Nationwide efforts underway to disarm hate and make the Asian community feel safer
and last updated 2021-04-27 15:54:06-04
SAN DIEGO, Calif. â Reports of violent crimes against people from the Asian community continue to come into law enforcement. But efforts are underway nationwide to help the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) community feel safer. Taking public transportation or just walking out in public has been pretty challenging and pretty scary, said Paul Lim, a sophomore at Emory University.
Lim and longtime friend Sydney Trieu created a fund to help provide more transportation options to the AAPI community. Their donation-based fund, San Diego Cabbie, is reimbursing Uber and Lyft rides for Asian women, seniors, and Asians with disabilities. So far, they ve raised over $7,000.
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With the rise in attacks against Asian Americans, especially the elderly, Sydney Trieu and Paul Lim wanted to help their community, so they won’t have to take public transportation in fear or walk alone.
“I’ve been seeing Instagrams pop up in San Francisco, San Jose, like any of those areas,” Trieu said. “And we didn’t see that in San Diego.”
The recent wave of attacks on the Asian community has not only spurred this project, but also hits close to home for both Lim and Trieu. Trieu says her family has been concerned about going out and has even pushed her to cover her face when she does leave home.
“They make sure to tell us to wear a mask to cover some of our faces to make sure we aren’t targeted,” Trieu said.