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Alliance for the Health of the Disadvantaged

Cúcuta, Colombia, December 13, 2019– A health service program was carried out in the Scalabrinian Center Centro Piloto for vulnerable populations in the neighborhoods of Scalabrinian incidence. On this occasion the program provided general medical consultation and delivery of first-line medications; The Red Cross mobile unit assisted children under malnutrition, pregnant women, the elderly, women and men for 3 days. It was possible to detect that the most common pathologies in patients were intestinal parasites,

Day of the Candles, a Colombian and Ecuadorian Tradition Celebrated for the First Time at the Casa del Migrante de Tijuana

Tijuana, Mexico, December 11, 2019 – Casa del Migrante’s volunteers in Tijuana, (three of Colombian nationality), together with an Ecuadorian migrant family, encouraged to celebrate their tradition during the night of December 7 in commemoration to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. It was a moment of reflection and prayer with the migrants, and lighting candles and lanterns made by children and adolescents, different requests were made, mainly for each of their countries, their