WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: Vietnamese Community Still Struggling After Katrina

WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: Vietnamese Community Still Struggling After Katrina:

"Bui is a Gulf Coast representative of NAVASA, an organization that has been on the ground since the storm, helping Vietnamese-Americans rebuild their lives. He hears from many frustrated business owners, who are wondering why many families aren't building back. Bui points to many challenges, including uncertainty about the city's development plans, lack of insurance and grant money, and then there's the language barrier.

'It's really difficult,' James Bui says. 'Not only are you Katrina victims, you have just a lack of access to resources like everyone else. But you're even farther behind the line because the language access, the cultural incompetency on both ends.'"