Giving Compass' Take:

· GOOD Magazine discusses Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden, a group of grandmothers and allies that will travel to the U.S. border to draw attention to the ongoing humanitarian crisis. 

· How will this movement impact the separated immigrant families being held at the southern U.S. border? How is this movement different from others trying to help separated families? 

· Find out how donors can help with the family separation crisis at the U.S. border. 

Tina Bernstein remembers the Birmingham church bombings in 1963 that killed four young schoolgirls. She remembers the fear she felt during the Cuban missile crisis.

“I remember nightmares of being separated from my family, unable to reach them,” the Beacon, New York, resident recalled. “In recent months, those nightmares have come back … they are nightmares of losing my children and granddaughter.”

When she learned about a caravan of concerned grandmothers heading to the U.S.-Mexico border to deliver grandmotherly love to the migrant families there, she saw an opportunity to challenge this nightmare.

Grannies Respond/Abuelas Responden is a movement of grandmothers and their allies who have been similarly spurred to action by the humanitarian crisis unfolding on the southern U.S. border. Over six days, beginning July 31, 2018, their caravan will journey more than 2,000 miles, onboarding other “grannies” along the way. They will host rallies in strategic political districts in cities along the way to protest the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy for immigrants and asylum seekers.

Read the full article about the grandmothers supporting migrants by Lornet Turnbull at GOOD Magazine.