​​WHERE CAN WE LIVE IN PEACE?  brings the migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio, who founded the ABBA safehouse. Here, thousands of migrants receive help.

The Idea for ABBA began when Ignacio and his family took food to migrants jumping freight trains. There was nowhere to wash or sleep and some were sick. They were fleeing from gang violence, abject poverty, and the effects of climate change in countries like El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – desperately searching for a place to bring up their children in safety.  So Ignacio founded ABBA, a place where migrants can rest, receive food and seek medical and psychological help. ABBA is also the only shelter in Mexico that cares for those who lose limbs falling while riding the trains (“La Bestia”) through Mexico.

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Now, ABBA has been donated land upon which to build Ignacio’s vision:  a Cultural and Human Rights Centre which will be a sanctuary for injured migrants . Here they will receive therapy and education. This film is raising money for the new buildings  through The Latin American Relief Fund on Canada Helps– see below.

Migration is a key issue in the coming US election Trump calls migrants ‘’not human , criminal, animals”  whilst Biden has all but close the Southern Border. In this world of increasing nationalism and xenophobia Ignacio’s work is vitally important.