About VYDC

Located in the heart of San Francisco, the Tenderloin District is home to 12,000 refugees and immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Poverty, linguistic and cultural isolation, a lack of access to resources, and environmental stress place these youth at high risk for delinquency and gang activity. In 1989, VYDC developed a Media Lab as a strategy to help Tenderloin youth think in new ways and interact with a larger world beyond their neighborhood. Today, the Lab uses digital cameras and computer-based editing programs to give Southeast Asian youth the language of technology and prepare them to participate in its culture.

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posted 8/30/2005