FRESNO, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – After fleeing from Venezuela and arriving in Fresno in January, several community members have offered their help to the 16 Venezuelan migrants staying in the city -some of them also migrants who had to go through the same thing as them.
When the Urias family with the Restaurante Morenita in Mendota knew about the Venezuelan migrants in Fresno through the news, they wanted to help them out.
“Our business has blessed us for so many years, over 15 years, and through meals, and it is just another way to help out the community,” said Josue.
The Salvadoran family says they came from El Salvador to have a better life. Fidel Urias says he arrived in the United States in 1998. He arrived in Los Angeles, looking for a job, without being able to speak the language correctly, with nowhere to go nor family to support him.
He says he is sad because other people are leaving their countries as well to find a better life, but he is also excited because he can now help people who were like him decades ago.