. Our programs are possible with funding from various Funders

Community Program
Family Engagement Program
Civic Engagement Program
Economic Engagement Program
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Find Support

KOSD provides case management services for individuals and familieswho are refugees from Burma. Learn how you can access welfare, educational, and health resources.

Welfare Services
Education
Housing
Healthcare
Immigration
Community Resources Connections
ESOL Classes
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Get Involved

KOSD values support from various community partners, volunteers, donors and advocates. Here are the different ways you can support KOSD’s work, and the Karen and Burma refugee community.

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News & Events

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Karen Organization of San Diego
1 day ago
Karen Organization of San Diego

Please join us on Zoom tomorrow from 3:30-4:30 to learn all about sales strategies and customer relationship management for your small business! ... See MoreSee Less

Please join us on Zoom tomorrow from 3:30-4:30 to learn all about sales strategies and customer relationship management for your small business!Image attachmentImage attachment
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Karen Organization of San Diego is with Stop the Hate CA Border Region.
1 week ago
Karen Organization of San Diego

By embracing optimism and joy we honor the best in humanity, building vibrant communities where hate has no place.

ခီ​ဖျိ​တၢ်​ဟံး​ဃာ်​ဖိး​ဃာ်​သး​လၢ​အ​ထံၣ်​တၢ်​လၢ​အ​ဂ့ၤ​ဒီး​တၢ်​သး​ခု​အ​ဃိ,​ပ​ပာ်​လုၢ်​ပာ်​ပှ့ၤ​ပှၤ​က​ညီ​အ​န့​ဆၢၣ်​အ​ဂ့ၤ​က​တၢၢ်,​သူၣ်​ထီၣ်​ပှၤ​တ​ဝၢ​လၢ​အ​အိၣ်​ဒီး​အ​စိ​အ​က​မီၤ​လၢ​တၢ်​သး​ဟ့​အ​လီၢ်​တ​အိၣ်​ဘၣ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ.

အကောင်းမြင်မှုနှင့် ပျော်ရွှင်မှုကို လက်ခံခြင်းဖြင့် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် လူ့လောကတွင် အကောင်းဆုံးကို ဂုဏ်ပြုကာ အမုန်းတရားမရှိသော တက်ကြွသောအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းများကို တည်ဆောက်ပေးပါသည်။

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By embracing optimism and joy we honor the best in humanity, building vibrant communities where hate has no place. ခီ​ဖျိ​တၢ်​ဟံး​ဃာ်​ဖိး​ဃာ်​သး​လၢ​အ​ထံၣ်​တၢ်​လၢ​အ​ဂ့ၤ​ဒီး​တၢ်​သး​ခု​အ​ဃိ,​ပ​ပာ်​လုၢ်​ပာ်​ပှ့ၤ​ပှၤ​က​ညီ​အ​န့​ဆၢၣ်​အ​ဂ့ၤ​က​တၢၢ်,​သူၣ်​ထီၣ်​ပှၤ​တ​ဝၢ​လၢ​အ​အိၣ်​ဒီး​အ​စိ​အ​က​မီၤ​လၢ​တၢ်​သး​ဟ့​အ​လီၢ်​တ​အိၣ်​ဘၣ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ. အကောင်းမြင်မှုနှင့် ပျော်ရွှင်မှုကို လက်ခံခြင်းဖြင့် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် လူ့လောကတွင် အကောင်းဆုံးကို ဂုဏ်ပြုကာ အမုန်းတရားမရှိသော တက်ကြွသောအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းများကို တည်ဆောက်ပေးပါသည်။ #StoptheHateCA #BorderRegionImage attachmentImage attachment+1Image attachment
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We definitely need to embrace optimism and joy! 👏

Karen Organization of San Diego
2 weeks ago
Karen Organization of San Diego

On Monday, March 31, for the first time ever, Burmese, Cambodian, Lao and Thai communities are being invited to celebrate the start of the New Year season at the Padres! The game will start at 6:40, but gates will open as early as 4:00. Tickets are $50 each will include a seat in sections 233-235 as well as a limited edition BCLT San Diego Padres hat. Hope to see you there!

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On Monday, March 31, for the first time ever, Burmese, Cambodian, Lao and Thai communities are being invited to celebrate the start of the New Year season at the Padres! The game will start at 6:40, but gates will open as early as 4:00. Tickets are $50 each will include a seat in sections 233-235 as well as a limited edition BCLT San Diego Padres hat. Hope to see you there! Follow this link to purchase tickets! https://givebutter.com/bclt-padres
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