Upon arrival, she quickly discovered that there would be no storytime, and was told that she could leave the donation box at the front entrance. The REFORMA Children in Crisis (CIC) project began its first book delivery in September 2014, when Silvia Cisneros, then President of REFORMA, traveled to McAllen (TX) excited to be able to conduct a preapproved storytime and free book distribution of books in Spanish for each child under detention. Surpassing the record 77,887 family units detained in fiscal year According to the Washington Post, a record 107,212 “family units” were apprehended in fiscal year 2018, government has detained tens of thousands of young people over the past few years and yet the numbers of youth and families fleeing for their lives continues. The children, mostly Central American youth, continue to flee violence and persecution at the hands of gangs and corrupt government forces in their home countries. Still, the vast network of volunteers working within this project continue looking for new partners and buying, preparing, and delivering Spanish-language books to the recently detained Central American children. Librarians to do something to help the thousands of unaccompanied children and youth who were arriving from Central America and were being detained at the southern border.įive years later, REFORMA members continue to be outraged by the immorality of continued detainment and imprisonment of children who seek asylum and yet are denied the most basic of human rights. Librarians Oralia Garza de Cortés and Lucía González first raised their voices at the 2014 REFORMA meeting held during the American Library Association’s (ALA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas, challenging fellow ![]() ![]() Contact Patrick at Patrick is currently reading Ellos Nos Cuidan by Omar Delgado. By Patrick Sullivan, Emeritus Librarian at San Diego State University.
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