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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.

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

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.

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.

News & Events

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Karen Organization of San Diego

Ensuring we uplift voices of people marginalized by hate provides a thoughtful platform for validating lived experiences.

တၢ်​မၤ​လီၤ​တံၢ်​လၢ​ပ​စိာ်​က​ဖီ​ထီၣ်​ပှၤ​လၢ​အ​ဘၣ်​တၢ်​ပာ်​မၢ်​အီၤ​ခီ​ဖျိ​တၢ်​သး​ဟ့​တ​ဖၣ်​အ​က​လုၢ်
​န့ၣ်​ဒုး​အိၣ်​ထီၣ်​ပျဲၢ်​စီၢ်​ဒိၣ်​ယိာ်​တ​ခါ​လၢ​တၢ်​က​ပာ်​ပ​နီၣ်​တၢ်​အိၣ်​မူ​အ​တၢ်​လဲၤ​ခီ​ဖျိ​တ​ဖၣ်​အ​ဂီၢ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ.

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် အမုန်းတရားကြောင့် ဘေးဖယ်ထားသော လူများ၏ အသံကို မြှင့်တင်ရန် သေချာစေခြင်းဖြင့် အသက်ရှင်ခဲ့သော အတွေ့အကြုံများကို အတည်ပြုရန်အတွက် လေးနက်သောပလက်ဖောင်းကို ပံ့ပိုးပေးပါသည်။

#stopthehateca #borderregion
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Ensuring we uplift voices of people marginalized by hate provides a thoughtful platform for validating lived experiences.

တၢ်​မၤ​လီၤ​တံၢ်​လၢ​ပ​စိာ်​က​ဖီ​ထီၣ်​ပှၤ​လၢ​အ​ဘၣ်​တၢ်​ပာ်​မၢ်​အီၤ​ခီ​ဖျိ​တၢ်​သး​ဟ့​တ​ဖၣ်​အ​က​လုၢ် 
​န့ၣ်​ဒုး​အိၣ်​ထီၣ်​ပျဲၢ်​စီၢ်​ဒိၣ်​ယိာ်​တ​ခါ​လၢ​တၢ်​က​ပာ်​ပ​နီၣ်​တၢ်​အိၣ်​မူ​အ​တၢ်​လဲၤ​ခီ​ဖျိ​တ​ဖၣ်​အ​ဂီၢ်​န့ၣ်​လီၤ.

ကျွန်ုပ်တို့သည် အမုန်းတရားကြောင့် ဘေးဖယ်ထားသော လူများ၏ အသံကို မြှင့်တင်ရန် သေချာစေခြင်းဖြင့် အသက်ရှင်ခဲ့သော အတွေ့အကြုံများကို အတည်ပြုရန်အတွက် လေးနက်သောပလက်ဖောင်းကို ပံ့ပိုးပေးပါသည်။

#StoptheHateCA #BorderRegionImage attachmentImage attachment+1Image attachment

In response to the devastating earthquakes that struck central Myanmar (Burma) on March 28 of this year, the KOSD community came together to host an emergency response fundraiser in order to send aid directly to impacted areas. The fundraiser was held on April 6 at the community Buddhist temple, just about a week after the tragedy, and we received a great outpour of support from community members who wished to contribute to the cause. In total the community fundraiser was able to raise $7078, and 100% of funds have been sent to Burma's mutual aid groups including local temples directly supporting the victims through cash aids, food and supply distribution. This work was made possible thanks to your compassion and generosity, so thank you so much for your support. While the community is working hard to support one another for the recovery, the state violence including air strikes in the ethnic minority areas still continues. Please refer to our original statement for the mutual aid fundraisers that KOSD recommends. Once again, thank you very much for your support in this uncertain time. Because of you, these individuals still have hope.

Original Statement:
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In response to the devastating earthquakes that struck central Myanmar (Burma) on March 28 of this year, the KOSD community came together to host an emergency response fundraiser in order to send aid directly to impacted areas. The fundraiser was held on April 6 at the community Buddhist temple, just about a week after the tragedy, and we received a great outpour of support from community members who wished to contribute to the cause. In total the community fundraiser was able to raise $7078, and 100% of funds have been sent to Burmas mutual aid groups including local temples directly supporting the victims through cash aids, food and supply distribution. This work was made possible thanks to your compassion and generosity, so thank you so much for your support. While the community is working hard to support one another for the recovery, the state violence including air strikes in the ethnic minority areas still continues. Please refer to our original statement for the mutual aid fundraisers that KOSD recommends.  Once again, thank you very much for your support in this uncertain time. Because of you, these individuals still have hope. 

Original Statement:
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We would love to invite you all to the SoCal API Festival happening tomorrow in Downtown Oceanside Civic Center. Our youth dancers will perform at Ocean Stage at 3:40 pm. Also our Oral History Project art and transcribed stories are displayed in Oceanside Library. ... See MoreSee Less

We would love to invite you all to the SoCal API Festival happening tomorrow in Downtown Oceanside Civic Center. Our youth dancers will perform at Ocean Stage at 3:40 pm. Also our Oral History Project art and transcribed stories are displayed in Oceanside Library.Image attachmentImage attachment
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