Yaslin Perez

By Yaslin Perez Introduction While one 12-year-old wakes up in the morning to eat a bowl of Lucky Charms, another 12-year-old works late into the night packaging that same cereal.[1] Two teenagers struggle to stay awake in school—one because they stayed up playing video games, the other because their shift at a car manufacturer ended at 6:30 a.m.[2] These four children live vastly different lives. Children are among the most vulnerable people in the world. They rely on adults for the nurture...

By Yaslin Perez Three sisters—Henesis (14), Nicole (13), and Valeria (8)—traveled 1,500 miles from Chiapas, Mexico, to reunite with their mother in the United States.[1] Ten-year-old Yosell and his nine-year-old brother Joseph traveled for over a month from Honduras to the United States with only their grandparents' phone number written on Yosell’s hat.[2]However, not all children make it—14-year-old Christopher Alvarado from Honduras drowned while crossing the Rio Grande while his...