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At US-Mexico Border, a Bus Becomes a School for Migrant Children in Limbo

Reuters

   TIJUANA, MEXICO - The children crammed into the bus and sat in two neat
   lines, poring over notebooks at desks where once there had been
   passenger seats. From the overhead baggage bins, a teacher hung their
   exploits: colored alphabet letters, watercolor paintings.

   In the border city of Tijuana just miles from the U.S. border, in a
   dirt parking lot adjoining a migrant shelter, that bus is offering a
   rare chance at school to Central American and Mexican children.

   For most of the several dozen who have passed through the program since
   it began in mid-July, education was a distant dream in the weeks or
   months since their parents decided to uproot and head north to seek
   refuge or a better life.

   Estefania Rebellon, director of the program called Yes We Can, said it
   offers specialized bilingual education for children who tend to have
   low literacy and struggle with social skills.

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