Spanish American Committee wants to grow to meet needs of community
CEO Ramonita Vargas has been with the Spanish American Committee for 38 years.
Ramonita Vargas, CEO of the Spanish American Committee, said that when the latest U.S. Census data is released this September, she expects to see a substantial increase to the more than 40,000 Hispanics that the 2015 Census reported are currently living in the city of Cleveland.
A big part of that increase, she said, includes the 2,980 families that the Spanish American Committee provided social services for in the days and weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017.