MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear Friends,

On October 8th, 2005, Vietnamese Americans of Southern California will meet in Orange of California for the First Annual Benefit Gala on the theme “Rising to the Challenge.” We, the Vietnamese Professionals Society (VPS) of Southern California, invite your support for this event.

In keeping with our tradition of community service and helping those less fortunate, the VPS of Southern California invites you to join us for in our first annual gala. We aim to challenge ourselves and to explore our community to an issue of international importance – human trafficking and labor exploitation.

This 2005 Gala will be the first such event held by our chapter in an effort to reach out to those in need and support a newly established organization, VietACT, the Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Human Trafficking. All proceeds from the Benefit Gala will go towards VietACT to help establish much needed offices and shelters. By hosting this benefit dinner, VPS of Southern California also wants to bring awareness to the human trafficking and labor exploitation of Vietnamese women and men in the East/and Southeast Asia regions starting with Taiwan. From this spectacular event, participants will acquire new understandings of the issue. To achieve this vital goal, VPS of Southern California will invite significant public media from the community to promote the awareness to the community.

It is both an endeavor worthy of your support and an opportunity for VPS of Southern California to demonstrate our greatest concern toward human trafficking issue. We look forward to welcoming you at the Benefit Gala!

Warm Regards,

Xuan Vu
President
Vietnamese Professionals Society – Southern California Chapter