Health
(Photo by Heather Chin / Sunset Park Voice)By Heather Chin Brooklyn’s Chinese American community now has its own ambulance company — the first on the East Coast — to address a growing need for paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) who speak Chinese dialects such as Mandarin, Cantonese, and Toisanese. Launched
Bensonhurst
Youth education, leadership, and employment programs in Bensonhurst, Sunset Park and in Brooklyn at large, are getting some much-needed support thanks to $2 million in grants from Brooklyn Community Foundation (BCF). Specifically, BCF has designated $20,000 for United Chinese Association of Brooklyn [http://www.ucaob.org/]‘s Youth Leadership
2nd Language Camp
We’ve updated our list of camps offering to teach young campers a second language while enjoying traditional summer activities. Give your camper a head start into the global community–and a secret mode of communication–by signing up for one of these 7 foreign language summer camps. Brooklyn Chinese-American
Steve Chung
A plan for newly drawn boundaries has created a 51% Asian state Assembly district made up of parts of Sunset Park, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst. Asian-American groups had promoted a district to help enfranchise a community that has grown 46% in the last ten years, writes the Daily News [http: