Sisterhood:
Promoting Sisterhood amongst women is important in Kappa Phi Lambda. UMich Kappas travel together all over the United States. We attend National Conventions held at our base in New York, and we participate in Regional Conferences around the Mid-West. At home base in Ann Arbor, we hold our own sisterhood activities with the purpose of bonding in mind. Part of our bonding is working tog
ether when it comes to community service, fundraising, and hosting or participating in cultural events on campus. Outside of sorority work, Kappas hang out, eat, and study together. As sisters, we recognize that we all have differences and accept them. If anything, we would like our sisters to be diverse in interest, personality, and heritage. Open-mindedness is what makes us sisters. Service (Community Service & Philanthropy):
Kappa Phi Lambda Sorority is an organization, which prides itself on its sense of commitment to cultural diversity and strong bonds of sisterhood. However, our other primary focus is to offer our service to the community. Community and culture is largely what has made us the strong and independent women we are today. It is for these reasons that we want to reciprocate and give back to the communities around us. Sisters participate in individual community service events of their choice, as well as those which we support as a whole and unified organization. Each respective school has also designated at least one local non-profit organization as their philanthropic cause. Kappa Phi Lambda predominately focuses on contributing to domestic violence organizations while maintaining its sense of diversity by fundraising for other types of causes of concern. Cultural Diversity:
Kappa Phi Lambda Sorority strives to emphasize the importance of cultural diversity -- not only within our own organization, but also to the universities where we exist, and outside the community. While we do classify ourselves as a Pan-Asian interest sorority, by no means do we limit membership to those of only Asian descent. We have sisters from very diverse backgrounds including French, Korean, Chinese, Latino, Thai, Filipino, Indonesian, and Japanese. (At our school alone, 18 different ethnicities are represented!) Diversity is what helps broaden the horizons of thinking. It is for this reason that we always welcome young women of interest from all ethnic backgrounds. Through various workshops and events, Kappa Phi Lambda continuously tries to educate our members, schools, and communities about Asian culture. Likewise, we stress the importance of awareness on events occurring in our society on a daily basis. Kappa Phi Lambda at UMich is active in spreading cultural diversity in the community through performing at cultural shows and participating in cultural workshops. Over the years, Kappas have performed a cultural and hip-hop dance in Huaren (a Chinese Culture Show), MLK cultural fair, and GenAPA (an Asian Pacific American Culture Show). Also, we have presented at cultural workshops like Co-Existence, which promotes harmony in the relations between all those of different ethnic backgrounds as well as Theta Nu Xi's in*******al dialogue. We also have collaborated with the United Asian American Organizations to spread awareness on sexual assault targeted on Asians on campus.
