Monday evening was Open House and Meet the Teachers Night at Veterans Memorial Junior High where our two eighteen year-old clients, Jeremias and Jairo, are enrolled in ESL classes. Sister Therese, their mentor here at La Posada, met their teachers and received glowing reports of their class participation and conduct. Jeremias, who only received a second grade …
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Many of our clients have had businesses before coming to the U.S. From Cuba, meet José, a professional upholsterer and his assistants, Yendri and Pedro, who have been occupied for the past two weeks reupholstering our time-worn weather beaten dining room chairs. Thanks to Ruben Gallegos, Jr., our Board Chair, and his father, several like-new single bed mattresses …
Walid left Egypt in fear for his life, the victim of a hate crime. Now, more than 10 years later, he won’t speak of his experience in his native country; he prefers to focus on his dreams for the future and what he needs to do to achieve them. “I’m going to San Francisco,” he …
Looking for a way to be useful and practice my Spanish, I asked around for a place where I could volunteer. La Posada Providencia, in San Benito, Texas, was recommended and I was welcomed with open arms. I stayed 19 days, helping to teach English, drive clients to and from appointments, shop for groceries, cook, …
The Summer 2009 New Beginings newsletter is here! Summer 2009 New Beginnings
To read the United States Bishops pastoral letter on migration, Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope, please visit: https://www.usccb.org/mrs/stranger.shtml
Said is from Somalia—a country of ongoing political upheaval, where just being on the street is dangerous. In 2004, Said’s two brothers, 30 and 35, were driving when someone fired a rifle at them. The bullet passed through the jaws of the brother sitting in the passenger’s seat and then struck both hands of the …
When his father was killed, Abdull Omar Hussen knew it was time to leave. As members of a minority group in Somalia, his family knew violence. But when his father was shot in February of last year, Abdull’s nine-year-old sister was sitting on his lap. She was killed, too. The double tragedy forced the family …
Wading and swimming across the Rio Grande may have been the easiest part of Sisay’s trek to America … Wading and swimming across the sometimes-treacherous Rio Grande River may have been the easiest part of Sisay’s trek to America. It was the last step of a journey that took several years, and brought Sisay halfway …
