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Pastor-led shelters bring schooling options to migrant kids

Migrant children play on the swings during recess at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Education is a big challenge for children on their migration journey, but opportunities like this give them a chance to find safety and forget for a few moments the traumas they endured. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Teacher Elizabeth Mendoza and a student point at a lessons book at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022, where child migrants from two pastor-run shelters take classes every weekday morning. Education is a big challenge for children on their migration journey, but opportunities like this give them a chance to catch up on academics and to find emotional support. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Migrant children participate in a classroom activity at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Child migrants often miss months or even years of schooling on their turbulent journeys. In Ciudad Juarez, a sprawling city on the U.S.-Mexican border where thousands are waiting to cross, pastor-led shelters are working to provide them an education, however transitory. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Migrant children work in their classroom at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. “They get integrated in the educational system so they can keep gaining confidence,” said Teresa Almada, who runs Casa Kolping through a local organization funded three decades ago by lay members of local Catholic parishes. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Victor Rodas, left, and Eduardo Pacheco, participate in a physical education exercise at the start of class at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center where child migrants from two pastor-run shelters take classes every weekday morning, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Tuesday, March 28, 2022. The two students, both 12 years old, fled gang violence back home in Honduras and the Mexican state of Guerrero, respectively. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Students write on a dry-erase board in their classroom at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center where child migrants from two pastor-run shelters take classes every weekday morning, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March, 28, 2022. Education is a big challenge for children on their migration journey, but opportunities like this give them a chance to catch up on academics and to find emotional support. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Child migrants from two pastor-run shelters gather in the hallway between their classrooms at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Each weekday about three dozen kids get bused here and divided in groups of first to third and fourth to sixth graders to, getting a chance to concentrate on schoolwork instead of the traumas that haunt their migrant journeys. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) A student embraces her teacher Elizabeth Mendoza at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center where child migrants from two pastor-run shelters take classes every weekday morning, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Education is a big challenge for children on their migration journey, but opportunities like this give them a chance to catch up on academics and to find emotional support. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Child migrants housed at the Casa Oscar Romero shelter look out from a bus that each morning takes them to an alternative school program designed just for them, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. About three dozen kids are bused in from this and another religious-run shelter to Casa Kolping where the curriculum ranges from math to reading to drawing. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Migrant children housed at the Casa Oscar Romero shelter, look out from a bus that each morning takes them to an alternative school program designed just for them, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. After fleeing poverty and violence, migrant children lose months or even years of schooling on their journeys. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) With her mask and pink backpack already on, 8-year-old Carol, center, waits alongside other migrant children for the special bus that will take them from the Casa Oscar Romero migrant shelter to an alternative school program for migrant children, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Carol's mom, who fled the Mexican state of Michoacan because of cartel violence, is grateful her child has a chance to attend school. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Juan Pacheco, 12, is handed a glass of milk by his father during breakfast at the Casa Oscar Romero migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022, where the family fled after cartel fighting made it too dangerous to farm even their meager plot of beans at home in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Right after breakfast, Juan runs to meet the special bus to an alternative school for migrant children where he learns everything from math to Spanish. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Migrant children attend a class at the Buen Samaritano or Good Samaritan shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Tuesday, March, 29, 2022. For several months, pastor-run migrant shelters have partnered with educators giving migrant children access to an education as their families wait to cross into the United States. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) Samuel Jimenez instructs migrant children at the Buen Samaritano or Good Samaritan shelter in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Jimenez said that beyond merely educating their students, the teachers must also contend with serious traumas that migrant children bring with them to the classroom. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) A student focuses on her lesson at Casa Kolping, an alternative education center where child migrants from two pastor-run shelters take classes every weekday morning, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, March 28, 2022. Education is a big challenge for children on their migration journey, but opportunities like this give them a chance to catch up on academics and to find emotional support. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez)