A Neighborhood In Transition: Sacramento’s Little Saigon Grapples With Culture And The American Dream Listen Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Linda Lui is President of the Indochina Friendship Association Buddhist Temple where she helps distribute masks and food regularly.
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On a recent Friday afternoon, Linda Lui hands out steamed rice and mung beans to people in a long line of cars outside the IndoChina Friendship Association Buddist Temple on Stockton Boulevard.
Lui grew up in Sacramento’s Vietnamese American neighborhood known as Little Saigon, and has been involved with this Buddhist Temple since she was a young child. Now, she’s the president, and has been working to give out free food and face masks to community members since the start of the pandemic. But many of the volunteers and those involved in the Temple’s efforts are aging or elderl