Catholic Charities: "The Esperanza Project"

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Once in the U.S., Catholic Charities helps the parents to enroll their children into schools and keep court dates to ensure that the children remain documented and legal. (Source: WAFB)

Posted: Sep 01, 2014
Updated: Sep 01, 2014 6:36 PM EDT
By Tyana Daquano

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Children continue to flee to the United States, from Mexico, to reunite with family and get away from a country where some say they are faced with difficult situations. Catholic Charities of Baton Rouge says they have gotten hundreds of these families, who are asking for help. They've now launched a program called, Louisiana Esperanza Project, to protect these refugee children. But they need donations.

"We're trying to raise money to expand our legal representation of them," said David Aguillard, the executive director at Catholic Charities.

Aguillard says they are trying to add attorney's to their refugee services because there's a backup.

In the past, he says, they would only see 20 of these cases per month. He says now they are seeing 100 cases per month. In July they had 120.

http://www.wafb.com/story/26421303/catholic-charities-the-esperanza-project

http://www.ccsbr.org/programs/la-esperanza-project/298-la-esperanza-project.html