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Our biggest HAPI turnout yet!

August 28, 2024

Despite the turbulent rainstorms and high temperatures, ASIA’s HAPI Fresh Farmer’s Market hit record attendance this summer.   Hundreds of community members visit us each Wednesday to shop for homegrown and…

Asian Services in Action in collaboration with Jin Huo Community to Publish Co-generational Refugee and Immigrant Memoir Magazine

August 20, 2024

A Precious Inheritance

July 25, 2024

Della tenderly turned the plastic pages of her photo album, which are laden with photos upon photos of her life. They ranged from formal, black and white photos of a…

AKRON REFUGEE ORGANIZATIONS TO CO-HOST WORLD REFUGEE DAY CELEBRATION IN NORTH HILL 

June 13, 2024

  Akron, June 14, 2024- Immigration Network Akron (IN-Akron), Refugee Health Task Force, Asian Services in Action’s International Community Health Center (ASIA-ICHC), and North Hill Community Development Corporation (NHCDC) are…

Stop and Smell the Roses

May 30, 2024

On a sunny day in April, at a pleasant 68 degrees Fahrenheit, two Cleveland Metroparks vans filled with ASIA’s Community Adult Mentorship (CAM) students pulled into the parking lot of…

Chan’s Story

May 21, 2024

Chan was twenty-seven when she arrived in the US after the military coup in Myanmar. She was so stressed about her parents’ health problems and her future that she had…

To Literacy and Beyond

April 25, 2024

The men in the newly arrived Afghan community had a resounding request in September, three months after ASIA’s Women and Literacy classes began: they wanted ASIA to host a men’s…

We’re a Target Circle Partner!

April 23, 2024

Your Target shopping spree can make positive impact on Northeast Ohio’s immigrant and refugee communities! ASIA is partnering with Target Circle to raise funds with the community, for the community.…

Asian Services in Action Congratulates the International Welcome Center for Selection as Summit County’s New Refugee Resettlement Agency

April 18, 2024

Akron, April 18, 2024– Asian Services in Action (ASIA) has begun a new partnership with the International Welcome Center to support the resettlement of refugees in the Barberton, Kenmore, and…

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Internet survey opportunity regarding women's health

August 21, 2009

Asian Services in Action, Inc. is pleased to announce a survey opportunity from the University of Texas at Austin, School of Nursing. Dr. Eun-Ok Im, a nursing researcher at the…

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Program Specialist – Community Health Promotions

August 12, 2009

Position Available: Program Specialist (Community Health Promotions) Location: Cleveland, Ohio Pay Rate: (.75 to 1.0 FTE; rate based on qualifications) with prorated (depends on actual hours of work) medical and…

ASIA is awarded two AmeriCorps volunteers

August 8, 2009

ASIA is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Food Banks  to place two AmeriCorps volunteers at ASIA: one in Akron and…

COMMUNITY FEATURE

The Story of Hamayon Yaqobi: Friendship and Citizenship

Cleveland, OH - While Hamayon Yaqobi, Senior Operations Manager at ASIA’s International Community Health Center, sat in quiet excitement for the naturalization ceremony to begin at the Carl B. Stokes Building, he was accompanied by two equally excited individuals who introduced themselves as Mike and Meg. When asked how they knew Hamayon—are you friends or family?—Meg smiled and said, a little bit of both. Those categories are not enough to describe their incredible bond. 

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