“All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood. –Mohsin Hamid We the Senhadhara Trust celebrated the Migrants’ Day on 24th September 2023 with the rickshaw pullers, their families and the station children with whom we work; on...
From the 5th to the 19th of June, I participated in a meeting of the working group of RENATE – Religious European Networking Against Trafficking and Exploitation – in Eresing, Bavaria, south of Germany.There were 30 persons participating from 20 European countries, the majority from...
Accompanying the hopes of migrants and refugees and crying out together with them. A reflection in the light of the experience of St. Ignatius of Loyola. (First published in Revista Comisión Episcopal Migrantes Argentina) The entire military career of St. Ignatius of Loyola was cut short with a...
From the 13 th to the 19 th of November 105 people from 31 countries met in Fatima for the GeneralAssembly of RENATE (Religious in Europe Networking Against Trafficking and Exploitation) in orderto deal with the issue of human trafficking.During that week we listened to...
Since in the GC XX we made a firm commitment to get involved with people in the situation of human migration: migrants, refugees, victims of trafficking… every year our commitment in the different countries and frontiers has been growing. For this reason, when the...
For the World Day of Refugees, some Sisters of the Curia participated in the prayer “Dying of Hope,” an ecumenical religious service held in memory all the people who lose their lives on the journey toward Europe. With the Cross of Lampedusa presiding, a community diverse...
During the month of April my 4th year social studies students in Ituzaingó and I embarked on an ABP (project-based learning) on immigrants who arrived in our country at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginnings of the twentieth century. Our guiding question...
On Easter Sunday we had the most beautiful Easter dinner ever in the garden of Palmela. The communities in the south of Portugal (Fonte da Prata, Lisboa and Palmela) joined with the Ukrainian families who have been living here for some weeks. There was a family...
On March 25 Lisbeth Carmona and her 11 year old son Eduardo came to our Handmaid community in Montevideo, Uruguay. Lisbeth was pregnant ,and they had travelled from Lima, Peru, arriving in Uruguay via Paysandú, a city in the west of Uruguay. And on Sunday...
We would like to tell you about how we came to welcome nineteen Ukrainians into our community. When the war broke out over a month ago, our community immediately looked for a way to respond to a request for help from our neighbors, the Friars Minor;...
