By: Manuel Ocaño / Special for Real America News 06 from January 2021
Farid, a Honduran teenager from 12 years old, told Real America News that during last Christmas the migrant children at the Casa de Luz shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, received the toys they wanted and some extra, so they decided to share their gifts with those who have the least.
“I proposed that we bring toys on the Three Wise Men to other children who do not have a mother or father, because it is nice to see that they have a smile ”, said Farif.
Excited, the Children and shelter staff dressed up as goblins and kings on Tuesday to wrap the gifts. “Today we want to come as a surprise to bring them the toys … We want to see when they get happy “, said Farid.
The idea of sharing toys with those who do not They have was adopted by the group of minors in Casa de Luz when Farid observed that the children in the orphanage, which they will visit, “are poor like us [también] deserve toys that they did not receive [en navidad]”.
Lizeth, 11 years old and originally from Zihuatanejo del Southern Mexican state of Guerrero, said for its part that they wrapped 42 toys, one for each child in the Casa Hogar Niños Con Fe, located in the old on the way from Tijuana to Rosarito.
“We wrapped balls, balls, dolls, trucks, many things,” said the little girl. “I feel happy to share with other children who have less than us,” he explained.
This is not the first action of this type that they promote the children of Casa de Luz in Playas de Tijuana.
The 24 last December, just into winter, the children received among their gifts warm clothes and pajamas to sleep warm, but on that occasion, they say, they also received more.
They talked to each other and decided to bring part of the gifts they received to children from the shelter that has more migrant minors in Tijuana: the Pro Amore Dei shelter.
“It was very nice”, the director of the shelter, Leticia Herrera, told Real America News, “the children were very happy; The little ones from Casa de Luz gave them gifts wrapped in paper with Christmas motifs, and they immediately went to open them. ”
He added that the little ones from their shelter wanted to put on the pajamas and clothes that were given to them as soon as they unwrapped it.
“In a little while the children of the two shelters were already playing. ”
“ You may think they were simple gifts, but it is that detail and the intention of sharing what they have with others, with that they have less, what is worth gold … That is what counts. ”
Irving Mondragón, the director of Casa de Luz, said in a talk with Real America News that children from other shelters sent letters with Christmas greetings, cards with pictures and messages for the holidays to the little ones in their shelter.
Children are sensitized by the devastation caused by hurricanes Eta and Iota in Central America and southern Mexico at the end of last year, from ac in agreement with Mondragon.
“When they received their Christmas gifts they were very happy and at the same time they felt empathy for the little ones who did not have gifts,” he said.
Some children in Tijuana have waited with their parents since March for the opportunity to cross the border to request asylum, but the Trump administration argued that due to the health contingency, even virtual hearings were suspended. When visiting other shelters, the minors of Casa de Luz discovered that while they had had good gifts, such as clothes and good shoes, control carts remote, beautiful dolls, there were other children who were in a precarious situation and who had nothing to celebrate.
“The idea came from the same children to cheer up other little ones, “recalled Irving Mondragón.
In addition to the toys they received for the f In the Christmas holidays, the children of Casa de Luz had other gifts saved that they could not release when they were given on the occasion of Children’s Day, since the past 30 April, because the pandemic already prevented them from enjoying their gifts.
Farid, one of the first who proposed to share with the children of other shelters, said: “I am Honduran and in my country, as we are low-income, I know how it feels when there are no gifts… But look, [ahora] it feels joy to see other children happy with what they we give”.