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Susanna Block
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Join date: Apr 15, 2024
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Apr 21, 2026 ∙ 1 min
Stories Without Borders: Expanding Access to Reading Across the Migration Trail
Rise Up & Read / Leer Para Crecer is growing its Stories Without Borders virtual library, bringing the power of storytelling to children on the migration trail through a partnership with Telecoms Sans Frontières. Across Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico, 25 screens in migrant centers are now lighting up shared spaces with stories—transforming them into places of learning, imagination, and belonging. So far, this initiative has reached more than 2,000 migrants and inspired over 82,000 minutes of...
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Feb 6, 2026 ∙ 2 min
Changing Demographics on the Migrant Trail
...we are increasingly meeting children whose families have been deported from the United States.
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Sep 8, 2025 ∙ 2 min
There is no "Back to School" for Migrant Children Living in Encampments
Children in migrant encampments and shelters across Mexico are facing profound barriers to one of their most basic rights: education. International law guarantees that every child has the right to primary and secondary schooling, free from discrimination. Yet the reality is starkly different for displaced children. Many arrive in Mexico after fleeing violence or poverty in their home countries. Once there, they often find themselves shut out again—trapped by restrictive laws, overwhelmed...
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