N.J’s Filipino community mobilizes to help
JERSEY CITY — Members of New Jersey’s Filipino community are mobilizing to raise money and help send aid to their homeland after it was hit last week by a typhoon.
Donation boxes had cropped up by Monday on counters at Filipino businesses throughout Jersey City’s Little Manila neighborhood, home to about 16,000 of New Jersey’s estimated 100,000 Filipinos.
Bea Sabino, a Filipina community organizer, said the biggest need is money because it’s too difficult to get goods to the Philippines quickly.
Although people have been dropping off food, clothing and other supplies at various locations, organizers say past experience has shown a lack of good infrastructure in the Philippines makes sending goods there quickly very difficult. (Associated Press)
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