'These individuals are our construction workers, our grocery store workers, our domestic care workers. Everyone who can and who is able-bodied is responsible to do something to make sure we can through this together.'
Antibody testing can determine if a person’s blood shows signs of COVID-19 exposure.Whitney Hu knows the route by heart. Every Saturday morning, the 29-year-old wakes up at 6 o'clock to go to a theater-turned-warehouse in the heavily immigrant neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in New York City. There, she slips into the routine she has been performing since the start of New York state's coronavirus lockdown in mid-March.
The pandemic has thrust the country into a new normal of survival for some. Hu and the Hanif sisters are just three young leaders taking a stand because they say the government is not doing enough to help their most vulnerable neighbors: low-income immigrants and especially the undocumented community, who are not eligible for bare necessities like food stamps and stimulus checks because they either don't file taxes or they don't have Social Security numbers.
"The coronavirus outbreak has revealed so many underlying problems and just how much our undocumented community are suffering," said Sabia, who with Shahana has crowd-raised more than $34,000 to support undocumented Bangladeshis in their hometown of Kensington, Brooklyn, also known as"Little Bangladesh."
"These individuals are our construction workers, our grocery store workers, our domestic care workers," said Shahana, adding that the $500 is not enough but that it's a start."Everyone who can and who is able-bodied is responsible to do something to make sure we can through this together." The sisters, along with their parents and several of their friends, have given up their stimulus checks to give back to their neighbors.
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