Hi Friends! I want to invite you to #BeAWaymaker with me.

The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights has announced their annual Waymakers Virtual Mileage Challenge and I'm setting out to raise $448 in support of unaccompanied immigrant children. The challenge is for those participating to rack up 25,000 miles in September- one quarter-mile for each of the 100,000 children recently separated from their families in the United States. My own much more modest goal is to walk 25 miles (and maybe more?).

Founded in 2004, the Young Center is a nonprofit organization that fights to keep unaccompanied and separated immigrant children safe, free, and with family in their communities. Young Center attorneys and social workers, along with bilingual volunteers, are appointed as Child Advocate (guardian ad litem) by the Department of Health and Human Services. Their role is to advocate for the child's best interests—from custody and release to the ultimate decision about whether the child will be allowed to remain in the U.S. 

As children continue to be separated from their families and children who arrive on their own are at risk of being deported to danger, we need Waymakers more than ever. 

Join me to show your solidarity and support. Are you in?

Thanks in advance!

Steve