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From Raids to Resilience: the Refugee Journey to Healing in FDR Park
Community Fund for Wellness
CAGP and Friends of FDR Park will empower Southeast Asian Market vendors, making the market a space of greater stability with visibility and dignity for its immigrant and refugee families and guests, and a place of community healing and growth.
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The Southeast Asian Market in FDR Park began in the late ‘80s, created by refugees from Laos and Cambodia, as a place for Southeast Asian families to get important ingredients and to enjoy freshly-prepared foods. Moreover, it has become a beloved, immigrant community space in South Philadelphia’s green oasis, FDR Park.
From the start, the vendors were subject to frequent police raids. Vendors and guests were compelled to move around the park in hopes of evading enforcement. In many ways, the raids evoke the collective trauma of our refugee experience.
As the community displayed incredible resilience then, it has persevered in recent years, with the market growing to 70 stalls. As FDR Park undergoes its current, once-in-a-generation master plan, they work to secure a place in it, so that the vendors are no longer marginalized. In the past three years, the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia (CAGP) has played a leading role in organizing the 70+ vendors in the Vendors Association, established in 2021 in close partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and the Friends of FDR Park.
With support from the Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness, CAGP and the Friends of FDR Park will work with market vendors and participants of the Friends’ youth programs. Their goal is to empower the vendors, making the market a space of greater stability, visibility and dignity for its immigrant and refugee families and guests, and a place of community healing and growth.