With great hope, the González household still left the shelter wherever they slept to consider their little ones to the 1st day of school in the United States, at PS 123 in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
“I am a small unfortunate due to the fact he remaining them there without having figuring out it, you know, but I’m satisfied due to the fact they are about to commence a new section,” reported mom Anabel González, a Venezuelan immigrant.
Anabel and her spouse remaining Peru with their little ones and pet dog on April 12, exactly where they experienced lived for four yrs just after emigrating from their indigenous Venezuela.
With each other they traveled as a result of the Darién jungle on their way to Texas and say the journey was not quick.
“Not possessing ample to feed your young children is incredibly difficult, you know you devote a good deal on vacation. We experienced to rest in just about every region due to the fact the lady will get dizzy, I get dizzy, “said Anabel.
Harmful crossing.
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The relatives arrived in New York on June 27 on a bus from Texas. They are among the thousands of immigrants looking for asylum.
“We came with no cash, with very little, with very little for the reason that we spent every little thing we experienced alongside the way,” stated Anabel.
A Superior Samaritan who questioned them for directions to a shelter at the address they experienced been given enable them snooze for the evening in his motor vehicle. The subsequent working day they located info on in which to remain but then the challenge was one more.
“They would have acknowledged us but not the dog,” claimed Anabel.
Thanks to the assistance of the Alianza Venezolana Onlus, they have located a area in which all people can be and appear forward to this new beginning.
A new commence.
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“Right now we crave a perform permit as we do not have any permits to keep right here in buy to get the job done,” mentioned Crisman Urbaez.
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