What do we do?

We seek the welfare of the migrant community by managing a safe, warm and human rights-compliant space.

Migrants receive the following services free of charge during their stay:

  • Balanced meals

    Breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days a week

  • Lodging

    We provide accommodation to children, adolescents and their caregivers.

  • Legal assistance

    Migrants receive advice from United States lawyers, as well as Mexican lawyers.

  • Medical and psychological assistance

    As part of comprehensive care, physical and mental care is necessary.

  • Educational services

    Migrant girls, boys and adolescents receive multigrade educational attention from 0 to 17 years old.

  • Training in trades or occupations

    During their stay in space, migrants over 16 years of age learn workshops or trades.

Our projects

Oven:

Every Saturday morning, children, teenagers and adults gather around this space to bake bread and pizza, encouraging community activities with a common goal.

Sometimes people take advantage of the fire to cook food or make corn tortillas by hand.

Organic orchard:

We receive people from different places with different qualities and qualifications, among them are people who love planting and harvesting.

Bordadoras de Esperanza (Embroiderers of Hope):

In coordination with Artisans Beyond Borders, a sewing workshop was set up within the shelter, which allows children, adolescents and adults to express their experiences and emotions in a blanket, embroidery, etc. This allows them to have an income whenever they have a piece of work to sell.

Tortilla factory:

The objective of this space is to provide a nutritious and quality product to our migrant community and to the communities around the shelter, as well as to provide a dignified and responsible workspace for our migrant population.

Our vision for this space is to be a space of connection between the neighborhood and the migrant community.

Escuelika:

Escuelika (Lika’s School) was created with the objective of providing educational attention to migrant children and adolescents waiting to enter the United States within the same space of the shelter.

Since 2020, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the school has been a safe and inclusive space for the educational needs of each migrant child and adolescent. At that time, it was the only school in Nogales, Sonora providing on-site education to about a thousand children and adolescents with the support of the Secretary of Education of the State of Sonora, the National Pedagogical University based in Nogales, FESAC and the College of Sonora with the program Mesabancos en espera (School desks on hold).

Today, Escuelika is part of CONAFE (National Council for the Promotion of Education, in Spanish) and has 4 teachers who provide education for kindergarten, preschool, elementary and high school students.

Statistics

2,706 migrants received shelter.

From 22 different countries. More than 20 different languages and indigenous languages.

70% of the migrants at the shelter are girls, boys, adolescents and women, people with a high level of vulnerability.

525,600 Meals served to migrants.

1,287 migrant girls, boys and adolescents have received official education.

88% or 2,321 migrants cross to the United States by legal and safe way.