By James Barragan

After an earthquake devastated Italy on Aug. 24, killing nearly 300 people, questions started rolling in to the Facebook page for "Italy Meets Texas," a group set up by Italians and Italian-Americans in Central Texas to promote Italian culture. People wanted to know how they could help.

The group's organizers were unsure. They had only been an organized group for about a year and had mostly focused on events concerning the Italian language, culture and traditions. But they knew they wanted to help. "When this happened and we saw an opportunity to do something as little or as big as we could to help we said, 'Let's do something,'" said Martha Ballariano, who is part of the group's three-person organizing committee.

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