News and Press Releases
Panama: Visit to the Gualaca Shelter in Chiriquí
The objective of the visit was to verify the situation of the stay and the human rights of the migrants who were in this refuge center.
The Flow of Water and the Force of the Migratory Flow
The causes that affect the quality of life of the population in our towns make families seek out decent places to live and coexist in tranquility. Families are forced to migrate for social and environmental reasons.
Organizing the Panamanian church as they face the migratory drama
I want to share the journey we have taken of late, with the intention of involving ourselves as Franciscans in accompanying migrants, and setting up the RFM team in Panama.
The Franciscan Network for Migrants Incorporates a New Member to the Team
It is with great joy that we welcome Vianey Martínez López. We are glad that she has joined the Franciscan Network for Migrants, as part of the Executive Secretariat, assuming coordination and liaison with the teams and shelters that belong to the Network.
Working for Justice: The Partnership Between UNHCR and Franciscan Mission Service
Starting in 2020, Franciscan Mission Service began a partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
A Panamanian Franciscan sister volunteering in Mexico
Everything is challenging because reality itself is always going to challenge one’s involvement. There are small details in which you can help and give yourself to others, which is priceless and timeless
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.
