The city of Curico, about three hours south of Santiago de Chile, is well known for farming and for the exportation of fruit. The opportunities for work that the city offers have brought a large number of migrants to settle there. Since the migrant population began...
On one of the hottest days of this summer, where it seemed that the sun was leaching the earth of our dear city of Buenos Aires, we started out on a journey. Three means of transportation to arrive at Las Tunas, and a long hike...
Since November 25 we again hosted a 25 year old Eritrean refugee coming from a camp in Ethiopia, where she had lived for almost 2 years. We will call her Assa.[1] Now that war had also broken out there, they have again opened the humanitarian...
There are many stories of returnees and their reasons for returning. In this simple article. I would like to share the story of one family that just returned 1or 2 years ago. The parents are 53 years old. They have 6 children, 4 girls and two...
The pandemic that we are living through has situated us before life events in a new way ,and of course, this includes Christmas. In Atalaya, as is happening all over, we are suffering from the same situation, but at the same time we perceive that what...
Within the scope of the JRS Change program, a student at our St. Raphaela's Secondary School in Dublin wrote the following reflection and made a promise to work hard after meeting Ghazal, a Syrian refugee living in Ireland. “Following meeting and listening to Ghazal, and learning...
The latest encyclical of Pope Francis calls for a more just, more human, and more fraternal world based on love and mutual enrichment rather than suspicion and cold indifference, says Cardinal Michael Czerny in the following article. Taking up this call is not optional, for...
On Jan 6, 2021 supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building, on the false claims of voting fraud, as the US Congress voted to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. The Trump-incited insurrection has shaken us all to the core, even though it was entirely...
The International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking 2021 brings intothe spotlight one of the main causes of human trafficking: the dominant economic model ofour time, whose limits and contradictions are exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. MATERIALS. PRAYER, POSTER, SOCIAL MEDIA...
We have celebrated past Christmas expanding the "we". In the school community of Ituzaingo we have welcomed an Armenian family and in Las Tunas three family groups from Venezuela. And the "we" has included a whole network of organizations and people. We experience Hope … Conztanza...
