November 24, 2023
Martha María Gavilán’s biggest pain when emigrating from Cuba in 2018 was not leaving her country and her family. Nor was it the endless journey by air and land that took them 6,500 kilometers from Havana to Sao Paulo, Brazil. The greatest suffering for this school teacher was that at the age of 47 she no longer had a future after arriving in the megapolis with her son. She would have preferred to settle in Argentina or Uruguay, but her little savings were used up so quickly that, without knowing it, she was forced to ask for accommodation in an emergency shelter. So one night he found himself standing in front of the doors of the Missao Paz Migrant House, a facility run by the Scalabrinian missionaries. “I spent three days in the room crying…
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