I’m doing a report for Humanities class on a sonia nazario book, Enrique’s Journey, It’s all marked up now, for speech pauses, etc, so I won’t copy it into this post, but the gist is, a honduran boy of 15 years old makes his perilous way to the United States to find his mother who deserted the family ten years before to seek a ‘better life’ in america.
This subject really pisses me off. and of course I express this in my presentation. The class is full of idealistic young folk, so I guess we’ll see what kind of reception I get after my delivery Monday.
I did some research into ways to help central and southern american citizens to make them more prosperous so maybe they will stay in their own countries.
Kiva.org does micro-loans which seem to work pretty well, they’ve been doing it all over the world for awhile, now. They started in Africa, and have had great success. Nobody’s buying Manolo Blahnik shoes, but they’re feeding their families.
There is also a couple of groups that teach Hondurans and Central Americans to grow their own veggies in their back yards. Any of this helps raise the quality of life down there and keeps the desperation to a minimum. It takes a pretty desperate person to travel 1800 miles basically on foot with no money in their pockets and only the clothes on their backs.
It must be pretty desperate down in there, because they are streaming across our borders by the thousands every year.
Enrique's Journey
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