vanguard blog | December 09, 2010 | 12 comments

Continuing the Story: Helping Injured Migrants in Mexico

Five years ago, Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller traveled to Mexico to report on "The Death Train," a free but dangerous freighter that migrants board in an attempt to reach the US. During her trip she visited the Albergue Jesús el Buen Pastor del Pobre y el Migrante shelter in Tapachula, Mexico.

This center serves as a home for badly injured migrants, many of whom have lost an arm or a leg. The center gives them a chance to physically and emotionally heal themselves at a time when their hopes of a better life have been crushed.

Since "Death Train" has aired on Current, a number of people have written in asking for more information about the center, and what can be done to help the efforts to care for those who have been injured in their attempts to reach the border.

So we asked the shelter's founder and director, Olga Sánchez Martínez, and she said these were the center's goals for the new year:

1. Build a gym for exercise and physical therapy.

2. Continue with breadmaking and dressmaking workshops so people can train for new vocations.

3. Start a carpentry skills workshop.

4. Fix the leaky ceilings in the women’s bedrooms.

5. Build a fence to keep robbers away.

For those interested in helping the shelter or finding out more, you can visit their website.

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