Palestinian Mahmoud Zaghari is part owner of 205 Grocery, which was destroyed in the Bainbridge Avenue fire. He poured his family’s savings into the grocery store, which he and the other owners were planning on converting into a deli.
He’s also living in this country on a student visa while he completes his business degree at DeVry University. Without income from his business to pay for tuition, Zaghari says he will have to leave the country without finishing his degree.
To help him pay for his classes and stay in the country, Sally Dunford, of the nonprofit West Bronx Housing, which is also located on Bainbridge, is soliciting donations.
If you want to help out, send checks to West Bronx Housing and Neighborhood Resource Center, 3176 Bainbridge Ave., Bronx, NY 10467. (Write fire fund in the memo line.)
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