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LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles said its parishes and schools in L.A. County will hold emergency collections this month to help with the relief effort.
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Father Miguel Acevedo is the pastor of Saint Paul’s Catholic Church in South Los Angeles. In an interview, he showed ABC7 some of the supplies donated already by parishioners for the victims of the Venezuelan earthquakes.
“Thankfully my family is safe,” he said.
Acevedo is one of six Venezuelan priests in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He’s leading the effort to collect and get much-needed supplies to Venezuela.
“We need non perishable foods,” Acevedo said. “We need essential hygiene items. We need diapers, medicines.”
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Parishioners have been helping out getting the donations ready for shipping. Daniel Leyva is a parishioner who has been helping out. He said volunteers “separate everything by food, clothes and everything, put it in the right way and mark it up, getting it ready to be dropped off.
Linda Guzman is the School Principal at St. Paul Dual Language Academy in Arlington Heights. “We’re all one,” she said. “We’re a faith-driven community. We truly see each other as brothers and sisters and our brothers and sisters need us right now.”
Acevedo said this faith community will be here for the long haul.
“It isn’t a matter of quick response, of immediate generosity,” he said. “But recovery will take a long time.”
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