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Ecuadorian disaster relief
April 29, 2016 at 8:59 p.m.
<p class="Picture">Having heard about the Ecuadorian earthquake, people drop off bottles of water, rolls of toilet paper and bags of rice at the Port Chester firehouse on Grace Church Street. </p>
<p class="Picture">Several women volunteer their time sorting through all the donated clothes. </p>
<p class="Picture">Volunteers transfer bars of soap to a larger container. </p>
<p class="Picture">Two Port Chester girls, Delia Mercado, 7, and Jennifer Guayllazaca, 5, help out by labeling some cans. </p> <p class="Picture">The Port Chester community, particularly the Hispanic community, came together on Sunday, Apr. 24 in a massive disaster relief effort. At the South End firehouse on Grace Church Street, volunteers spent the day boxing up piles and piles of donated supplies that will go to aid those displaced by the recent earthquakes in Ecuador. </p>
<p class="Picture">Jackelyn Maldonado of Elmont Street and Nancy Naulaguari of Rollhaus Place carefully label boxes that will later be filled up with supplies. </p>
<p class="Picture">Milton Pasato of Port Chester surveys the stacks of boxes already filled and ready to go to the Ecuadorian embassy. </p>
<p class="Picture">Milton Pasato of Port Chester surveys the stacks of boxes already filled and ready to go to the Ecuadorian embassy. </p>
<p class="Picture">Surrounded by boxes ready to go to the Ecuadorian embassy, Milton Pasato of Port Chester marks another one held by Aires Pacheco of Hopewell Junction. </p>