It's amazing to me how countries like Colombia welcome immigrants even though they do not have near the infrastructure, space or wealth that we do.
, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of education at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and lives in Charleston.
I was able to travel to the city of Cucuta on the border with Venezuela. Over half of the city’s residents are migrants. While I was there, I was able to interview some of these migrants as well as aid workers. One aspect that especially impacted me was a small school that was part of a church called Iglesia de la Frontera, or Church of the Border. Though it was in Colombia, it had only Venezuelan children.
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