Mission Statement & History

About Us

The Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (VietAID) was founded in 1994 by community leaders and residents who believed that a community development corporation would provide comprehensive economic development programs and services to alleviate poverty and advance civic participation in the Fields Corner Vietnamese community of Dorchester. VietAID’s mission is to build a strong Vietnamese community and a vibrant Fields Corner through the following measures: promoting civic engagement and community building; developing affordable housing and commercial space; providing small business technical assistance and micro-enterprise development; and offering high quality child care services.

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Windy Pham’s books extend the reach of Viet language, visibility of traditions

In hopes of finding a way to keep her language alive, Windy Pham took on a personal mission through bilingual children’s books… During her freshman year at Colby Sawyer College in New Hampshire, Windy Pham, Class of ’15, frequently hopped on a bus with an empty suitcase in hand and headed down to Dorchester. There, some 8,000 miles from her …

Affordable 33-unit Bowdoin Street project wins city funding

VietAID’s second large affordable housing project on Bowdoin Street will receive $3.3 million in city funding to move forward, Boston housing officials and Mayor Wu announced last week. Hollins Park, a 33-unit, all-affordable building will rise four stories at 190 Bowdoin St., a space that currently includes a vacant home that dates to 1810.  The overall price tag for the …

June 25, 2026: Premieres “Generations of Vietnamese Diapora in Boston”

#TGMM PREMIERE TICKETS ARE LIVE Tre Già, Măng Mọc: Generations of Vietnamese Diaspora in Boston The first intergenerational documentary of its kind in Boston. A film about memory, survival, and the Vietnamese refugee community that rebuilt life in this city, told by elders, youth, and the generations in between. The full story. STRAND THEATRE DORCHESTER, MA 02125 Thursday, June 25, …