In Chhaya CDC, Chhaya surveys South Asian families in the five boroughs, focusing on Queens because that is where most reside, to pinpoint the concerns and problems that South Asians face once they move to New York.  Although Chhaya focuses on housing problems, job, social, and educational problems also came up in the findings of the survey.  What got my attention the most were the education and job related concerns.  Coming to a new country, 47% of South Asians surveyed already had a college degree and 14% had some college education.  As a U.S. born citizen, this level of education would qualify us  for a decent professional job with at least an average salary to live of off comfortably.  However, only 8% of the same group had a professional or technical job with 21% making $40,000 or more a year. As great as it is to see some succeeding and being able to live comfortably in America, it is not acceptable that most of the qualified South Asians are not being given the opportunity to contribute to their field of study.  Especially since they will have ideas and innovations that are different to those of the average American.  According to the survey, this problem is caused by the lack of availability of job opportunities in the fields that they were trained in in their home country, as well as the language barrier.  This forces the already educated group to go to school and become trained in a more available field.  However, it is like their past educational background is wiped out.  Several Bangladeshis that were surveyed explained the lower level jobs that they had after the many years of experience they had in their home country.  Once they moved to America, they had to essentially start over.  This is big problem that must be dealt with in immigrant communities.  Chhaya suggests, in the beginning of this passage, that the government provides development programs for the fields that South Asians are already trained in or invests in South Asian owned small businesses.  This would give South Asain immigrants the chance that they have worked hard for in their home countries.