Helping immigrants
Dorothy Rissel
Here is an opportunity to assist asylum seekers and migrants in the small, isolated border town of Sasabe, Sonora, Mexico.
Sasabe is 70 miles from the closest bus service. There the US Border Patrol often dumps deportees, the Mexican police discharge people they find wandering in the desert, and asylum seekers find their way to town also, often having to wait in rugged, minimal shelters.
Salvavision,(https://www.salvavision.org/about/), in cooperation with other groups, recently opened a resource center for people who are in urgent need. For more information, click on this link: https://www.borderreport.com/hot-topics/immigration/rural-mexican-border-town-getting-much-needed-migrant-facility-for-weary-asylum-seekers/.
Social Justice Allies is presenting you with an opportunity to help these folks with their needs. These are the things they have told us they will find most useful.
Men's pants . (gently used OK. Sizes small (29"-31"), and medium (32'-34)
Underwear and socks (new, please)
Shoes (gently used OK)
Hoodies, sweatshirts (gently usted OK)
Food (they prepare one hot meal per day): bags of rice, beans, sugar, canned goods (tomatoes for cooking)
Please bring your contribution to Beacon on Oct. 3, 10 and 17. Longtime Social Justice Allies Roseanne Fulcher and Dorothy Rissel will take them to the border on Oct. 20 or 21.