Denver Resident Collects Snow Shovels for Migrants to Work After Winter Storm

"We don't have jobs, so it'll help for a few days when the snow falls, and to get money to support ourselves."While most homes and businesses shut down across Denver during the heavy snowfall today, March 14, Jasmina Filca was driving across Denver to Lakewood to pick up snow shovels. She wanted to take them to migrants looking for work.

More than forty migrant families now have a shovel and will be able to clear driveways and sidewalks thanks to Filca, she says. The migrant families that received shovels are working close to where they're staying, mostly in City of Denver migrant shelters, near Tower Road, Interstate 70 and Federal Boulevard, off of 38th Avenue and Chambers Road and near Glencoe Street and the Cherry Creek area, Filca says.

Filca started handing out the snow shovels during the week ahead of the snow fall, and she plans to keep giving out more. Her goal is to hand out more than 500 snow shovels to migrants before the snow season ends. "There's thousands, so I think 500 is a small number compared the number who'd love to get a snow shovel in their hands," she adds.

Paying a migrant to shovel a driveway won't get anyone in any legal hot water, says Jon Ewing, spokesperson for Denver Human Services. It's"no big deal," he explains."If someone offers to shovel your sidewalk and you pay them as a gesture of goodwill, all good."

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