{"id":9471,"date":"2017-03-04T04:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T04:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/npr-nprontheroad-this-is-sister-norma\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:17:14","slug":"npr-nprontheroad-this-is-sister-norma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/npr-nprontheroad-this-is-sister-norma\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9471 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/npr-nprontheroad-this-is-sister-norma\/attachment\/9472\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_om6v8fIHmK1sbowa3o2_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/npr.tumblr.com\/post\/157962694771\/nprontheroad-this-is-sister-norma-pimentel\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">npr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nprontheroad.tumblr.com\/post\/157902203778\/this-is-sister-norma-pimentel-the-executive\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">nprontheroad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThis is Sister Norma Pimentel, the Executive Director for Catholic Charities in the Rio Grande Valley. She\u2019s standing in the Parish Hall of the Sacred Heart Church in McAllen, which she converted to a makeshift supply center for migrant families in 2014. At that time the surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America had overloaded Border Patrol facilities, and they were releasing families where the parents were present in order to make room for the unaccompanied kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sister Norma opened this center so those families would have somewhere to come for clothing, food, water, and showers, before continuing their journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome them the moment they walk through those doors of Sacred Heart Parish Hall. We have our volunteers clap and say \u2018welcome, bienvenidos.\u2019 And just that moment starts a transformation of the family where they feel for the very first time they matter, that their lives are important to others\u2026And they feel overwhelmed with gratefulness because of the fact that for the very first time in their journeys, of what they\u2019ve been through, they finally arrive to a place that\u2019s caring and compassionate. And the volunteers are wonderful in making sure they get everything they need so that they can truly restore their dignity after the great journey and hardships that they went through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Ravenna\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Samantha Balaban\/NPR)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meet\u00a0Sister Norma Pimentel.\u00a0<i>-Emily<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>npr: nprontheroad: This is Sister Norma Pimentel, the Executive Director for Catholic Charities in the Rio Grande Valley. She\u2019s standing in the Parish Hall of the Sacred Heart Church in McAllen, which she converted to a makeshift supply center for migrant families in 2014. At that time the surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2sL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9473,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9471\/revisions\/9473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}