🎉 Build with VAYLA this #GivingTuesday!
We are honored to continually facilitate and witness the power of community in casting third spaces for meaningful change—none of us are in this alone. The core of our mission embodies interdependence, rooted in the understanding that our collective power grows when we care for one another. Whether through mutual aid, community gatherings, or sharing our stories, building community drives transformation.
Too often, the stories told on our behalf center survival over our power and individual resilience over our shared liberation. But we believe in a different story: one where our communities don’t just survive, but thrive together. This means shifting away from fear-based responses to crises, and alchemizing our collective power through creativity and connection. It means centering joy and reimagining more just futures together as essential elements of community care.
Through every storm, VAYLA remains anchored in AAPI leadership, building our collective power as Asian American Pacific Islanders living in the Gulf South. We’re building a future rooted in solidarity—one cup of Cha at a time.
We invite you to be part of this story!
Join us at our next Cha and Chat meet-up, explore and share our guided reflection prompts, host your own meet-up, or submit a feature for our new blog. Contributing to VAYLA for #GivingTuesday supports spaces for storytelling, connection, collective healing, and radical joy! However you show up, we welcome you in co-creating a more just world for all!
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This work would not be possible without the support of our greater New Orleans community. Thank you for believing in this vision and making it possible!