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- EIN 95-4392004
- (213) 738-9050
- 941 S Vermont Ave Ste 101 Pmb 301 Los Angeles CA 90006-1686 USA
- www.kiwa.org
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Causes: Community Service Clubs
Mission: To strengthen the power of low-wage, immigrant workers, tenants, and their families to shape their lives, workplaces, homes, communities, cities, and world. Korean immigrant workers advocates of southern california (kiwa) seeks to develop a progressive membership base that supports kiwas mission and to develop the leadership of low-wage workers. Kiwa is committed to bringing our region, country, and world closer to social and economic justice and environmental sustainability. To fulfill its mission, kiwa engages in strategies including community organizing, leadership development, policy advocacy, the development of safe, clean, affordable housing, education, and services.
Programs: Clean carwash workers organizing committee (cwoc) brings workers together from carwashes across the region. Through cwoc meetings, workers build solidarity across the industry, learn and educate others about their economic and political rights, get connected with organizing or legal support, and develop their leadership skills. Cwoc allows the campaign to go from organizing carwash by carwash to movement building and connecting car washers to the larger struggle for social justice.
through a range of projects and services, kiwa organizes immigrant workers, tenants, and their families to promote workplace justice, housing rights, immigrants' rights, democratic and sustainable community development, civic participation, gender justice, and cultural resistance. Programs include the worker empowerment clinic which educates and assists workers who have experienced wage theft; english classes; korean drumming program; mosaic arts classes; policy and advocacy campaigns for social and economic justice; dance and other wellness classes; organizing; leadership development programs, trainings, and workshops; affordable housing development; tenant supportive services; and community outreach and education.