Californians Gave Millions for Victims
Americans have donated $19.4 million to the American Red Cross for victims of last September’s Mexican earthquake--more than a third of that from Los Angeles through a school fund-raising campaign and a KMEX/SIN telethon.
“Californians donated close to half the total amount,” Los Angeles Red Cross spokesman Ralph B. Wright Jr. said. “It is the biggest outpouring of funds for (a foreign) event in our history.”
More than $16 million has already been spent or committed for housing projects and rehabilitation programs, ranging from land purchases and construction to artificial limbs for amputees and surgery in Los Angeles for children injured in the quake, officials said last week.
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