It is Saturday afternoon and Amanuel Zerzghi, a member of the Eritrean Club of New York, is busy in the group's headquarters, a tatty hall in Harlem. About 50 people are with him, some who have driven for three hours to get there. Eagerly, they fill large cardboard boxes with donated clothes, food and medicine, and load them on to a waiting lorry. The Stars and Stripes hangs high at the back of the hall, beside the television used to show Eritrea's recent war with Ethiopia. Eritrean music plays. By the end of the day the lorry is packed tight and sent off with cheers to Washington, dc. "Maybe we are indirectly supporting the war," explains Mr Zerzghi, "but we must try to support our families."
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