Fact Sheets and Extras
OCHA Humanitarian Snapshot: Unaccompanied child migration from Central America (PDF)
On 2 June 2014, the US president
declared an “urgent humanitarian
situation” for the wave of
unaccompanied children crossing
the US - Mexico border from El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
Opening our hearts to the little children (LINK)
Blog by World Vision U.S. President Richard Stearns
A violent past, a hopeful future (LINK)
A blog by Heidi Isaza.
World Vision bloggers report hope in Guatemala (LINK)
Author Micha Boyett with her sponsored child Heydi on a World Vision trip to Guatemala. (©2013 Laura Reinhardt/World Vision)
Faith leaders on kids at the border: Give us the children (Time Magazine LINK)
Mother Teresa inspired millions at the 1994 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., when she told attendees how she responded to mothers with unwanted pregnancies. “We have sent word to the clinics, to the hospitals and police stations: “Please don’t destroy the child; we will take the child.”
The solution to the Central American refugee problem is a thriving Central America (onFaith LINK)
If we’re serious about the refugee crisis, we must deal with the source of the problem before someone reaches our borders. Op/ed by World Vision U.S. President Richard Stearns.
U.S. religious leaders embrace cause of immigrant children (New York Times LINK)
After protesters shouting “Go home” turned back busloads of immigrant mothers and children in Murrieta, Calif., a furious Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, sat down at his notepad and drafted a blog post detailing his shame at the episode, writing, “It was un-American; it was unbiblical; it was inhumane.”
U.S. border crisis: Unaccompanied children (Storify LINK)
Tens of thousands of children from Central America are making a dangerous journey north to escape violence and poverty -- unaccompanied by adult guardians. What could possibly go wrong?