We could use some help.

As if they hadn’t been through enough – driven from their homes, family members murdered, in a strange country increasingly hostile to them, pushed out of their school, caught in a Pandemic, fighting for graduation, and now, their city in the grip of protests and looters, stores in their neighborhoods trashed, windows broken and two of the families diagnosed last week with the coronavirus, both families under quarantine.

Albany has had some rough nights.

As I’ve mentioned, purchases of gift cards worth more than $300 need to be activated via an e-mail sent to the buyer a couple of days after purchase. I hope this message reaches you, we could use those cards.)

We could also use some support for these two families, one of them includes a very sick Bishop Maginn High School student, struggling with the coronavirus.

There is some violence and looting in the refugee neighborhoods, a number of stores where the students worked part-time have been burned or vandalized. They are not only under quarantine, their neighborhoods are under curfew.

We could use some more gift cards to get us through the next few weeks, these families just can’t catch a break. You can see and buy the gift cards here.

They need to be sent to my farm, Jon Katz, 2502 State Route 22,  Cambridge, N.Y., 12816, as the school is still closed and gift cards have to be sent to private residences.

Please remember, if you do buy more than $300 worth of gift cards, they need to be activated via e-mail a few days after purchase. Some of the family adults should be able to go back to work soon, assuming the looting and disturbances ease.

If you don’t care to purchase the gift cards online, you can send me the amount you wish to spend via Paypal, [email protected], or by mail, Jon Katz same address as above or Post Office Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816.

The families are really in a nightmare not of their making. You have made all the difference.  Thanks for your help.