Tijuana bus serves as school for children of asylum seekers
By Norma Galeana
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - On a cold rainy day in Tijuana, 30 children of families awaiting possible asylum in the United States piled into a bus for a morning of coloring, storytelling and some holiday cheer before Christmas eve.
The Yes We Can World Foundation mobile classroom provides bilingual education and emotional help as the children's families wait for their asylum cases to be heard - a process that can last months.
"We focus on happiness. We focus on the rights of children and we focus on having a welcoming, safe space where they can just be children," said Estefania ...