Some Brooklyn residents aren’t waiting for desperate migrants to knock on their doors looking for help.
Dozens of volunteers and local churches have been organizing donation drives, bringing clothes, toys, books and blankets to the massive shelter at Floyd Bennett Field.
On Saturday, a band of roughly 15 volunteers set up tables and blankets across the street, where they unloaded more than 100 bags full of items to hand out to migrants in need.
“We’re here just trying to help as best we can,” Flatbush resident David, 38, told The Post, adding that 11 members of his group also dropped off eight carloads worth of items last Saturday.
Jose Torres, 27, who came to the Big Apple from Ecuador and was staying at the tent shelter with his wife, was thrilled to receive coats for his 9-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son.
A pair of teenage girls squealed in delight after discovering short skirts and tank tops in the piles of donated goods.
“It’s really nice they’re here — we appreciate it,” Torres said.
Other efforts to aid migrants staying at the shelter have included an emergency clothing collection by the Church of St. Thomas Aquinas in Flatlands and 10 other Catholic parishes.
“The situation is when you have 15 families show up at the doorstep and they have shorts on and nothing else in this type of weather, it calls for help,” said Father Dwayne Davis, the pastor at St. Thomas, adding they provided clothing for 150 families this week.
The outpouring of aid has come amid concern from residents in nearby Marine Park where migrants have been going door to door and begging for help.
Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts