Boarder: The line that separates a country

Today students from the University of Florida Chapter of Children Beyond our Borders gathered at the Institute of Hispanic Culture in efforts to bring awareness to children at the boarder between the United States and Mexico by crafting bracelets.

Anna Diakun a sociology senior says during peace service trips the organization provides educational workshops to children affected by social injustices in Columbia, Nicaragua and Ecuador.

“In Columbia, we find a lot of internal displacement, a lot of families loss there home and have to move to big cities.”

She says, "mainly Columbia has the largest percentage of internal displacement. The other countries face a lot of poverty." Often time’s children find themselves selling drugs and prostituting in order to make ends meet.

However, the organization hopes to bring awareness of the issue children may face in different counties where poverty is the overarching theme by making bracelets. These bracelets will be given to not just Mexican children; however, children form other Latin American counties who are at the boarder between U.S. and Mexico as well.

This event, Jueves Sociales, was in conjunction with the month long celebration of the university’s Hispanic Heritage Month 2014.