The director of Human Rights, Santiago González Reyes, agreed with the alderman Jorge Bueno Quiroz and the mayor Alma Edith Arredondo Salinas, of the Human Rights Building Commission, to intensify the campaign that seeks to create a collection of 5,000 copies.
The Building Commission for the Attention of Human Rights and Vulnerable Groups and the Human Rights Directorate agreed to invite citizens and each of the municipal employees, directors and councilors to donate books for the creation of a library for migrants that will be installed in the shelter of the municipal gym “Kiki” Romero”.
The director of Human Rights, Santiago González Reyes, presented before the coordinator of that commission, Jorge Bueno Quiroz, and the councilor, Alma Edith Arredondo Salinas, a request for support to intensify the campaign to collect books that will form part of the collection that will be available to the migrants.
He pointed out that so far they have collected a thousand copies, including literary, educational and cultural works in general, donated by the border community, including the Bishopric of El Paso, Texas.
Copies are received at the offices of the Human Rights Directorate located on the ground floor of the municipal presidency, as well as at the shelter facilities.
The library will be installed in the “Kiki” Romero municipal gymnasium where there is a large number of men, women and children of foreign origin in a situation of mobility, to whom it will be made available.
He indicated that books in good condition and that are not extemporaneous are required, in order to create a cultural space so that people in a situation of mobility who are in the shelter can invest their time in a good way.
When migrants arrive at this border, their path becomes a situation of waiting for the immigration process, appointments or requests for political asylum in the United States, which can last weeks or months, so it is sought that this time be less frustrating for them, offering them different alternatives for healthy recreation.
The goal is to have an inventory of at least five thousand books, which will be duly registered and classified, and there will be a catalog dividing the copies by genre. It is also expected to have a loan system.
González Reyes indicated that the “Kiki” Romero municipal gymnasium, when it ceases to be a shelter for migrants, the library can be used by the Juarez community in this same space.
The Building Commission for the Attention of Human Rights and Vulnerable Groups met this day and the director of the Municipal DIF, Luis Hasan Ortiz, and the director of Human Rights, Santiago González, attended as guests to give informative talks on the agencies they direct.
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