VIDEO: Refugee Youth: Using Pictures To Speak A Thousand Words

The adage goes a picture speaks a thousand words. That may have been the idea behind the foundation of the AjA Project. In San Diego, The AjA Project runs Journey, an after school participatory photography program for refugee youth. On top of vast cultural differences, many of refugee youth come to the US speaking very little English if any at all. The AjA project teaches these youth how to express their religion and culture through photography.

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VIDEO: Border Angels

In 1994 the US government began building a wall between the US and Mexico. Named operation Gate Keeper, this wall has been pushing poor immigrants further and further into the high desert to try and cross into the US. Border Angel's President and founder Enrique Morones estimates that 10,000 travelers have died as a result. Determined to help save the lives of these desperate travelers The Border Angels have been dropping water along immigration routes for the last ten years.

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