Social Service Agencies Get Grants From AT

El Proyecto del Barrio, a human-services group hard hit by the Jan. 17 earthquake, was among several social services agencies to receive grants from telecommunications giant AT&T; on Monday.

The medical clinic and social services agency, which received $6,000, has been operating out of a borrowed mobile home parked in front of its yellow-tagged rental building since the temblor.

Though the money won’t allow the agency to reopen its building, it can help boost services.

“What we’re going to try to do is gear some of this money to the senior citizens,” said Joe Dominic, vice president of El Proyecto.

“What we found in the earthquake was that a lot of the senior citizens were left out.”

The agency, which provided more than 5,000 people with food and clothing after the Northridge quake, wasn’t the only San Fernando Valley group to receive aid.

AT&T; donated $4,000 to El Nido Family Centers, $4,000 to Vaughn Family Center, $10,000 to Meet Each Need with Dignity and $10,000 to Cal State Northridge.

“In addition to the American Red Cross and Salvation Army, we decided many grass-roots and social action agencies needed help and El Proyecto was an example of many agencies we were able to assist,” said Daylanne Jackson, contributions manager for AT&T.;