Dietary Needs and Kien Le

Kien Le: The 100,000-strong community in the GTA envisions, along a tree-lined side road in Vaughan, a not-for-profit elderly care facility with three wings that can meet the linguistic, cultural and dietary needs of Vietnamese-speaking seniors, according to The Star. Most of these seniors in their 60s and 70s do not speak English. Their second language is French, said Kien Le, vice chair of the board, whose family came to Canada as refugees in July 1975 via the Philippines and If founding an ethnocultural-specific senior home is a reflection of an immigrant communitys coming of age, Vietnamese Canadians have just reached a milestone. The recent purchase of a 5.6-acre, $2.8-million property on Pine Valley Dr. is a major step toward realizing that dream. Its hoped the 200-bed Golden Age Village for the Elderly can be erected there in five years, to serve the generation that arrived here largely in the late 1970s-80s boat people migration, after the Communist takeover of South Vietnam. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.