As feelings of abandonment gripped Chinatown, Chang and Tsai decided to make it their mission to ensure the elders in their community never went hungry. AmericaStrong
found Asian households were twice as likely as white households to report not having enough to eat as the pandemic raged because they were"afraid to go or didn’t want to go out to buy food."Yin Chang and Moonlynn Tsai deliver meals to seniors in their community amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In our culture, we've been ingrained to not show emotions or to ask for help ... That's why food is such a big, common factor in showing care. "The notes go an extra step, because in our generations above us it is very common to not express our love out loud, but being born American and being American kids, we're always being told by our elderly generation, 'Oh, you American kids are always so loud and so expressive,'" Chang said.
While it began as just the two of them, Heart of Dinner has since grown to include a network of over 3,500 volunteers that serve more than 500 elders weekly -- and has poured upwards of $200,000 in donations directly into local hard-hit businesses to buy the supplies. Moreover, thousands of letters in a multitude of Asian languages poured in from across the country to accompany the meals after the women put out a call for them online.
Many of the cards, including the original ones written by Chang, were from American children learning to write their families' native language for the first time via help from their parents or even Google Translate."And then after a while, we started seeing a shift, where we will get letters: 'I am not Asian, however, I love your culture, and I want to be a part of this mission,'" Tsai said.
It wasn't 'til Heart of Dinner that I experienced a sense of this deep connection and bond over a particular mission, specifically with the Asian American community.
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