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Hua foundation is a youth-driven non-profit based in Vancouver, Canada dedicated to bringing together the worlds of cultural heritage and social change.

Our mission is to create and support community-based solutions that honour our individual histories and collective heritage to strengthen our community’s capacity for social change. Our name: Hua is a play on words of Hua Ren [Cantonese: Wah Yun] 華人 – “peoples of ethnic Chinese descent,” Bian Hua [C: Bin Faa] 變化 – “change,” and Wen Hua [C: Man Faa] 文化 – “culture.”

06/18/2026

Applications are now open for ‘Reorienting Our Trauma’, a program that offers free group counselling for members of the Asian diaspora. The 5-week program provides space for our community to speak up about the struggles and injustices we face, healing collective harms together through naming, coping with, and rewriting our trauma.

🧩✎ᝰ.ᐟ⋆₊ Our program is created and led by facilitators Betty Yeung, RCC, CCC (Betty Yeung, RCC, CCC), Kimberley Wong (), Program Manager at hua foundation, and Myla Mylvaganam, Program Assistant.

°❀🐞⋆°❀* Reorienting Our Trauma is free of cost to those participating, but participants must be able to attend all sessions. Sessions are conducted in English and ‼️dinner will be provided‼️. Dates of the program are Wed, July 29, and Thurs, August 6, 13, 20, and 27. Each cohort will have up to 12 participants and will be held in person starting at 6pm in Chinatown “Vancouver”.

✩°˖⋆｡˚🪼꩜ Learn more and apply for the program at https://bit.ly/ROT-2026 or at the link in our bio. Please submit your response to this form at the latest by 11:59pm on Wednesday, July 8, 2026. We encourage people to apply early, as applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.

06/09/2026

Join us on our walking tour of Chinatown and Hogan’s Alley on Sunday, June 28th, 2026 from 11am-2pm.

Though Chinatown and Hogan’s Alley walking tours have long served as an accessible, tangible, and engaging way to share the histories of the neighbourhoods we live and work in, these stories are often told in isolation of one another. In partnership, Hogan’s Alley Society and hua foundation are launching a new walking tour, which includes examples of how our respective communities have been intentionally divided since the inception of this city, and draws commonalities and connections between stories of the two neighbourhoods. Divide and conquer tactics have led to entire communities being displaced from their land, and that echoes into the ways we learn about these histories. When we look at our neighbourhoods not merely as Chinatown or Hogan’s Alley, but as an area that has historically and continues to house several ethnic communities, we can consider how cross-cultural solidarity might empower us to prevent further displacement and foster stronger community ties across ethnic and cultural lines.

For more information and to register, visit https://bit.ly/CT-HA-walking-tour-0628.

Tour guides: Lama Mugabo and Kimberley Wong

04/22/2026

With the municipal election just over 6 months away, our staff have been learning about all the ways in which we can advocate to government for our shared neighbourhoods and collective communities in Chinatown, Hogan’s Alley, and the Downtown Eastside. Part of that is learning about local government jurisdiction and city council’s role, identifying our community priorities, and ways to engage and shape local government decisions.

Now, we want you to come and learn with us. What makes us feel like we belong in our neighbourhoods? What levers do you know how to pull to affect change with decision makers? What are your policy priorities going into the upcoming municipal election?

Join us for an afternoon of democracy in action on May 2 from 11am-2pm at 312 Main St by signing up for Shape Your Community below and learn about all of the above and more from Women Transforming Cities (and each other!).

This event is organized and led by the Co-Share Collective (Hogan’s Alley Society, hua foundation, UBC Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement, and Chinatown Celebration Society).

‼️Register here:
🔗 https://bit.ly/SYC-CCC

03/30/2026

Last month, we came together to learn about local governance, jurisdiction, and city council’s role from Women Transforming Cities () at their Shape Your Community workshop. We were asked: What do we need to thrive and belong in our neighbourhoods? What issues do we collectively care most about coming into the municipal election? As a coalition of non-profits working together in Hogan’s Alley and Chinatown, our neighbourhoods are faced with a plethora of decisions to navigate in this civic election. Swipe through to peek at what we discussed.

Want to share your thoughts? Let WTC’s team know by filling out their Our City Hall survey at their link in bio.

…and keep an eye out for future event offerings!

Address

50 Pender St E
Vancouver, BC
V4H 1S2

Website

http://huafoundation.org/

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