• Lutheran Center in Mexico City: elcamexico@yahoo.com.
• Youth In Mission: youthinmission@lstc.edu; (800) 635-1116, Ext. 725. Current high school sophomores and juniors can apply for the three-week program in Chicago and at the Lutheran Center in Mexico City. Download an application from www.lstc.edu/yim/ (deadline Feb. 20).
Guadalupe Grisel Ávila, 21, left home to work
at Rubie’s Costume Co. in Tepeji del Río, an industrial town in Mexico.
She had hoped to earn a better living and study for a teaching job.
Instead, she found terrible factory conditions.
“We had
to buy our own water and toilet paper from the plant’s store,” she
said. “There were several times when the cafeteria food made us vomit
because it’s made in unsanitary conditions and full of bugs.”
Ávila,
seven co-workers, a union leader and a representative of the AFL-CIO
Solidarity Center shared their experiences July 4 with 24 ELCA youth
visiting the Lutheran Center in Mexico City. They ate together, played
basketball and talked a long time.
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