Mia

I thought that maybe I'll just grab some.

People would show up for donations and organize the toilet paper, food, everything like that.

And then they would give us the, they came back a couple hours later and give us the tape back and we'd match the names in the phone.

My name is Lon Chai.

I'm a part of Asian Solidarity Collective, a grassroots organization here in San Diego.

I've been coming over here since yesterday.

I came here around 5, 6 yesterday, and then I came back through here this morning and been here since I got home at 12 last night and woke up, dropped my kid off, and came right back with more supplies.

I've been reaching out to family, friends, and community to help donate supplies and things like that, food, whatever they may have.

And I've pretty much been driving around city and collecting from folks that can't make it so I can bring it down here myself.

So that's what I've been doing.

My community, I'm pretty sure they're sympathetic to this because I'm coming from, I'm a first generation Cambodian American here in the US.

And when my parents and my family fled,

their country, they went through this as well.

So somebody somewhere came and provided the support, provided the aid, the donations for them to be able to make it to America, to cross over and able to provide out here for me growing up out here.

So I just sympathize with it, with the whole thing.

I mean, everybody should...

should feel the same way because somewhere down the line, our families went through similar situations.

If you're not indigenous, then your family somewhere down the history went through the same thing.

So, you know, everybody should have a heart for this and be able to come down here and donate or donate their time or supplies, whatever the case may be, you know, come out and help.

Well, you have to keep in mind there's families out here, there's young children, there's babies.