Estefania Rebellón is the founder of Yes We Can, an organization that provides educational assistance to migrant minors.
“When I arrived from Colombia, everything changed from one day to the next and the only place where I felt safe was at school,” she tells me with a touch of nostalgia for those difficult days of her childhood. “That’s why a school in Tijuana was a way to make life a little easier for these children who have had to go through so many difficulties.”
Amid all the stress the children experience, school offers them a bit of stability, Carrasco, who has extensive experience working with migrant children from Latin America, told me.
In 2021, the Yes We Can Mobile Schools program turned 2 years old. “We were very surprised to see that, despite the global confinement due to the pandemic, thousands and thousands of families continued to migrate, making schools increasingly necessary,” says Rebellón. She has provided education and enrolled more than 2,800 immigrant and refugee children in her Mobile School Program.She has built four school spaces on the border between the United States and Mexico, two in Tijuana, one in Mexicali, and one in Ciudad Juárez. The organization currently operates three school spaces, two in Tijuana and one in Ciudad Juárez.
The schools work with children of 10 different nationalities including Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, Haiti, Brazil, and U.S.-born children whose parents have been deported. All that work has given Rebellón great satisfaction. In 2023 she was named Woman of the Year by the Women’s March LA Foundation. In 2021 she was nominated for the Alfonso García Robles Humanitarian Award by the National Autonomous University of Mexico for the defense, promotion, protection and guarantee of the human rights of immigrants who are in a condition of vulnerability.
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