News and Press Releases
Observation visits: Casa Betania Santa Martha
The area they are in is difficult, as it is a route where crime is the order of the day: insecurity, human trafficking, flora and fauna trafficking, drug trafficking, etc. Casa Betania is a transit house, and people can only stay for three days and must continue on their way so that new arrivals can also have a space to rest.
Observation visits: Casa Palenque
We talked about the risks they face every day: violence, insecurity and discrimination, and the support they have from COMAR to find work for migrants.
Observation Visits: Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid (COMAR), Tenosique, Tabasco
We learned about the relationship that the institution has with La 72, the only migrant shelter in Tenosique.
Belén Migrant House, El Ceibo, Guatemala
La 72, as well as the places where people are most vulnerable to local criminals and criminal groups
Observation Visits: La 72
At the beginning of June, the Franciscan Network for Migrants liaison and accompaniment team, the FNM-United States team, members of the Quixote Center and members who joined the delegation and work team of La 72 visited shelters for migrants on the southern border from Mexico.
The FNM presents Annual Report 2021
Learn more about the work and articulation of the Franciscan Network for Migrants, an initiative inspired by the Franciscan charism and nurtured by the teaching of Pope Francis.
Where we are?
Learn about our shelters and teams
Volunteer Opportunities
Understanding, building and growing the Network
Program Focus
Capacity-Building
Members of the Network are already providing a myriad of resources to migrants. Network members will be able to enhance each other’s work by sharing information and resources via different media (bulletins, meetings and gatherings, capacity-building seminars, resource and route maps, threat advisories, etc.) that they can then pass on to migrants in their care along the route.s.
Support and Protection
Members of the Network will foster the establishment of migrant centers, shelters and houses of refuge in areas where there is a lack of resources by connecting donors to new and ongoing programs.
Advocacy and Collaboration.
Fidelity to the Gospel message compels us to not only to recognize the face of Christ in the poor and the excluded, but also to engage in a social analysis to identify the processes of impoverishment and exclusion e.g. root causes, agents, victims, mechanisms and consequences.
