Chinese Service Center of San Diego

Address: 111 North King Street, #505
Honolulu, Hawaii 96817
808.536.3883

Honolulu was the site of two CISANI conferences in 1986 and 2003. Situated in the heart of Honolulu Chinatown is the Hawaii Immigrant Services, a private, independent agency in community services.

Its director Yuk Pang Law has been serving the Chinese community in Honolulu for the last thirty years. She started this independent agency for Chinese immigrants since 1990, and was joined by her husband Yip-want Law since he retired from his state job in 1996.

From its beginning, this agency has been a busy place providing a variety of services for Chinese immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indochina as well as local Chinese in such areas as filling out various kinds of forms, information and referrals interpretation and translation, notary service, and teaching bilingual citizenship classes for adults.

The agency has also been an active advocate in a number of community issues such as:

• Helping in the Census 2000 to inform the Chinese community about the importance of being counted in the census;
• Organizing rallies to support continuous government funding of community schools for adults;
• Helping to stop the devastating rumors of SARS in Chinatown
• Helping immigrant women to deal with domestic violence through the Advocate for Immigrant Women.

As a result of all these and many other community work in the past years, the agency has won a number of awards and honor certificates, from the Mayor of Honolulu, the state senate and house of representatives, the city council, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Police, Daughters of the American Revolution, as well as private agencies and individuals.