Every post from the field, in one place — newest first.
A familiar story can bring comfort—even far from home.
For children traveling along migration routes, ordinary childhood routines can be difficult to maintain. School may be interrupted, familiar surroundings are left behind, and days are often filled with uncertainty. Yet something as simple as story time can offer a moment to pause, learn, and reconnect.
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Student volunteers travel with books and come home with new understanding.
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Graduate students at Montclair State and CIDE in Mexico City co-wrote bilingual books for children in the encampments — and this week we put them in their hands.
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How one school community turned a quiet conversation into five new libraries in Mexico City encampments. By Kim Perkins.
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Our virtual library, in partnership with Télécoms Sans Frontières, now lights up 25 screens in migrant centers across Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico.
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Notes from a recent Mexico City visit — we are increasingly meeting children whose families have been deported from the United States.
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Children in migrant encampments and shelters across Mexico face profound barriers to one of their most basic rights: education.
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The number of unaccompanied minors entering Mexico has nearly doubled since 2019 — and separation puts children at grave risk.
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Reclaimed tires become colorful, weather-resistant seating for our pop-up libraries — good for budgets, and for the planet.
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We share this Doctors Without Borders report on migration across the Americas.
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We could never do this alone — hear from the CIDE graduate students and volunteers behind this winter’s pop-up library in Mexico City.
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A pop-up library for Haitian migrants in the Juárez district — books in Creole, Spanish, and English, and a lot of curious kids.
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Charles, a resident of the Senda refugee camp, shares what the new library in Reynosa means to him and his community.
Read more →Graduate students in speech pathology share their service-learning project and the link between literacy and healthy emotional development.
Read more →The first step in making a safe space for children and families to access books and read together.
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Meet the founders of Solidarity Engineering, who met at the US–Mexico border and turned a shared podcast into a mission of their own.
Read more →A few times a year we send notes from the field — what the children are reading, where the libraries are going next, and what your support made possible.
