Juarez City.- Migrant children are above all that: children, which is why this weekend they were celebrated inside and outside the shelters in Ciudad Juárez.
The little clown Copetín and the Ángeles Mensajeros collective arrived this weekend at the camp set up outside the National Institute of Migration (INM) to make migrant children forget for a few hours what they have experienced on their journey.
While Venezuelan youth and adolescents dressed in a white tunic and put on angel wings to ask for protection from the Joe Biden government, the little ones dedicated themselves to playing, eating and laughing out loud.
Seeing their children surrounded by a bouncy castle, a table with pizzas and toys, their parents also for a moment forgot the difficulties they have experienced in recent months in the hope of reaching the United States.
“I liked everything, but what I liked the most was the soup,” said Mariannys, a five-year-old Venezuelan girl, as she enjoyed a slice of pizza, elbow soup, a soft drink, a bag of sweets and a bear. stuffed animal that was given to him.
“We know that it is difficult to be living on the streets, it is difficult to live in the indifference of the authorities and that is why we take advantage of these festivities with the intention of bringing a moment of hope to all migrant children. We join and stand in solidarity with the love for migrant children, today we brought them food, pizza, sweets, toys, a little clown, jump-jump; with the intention of being able to lighten the spiritual and emotional load that they have as infants,” said Pastor Carlos Mayorga, coordinator of the Ángeles Mensajeros collective.
At the Casa del Migrante, thanks to volunteers and medical students from the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), the North American Development Bank and families from the binational community, dozens of Mexican and foreign children enjoyed Saturday and Sunday of clowns, piñatas, sweets, cakes and food prepared especially for them.
“Children are children first and foremost, no matter why they left home, where they came from, where they are, or how they got there,” and that “every child deserves protection, care, and all the help and necessary services to get ahead”, said Unicef.
