In Mexico Tijuana’s bus serves as school for children of asylum seekers

On a cool blustery day in Tijuana, 30 offspring of families anticipating conceivable refuge in the United States packed into a transport for a morning of shading, narrating and some seasonal happiness before Christmas eve.

The Yes We Can World Foundation portable study hall gives bilingual training and passionate assistance as the kids' families hang tight for their refuge cases to be heard - a procedure that can a months ago.

"We center around joy. We center around the privileges of kids and we center around having an inviting, safe space where they can simply be youngsters," said Estefania Rebellon, organizer and official executive of the Yes We Can World Foundation. Rebellon said she was overpowered when she saw transient processions land in Tijuana prior this year and in 2018. Her very own family had fled viciousness in Colombia.

"At the point when I was 10 years of age and our family needed to move from Colombia to the United States and look for shelter... school was the main thing that helped me overcome. I realized that school was... an endurance instrument for kids," Rebellon said.The portable homeroom positioned outside the Pro Amore Dei (For the Love of God) cover serves vagrant youngsters between the ages of 5 and 15. It is the first of its sort along the southern outskirt.

FRIENDS AND TEACHERS

"At the point when they land here, they're somewhat apprehensive. They don't have the foggiest idea what's in store," said Sandra Rodriguez, one of the three educators who began working at the school when the program began in July.A 10-year old kid named Jose disclosed to Reuters his Christmas wish was, "I don't need my companions here to change and I need my instructors to be only the manner in which they are.

"I'm crying of satisfaction since I have my companions here and they're a lot more pleasant than the companions I had previously," said Jose, whose last name was retained in line with the school."I need to be a pilot and I additionally what to be an educator to help youngsters in need simply like me," said Kimberly, 8, with a major smile.The program is growing to a second sanctuary in Tijuana planned for serving 75 kids. A third transport will serve youngsters in Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican side of the Texas fringe from the get-go in 2020.A Reuters examination of government information in October found that since January, the Trump organization has requested 16,000 transients under 18 to hold up with their families in Mexico for U.S. movement court hearings. Vagrants, for the most part from Guatemala, Honduras or El Salvador, were come back to Mexico under an arrangement known as the Migrant Protection Protocols.